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The Dog Ate My Tree Rings
Mark Steyn

'Botch After Botch After Botch'
Actual quote from leaked climate records: "What the hell is supposed to happen here? Oh yeah -- there is no 'supposed,' I can make it up. So I have : - )"

Saudi King Pays For Grandma Obama’s Hajj Pilgrimage
During the campaign, they claimed she was Christian. Now she's clearly Muslim

Cato: Real ObamaCare Price Tag is $6 Trillion
Accounting gimmicks and unfunded mandates

Viscount Monckton on Climategate: ‘They Are Criminals’
Global temperature trends have simply been made up. And procurement of data destruction, as they are about to find out to their cost, is a criminal offense

Holder's Decision Is Embarrassing and Offensive
He consulted nobody but his wife and brother before deciding to bring the 9/11 mastermind to New York

Climategate: Alarmism Is Underpinned by Fraud
You should be angry. Very angry

British Pubs Try To Halt Mass Weekly Closures
Govt taxing and regulating British pubs out of existence

Uh, Oh – Raw Climate Data in New Zealand Tells a Different Story Than the “Official” One
Is global warming fraud -- global?

We Pay Them to Lie to Us
John Stossel on the lies built into health "reform" being debated in Congress

Animated U.S. Map Shows Startling Growth of Unemployment
Watch the purple and gray begin to grow like gangrene after Dems take control of Congress and after Obama takes office

Hiding Evidence of Global Cooling
The content of these e-mails raises extremely serious questions that could end the academic careers of many prominent professors

Susan Boyle Set to Top the Charts After Selling Record 134,000 Albums in One Day
She dreamed a dream ...

UN-Scientific Method: Climate Researchers "Dumped" Raw Temperature Data?!?

Climate change data dumped:

SCIENTISTS at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have admitted throwing away much of the raw temperature data on which their predictions of global warming are based.

It means that other academics are not able to check basic calculations said to show a long-term rise in temperature over the past 150 years.

The UEA’s Climatic Research Unit (CRU) was forced to reveal the loss following requests for the data under Freedom of Information legislation.

The data were gathered from weather stations around the world and then adjusted to take account of variables in the way they were collected. The revised figures were kept, but the originals — stored on paper and magnetic tape — were dumped to save space when the CRU moved to a new building.

Original temperature data were dumped to "save space"?  This is the most preposterous excuse I have ever heard.  How much space can original temperature data take up on a computer hard drive?

It is about as far from the scientific method as one can get, to destroy one's original source data and ask the world to just blindly accept one's "adjustments."

In a statement on its website, the CRU said: “We do not hold the original raw data but only the value-added (quality controlled and homogenised) data.”

"Value-added."  "Quality-controlled and homoenised."  Sure.

Scam artists.

Blog Quote of the Day: The Global Warming Scam

We now know with certainty that this is a scientific fraud:

As explaned by Eric S. Raymond on the East Anglia CRU's Global Warming Fraud

"Wait just a second. Explain this to me like I’m 12. They didn’t even bother to fudge the data? They hard-coded a hockey stick carrier right into the program?!"

"ESR says: Yes. Yes, that’s exactly what they did."

Charts from New Zealand with and without the artificially created "hockey stick.

Vivid Blog Quote of the Day (in Defense of Three Navy SEALS)

"I know you have no earthly clue just how god-awful complicated it is to actually perform a raid and scarf up a bad guy, let's just say it rates up there with trying to conduct a Beethoven Symphony with your orchestra in free fall, screaming towards Earth like a phalanx of freaking lawn darts."  (Uncle Jimbo at Blackfive)

(Background:  This headline:  Navy SEALs Face Assault Charges for Capturing Most-Wanted Terrorist  and this reaction from Allahpundit) 

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Hide the Decline (Video)

Video via Gateway Pundit

More recent stories on this massive fraud:

~Hiding Evidence of Global Cooling
The content of these e-mails raises extremely serious questions that could end the academic careers of many prominent professors

~Climate Con Job
Nothing more should happen in Congress on this issue until there's been a thorough probe of the ClimateGate scandal

~The Great British Climate Fraud
All the damning details

~ClimateGate Totally Ignored By TV News Outlets Except Fox
The ostrich media

~Uh, Oh – Raw Climate Data in New Zealand Tells a Different Story Than the “Official” One
Is global warming fraud -- global?