Couldn’t Help But Notice (121007)

A Globaloney “Consensus, Conschmensus” update from IBDeditorials.com, with a touch of data-doctoring on the side (excerpted paras are not in the same order as the original):

Dissenters Are Left High And Dry In Bali

Clearly, diversity of opinion, and politics — the driving force behind the global warming scare — are not allowed by the U.N., which, according to the Heartland Institute, “has tried to freeze out the (dissenting) scientists and new evidence, summarily dismissing them with the claim ‘the science is settled.’ ”
James M. Taylor, a Heartland Institute senior fellow, says that there are more than 600 scientists in Bali who can debunk the climate change theory. But the U.N. has pushed them to the margins.”All are being censored,” said Taylor.

(the following appeared earlier in the editorial)

While global warming alarmists revel in self-importance at their 11-day forum in Bali, dissenting scientists are being shut out and credible charges are leveled that the U.N. has doctored sea-level data.

….. (The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is) seizing control of data and torturing them into the outcome IPCC scientists are looking for.

The possibility of such fraud has been raised by Nils-Axel Morner, former head of the paleogeophysics and geodynamics department at Stockholm University in Sweden. According to his June interview with the British Telegraph that was revisited on a Telegraph blog last week, the IPCC might have doctored data to show a sea- level rise from 1992 to 2002.

“Suddenly it changed,” Morner said of the IPCC’s 2003 sea-level chart, which is intended to convince the public that warming due to man’s activities is melting ice that will cause the oceans to rise to dangerous levels.

Read the whole thing.

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Based on this, maybe globaloney’s chief spokesman should be nicknamed Al Gore the Boor (HT Drudge):

Al Gore has come under fire for making personal gain from his mission to save the planet – after charging £3,300 a minute (about $6,000 per minute — Ed.) to deliver a poorly received speech.

The former American Vice-President was also accused of being “precious” at the London event, demanding his own VIP room and ejecting journalists, despite hopes the star-studded gathering would generate publicity for the fight against global warming.

Many of the audience at last month’s Fortune Forum summit were restless as Mr Gore, who has won both a Nobel Peace Prize and an Oscar for his campaigning work this year, delivered the half-hour speech that netted him £100,000.

….. But a source told The Mail on Sunday: “Many guests looked tired and began to talk among themselves during his speech. Heads began to twitch with tiredness.

“Al uses his position for great personal gain. He goes from event to event delivering a similar speech, earning a large fee, and a lot of the time he doesn’t actually inform the audience.

“He refused to speak to journalists and security would usher away VIP guests and the Press.

“He was being very precious and demanded his own VIP room before the event, where he held his own exclusive reception.

“The other guests were cut off. It was very clear that many guests were disappointed by this.”

Unless he ventures from the topic of globaloney, Al Gore NEVER “actually informs the audience.”

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Alan Dershowitz, who is not on my “frequently agree with” list, hits the bullseye in his take on the recent National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) and Old Media’s and the Democratic Party’s (but I repeat myself) obsession over it (link to NY Times op-ed added by me; HT Hot Air):

As Valerie Lincy and Gary Milhollin, both experts on nuclear arms control, put it in a New York Times Op Ed on December 6, 2007:

“…the halting of its secret enrichment and weapon design efforts in 2003 proves only that Iran made a tactical move. It suspended work that, if discovered, would unambiguously reveal intent to build a weapon. It has continued other work, crucial to the ability to make a bomb, that it can pass off as having civilian applications.”

Duh!

A good description for blind or selective reliance on these estimates would be “NIEbriation.”

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Michael Barone at Real Clear Politics:

The world looks safer, friendlier, more hopeful than it did as we approached Christmastime last year.

I blame Bush (use of “I blame Bush” in contexts such as these “trademarked” by Weapons of Mass Discussion).