Journal: ClimateGate 9 Dec 09 Evening

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Skeptics Conference
Skeptics Conference

Copenhagen climate summit: Behind the scenes at the sceptics' conference

Tuvalu gives Copenhagen that old sinking feeling

Copenhagen denies Tuvalu bid for tough climate controls

Global Day of Climate protest, 12th December 2009

COPENHAGEN – December 8 – As the Copenhagen Climate Talks get underway and hopes of a meaningful deal continue to fade, a global protest is building against the failure of world leaders to make progress on this critical issue.

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…up to 50,000 expected on the streets of New Delhi

Phi Beta Iota: India is joined with China and Brazil and Russia in opposing climate change controls that will diminish the prospects of the poor.  If the 50,000 materialize, they will have been paid to show up and clueless about the facts.

Who Pays?
Who Pays?

Climate talks teeter as split emerges

A major split has emerged between developing countries at the United Nations climate conference in Copenhagen over the best way to help the most vulnerable countries.

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Police fear an international extremist group may also be on its way to Copenhagen to commit acts of violence.

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Worth a Look: Al Gore Wants Your Comments

Worth A Look

Phi Beta Iota: Al Gore cancelled a well-paid appointment in Copenhagen (he gets $150,000 a up, or used to) and he continues to refuse debates (we've encouraged Sarah Palin to go after him).  Still, there are so many people out there that do not read books and cannot think for themselves that he is sending emails inviting one and all to comment on the RepowerAmerica “wall.”  Go for it!

From: Al Gore, Repower America <info@repoweramerica.org>
Date: Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 5:00 PM
Subject: Copenhagen

Dear Repower America Member,

blah blah blah

Show the world that the American people want bold action on climate and clean energy solutions. Share your message of support on The Wall now.

blah blah blah

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Journal: ClimateGate 9 Dec 09 Afternoon

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Al Gore, $100 Million
Al Gore, $100 Million

More Lies From Al Gore As He Attempts To Dismiss ClimateGate

Al Gore has responded to the Climategate emails scandal by doing what he knows best, skirting the truth and making statements that have no correlation to actual known facts.

Gore vs. Palin on climate change

In an interview that will air on MSNBC at 1:00 pm ET today, Al Gore rebutted Sarah Palin's Washington Post op-ed and Facebook postings that question the science on climate change given the “Climate-gate” controversy.

In response, Gore said that “the deniers are persisting in an era of unreality. The entire North Polar icecap is disappearing before our eyes… What do they think is happening?”

Copenhagen Summit: wealthy nations accused of ‘carbon colonialism'

The G77's chair, Lumumba Stanislaus Di Aping of Sudan, went on the attack again today, telling journalists that the Danish text “seemed to secure 60 per cent of the global atmospheric space for 20 per cent of the world's wealthiest nations”.

U.S. sees robust climate talks, no “reparations”

“We absolutely recognize our historic role in putting emissions in the atmosphere, up there, but the sense of guilt or culpability or reparations, I just categorically reject that,” Stern said in response to a reporter's question.

Journal: ClimateGate 9 Dec 09 Morning

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ClimateGate Alarmists Don't Like What They've Created

I refer them to the death threats and actual physical attacks that their side, which wholly relies upon intimidation of one kind or another, have been administering for years against those who would dare stand up for their scientific discipline. They are compiled in “Red Hot Lies: How Global Warming Alarmists Use Threats, Fraud and Deception to Keep You Misinformed.” Incidentally, in the chapter “Stupid Science Tricks” I also name the ClimateGate actors by name and detail what they now admit to have been doing to get this hysterical campaign where it is. ClimateGate does not provide revelations, they are affirmations.

Climategate: the Copenhagen Horror Show Suffers Severe Blows

* One week before the conference, it was revealed that the European-based carbon trading schemes have been used for massive financial fraud costing hundreds of millions of euros. The most common form is called “carousel” fraud, whereby criminals buy carbon credits in countries where there is little or no value-added tax, and sell them in countries such as Denmark, which has a 25% VAT. The fraudsters charge their customers the VAT, pocket the money, and disappear without paying the tax authorities.

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Journal: US Begins Regional War on Pashtun

05 Civil War, 08 Wild Cards, 10 Security, Government, Military, Peace Intelligence
Chuck Spinney
Chuck Spinney

Chuck Spinney sends:
In my opinion, this is an extremely important piece of writing and needs to be read very carefully.  The author of this article built an international reputation for excellence during his reporting on the Iraq War, and now he is positioning himself to do the same on Afghanistan.  Conflating al Qaeda with the Taliban will mutate the so-called war on terror into an Anti-Pashtun (AF-Pak) War, with unknowable ramifications that could very well make the lunacy of Mad King George's aggression in Iraq look miniscule in comparison.

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A Wider and Unnecessary War: The March of Folly

By PATRICK COCKBURN  December 7, 2009

By treating Pashtun villagers as if they were all Taliban, and Taliban as being the equivalent of al-Qa’ida, Mr Obama is increasing, not reducing, the threat of terrorist attack on the US or Britain. He is providing the battleground bin Laden hoped for and, like President Bush before him, has jumped willingly into the al-Qa’ida trap.

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One of the most foolish and misleading claims by US and British generals is that fighting a guerrilla war can be successfully combined with dispensing aid and building bridges and roads. But, as one commentator puts it, such a mixture of Wyatt Earp and Mother Theresa is not feasible. Soldiers are trained to get what they want by force and that is generally what they do. Afghans whose families have just been killed by a bomb will not be conciliated by a fine new drainage system.

Other minefields face incoming American and British forces. The Afghan government is in many respects a criminal racket.

Journal: Running Interference On Interference

08 Wild Cards, Military, Mobile
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Running Interference On Interference

December 9, 2009: The U.S. Army, which operates thousands of UAVs (over 90 percent of them the five pound Raven, which gives each company commander his own recon aircraft), has found more and more of them suffering from electronic interference. This problem is expected to get worse, especially as the army introduces dozens of Sky Warriors (a cousin to the air force Predator) over the next year or so. The larger UAVs have a lot more going on inside them, and a lot more electronic commands coming to the aircraft. The air force has noted an increase in electronic interference in its growing fleet of Predators and Reapers. Some air force officers believe the enemy is trying to electronically jam the command signals, or electronics on board the UAVs. But electronics experts believe it's just the greater number electronic signals in the air, even in rural Afghanistan. Nevertheless, better encryption is being used for the control signals going to and from U.S. UAVs.

Phi Beta Iota: Tip of the hat to Strategy Page.  Over 30 years ago it was known that Soviet emission standards were ten times tougher than ours.  Today we not only do not have emission standards to speak of, but we use open commercial communicaitons satellites and we do not worry about having all our Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems online.  The U.S. Government appears to be completely oblivious to basic realities.

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