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Climate Science Exploited for Political Agenda, According to Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons

By Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS)

Climatism or global warming alarmism is the most prominent recent example of science being coopted to serve a political agenda, writes Richard Lindzen of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the in the fall 2013 issue of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons.

He compares it to past examples: Lysenkoism in the Soviet Union, and the eugenics movement.  Lindzen describes the Iron Triangle and the Iron Rice Bowl, in which ambiguous statements by scientists are translated into alarmist statements by media and advocacy groups, influencing politicians to feed more money to the acquiescent scientists.

Lindzen writes: “Global climate alarmism has been costly to society, and it has the potential to be vastly more costly. It has also been damaging to science, as scientists adjust both data and even theory to accommodate politically correct positions. How can one escape from the Iron Triangle when it produces flawed science that is immensely influential and is forcing catastrophic public policy?”

Climate Science Exploited for Political Agenda, According to Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons – PR Newswire – The Sacramento Bee

h/t to Marc Morano

Earlier this year, our alarmist friends were whining that breathtakingly ignorant lay people are only allowed to look at Arctic ice at the summer minimum. Well the minimum is about here, and now they don’t want to talk about it. The buzzword now is “long term trends are down”

Even if Arctic ice was at an all-time record high today, the linear trend would still be down since 1979. You can’t use a linear trend to model cyclical behavior.

Forgive me Mr. President, for I have sinned. I have looked at the sacred climate fraud documents for myself.

Prior to 1955, 100ºF readings were common in New York State. They rarely happen any more.

There are 30 HCN stations in New York which have been continuously active since 1930, and 90% of their 100ºF readings occurred with CO2 below 350 PPM. Ninety-three percent of those stations set their all-time record maximum with CO2 below 350 PPM.

Virginia has 12 HCN stations which have been active since at least 1930. None of them reached 100ºF this year, but in 1930 Virginia had a total of eighty-two 100ºF readings. Eighty-six percent of all 100ºF readings occurred with CO2 below 350 PPM.

All twelve stations set their all-time record maximum with CO2 below 350 PPM, and all but one set their all-time record maximum prior to 1933.

Bloomberg promised cash to Colorado Dems to betray their constituency, and he has proven again that he is willing to deliver.

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has thrown $350,000 behind an effort to fight the recall of two Colorado Democratic legislators for their votes in favor of sweeping new gun control laws.  Campaign finance paperwork filed Tuesday and obtained by KDVR.com showed that Bloomberg wrote a personal check to Taxpayers for Responsible Democracy, the group fighting the recalls targeting Colorado Springs Senate President John Morse and Sen. Angela Giron, of Pueblo.

NYC Mayor Bloomberg donates $350G to fight Colorado recalls | Fox News

Bloomberg would like to see Colorado turn into the crime nightmare which New York City has become.

Obama administration’s push for ‘shot across bow’ on Syria in response to last week’s alleged chemical weapons attack hits snag as Congress seeks chance to have input and key US allies hold up decision citing incomplete UN probe.

Congress, Allies Slow Push for US ‘Shot Across Bow’ Against Syria

The Constitution explicitly lays out war powers to Congress, not the President. Only a complete imbecile would accept Obama’s contention that Syria imminently threatens the US.

Is John Boner off crying somewhere this week?

AP SOURCES: INTELLIGENCE ON WEAPONS NO ‘SLAM DUNK’

WASHINGTON (AP) — The intelligence linking Syrian President Bashar Assad or his inner circle to an alleged chemical weapons attack that killed at least 100 people is no “slam dunk,” with questions remaining about who actually controls some of Syria’s chemical weapons stores and doubts about whether Assad himself ordered the strike, U.S. intelligence officials say.

News from The Associated Press

The rowers were fortunate on July 23, when the hand of god guided them 30 km into a stiff wind with the GPS turned off, to get around point Tuk. It has been blocked with ice most of the time since then.

Obama said a “tailored, limited” strike, not a protracted engagement like Iraq

Obama lays out case for ‘tailored’ strike against Syria: PBS | Reuters

Obama believes that he can bypass the Constitutional requirement for a Congressional declaration of war, if he selects some random adjectives from his iLie phone application.

Fortunately he can see the future, and knows that it will just lead to a tailored, limited WWIII.

Daily Arctic Sea Ice Maps

One might be inclined to believe that Arctic experts have absolutely no idea what they are talking about.