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Purplepiratelynn

PostPosted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 4:23 pm


Example 2. Global Warming.

Global warming is hardly a subject of science. It is one of the most complex subjects science has ever studied, which allowed the propagandists to separate themselves from the objective realities very early on. The supposed scientific basis for the propaganda is computer models, which show anything someone wants them to show.

A large part of the fraud in this subject is in how it is presented to the public.

Scientific Consensus.

The public is told that nearly all scientists now agree that humans cause global warming by producing carbon dioxide. An example of what this claim is based upon is found in Wikipedia under Global Warming, Scientific Consensus or Scientific Opinion on Climate Change. Here's a survey which is often referred to:

"In December 2004, Science published an essay [8] by geologist and science historian Naomi Oreskes [9] that summarized a study of the scientific literature on climate change. The essay concluded that there is a scientific consensus on the reality of anthropogenic climate change. The author analyzed 928 abstracts of papers from refereed scientific journals between 1993 and 2003..."

The peer reviewed literature is limited to grants which are almost entirely issued by bureaucrats of the federal government, and they do not fund research which opposes their warped agenda. Therefore, this type of survey tells nothing of scientific consensus.

In the results of the supposed survey, 75% agreed with the claim that humans are the cause; 25% took no position; and none disagreed. Isn't it obvious that anyone who disagreed would not be getting a grant to study the subject?

It's extremely difficult to use statistics properly. The sample must be representative, and all causative influences must be identified and accounted for. Using published science to represent scientific consensus is a contempt for proper standards of statistics. And it was published in "Science," the world's most prestigious science journal.

On the same page of Wikipedia are the results of another survey which says this:

In 1997, the conservative advocacy group Citizens for a Sound Economy surveyed America's 48 official state climatologists on questions related to climate change [11]. Of the 36 respondents, 44% considered global warming to be a largely natural phenomenon, compared to 17% who considered warming to be largely manmade.

This survey would not be a bold faced lie, as limited as it is; so it shows how fraudulent the other survey was.

Fraud is not as much about bold face lying as slight of hand, because it is too easy to get caught at lying. But when there is such total overwhelm of the subject, as with global warming, there is plenty of lying, such as the claim that ice is melting over Antarctica and Greenland, when two independent studies showed otherwise. Ice is melting around the edges of those land masses due to warmer oceans, but not over the land masses in general.

http://www.nov55.com/fraud2.html
PostPosted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 4:24 pm


PAGE TWO OF FIRST POST!!!!

Examples of Fraud in Science and Communication

Page 3.

Global warming.

Misrepresentation as Science.

Propagandists hammer the public with the claim that the science is unquestionable in showing humans to be the cause of global warming. The scientists, however, hedge on everything. So global warming is now before the Supreme Court, where states and others are claiming the Environmental Protection Agency must regulate carbon dioxide emissions. One of the judges said the plaintiffs were adding "conjecture on top of conjecture". So which is it—unquestionable science or conjecture. Here are some quotes:

From: Fight Global Warming.

Scientists are no longer debating the basic facts of climate change. In December 2004, Science magazine published an analysis of 928 peer-reviewed science papers...

They claim there is no longer a scientific debate based upon the sham survey which is evaluated on the previous page.

They also say:

The gases—which can stay in the atmosphere for at least fifty years—are building up beyond the Earth's capacity to remove the gases and, in effect, creating an extra-thick heat blanket around the Earth.

They didn't say where they got the fifty year figure; it's one of those fake numbers synthesized for the purpose. If it were true, all of the volcanic activity would produce a fifty year build-up, and the natural fluctuations would produce a fifty year build-up. If the oceans weren't regulating the amount of CO2 in the air, there would be such a high level that life would be impossible. It is not correct logic to claim that human activity can destroy life, while natural emissions cannot.

The latest estimate is that humans are now adding 7.8 giga tons of carbon to the atmosphere per year, while the atmosphere contains 750 giga tons. That's one percent per year due to humans. If the atmosphere won't tolerate that much, it would have been a disaster long ago. It can't be critically tuned within one percent per year.

They say:

Already, people have increased the amount of CO2, a key greenhouse gas, in the atmosphere to 31 percent above pre-industrial levels.

Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere track with the temperature of the oceans, because warmer oceans release more. This means that the increase from 270 ppm to 380 ppm over the past 150 years would be due to ocean temperature increases; but it is always attributed to humans, as if there could be no other cause.

The EPA says on their web site:

Scientists know with virtual certainty that:

Human activities are changing the composition of Earth's atmosphere. Increasing levels of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere since pre-industrial times are well-documented and understood.

The atmospheric buildup of CO2 and other greenhouse gases is largely the result of human activities such as the burning of fossil fuels.

The major greenhouse gases emitted by human activities remain in the atmosphere for periods ranging from decades to centuries. It is therefore virtually certain that atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases will continue to rise over the next few decades.

Increasing greenhouse gas concentrations tend to warm the planet.

None of it is true for reasons which I explain on my global warming main page.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the usual reference for propagandists. It's not source material. It's nothing but hashed over opinions. What it says about the mechanism of carbon dioxide heating the atmosphere is this:

Because these greenhouse gases absorb the infrared radiation emitted by the Earth and emit infrared radiation up- and downward, they tend to raise the temperature near the Earth’s surface.

That mechanism does not exist. The so-called greenhouse gasses absorb infrared radiation within ten meters or less from the earth's surface, and the energy is instantly converted to heat, which is transferred to the nitrogen and oxygen. This means the up and down radiations do not occur beyond black body radiation which is independent of greenhouse gasses.


It is easier just to read it from the site: http://www.nov55.com/fraud3.html

Purplepiratelynn

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