I am [...] glad to report that Michael Mann – creator of the incredible Hockey Stick curve and one of the scientists most heavily implicated in the Climategate scandal – is about to get a very nasty shock. When he turns up to work on Monday, he’ll find that all 27 of his colleagues at the Earth System Science Center at Penn State University have received a rather tempting email inviting them to blow the whistle on anyone they know who may have been fraudulently misusing federal grant funds for climate research. AWIP: Global Warming Emerging Science and Understanding -VIDEOs

The most recent studies by researchers at ETH Zurich show that in the 1940s Swiss glaciers were melting at an even-faster pace than at present. This is despite the fact that the temperatures in the 20th century were lower than in this century. Researchers see the main reason for this as the lower level of aerosol pollution in the atmosphere.

In Switzerland, the increase in snow in wintertime and the glacier melt in summertime have been measured at measurement points at around 3,000 metres above sea level – on the Clariden Firn, the Great Aletsch glacier and the Silvretta glacier – without interruption for almost 100 years. As part of his doctoral work, Matthias Huss used this unique range of measurements to examine how climate change in the last century affected the glaciers. The work was carried out under the supervision of Martin Funk, professor and head of the Department for Glaciology at the Laboratory for Hydraulics, Hydrology and Glaciology (‘VAW’) at ETH Zurich, who is also co-author of the study.

In addition to the “global warming” rip-off, you can add another huge international racketeering operation—the H1N1 “pandemic” of 2009. Both of these ploys were designed to fleece the western nations of billions, possibly trillions, of dollars. In the case of the H1N1 scam, the western governments have already coughed up billions of dollars for vaccines to prevent a bogus “pandemic.” That means that we, the taxpayers, have been ripped-off yet again. If class action lawsuits aren’t on the way, then they darn well should be. -The European nations have apparently not been paid off to the extent of the U.S. Congress, and have decided to look into things.

The theme of our fancy inventions ultimately destroying us has been a favorite in fiction at least since Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein.” We can place alongside this a continuous succession of spectacular films built on visions of the end of the world. Such end-time fantasies must have a profound, persistent appeal in order to keep drawing wide-eyed crowds into movie theaters, as historically they have drawn crowds into churches, year after year. Apocalyptic scenarios are a diversion from real problems — poverty, terrorism, broken financial systems — needing intelligent attention. Even something as down-to-earth as the swine-flu scare has seemed at moments to be less about testing our health care system and its emergency readiness than about the fate of a diseased civilization drowning in its own fluids. Science Daily: Fast Pace of Glacier Melt in the 1940s: Lower Aerosol Pollution.

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Eighty percent of the American population now believe that man is responsible for global warming. Emerging science, however, is providing important new understanding of this issue. Yet, this information is not getting out to people, especially to our school children. It has not been proven that man is responsible for global warming or cooling. Rock Creek Free Press: Climategate: Science Scandal of the Century -The World’s Most Influential Climate Scientists Get Caught “Fudging” the Data. AWIP: Copenhagen climate change conference: 'Fourteen days to seal history's judgment on this generation'

Six Republican congressmen from Georgia have signed onto an Atlanta-based organization's legal challenge of a federal announcement that could lead to government regulation of greenhouse gas emissions. The Southeastern Legal Foundation filed a petition last week calling on the Environmental Protection Agency to reconsider its Dec. 7 "endangerment finding" declaring carbon dioxide and other gases linked to global warming a threat to public health and the environment. The petition argues that news of a conspiracy within the scientific community to hide evidence that calls into question manmade impacts on global warming has emerged since the closing of public comment on the EPA filing. CFP: Time to Revisit Falsified Science of CO2. Science Daily: No Rise of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Fraction in Past 160 Years, New Research Finds.

Earlier I wrote about the Arctic Oscillation Index going strongly negative in December and what new cold to expect in January. From NASA’s Earth observatory, we have a high resolution temperature anomaly map that provides visualization of the effects. This image was taken while the Copenhagen Climate Conference was in progress.

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Eighty percent of the American population now believe that man is responsible for global warming. Emerging science, however, is providing important new understanding of this issue. Yet, this information is not getting out to people, especially to our school children. It has not been proven that man is responsible for global warming or cooling. Rock Creek Free Press: Climategate: Science Scandal of the Century -The World’s Most Influential Climate Scientists Get Caught “Fudging” the Data. AWIP: Copenhagen climate change conference: 'Fourteen days to seal history's judgment on this generation'

Global Warming Emerging Science and Understanding Part 6
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Eighty percent of the American population now believe that man is responsible for global warming. Emerging science, however, is providing important new understanding of this issue. Yet, this information is not getting out to people, especially to our school children. It has not been proven that man is responsible for global warming or cooling. Rock Creek Free Press: Climategate: Science Scandal of the Century -The World’s Most Influential Climate Scientists Get Caught “Fudging” the Data. AWIP: Copenhagen climate change conference: 'Fourteen days to seal history's judgment on this generation'

Global Warming Emerging Science and Understanding Part 6
Global Warming Emerging Science and Understanding Part 5
Global Warming Emerging Science and Understanding Part 4
Global Warming Emerging Science and Understanding Part 2
Global Warming Emerging Science and Understanding Part 1

Eighty percent of the American population now believe that man is responsible for global warming. Emerging science, however, is providing important new understanding of this issue. Yet, this information is not getting out to people, especially to our school children. It has not been proven that man is responsible for global warming or cooling. Rock Creek Free Press: Climategate: Science Scandal of the Century -The World’s Most Influential Climate Scientists Get Caught “Fudging” the Data. AWIP: Copenhagen climate change conference: 'Fourteen days to seal history's judgment on this generation'

Global Warming Emerging Science and Understanding Part 6
Global Warming Emerging Science and Understanding Part 5
Global Warming Emerging Science and Understanding Part 4
Global Warming Emerging Science and Understanding Part 3
Global Warming Emerging Science and Understanding Part 1

Eighty percent of the American population now believe that man is responsible for global warming. Emerging science, however, is providing important new understanding of this issue. Yet, this information is not getting out to people, especially to our school children. It has not been proven that man is responsible for global warming or cooling. Rock Creek Free Press: Climategate: Science Scandal of the Century -The World’s Most Influential Climate Scientists Get Caught “Fudging” the Data. AWIP: Copenhagen climate change conference: 'Fourteen days to seal history's judgment on this generation'

Global Warming Emerging Science and Understanding Part 6
Global Warming Emerging Science and Understanding Part 5
Global Warming Emerging Science and Understanding Part 4
Global Warming Emerging Science and Understanding Part 3
Global Warming Emerging Science and Understanding Part 2

Eighty percent of the American population now believe that man is responsible for global warming. Emerging science, however, is providing important new understanding of this issue. Yet, this information is not getting out to people, especially to our school children. It has not been proven that man is responsible for global warming or cooling. Rock Creek Free Press: Climategate: Science Scandal of the Century -The World’s Most Influential Climate Scientists Get Caught “Fudging” the Data. AWIP: Copenhagen climate change conference: 'Fourteen days to seal history's judgment on this generation'

As skeptics at the Copenhagen summit are demanding proof that climate change is man-made, a Russian think-tank has accused British researchers of manipulating Russian weather data which does not fit into alarmist theory.

The photo below originally appeared in the NYT showing Air Force One returning from Copenhagen. Daily Telegraph: What Snowstorm? NY Times rewrites Obama article and deletes word 'snowstorm' --- changes to 'major storm'. Marco Villa: Washington's Record Snow Storm.

From the “weather is not climate” department, we have this unusual event in the south of France, in the French Rivera, from Yahoo news.

"Institutional framework" paves the way for unelected international bureaucracy Amid all the mainstream media reports of the talks in Copenhagen "limping" to a close and having failed, Lord Christopher Monckton, reporting from the summit, has stated that the only goal of the conference was to implement the framework and the funding for a world government - which he asserts has been achieved. "That is the one thing that they are definitely going to succeed in doing here and they will announce that as a victory in itself. PP: UN Chief: We Will Impose Global Governance.

Obama’s short speech to the conference plenary was probably the most insulting and patronising speech delivered by a US President in a long time. Unsurprisingly green groups are outraged, but it begs the question – why? The Kyoto Protocol was a monumental failure and didn’t deliver any significant emissions reductions but still rallied activist and political campaigns to dupe the public into thinking its ratification would mean something. Why don’t they just go on that roundabout again? To their credit leaders have managed to whittle down the pre-conference one hundred and eighty-odd pages of negotiating text down to just three, but it has come at the expense of meaning anything.

Low targets, goals dropped: Copenhagen ends in failure. American officials spun the deal as a "meaningful agreement", but even Obama said: "This progress is not enough." "We have come a long way, but we have much further to go," he added. This is good news. We're happy to find that the forces for a worldwide dictatorship are having a hard time. We're relieved. But we should not relax -there's trouble ahead. WUWT: Guardian Headline – Low targets, goals dropped: Copenhagen ends in failure. Politico: We're Saved?! Politicians at UN Announce They Will Control Earth's Thermostat! Climate Deal 'sets a cap on worldwide temp increases at no more than 2°C' [via: Climate Depot] NRO Weekend: Bjorn Lomborg: Deal is 'nothing more than face-saving by the world's leaders...promising to cut carbon emissions is a dead-end strategy'.

Leaders and ministers from about 30 countries hammered out an outline climate accord early on Friday morning, hours before some 130 world leaders were to gather in a summit. The three-hour session ended at about 2.30am, leaving top advisers to work out the final language of the draft agreement on how to tame global warming and help poor countries cope with its impacts. WSJ: How to Manufacture a Climate Consensus: Climatologist rips 'manufactured climate consensus' -- Climategate 'emails are just the tip of the iceberg' -- 'EPA has lost the basis for its CO2 finding' PP/MFGW: Final Copenhagen Text Includes Global Transaction Tax: Obama set to bypass Congress and approve massive transfer of wealth to world government.

The industrialized countries are cheating the world. Well, they are. But the rest of this article is pure bunkum. A confidential document of the UN Frame Convention on Climate Change secretariat prepared on December 15 shows, contrary to what the rich nations might claim, even if they come true on their current pledges to reduce emissions the world is headed towards a 3 degree temperature rise by 2050, not two degree Celsius – the tipping point. (Read the confidential initial draft)

Barack Obama, the US president, has called for "bold and decisive action" on climate change amid frustration among world leaders over a lack of political agreement at the summit in Copenhagen.

'Action' when you're badly informed may have unfortunate consequences. 'Decisive action' may have very harmful consequences and "bold and decisive action" may be absolutely disastrous.

Mr. Obama's problem is not that he is badly informed like his disciples are (he knows full well that the science is not "settled") but that his credibility is like a sinking ship. This reduces his usefulness as a stooge & Pied Piper for the NWO elitists, who in fact are staging nothing less than a worldwide, slow motion coup d'état under the guise of saving the world from a "climate catastrophe".

WUWT: Obama trying to save Copenhagen Summit – what comes afterwards? PP/MFGW: Final Copenhagen Text Includes Global Transaction Tax: Obama set to bypass Congress and approve massive transfer of wealth to world government.

Stat Model Predicts Flat Temperatures Through 2050: While climate skeptics have gleefully pointed to the past decade's lack of temperature rise as proof that global warming is not happening as predicted, climate change activists have claimed that this is just “cherry picking” the data. They point to their complex and error prone general circulation models that, after significant re-factoring, are now predicting a stretch of stable temperatures followed by a resurgent global warming onslaught. In a recent paper, a new type of model, based on a test for structural breaks in surface temperature time series, is used to investigate two common claims about global warming. This statistical model predicts no temperature rise until 2050 but the more interesting prediction is what happens between 2050 and 2100. CFACT: Scientific experts gather in Berlin to challenge UN scientific assumptions.

Admirable in his understanding of many important issues, Hugo Chávez seems to have fallen victim to the alarmists' point of view. This position bases itself upon faulty science, where unfortunately fraud and manipulation have been the tools of trade. AWIP: Draft text 'threatens' UN climate deal. + "Settled"? It's not even "Science" [PressTV: Chávez to Obama: Give back Nobel Prize.]

'Warming of the past 30 years is likely to be an illusion'. UK climatologists “probably tampered with Russian-climate data” to produce a report submitted to world leaders at this week’s Copenhagen summit, it is claimed. The Met Office’s study, which says the first decade of this century has been the warmest on record for 160 years, is being used to trumpet claims that man is causing global warming. But experts at the Moscow-based Institute of Economic Analysis say the British dossier used statistics from weather stations that fit its theory of global warming, while ignoring those that do not. AWIP: Copenhagen climate change conference. Daily Telegraph: Climategate goes SERIAL: now the Russians confirm that UK climate scientists manipulated data to exaggerate global warming.

In the MIT Climategate Forum, Ronald Prinn trotted out what has become one of the standard “move along” memes in the climate science community: that while the “tone” of the Climategate emails was “unprofessional”, they did not succeed in their “endeavour” to prevent publication of articles in journals or mentions in IPCC. As so often in climate science, Prinn is talking without apparently doing any due diligence. The Climategate Letters provide many examples of CRU and their associates successfully preventing publication of articles in journals.

China has told participants in the UN climate change talks that it sees no possibility of reaching an operational accord this week, an official involved in the Copenhagen talks says. The official, who asked not to be identified by name, told Reuters that the Chinese had suggested instead issuing “a short political declaration of some sort”. Quadrant: COP15: Day 10.

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has again publicly admitted that the agenda behind the Copenhagen summit and the climate change fraud is the imposition of a global government and the end of national sovereignty. Speaking about the agenda to impose targets on CO2 emissions, as well as a global tax on financial transactions and a direct tax on GDP, Ban Ki-moon told the Los Angeles Times in an interview, “We will establish a global governance structure to monitor and manage the implementation of this.”

Activists tag Greenpeace Rainbow Warrior with “Propaganda Warrior” banner; Arctic Sunrise hit with “Ship of Lies” banner earlier in the day. Earlier in the day the activists daringly boarded Greenpeace's Arctic Sunrise with neither stealth nor force, but by baffling the crew with doughnuts, and unfurled a banner that read “Ship of Lies” off the starboard side. “Greenpeace has been using these kinds of tactics for decades, and now they can find out what it’s like to have a little taste of their own medicine, “ said CFACT executive director Craig Rucker who masterminded the operation.

This film by the documentary-maker Martin Durkin presents the arguments of scientists and commentators who don't believe that CO2 produced by human activity is the main cause of climate change. It's all to scare the shit out of us folks! The Illuminati set this up to make us, the people of the world, the problem. Don't believe it! Resist the New World Order!!!! AWIP: Copenhagen climate change conference. Daily Telegraph: Climategate goes SERIAL: now the Russians confirm that UK climate scientists manipulated data to exaggerate global warming.

This is the moment at which we turn and face ourselves. Here, in the plastic corridors and crowded stalls, among impenetrable texts and withering procedures, humankind decides what it is and what it will become. It chooses whether to continue living as it has done, until it must make a wasteland of its home, or to stop and redefine itself. This is about much more than climate change. This is about us.