climatedepot--2020-11-27--Climategate: Another Anniversary (never forget)

Climategate : Another Anniversary ( never forget … . )
Master Resource / by rbradley / 4h [ Editor Note : It was during the Thanksgiving weekend 11 years ago that the Climategate ’ s unsettling oeuvre was first being disseminated and analyzed .
This post summarizes some remembrances from that period . ]
“ The conflict between the two ideas about how science should be conducted–a closed system dominated by gatekeepers , or a more chaotic but less hierarchical open system–is the dominant story of the [ Climategate ] emails over more than a decade.
” – Fred Pierce @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , p. 13 .
“ There is no doubt that these emails are embarrassing and a public-relations disaster for science.
” – Andrew Dessler , “ Climate E-Mails Cloud the Debate , ” December 10 , 2009 .
Climategate lives in infamy .
Then , and now , it is a case study of agendas driving science rather than science driving agendas .
Eleven years ago , climate alarmists and friends ( including Dessler above ) went into damage control .
But with such an evidentiary record of scientific malpractice , books solidified @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Stick Illusion , by A. W. Montford ( 2010 ) Hiding the Decline : A History of the Climategate Affair , by A. W. Montford ( 2012 ) Climategate : The Crutape Letters , by Steven Mosher and Thomas Fuller ( 2010 ) Climategate , by Brian Sussmanh ( 2010 ) A Disgrace to the Profession , by Mark Steyn ( 2015 ) Perhaps the most revealing book was by a fair broker of mainstream climate science , Fred Pierce , The Climate Files ( 2010 ) .
Pierce fairly identified Michael Mann @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Steve McIntyre as the data liberator .
Regarding Michael Mann ( p. 90 ) : Mann has always been a tasty target .
His voluble style has made enemies and exasperated his friends .
“ The goddam guy is a slick talker and super-confident .
He won ’ t listen to anyone else , ” one of climate science ’ s most senior figures … told me .
“ I don ’ t trust people like that .
A lot of data sets he uses are shitty , you know .
They are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ trying to do….
” And Steve McIntyre ( pp .
13–14 ) : Climategate would not have happened without … Steve McIntyre .
Whether you see him as a hero or a villain , his data wars with Mann , Jones , Briffa , and Santer helped create the siege mentality among the scientists , and set them on a path of opposition to freedom of information .
By drawing in scores of data liberationists from both inside and outside the science community , he certainly inspired whoever stole the and released the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the good guys and gals for the record .
James Delingpole “ Of course , if you believe the mainstream media , Climategate was little more than a fake news story concocted by a small cabal of wicked deniers in order to discredit the noble cause of climate science .
This is a lie and a particularly dangerous lie at that.
” “ Climategate was the scandal that exposed this truth to the world .
And that ’ s why the increasingly powerful alarmist Establishment has long fought so hard to play down @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by a lazily complicit media — are trying to do to the scandal what Harvey Keitel ’ s Winston ‘ The Wolf ’ Wolfe character did in Pulp Fiction : clean up the bodies , pretend nothing untoward ever happened.
” “ My own involvement in Climategate was actually quite modest .
At least , the heavy lifting was done by people much more diligent and scientifically minded than me , such as Steve McIntyre , Willis Eschenbach , Joanna Nova , Anthony Watts , Lucia Liljegren , Andrew Montford , Ross McKitrick @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Christopher Booker , David Rose , Jeff Id , Jean S , Steven Mosher , and many others.
” “ What Climategate revealed , however , is that the climate change ‘ experts ’ we ’ re supposed to trust just aren ’ t trustworthy .
They lie , they cheat , they ’ re motivated more by grant-troughing and dodgy political activism than they are by — lol — the disinterested quest for knowledge .
That was the real shocker at the time of Climategate : that the people on whose ‘ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of your money and my money are being spent on sundry green boondoggles are in fact a lousy bunch of fraudulent second-raters unfit to run a cookie bake sale , let alone a scam involving upwards of one percent of the global economy.
” Anthony Watts “ In November 2009 I was in Brussels at a climate skeptic conference being put on by Hans Lobohm .
I remember the first message I got… .
“ You need to look at this !
“ .
Then reading the emails , wide-eyed , and realizing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ circumstances would we write anything about it or release it until I was back on U.S. soil .
Then , after clearing customs at Dulles two days later , I sat down in the airport , and wrote the story , breaking the news on the 19th.
” “ Luckily , James Delingpole picked up the story for his column , and its entry into the British newspaper The Telegraph started the chain reaction that made the story grow , becoming the ‘ worst scientific scandal of our generation ‘ .
” “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ ( most notably the execrable Michael E. Mann in a recent op-ed for Newsweek ) pat themselves on the back comforting each other with ‘ there ’ s nothing to see here ’ , there are reasons to rejoice about Climategate ten years later.
” “ Climategate brought chaos to Copenhagen aka COP15 – critically wounding the prospects of cap-and-trade legislation in the process .
It helped the world dodge the climate mania bullet for 5 years , until the Paris accord in 2015.
” Donald Trump became aware of the Climategate @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and I have to think ( since he has mentioned it ) that it affected his opinion… .
And as we know , as President , he fulfilled his campaign promises and pulled the USA out of the Paris Climate Accord , and gutted the draconian EPA .
“ For [ the above ] , I am proud to have had a part , along with the Heartland Institute , whose advice and support gave Trump even more ammunition to pull off the withdrawal from the Paris accord.
” Judith Curry “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ] by any objective analysis of the various inquiries .
Ross McKitrick lays all this out in his article Understanding the Climategate Inquiries.
” “ The scientists involved in the email exchanges manipulated evidence in IPCC and WMO reports with the effect of misleading readers , including policymakers .
The divergence problem was concealed by deleting data to ‘ hide the decline.
’ The panels that examined the issue in detail , namely Muir Russell ’ s panel , concurred that the graph was ‘ misleading.
’ The ridiculous attempt by the Penn @ @ @ @ @ @ @ deleting data and splicing in other data to conceal a divergence problem only discredits their claims to have investigated the issue.
” “ The scientists privately expressed greater doubts or uncertainties about the science in their own professional writings and in their interactions with one another than they allowed to be stated in reports of the IPCC or WMO that were intended for policymakers .
Rather than criticise the scientists for this , the inquiries ( particularly the House of Commons and Oxburgh inquiries ) took the astonishing view that as long as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ academic papers and among themselves , it was acceptable for them to conceal those uncertainties in documents prepared for policy makers.
” “ … academics reading the emails could see quite clearly the tribalism at work , and in comparison to other fields , climatology comes off looking juvenile , corrupt and in the grip of a handful of self-appointed gatekeepers and bullies.
” “ Given the huge stakes and the serious structural issues surrounding the assessment of climate science and policy that had emerged from Climategate , these concerns of the climate @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to mention counter-productive – ‘ circling the wagons ’ even tighter made the situation even worse.
” “ At the time of Climategate , public advocacy by climate scientists of climate policy was generally frowned upon , and only a few senior , well-established scientists dared to do this ( e.g .
Jim Hansen ) .
At this point , climate scientist/activists are very large in number , and such activism seems to be a ticket to professional success.
” “ … Climategate lives on in numerous lawsuits that Michael Mann has filed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to the hockeystick .
Most of these lawsuits continue to languish since they were filed about 8 years ago ( although Mann did lose his lawsuit against Tim Ball ) .
With these lawsuits , there is no denying that the impacts of Climategate are still playing out.
” Update : The New “ Denialists ” Some of the involved scientists , such as Michael Mann , as well as a five-part series of blogs at DESMOG have felt it necessary to relive the controversy .
None dare do the most simple thing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ provided a dirty dozen here that speak for themselves . )
Mann states : While the fossil fuel industry had for decades sought to forestall regulation of carbon emissions , Climategate illustrated the depths of dishonesty to which denialists were willing to sink in their efforts to sabotage action on climate .
It was a tacit admission on their part that they no longer had a legitimate case to make .
And so citing “ Climategate ” as a reason for inaction has become a simple “ tell ” in the climate discourse @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in bad faith .
They are not honest actors expressing true belief .
They are dissemblers intentionally misrepresenting the science and the scientists to score political points on behalf of the fossil fuel interests whose bidding they are doing .
Such an interpretation is wishful versus actual history .
( It is still not known who hacked the emails ; just that they were hacked . )
And Michael Mann was at the center of it , inspiring one professional climatologist to humorously opine that Mann “ belongs in the state pen , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ : Another Anniversary ( never forget … . )
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climatedepot--2020-11-27--Europe’s Green Deal in limbo as EU faces existential crisis

Europe ’ s Green Deal in limbo as EU faces existential crisis The Global Warming Policy Forum ( GWPF ) / by bennypeiser / 2h Hungary and Poland are threatening to tear up European Union treaties as they raise the stakes in a battle over democratic principles and the budget .
Viktor Orban , the Hungarian prime minister , and Mateusz Morawiecki , his Polish counterpart , have vetoed the EU budget .
ZOLTAN FISCHER/HUNGARIAN PM PRESS OFFICE/REUTERS The EU has proposed a mechanism linking its €1.8 trillion budget and coronavirus recovery package to each member state ’ s respect @ @ @ @ @ @ @ has accused Poland and Hungary of undermining democracy .
The two countries vetoed the mechanism last week , stalling the implementation of the budget and rescue package that should come into force in January .
Mateusz Morawiecki , the Polish prime minister , met Viktor Orban , his Hungarian counterpart , in Budapest yesterday and they released a statement reiterating that they would not approve the budget until the “ rule of law ” demands had been withdrawn .
This , they said , should involve an “ intergovernmental conference to negotiate modification @ @ @ @ @ @ @ treaties could open a can of worms for Brussels , which already has the pandemic , climate change and Brexit on its plate .
Budapest and Warsaw face what are known as Article 7 procedures for breaching the rule of law — for corrupting their judiciaries , cracking down on charities and independent institutions and restricting media freedom .
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climatedepot--2020-11-27--Time to Abolish Unconstitutional and Useless Mask Mandates

You have “ no constitutional right to walk around without a mask , ” says the Republican governor of Maryland , Larry Hogan .
You ’ ll invariably hear such declarative statements as a line of defense by those who support government mask mandates .
The problem with such statements is that they are a response to the wrong question.null You see , the salient question is not about which individual rights have been so granted by the powers of government ( the Founders were clear that God , not government , grants rights to citizens ) , but about @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by the Constitution .
In short , the question is not “ does an individual American have the right to walk around without wearing a mask ?
” The appropriate question is , “ where in the Constitution is the power for the government to coerce Americans to wear masks explicitly defined ?
” When framed that way , it should be obvious to even the most dimwitted totalitarian that the truthful answers to both questions are inextricably linked .
Do Americans have the right to walk around without masks in public spaces @ @ @ @ @ @ @ How do we know that ?
Because the Constitution does not explicitly grant the government power to institute or enforce laws around masking in public .
Nothing about this is rocket science , but nothing could be more vital to the principle of self-governance.https : //0aeee1d33428afdfc4413d76ac3e6aa6.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-37/html/container.html The federal government clearly has no power to enact or enforce mask mandates .
That much seems clear even to Joe Biden .
Whether state legislatures can craft laws around mask mandates is a bit more of an open question , I ’ ll admit .
The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ powers not delegated to the United States ” by the Constitution , while the incorporated “ due process clause ” of Fourteenth Amendment suggest that the states can not “ deprive any person of life , liberty , or property without due process of law.
” In the most conservative appraisal of this legal landscape , we can conclude that states may technically legislate mask mandates .
However , as mask mandates , like lockdowns , deprive Americans of liberty and individual agency , they can not be arbitrarily designed , implemented , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , when you make dissenting arguments against that government mask mandate that your governor enacted via executive decree ( because legislating such a mandate infringing upon your liberty would be too politically difficult to achieve ) , you couldn ’ t be on firmer legal ground .
Even at the state level , these mask mandates can often be proven unconstitutional .
Gavin Newsom , for example , has been rebuked by a superior court for dozens of new executive orders issued earlier this month .
The Court determined that Newsom “ overstepped @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ unconstitutional exercise of legislative power.
” null But , in case you haven ’ t noticed , any legal impediments to the government ’ s seizure of power don ’ t matter to the angry mask mavens who demand nothing less than your unconditional compliance .
For them , the masks are a matter of life and death .
You ’ ve undoubtedly even witnessed some of them drawing and quartering some ridiculous straw man , as the aforementioned Governor Larry Hogan did , comparing my walking in a supermarket without a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Jack Daniels and getting behind the wheel of a car .
You have “ no constitutional right to drive drunk , ” and thus , we have laws demanding that you don ’ t drive drunk , he argues .
Why can ’ t we have laws demanding that you don ’ t walk around a grocery store without a rag covering your face ?
First of all , contracting COVID and being struck by a drunk driver on the highway result in wildly different outcomes .
Do we really need to be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ most educated America that has ever existed ?
If most Americans get COVID , they have a 99.98-percent chance of surviving the incident .
Second , there are mountains of evidence that drunkenness monumentally impairs motor skills and that drivers , so impaired , represent a high level of life-threatening danger to themselves and others .
The evidence is so strong in favor of that contention , in fact , that there ’ s not a single convincing shred of dissent against it .
On the other hand , to say the evidence @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is scant is as much an understatement as saying the Mariana Trench has a bit of depth to it .
Americans were marvelously struck to find that a new Danish study all but proves that masking is useless .
But the real marvel is that Americans managed to be struck by this .
Until a few months ago , this fact was common knowledge among our countrymen , the inherited wisdom earned from a masking craze that took hold in the Spanish flu epidemic .
Seemingly overnight , we ’ d forgotten what @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a century : that masks don ’ t do much to help slow or limit respiratory viral spread.null The evidence that this year ’ s reversal of scientific consensus is flawed exists all around us .
Mask adherence is quite high in America and has been since at least the summer .
Perhaps that ’ s why states with mask mandates do not fare any better than states without mask mandates .
But beyond that correlation , the only other significant conclusion to be drawn , as positive tests explode around the country @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ t been the panacea we have all been promised by politicians and public health officials .
But what masks lack in practical efficacy , they make up for in political virtue .
Not only do they serve as a constant public reminder that the deadliest plague in our lifetimes is among us ( this is simply and provably untrue ) and that your family and neighbors are the vectors , but they are a sign of your absolute submission to the technocratic status quo .
It is hard to see what has @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a desperate scheme for control by totalitarian progressives .
Consider how we ’ ve witnessed the dominoes fall .
When this year began , few Americans could have even imagined that their government could tell them that they couldn ’ t have customers in their stores , or that they couldn ’ t leave their homes , unless they ’ re doing either for “ essential ” purposes .
After all , what business does your government have in determining that your restaurant or small business , which couldn ’ t be more @ @ @ @ @ @ @ those you employ , is insufficiently necessary in your community or for your own life and liberty ?
https : //0aeee1d33428afdfc4413d76ac3e6aa6.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-37/html/container.html But we accepted two weeks of lockdowns to flatten the curve .
Then a few months .
Then , if you ’ d just “ wear the damn mask , ” life could get back to normal .
We did that , too .
But life continues to be anything but normal .
They ’ re still demanding lockdowns while also demanding masks and telling Americans how their holiday celebrations must be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ officials , local tyrants , and dictatorial governors .
Eighty-two percent of Americans believe they can individually assess and manage the risk of COVID , in spite of public health officials ’ assurances that they can ’ t .
It ’ s time we assert our liberty and abolish these unconstitutional and useless mask mandates .
While we ’ re at it , we should also abolish the technocratic status quo that we ’ ve seen usurp levels of power never before seen in America .
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climatedepot--2020-11-27--John Hopkins writer says US COVID numbers exaggerated – ‘Total decrease in deaths by other causes al

John Hopkins writer says US COVID numbers exaggerated – ‘Total decrease in deaths by other causes almost exactly equals the increase in deaths by COVID-19’ – Article then removed?!

This is via LockdownSceptics in the UK : “ An article in the Johns Hopkins Newsletter published on November 22nd summarised the findings of Genevieve Briand , Assistant Program Director of the Applied Economics Master ’ s Degree Program at Hopkins .
She analysed all-cause mortality in the US in 2020 , comparing the data to deaths in previous years , and found , to her surprise , that 2020 was less exceptional that it seemed at first blush.
” Apparently the article has since been taken down by John Hopkins , but is accessible for the moment through the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ reason we have a higher number of reported COVID-19 deaths among older individuals than younger individuals is simply because every day in the U.S. older individuals die in higher numbers than younger individuals , ” Briand said .
Briand also noted that 50,000 to 70,000 deaths are seen both before and after COVID-19 , indicating that this number of deaths was normal long before COVID-19 emerged .
Therefore , according to Briand , not only has COVID-19 had no effect on the percentage of deaths of older people , but it has also @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
These data analyses suggest that in contrast to most people ’ s assumptions , the number of deaths by COVID-19 is not alarming .
In fact , it has relatively no effect on deaths in the United States .
This comes as a shock to many people .
How is it that the data lie so far from our perception ?
To answer that question , Briand shifted her focus to the deaths per causes ranging from 2014 to 2020 .
There is a sudden increase in deaths in 2020 due to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ COVID-19 emerged in the U.S. in early 2020 , and thus COVID-19-related deaths increased drastically afterward .
Analysis of deaths per cause in 2018 revealed that the pattern of seasonal increase in the total number of deaths is a result of the rise in deaths by all causes , with the top three being heart disease , respiratory diseases , influenza and pneumonia .
“ This is true every year .
Every year in the U.S. when we observe the seasonal ups and downs , we have an increase of deaths due to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
When Briand looked at the 2020 data during that seasonal period , COVID-19-related deaths exceeded deaths from heart diseases .
This was highly unusual since heart disease has always prevailed as the leading cause of deaths .
However , when taking a closer look at the death numbers , she noted something strange .
As Briand compared the number of deaths per cause during that period in 2020 to 2018 , she noticed that instead of the expected drastic increase across all causes , there was a significant decrease in deaths due @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , as seen in the graph below , this sudden decline in deaths is observed for all other causes .
…the total decrease in deaths by other causes almost exactly equals the increase in deaths by COVID-19 .
This suggests , according to Briand , that the COVID-19 death toll is misleading .
Briand believes that deaths due to heart diseases , respiratory diseases , influenza and pneumonia may instead be recategorized as being due to COVID-19 .
During an interview with The News-Letter after the event , Poorna Dharmasena , a master @ @ @ @ @ @ @ expressed his opinion about Briand ’ s concluding remarks .
“ At the end of the day , it ’ s still a deadly virus .
And over-exaggeration or not , to a certain degree , is irrelevant , ” Dharmasena said .


climatedepot--2020-11-27--Physicists’ study: CO2 & water vapor are ‘saturated’ – Adding more CO2 or water molecules will bring

Physicists’ study: CO2 & water vapor are ‘saturated’ – Adding more CO2 or water molecules will bring modest warming that will benefit plant

Precision research by physicists William Happer and Willem van Wijngaarden has determined that the current levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide and water vapor are “ saturated.
” In radiation physics that means adding more CO2 or water molecules will bring modest warming that will benefit plant growth , and thus all life on Earth .
More CO2 and H2O will not cause dangerous warming .
null From this point forward , emissions from burning fossil fuels will bring little additional global warming , and what does occur will improve forests , grasslands , and agriculture .
There is no climate @ @ @ @ @ @ @ paradigm-shattering , contrary to what alarmist scientists have told us for decades .
Scientifically , it resolves a huge uncertainty that has plagued climate science for over a century : How should saturation be measured , and what is its extent regarding the primary greenhouse gases ?
Just as “ the greenhouse effect ” is nothing akin to how greenhouses work , in radiation physics “ saturation ” is nothing like the simple , everyday concept of saturation .
Your paper towel is saturated when it won ’ t pick up any more @ @ @ @ @ @ @ when adding more water , methane , or carbon dioxide molecules has few or no further effects on planetary warming and climate .
Dr. Happer is probably best known as a leading skeptic of “ dangerous human-caused climate change.
” He co-founded the prestigious CO2 Coalition and served on the National Security Council , advising President Trump .
But his career has been as a world-class radiation physicist at Princeton , where Dr. van Wijngaarden teaches and conducts research in pure and applied physics .
Happer ’ s numerous peer-reviewed journal articles have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ researchers .
null In their study , Professors Happer and van Wijngaarden ( H & W ) analyzed saturation physics in painstaking detail .
Their preprint , “ Dependence of Earth ’ s Thermal Radiation on Five Most Abundant Greenhouse Gases , ” goes far beyond any work done previously on this complex problem .
To begin with , standard studies examine the absorption of solar radiation by greenhouse molecules using crude absorption bands of radiation energy .
H & W goes far beyond this , to analyze the millions of distinct energies @ @ @ @ @ @ @ up these bands .
Their detailed line-by-line approach is an emerging field that often yields dramatically new results – and here contradicts prevailing climate theory .
Moreover , H & W does not look only at absorption .
As Dr. Happer explained to me : First , the thermal emission of greenhouse gases is just as important as absorption .
Second , how the atmosphere ’ s temperature varies with altitude is just as important as its concentration of greenhouse gases .
The two physicists , therefore , looked hard , not just @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and atmospheric temperature variation .
The work is far more complex than I , most non-physicist scientists , and certainly , most citizens and politicians can understand .
However , the conclusions are simple and dramatically clear .
Happer and van Wijngaarden ’ s central conclusion is this : For the most abundant greenhouse gases , H2O and CO2 , the saturation effects are extreme , with per-molecule forcing powers suppressed by four orders of magnitude at standard concentrations .
( Forcing power means effects on atmospheric temperature . )
null Their graphs @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Tables 2 and 4 show that , at current concentrations , the forcings from all greenhouse gases are saturated .
The saturations of the most abundant greenhouse gases , H2O and CO2 , mean the per-molecule forcing is weakened by a factor of 10,000 .
The other greenhouse gases analyzed are ozone , nitrous oxide , and methane .
These are also nearly saturated , but not as completely as water vapor and carbon dioxide .
They are also even less significant components of the atmosphere than CO2 ( 0.0415 % or 415 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ tiny compared to H2O ( 3 % or less ) .
At just 0.00019 % methane truly has a minuscule influence on climate .
The climate science community clearly needs to consider this work very carefully .
This may not be easy since three major physics journals have refused to publish it .
Their reviews have been defensive and antagonistic , instead of thoughtful , science-based or helpful .
Climate alarmism seems to control these journals , and they tend to censor contrary findings .
That ’ s why H & W released @ @ @ @ @ @ @ & W is now extending its analysis to include clouds .
Alarmist climate science bases its “ dangerous manmade ” global warming , not on the CO2 increase alone , but also on incorporating positive water vapor and cloud feedbacks : emphasizing heat-trapping properties of clouds , while largely ignoring the degree to which clouds also block or reflect incoming solar radiation .
Because carbon dioxide and water vapor are both saturated , it is highly unlikely that any positive cloud feedbacks can do much damage .
However further careful analysis is needed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ tuned .


climatedepot--2020-11-27--Trump features Climate Hustle 2 & Morano’s quote on Trump’s ‘energy dominance’

Climate Hustle 2 : Rise of the Climate Monarchy is 20 % off for Black Friday !
Last week President Trump featured CFACT ’ s groundbreaking feature film on Facebook and Twitter following an appearance by Marc Morano on Fox and Friends .
Marc was discussing Joe Biden ’ s plan to appoint John Kerry as a special climate ambassador and had this to say about Biden ’ s climate agenda : “ This is going to hammer middle America , poor people .
People on fixed income .
It ’ s going to raise the cost of energy .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ Donald Trump ’ s presidency achieved , American energy exports exceeding American energy imports for the first time since 1952 , when Harry S. Truman was president.
” President Trump must have liked what Marc had to say about the success of his energy policies as soon after he had this to say : American politicians have been talking about energy independence for generations .
Finally achieving it is something any president would be proud of .
If you ’ d like to know why anyone would be so destructive as to seek @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , watch Climate Hustle 2 and find out .
For nature and people too ,


climatedepot--2020-11-27--Morano on TV: ‘Climate change’ has been demoted: ‘Climate is now subservient to the master of COVID’

Morano : `` John Kerry is now is now talking about Zoonotic diseases— by humans encroaching on the animal world we are allowing these virus mutations to happen and that 's how we end up with COVID .
So he 's basically going to turn climate policy into a subset of COVID policy .
In other words , if we tackle climate change we 'll have less viruses , less fear .
The idea that climate is the number one issue is gone out the window .
They are now going to have climate as a subservient to their master @ @ @ @ @ @ @ mandatory vaccines are the DREAM of the regulatory state | Marc Morano on the future of COVID-19 One time presidential challenger and former Obama-era secretary of state — and long-time fixture of Washington , D.C. — John Kerry has been tipped to become Joe Biden ’ s “ climate tsar ” pending the certification of results for the 2020 U.S. presidential election .
What does this mean ?
Well , on yesterday ’ s edition of The Ezra Levant Show , Ezra was joined by Climate Hustle ( and Climate Hustle 2 ) @ @ @ @ @ @ @ discuss what the ramifications of a John Kerry-led environment policy might look like for the United States .
With such a long track record on the subject , including being the one to make official the United States ’ entry into the Paris Accord , Kerry ’ s views on climate are not exactly secret .
[ John Kerry ] is now is now talking about Zoonotic diseases— by humans encroaching on the animal world we are allowing these virus mutations to happen and that ’ s how we end up with COVID @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to turn climate policy into a subset of COVID policy .
In other words , if we tackle climate change we ’ ll have less viruses , less fear .
The idea that climate is the number one issue is gone out the window .
They are now going to have climate as a subservient to their master of COVID .
The full interview with Marc , and the full episode of The Ezra Levant Show , is available to SUBSCRIBERS of RebelNews+ .
Watch 1 hour speech : Morano apologizes for wrongly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ greatest threat to liberty – Now says viral fears/lockdowns are greatest threat Morano : “ On behalf of climate skeptics everywhere , I would like to formally apologize for warning that ‘ climate change ’ was the biggest threat to our liberty over the last 30 years .
Climate change ‘ solutions ’ are a big threat .
It ’ s just not the biggest in the world .
Viral fear inspired lockdowns are the biggest threat.
” “ I didn ’ t see this coming .
Public health , the unelected bureaucracy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ climate agenda look like an amateur or a farm league when it comes to expanding power and control and instilling fear .
”


climatedepot--2020-11-27--The U.S. National Temperature Index, is it based on data? Or corrections?

The United States has a very dense population of weather stations , data from them is collected and processed by NOAA/NCEI to compute the National Temperature Index .
The index is an average temperature for the nation and used to show if the U.S. is warming .
The data is stored by NOAA/NCEI in their GHCN or “ Global Historical Climatology Network ” database .
GHCN-Daily contains the quality-controlled raw data , which is subsequently corrected and then used to populate GHCN-Monthly , a database of monthly averages , both raw and final .
I downloaded version 4.0.1 of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
At that time , it had 27,519 stations globally and 12,514 ( 45 % ) of them were in the United States , including Alaska and Hawaii .
Of the 12,514 U.S. stations , 11,969 of them are in “ CONUS , ” the conterminous lower 48 states .
The current station coverage is shown in Figure 1 .
Figure 1 .
The GHCN weather station coverage in the United States is very good , except for northern Alaska .
There are two stations in the western Pacific that are not shown @ @ @ @ @ @ @ land-based temperature record , which dominates the long-term ( ~170-year ) global surface temperature record .
The land-based measurements dominate because sea-surface temperatures are very sparse until around 2004 to 2007 , when the ARGO network of floats became complete enough to provide good data .
Even in 2007 , the sea-surface gridding error was larger than the detected ocean warming .
We have estimated that the oceans , which cover 71 % of the Earth ’ s surface , are warming at a rate of 0.4°C per century , based on the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 2 .
This is a very rough estimate and based only on data from 2004 to 2019 and temperatures from the upper 2,000 meters of the oceans .
The data before 2004 is so sparse we didn ’ t want to use it .
The error in this estimate is roughly ±0.26°C , from the surface to 2,000 meters and unknown below that .
Argo measurements of ocean temperature at 2,000 meters are a fairly constant 2.4°C .
So , we assumed a temperature of 0.8°C at the average ocean depth of 3,688 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
For context , the freezing point of seawater at 2900 PSI ( roughly 2,000 meters or 2,000 decibars ) is -17°C .
The value of 0.8°C is from deep Argo data as described by Gregory Johnson and colleagues ( Johnson , Purkey , Zilberman , & Roemmich , 2019 ) .
There are very few measurements of deep ocean temperatures and any estimate has considerable possible error ( Gasparin , Hamon , Remy , & Traon , 2020 ) .
The anomalies in Figure 2 are based on those assumptions .
The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the mean of the ocean temperatures from 2004 through 2019 .
The data used to make Figure 2 is from Jamstec .
An R program to read the Jamstec data and plot it can be downloaded here , the zip file also contains a spreadsheet with more details .
Our calculations suggest an overall average 2004-2019 ocean temperature of 4.6°C .
Figure 2 .
A plot of the global grid of ocean temperatures from JAMSTEC .
It is built from ARGO floats and Triton buoy data mostly .
Jamstec is the source of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Observed ocean warming is not at all alarming and quite linear , showing no sign of acceleration .
The oceans contain 99.9 % of the thermal energy ( “ heat ” ) on the surface of the Earth , the atmosphere contains most of the rest .
This makes it hard for Earth ’ s surface to warm very much , since the oceans act as a thermal regulator .
Various calculations and constants regarding the heat stored in the oceans and atmosphere are in a spreadsheet I ’ ve prepared here @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The oceans control warming with their high heat capacity , which is the amount of thermal energy required to raise the average ocean temperature one degree .
The thermal energy required to raise the temperature of the atmosphere 1,000 degrees C would only raise the average ocean temperature one degree .
I only mention this because , while the land-based weather stations provide us with valuable information regarding the weather , they tell us very little about climate change .
Longer term changes in climate require much more information than we currently have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ let us examine the GHCN data collected in the United States .
The GHCN station data In the U.S. , and in the rest of the world , the land-based weather stations comprise most of the average temperature record in the 19th and 20th centuries .
Knowing how accurate they are , and the influence of the corrections applied relative to the observed warming is important .
Lots of work has been done to document problems with the land-based data .
Anthony Watts and colleagues documented numerous problems with station siting and equipment @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Important information on this study by John Neison-Gammon can be seen here and here .
The Journal of Geophysical Research paper is here .
Many of the radical changes in NOAA ’ s U.S. temperature index and in the underlying database in the period between 2009 and 2014 are due to the work done by Watts and his colleagues as described by NOAA ’ s Matthew Menne in his introductory paper on version 2 of the U. S. Historical Climatology Network ( USHCN ) : Menne , et al .
acknowledged Watt @ @ @ @ @ @ @ paper to the revised USHCN network of stations , this suggests that the surface stations project was an important reason for the revision .
USHCN was a high-quality subset of the full NOAA Cooperative Observer program ( COOP ) weather station network .
The USHCN stations were chosen based upon their spatial coverage , record length , data completeness and historical stability , according to Matthew Menne .
A set of quality control checks and corrections were developed to clean up the selected records and these are described in Matthew Menne and colleague @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is cited above in the boxed quote , but he also wrote a paper to describe their Pairwise Homogenization algorithm , abbreviated “ PHA ” ( Menne & Williams , 2009a ) .
Stations with problems were removed from USHCN as they were found and documented by Watts , et al .
As a result , the original 1218 USHCN stations dwindled to ~832 by 2020 .
The dismantled stations were not replaced , the values were “ infilled ” statistically using data from neighboring stations .
In early 2014 , USHCN subset @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the National Temperature Index and replaced with a gridded instance of GHCN , but the corrections developed for USHCN were kept .
They were just applied to all 12,514 U.S. GHCN stations , rather than the smaller 1,218 station ( or fewer ) USHCN subset .
NOAA appears to contradict this in another web page on GHCN-Daily methods .
On this page they say that GHCN-Daily does not contain adjustments for historical station changes or time-of-day bias .
But they note that GHCN-Monthly does .
Thus , it seems that the corrections are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ while building the monthly dataset .
NOAA does not tamper with the GHCN-Daily raw data , but when they extract it to build GHCN-Monthly , they apply some dramatic corrections , as we will see .
Some NOAA web pages hint that the time-of-day bias corrections have been dropped for later releases of GHCN-Monthly , but most explicitly say they are still being used , so we assume they are still in use .
One of the most worrying findings was how often , and how radically , NOAA appears to be changing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ evolving U.S .
Temperature Index The current U.S. “ National Temperature Index , ” draws data from five-kilometer grids of the GHCN-Monthly dataset .
The monthly gridded dataset is called nClimGrid , and is a set of map grids , not actual station data .
The grids are constructed using “ climatologically aided interpolation ” ( Willmott & Robeson , 1995 ) .
The grids are used to populate a monthly average temperature dataset , called nClimDiv .
nClimDiv is used to create the index .
Currently , the NOAA base period for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is 1981-2010 .
We constructed our station anomalies , graphed below , using the same base period .
We accepted all stations that had at least 12 monthly values during the base period and rejected stations with fewer .
This reduced the number of CONUS stations from 11,969 to 9,307 .
No stations were interpolated or “ infilled ” in this study .
Some sources have suggested data outside the GHCN-Daily dataset might be used to help build the nClimDiv monthly grids and temperature index , especially some nearby Canadian and Mexican monthly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on their website .
nClimDiv contains climate data , including precipitation , and a drought index , as well as average monthly temperature .
As mentioned above , the same corrections are made to the GHCN station data as were used in the older USHCN dataset .
From the NOAA website : Besides the new fully corrected GHCN-Monthly dataset and the smaller USHCN set of corrected station data , there used to be a third dataset , the original NOAA climate divisional dataset .
Like GHCN-Daily and nClimDiv , this older database used @ @ @ @ @ @ @ However , the COOP data used in the older Climate Division dataset ( called “ TCDD ” in Fenimore , et al . )
was uncorrected .
This is explained in a white paper by Chris Fenimore and colleagues ( Fenimore , Arndt , Gleason , & Heim , 2011 ) .
Further , the data in the older dataset was simply averaged by climate division and state , it was not gridded , like nClimDiv and USHCN .
There are some new stations in nClimDiv , but most are the same as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the two datasets are the corrections and the gridding .
Data from this earlier database is plotted as a blue line in Figures 6 and 7 below .
The simple averages used to summarize TCDD , ignored changes in elevation , station moves and other factors that introduced spurious internal trends ( discontinuities ) in many areas .
The newer nClimDiv monthly database team claims to explicitly account for station density and elevation with their “ climatologically aided interpolation ” gridding method ( Fenimore , Arndt , Gleason , & Heim , 2011 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ corrected and gridded nClimGrid five-kilometer grid dataset .
nClimDiv is more useful since the gradients within the United States in temperature , precipitation and drought are more accurate and contain fewer discontinuities .
But , as we explained in previous posts , when nClimDiv is reduced to a yearly conterminous U.S. ( CONUS ) temperature record , it is very similar to the record created by the older , official temperature record called USHCN , when both are gridded the same way .
This may be because , while nClimDiv has many more @ @ @ @ @ @ @ applied to them as were applied to the USHCN stations .
While USHCN has fewer stations , they are of higher quality and have longer records .
The additional nClimDiv stations , when processed the same way as the USHCN stations , do not change things , at least on a national and yearly level .
As noted in a previous post , stirring the manure faster , with more powerful computers and billions of dollars , doesn ’ t really matter for widespread averages .


climatedepot--2020-11-25--President Trump’s tweet promotes Climate Hustle 2 film & Morano’s praising of Trump’s ‘energy domina

President Trump’s tweet promotes Climate Hustle 2 film & Morano’s praising of Trump’s ‘energy dominance’

Marc Morano on the Green New Deal on Fox News Channel ’ s Fox & Friends November 25 , 2020 @ @ @ @ @ to hammer middle America , poor people .
People on a fixed income .
It @ @ @ @ @ the cost of energy .
They are going to turn — what Donald Trump ’ @ @ @ @ @ exports exceeded American energy imports for the first time since 1952 when Harry S. Truman @ @ @ @ @ Perhaps President Trump ’ s greatest accomplishment is the United States energy dominance .
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climatedepot--2020-11-28--‘Sidelined’: Young climate activists ‘concerned’ that ‘climate change is being neglected during COVI

‘Sidelined’: Young climate activists ‘concerned’ that ‘climate change is being neglected during COVID-19’

Some of the UK ’ s most prominent young environmental campaigners are making an urgent plea for global leaders to @ @ @ @ @ – amidst the coronavirus pandemic .
More than half of 18 to 24-years-old surveyed in @ @ @ @ @ the challenges of climate change have been neglected because of the outbreak .
In the @ @ @ @ @ Conference , campaigners Mikaela Loach , Mya-Rose aka “ Birdgirl ” and Zaqiya Cajee , @ @ @ @ @ could also disproportionately affect minority groups around the world .


climatedepot--2020-11-28--Arctic Sea Ice Linked to Little Ice Age

Arctic Sea Ice Linked to Little Ice Age

Elise Kjørstad writes at Science Norway What actually started the Little Ice Age ?
Excerpts in italics with my bolds .
It all may have started with sea ice , and the changes may have happened all by themselves without the influence of volcanoes or the Sun , researchers behind a new study say .
The ninth century seems to have experienced a warmer climate , which has been called the Medieval Warm Period .
But from the 14th century things were different .
It rained “ without stopping ” in 1315 , and grain didn ’ t ripen .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ following year .
Later in the 14th century there were several episodes of wild weather and cold periods .
The Little Ice Age can be divided into two phases , according to an article in The New Yorker .
It began with a cooling period in 1300 – 1400 .
The coldest period was from the end of the 1500s to 1850 .
This cooling caused glaciers to expand in Scandinavia , the Alps , in Iceland , Alaska , China , in the southern Andes and in New Zealand .
Generally speaking @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to have begun because of an increase in volcanism and reduced activity of the Sun .
“ The timing agrees quite well with the great eruptions from the 13th century .
So there is good empirical evidence that this could be true , ” said Martin Miles , a researcher at NORCE Norwegian Research Centre , and the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research in Bergen , and at the University of Colorado at Boulder in the USA .
But in a new study , Miles and his colleagues have looked at another possibility @ @ @ @ @ @ @ In their new study , Miles and his colleagues looked at the transport of sea ice from the Arctic over a 1400 year period .
They compiled data from seabed samples from areas outside Greenland , the eastern part of the Fram Strait , the Greenland Sea and off Iceland .
The samples contained small fossils that give researchers information about sea temperatures and loose material that sea ice had carried with it .
In several of these areas , ice will only be found if there is an especially large amount flowing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is particularly true during cold periods and when there is also a lot of sea ice formation .
“ We discovered that an unusually large amount of sea ice flowed out of the Arctic Ocean from the beginning of the 14th century .
It is very interesting , and the biggest event we found during the last 1400 years , ” says Miles .
Miles says sea ice may have affected the climate in Europe in the 14th century in this way .
The ice that melts and turns into fresh water can @ @ @ @ @ @ @ affect the atmosphere and climate , he says .
“ Ocean currents are very important for transporting heat to Europe .
If the currents weaken a little , it will be much colder than usual , ” he said .
Sea ice is not only a reaction to climate change , but can also trigger climate change , Miles says .
The paper is Evidence for extreme export of Arctic sea ice leading the abrupt onset of the Little Ice Age Martin W. Miles et .
al .
( 2020 ) .
Arctic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ decadal time scales , and models suggest that sea ice is essential for longer anomalies such as the Little Ice Age .
However , empirical evidence is fragmentary .
Here , we reconstruct sea ice exported from the Arctic Ocean over the past 1400 years , using a spatial network of proxy records .
We find robust evidence for extreme export of sea ice commencing abruptly around 1300 CE and terminating in the late 1300s .
The exceptional magnitude and duration of this “ Great Sea-Ice Anomaly ” was previously unknown .
The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in downstream increases in polar waters and ocean stratification , culminating ~1400 CE and sustained during subsequent centuries .
While consistent with external forcing theories , the onset and development are notably similar to modeled spontaneous abrupt cooling enhanced by sea-ice feedbacks .
These results provide evidence that marked climate changes may not require an external trigger .
The Climate System is Self-Oscillating : Sea Ice Proves It .
Scientists have studied the Arctic for a long time at the prestigious AARI : Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute St. Petersburg , Russia .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ description supported by research findings under this title : Sea Ice In the Climate System A Russian View ( here ) Below I provide excerpts from this extensive analysis to form a synopsis of their view : Component parts of the climate system interact so that Arctic Sea Ice varies within a range constrained by those internal forces .
The most probable regulator of the physical geographical process can be found from analysis of the relationships between the components of the climate system .
It is not necessary to investigate the cause-effect relationships @ @ @ @ @ @ @ It is sufficient to choose one of them , let us say sea ice , and consider its direct interaction with the atmosphere and the ocean – in the climate system and the significance of internal mechanisms in the natural process .
Pg 1 The idea that the ice area growth at present can be achieved by changes in only the haline structure of the upper ocean layer , as a result of surface Arctic water overflowing onto warmer but more saline water , is supported both by calculations and empirical data .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ it should be noted that the signs of temperature and salinity anomalies coincide in most cases : a decreased salinity corresponds to enhanced temperature and vice versa .
Such similarity in the change of these parameters is impossible to explain from the point of view of the governing role of thermal conditions in the atmosphere with regard to the ocean , as the air temperature increase and decrease can result only in the change of the thermal state of sea surface layer not its salinity .
Pgs .
48-49 Thus , the presented @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of changes in the ice cover extent are the changes in the vertical water structure in the upper ocean layer , rather than the changes of thermal conditions in the atmosphere .
These changes are induced by fluctuations in the horizontal dimensions of the halocline , which are governed in turn by the expansion or reduction of the surface Arctic water mass .
Pg .
49 It follows from the above that , under present day conditions , the changes in the area of the Arctic sea ice during the colder period of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the change in the haline structure of the upper ocean layer .
Indirectly , this change will also affect the thermal state of the atmosphere .
Pg .
56 It is important to note that the ice effect on the atmosphere is not limited to the thermal effect .
That it can produce a significant effect on atmospheric circulation is already evident from the fact that the Arctic anticyclone , considered by Viese [ 13 ] as a regulator of atmospheric processes in the Northern polar region , could form as a pressure @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ice regime in the Arctic .
Pg .
56 An analysis of cause-effect relationships does not leave any doubt in what direction and in what order the climate signal propagates in the atmosphere-ocean-polar ice system .
This is not the direction and order usually assumed to cause present climate change .
When it has become clear that the changes in the ocean , caused by disturbances of its freshwater balance , precede changes in the extent of sea ice , and the latter the changes in the atmosphere , then there was nothing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ oscillation to be the most probable explanation for the development of the natural process .
Pg .
58 Maybe the most convincing evidence of the Arctic sea ice stability is its preservation during the last 700,000 years despite vast glacial- interglacial fluctuations .
The surface air temperature in the Arctic during the interglacial periods was higher by several degrees than present day temperatures .
Pg .
44 The remarkable stability of our planetary climate system derives from feedbacks between internal parts of the system , providing the oscillations we observe as natural variability @ @ @ @ @ @ @ example .
Bottom line : A bit less ice in the Arctic indicates that we are not yet slipping into an ice age , little or otherwise .
See also The Great Arctic Ice Exchange


climatedepot--2020-11-28--Physicist: How Clouds Hold the Key to Global Warming

Our inability to model clouds satisfactorily is partly because we just don ’ t know much about their inner workings @ @ @ @ @ s formation , or when it rains , or when a cloud is absorbing or @ @ @ @ @ lot of adjustable parameters are needed to describe them .
It ’ s partly also @ @ @ @ @ smaller than the minimum grid scale in supercomputers , by as much as several hundred @ @ @ @ @ .
For that reason , clouds are represented in computer models by average values of @ @ @ @ @ and geographic location .
Most climate models predict that low cloud cover will decrease as @ @ @ @ @ but this is by no means certain and meaningful observational evidence for clouds is sparse @ @ @ @ @ , a researcher at Columbia University ’ s Earth Institute has embarked on a project @ @ @ @ @ respond to climate change , especially in the tropics which receive the most sunlight and @ @ @ @ @ .


climatedepot--2020-11-28--Flashback 1923: Experts predicted that Glacier National Park would be ice-free by 1948

Experts predicted that @ GlacierNPS would be ice-free by 1948 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 https : //t.co/ggAvqz75T1 pic.twitter.com/SacsmHwAAA


climatedepot--2020-11-28--State AGs, DC Swamp Preparing Biggest End-Run in History — ‘Green New Deal’ with No Legislation, No

State AGs, DC Swamp Preparing Biggest End-Run in History — ‘Green New Deal’ with No Legislation, No Rulemaking Process, Just a Sweetheart Consent Decree

Activists who came up with plan now on Biden EPA transition team As reported in the Wall Street Journal , a trail of emails between progressive state attorneys generals ( AG ) offices and former Obama-Biden and career Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) officials – obtained over nine months by Energy Policy Advocates ’ dogged public record requests – reveal a plan to use the courts to impose the “ climate ” agenda early in the next administration , skipping Congress .
The chosen approach is even more aggressive than the disastrous and politically unattainable “ Green New Deal @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Zero ” ) and was previously rejected by the Obama EPA and green activists as too extreme .
The plan is for an otherwise Obama-like move : an end-run around the democratic process , avoiding political sign-off or accountability for what would be a massive , painful and ideological restructuring of the U.S. economy .
Obfuscating by AG spokespeople notwithstanding , the hope appears to be to revive “ sue-and-settle ” , a practice by which green activists sue , e.g.
, the EPA to impose rules that the regulators wanted but couldn @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ Instead of fighting the lawsuit , the EPA would then almost immediately surrender , agreeing to settle… consenting to whatever outrageous demands were being made by the agency ’ s handpicked ‘ adversary.
’ ” “ When citizens or business complained , EPA would claim its hands were tied by the settlement.
” The progressive state AGs take the line in the Journal story that , when their political fortunes turned in Biden ’ s favor , they stood down on their plan to use the courts to impose a ‘ climate @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the courts — rather than turned to planing for a “ sue and settle ” .
Of course , they don ’ t dare file suit let alone acknowledge such a plan until a new EPA administrator is confirmed .
Any other position than New York ’ s “ we have no immediate plans to do so ” would make for a very difficult process for , e.g.
, the rumored EPA pick , whose work they claim in emails to be following as a roadmap , Mary Nichols .
As it still @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this public straddle , not the least of which is that the AGs take the opposite position in court in refusing to release further records to Energy Policy Advocates : suit is pending , so we can ’ t release this !
One wonders to whom the AGs are telling the truth , the courts , or the Wall Street Journal .
Someone might ask .
After “ cap-and-trade ” legislation failed the Obama-Biden EPA sought to use the existing Clean Air Act to impose climate regulations , led by an individual named @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in West Virginia v. EPA , ended that effort , sending the climate industry back to the drawing board .
Now , after turning to Mr. Goffman for advice , AGs from California and Oregon to New York and Massachusetts developed an approach to impose what is called a National Ambient Air Quality Standard for climate , or NAAQS , under a Biden administration .
Conveniently , Goffman is now situated to finish preparations from his post on the Biden EPA transition team .
The plan requires massive central regulation of nearly all @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s “ climate ” agenda on steroids , a perpetual “ Lockdown Economy ” , requiring truly massive reductions in energy use emissions .
Even Obama ’ s EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson rejected a climate NAAQS as not “ advisable ” .
One prominent green attorney said “ hell will freeze over ” before that came to pass .
Goffman referred the AGs to other former EPA officials-turned-activists .
Following their recommended plan , the AGs this past Spring entered agreements among themselves and Bill DeBlasio ’ s New York City , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ work on the issue to be legally privileged to try and keep it secret from the public .
One of those groups with whom the AGs signed their secrecy pact is EarthJustice .
EarthJustice ’ s Patrice Simms was named to lead the Biden EPA transition team .
These public records obtained from a half-dozen AG offices show the plan has been fully baked for months .
It began to take shape in 2019 as a “ Hail Mary ” pass out of despair over a continued Trump presidency ; despair soon turned @ @ @ @ @ @ @ accommodate their demands by agreeing to a “ consent decree ” to implement the agenda .
It seems clear that the AGs withheld filing their suit with this in mind .
Former Vice President Joe Biden ran for the White House on a promise of imposing these same policies , and like his running mate , he calls climate change an “ existential crisis ” .
A Biden-Harris administration would welcome this suit .
So would Nancy Pelosi and most congressional Democrats .
The “ climate ” agenda is one of those bright-line @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
When counting votes for her return as Speaker of the House after the 2018 elections , Pelosi “ was pressed on the need to shield centrist members from politically perilous votes… cit [ ing ] the cap-and-trade climate bill that House Democrats passed in 2009 ” .
Members who had been around longer than “ AOC ” recalled how that vote , which stirred great public opposition , played a significant role in the 2010 Republican House takeover .
Indeed , this time around only the Senate Republicans brought the “ Green @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , exposing its own co-sponsors , including Sen. Kamala Harris , as afraid to go on record supporting it .
Filing this lawsuit in 2020 would not have been helpful to a certain party ’ s election prospects .
But under sue-and-settle , it would be so long , political and legal problems , hello long-sought , radical agenda as the Biden administration moves on to other things .
Unless the public becomes sufficiently outraged over the abuse .
Absent that , politically , this is exceedingly clever , though it is a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Economically , it would be disastrous .
If successful , the Biden administration would agree to impose a COVID-style economy , claiming as its authority the D.C.
Circuit ’ s approval of the agreement struck between friends , and citing to an existing law that was never designed to allow such a thing which is what necessitated such a deal to begin with .
Possibly this explains why , once public record requests by the group Energy Policy Advocates focused in on this scheme with outside activists , AG offices began forcing the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ any further details .
They needed to buy time .
In a September phone call in one of these lawsuits , a New Mexico assistant attorney general explained her Office ’ s remarkably obstinate stance on the matter by saying , “ This is a very confidential issue ” .
While curious for being legally irrelevant , the claim is telling .
In open court in October , Washington State Assistant Attorney General Jennifer Steele , arguing to keep these records secret , informed the court that “ the fact of the affirmative @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s not — certainly not known to anyone.
” As late as November 12 , 2020 , these AGs claimed secrecy over the rest of the discussions they refuse to let the public see , on the grounds they were prepared “ in anticipation of litigation ” .
So much for mystery .
Will They Get Away With It ?
Sue-and-Settle Tsunami ?
This revolutionary act appears to be on its way , unless the public nip it in the bud with opposition of the kind shown to Obama ’ s rather less @ @ @ @ @ @ @ These revelations and the AGs ’ fight to delay further releases also serve as a reminder that we could soon see a tsunami of sue-and-settle moves on major progressive priorities , on which there is more appetite for the agenda among the political class than for openly taking public credit — which is to say , accepting political accountability .


climatedepot--2020-11-28--Get ready: In a declared ‘climate emergency,’  you can’t fly commercial unless it is ‘morally justif

Get ready: In a declared ‘climate emergency,’  you can’t fly commercial unless it is ‘morally justifiable’ – Activist Holthaus sets rules for the ‘use for luxury aviation emissions in a climate emergency’

1 % of people cause half of global aviation emissions – study Exclusive : Researchers say Covid-19 hiatus is moment @ @ @ @ @ emitters ’ US air passengers have by far the biggest carbon footprint among rich countries @ @ @ @ @ bigger than the next 10 countries combined , including the UK , Japan , Germany @ @ @ @ @ reports .
“ If you want to resolve climate change and we need to redesign @ @ @ @ @ we should start at the top , where a few ‘ super emitters ’ contribute @ @ @ @ @ ” said Stefan Gössling at Linnaeus University in Sweden , who led the new study @ @ @ @ @ had far too much freedom to design the planet according to their wishes .
We @ @ @ @ @ an opportunity to slim the air transport system .
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climatedepot--2020-11-28--If the ‘Great Reset’ really is so good for us, let’s hold a referendum on it, so it can have a democ

If the ‘Great Reset’ really is so good for us, let’s hold a referendum on it, so it can have a democratic mandate (or not)

Now of course , some people might like the idea of working permanently from home ( that ’ s if they ’ re lucky enough to have a job ) , ordering everything they need online ( to arrive by drone ) , having to have a continually updated digitalised health pass to go anywhere , owning nothing and having their biological , physical and digital identities ‘ fused ’ , but shouldn ’ t they be consulted about it first ?
The premise of the Great Reset is that there is absolutely no going back to the lives we @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The people assume we are just going back to the good old world which we had and everything will be normal again in how we are used to normal in the old fashioned .
This is , let ’ s say , fiction , it will not happen , the cut which we have now is much too strong in order not to leave traces , ” says Schwab .
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The Great Reset/4IR means that the golden age of travel for ordinary people will be at an end .
The WEF has @ @ @ @ @ @ @ very real prospect that only those who have had Covid-19 vaccines or negative test results would be able to leave their country , or indeed attend a sporting or cultural event .
Combine that with the collapse of the airline industry , the mass closure of all but the most expensive hotels , the end of cheaper petrol-fuelled cars and the advent of ‘ smart ’ motorways where access can easily be restricted , and most people will be stuck in their homes .
But not , of course , Davos Man .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ Jet .
Davos Man uses Private Jet .
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If the ‘ Great Reset ’ really is so good for us , let ’ s hold a referendum on it , so it can have a democratic mandate ( or not ) The World Economic Forum ’ s ‘ Great Reset ’ and associated Fourth Industrial Revolution would , if implemented , mean far deeper changes to our everyday lives than Brexit , yet is being pushed through without any proper debate .
Compare and contrast .
On the issue of whether Britain @ @ @ @ @ @ @ had : • Four years of debates in Parliament on how/when/under what conditions we should leave .
In fact , for the period May 2016 until March 2020 , it seemed MPs were talking about nothing else .
No one can say that Brexit , if it indeed finally happens at the end of this year , hasn ’ t been properly discussed , or that it hasn ’ t had democratic endorsement .
The ‘ Leave ’ side won the referendum vote and then in 2019 the Tory government was re-elected on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ .
Traditional ‘ Red Wall ’ Labour seats went Tory for the first time in 2019 largely because of Brexit .
Contrast this with the Great Reset/Fourth Industrial Revolution .
The UK government , like many others in the West , is clearly trying to implement the Klaus Schwab/WEF programme , under the guise of fighting a virus , but unlike Brexit , not only is there no public vote , there is not even a debate .
The Great Reset/4IR is actually about redefining what it means to be human.How can @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ( and the closely linked UN 2030 Agenda ) represents not only the most radical changes ever proposed in our lifetimes , but the most radical changes to everyday life IN HISTORY .
For centuries , it has been accepted that man is a social animal .
That meeting up with other people is good for us .
That we have certain freedoms which are inalienable .
But the Great Reset/4IR threatens all of this .
Klaus Schwab says “ What the fourth industrial revolution will lead to is a fusion of our @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Wow .
A fusion of our physical , digital and biological identity .
That ’ s Transhumanism .
Cyborgs .
I Robot .
That represents a slightly bigger change to our lives than anything argued about in the Brexit negotiations .
So will the abolition of private property , except for a privileged few .
The WEF predicts that by 2030 , “ You ’ ll own nothing .
And you ’ ll be happy.
” Is this what the public really wants ?
Ditto a ‘ cashless society ’ ?
Humans have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ millennia , now we ’ re told they have to go .
The civil liberties repercussions of a cashless society are truly terrifying as they mean anyone can be ‘ cut off ’ from the system for non-compliance .
Eliminate cash , and you eliminate freedom .
Then there are the draconian changes to our lives on the grounds of ‘ sustainability ’ .
The Conservatives had pledged to ban the sale of diesel and petrol cars from 2040 .
But this week , Prime Minister Johnson , again without any public debate @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Again , where ’ s the democracy here ?
The Great Reset/4IR means that the golden age of travel for ordinary people will be at an end .
The WEF has been promoting digital health passes raising the very real prospect that only those who have had Covid-19 vaccines or negative test results would be able to leave their country , or indeed attend a sporting or cultural event .
Combine that with the collapse of the airline industry , the mass closure of all but the most expensive hotels , the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ advent of ‘ smart ’ motorways where access can easily be restricted , and most people will be stuck in their homes .
But not , of course , Davos Man .
Davos Man doesn ’ t use Easy Jet .
Davos Man uses Private Jet .
He ’ ll still be flying to Switzerland to elite conferences where fellow billionaires discuss further how they can use hi-tech methods to restrict the travel of everyone else , to ‘ save the planet ’ .
What life would be like in Britain under the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in Boris Johnson ’ s ‘ socially distanced ’ speech to the Tory Party Conference in October .
It was an oration which could easily have been written by Klaus Schwab .
“ From internet shopping to working from home , it looks as though Covid has massively accelerated changes in the world of work… as old jobs are lost and as new jobs are created… The Covid crisis is a catalyst for change , ” Johnson enthused .
The premise of the Great Reset is that there is absolutely no going back @ @ @ @ @ @ @ March 2020 .
“ The people assume we are just going back to the good old world which we had and everything will be normal again in how we are used to normal in the old fashioned .
This is , let ’ s say , fiction , it will not happen , the cut which we have now is much too strong in order not to leave traces , ” says Schwab.Previous generations were told that the world was their oyster , but under the Great Reset , horizons are much narrower @ @ @ @ @ @ @ big commutes to the city , ” people can “ start a business in their home town… and bring up their children in the neighbourhoods where they grew up themselves , ” Johnson went on .
But of course , the elites will still be moving around , it ’ s just the plebs who will be grounded .
Now of course , some people might like the idea of working permanently from home ( that ’ s if they ’ re lucky enough to have a job ) , ordering everything they @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ) , having to have a continually updated digitalised health pass to go anywhere , owning nothing and having their biological , physical and digital identities ‘ fused ’ , but shouldn ’ t they be consulted about it first ?
And what about those of us who actually miss the ‘ old-fashioned ’ normal of mixing freely with people , of paying in cash , of driving petrol-fuelled cars wherever we want to go , and being in crowded pubs ?
Most of us care about the environment , but are suspicious @ @ @ @ @ @ @ development ’ has become a Trojan Horse to introduce regressive changes to our lives that most definitely are not to our benefit .
A referendum on the Great Reset/Fourth Industrial Revolution is urgently needed so that the ‘ Build Back Better ’ brigade can put their case directly to the electorate .
If what they are proposing really is so great , then what on earth are they frightened of ?