Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Codex Alimentarius

I didn't realize that I didn't have this video on my site. Well, here it is now. Watch it in horror and disgust.

Monday, September 6, 2010

Pachauri admits the IPCC just guesses the numbers

More and more information is coming out about the IPCC all the time and the fact that they are nothing more than another group of government controlled scam artists, spouting junk science. They are liars. And lets not forget why they are lying. They want your money. They want it badly. Do not forget that this whole attempt at fooling us all regarding climate change is the basis for forcing upon us a carbon tax where we will all be taxed to the umpteenth degree and our lives made a living hell through the accompanying policies, mandates, and green police bullshit. It's nothing more than a back door attempt at controlling and profiting from carbon (one of the three main elements of life itself). Next, they will own the sun and the oxygen? If they can tax you for exhaling do you really think that they can't somehow fool you and tax you for inhaling? And in effect, isn't the taxing of exhaling already pretty much the same thing as taxing us for inhaling? After all, it is a complete process. Our respiratory system does not exhale over and over. Nor does it inhale over and over. The complete process requires both inhaling AND exhaling. To tax any part of that is to tax our respiratory system. How can that not be considered to some degree a tax on inhaling as well?

Here is the latest on the IPCC from
Jo Nova
Monday, September 6, 2010

Such is the pressure finally beginning to bear on the IPCC that Pachauri has been forced into the ridiculous position of trying to rescue credibility by contradicting most of their past PR campaign. He’s taken the extraordinary step of admitting they don’t have hard numbers, hey, but it’s all OK because the IPCC is really a government agency to make policy, not to write scientific reports “that don’t see the light of day”.

So he’s admitting that the IPCC was all about policy prescriptions all along? And the science was just fudged-up window dressing to provide an excuse? Well, who would have guessed.

Hidden beside Pachauri’s declaration that he’s happy about the IAC report, he let slip a corker of a line:

Times of India asks: Anything in the UN probe report you completely or partly disagree with?

They have talked about quantifying uncertainties. To some extent, we are doing that, though not perfectly. But the issue is that in some cases, you really don’t have a quantitative base by which you can attach a probability or a level of uncertainty that defines things in quantitative terms. And there, let’s not take away the importance of expert judgment. And that is something the report has missed or at least not pointed out.

So if you can’t quantify uncertainties (like is climate sensitivity say 0.5 degrees or 6.5 degrees, and with what probabilities) just go with your best guess, call it expert opinion (especially if you only pick and pay the “right” experts) and say that there is a 90% certainty, even if there are no numbers you can add up to get that.

Then after all these years of saying the IPCC is a scientific body, now that they’re exposed as being unscientific, suddenly the excuse is that really they’re policy driven. Watch how far away from science Pachauri is trying to position the IPCC:

Times of India: Stifling politics out of science, does that make it devoid of its real social purpose?

Let’s face it, we are an intergovernmental body and our strength and acceptability of what we produce is largely because we are owned by governments.
(And here was me thinking their strength was their “2500 scientists” and their rigorous review?)

If that was not the case, then we would be like any other scientific body that maybe producing first-rate reports but don’t see the light of the day because they don’t matter in policy-making. Now clearly, if it’s an inter-governmental body and we want governments’ ownership of what we produce, obviously they will give us guidance of what direction to follow, what are the questions they want answered. Unfortunately, people have completely missed the original resolution by which IPCC was set up. It clearly says that our assessment should include realistic response strategies. If that is not an assessment of policies, then what does it represent? And I am afraid, we have been, in my view, defensive in coming out with a whole range of policies and I am not saying we prescribe policy A or B or C but on the basis of science, we are looking at realistic response strategies.

But that is exactly what this committee has recommended that we get out of — policy prescriptions. It is for this reason that I brought out that this what is written in the IPCC mandate. This is a misperception on the part of some people in the scientific community. And I hope I can correct it.

The IPCC can’t be both the last word on impartially declaring the science AND the last word declaring the policy. Either the search for truth runs this agency or the need to push policy does, they can’t answer to both without a conflict.
He’s declaring that their first priority is NOT to figure out exactly what drives our climate.