What happens when a global warming alarmist runs amok on Wikipedia? William Connolley – Climate Alarmist Thoughtcop http://climatesanity.wordpress.com/2009/12/20/william-connelley-thoughtcop/ In George Orwell’s 1984 Winston Smith and thousands of co-workers diligently work to re-write history. It has been clear to many that much the same thing has been going on over at Wikipedia. It turns out that one of the champions of the historical rewrite is a fellow by the name of William Connolley, who has taken it upon himself to re-write the thermal history of the planet at Wikipedia to juice-up global warming fears. Lawrence Solomon, from Canada’s National Post explains… Connolley took control of all things climate in the most used information source the world has ever known – Wikipedia. Starting in February 2003, just when opposition to the claims of the band members were beginning to gel, Connolley set to work on the Wikipedia site. He rewrote Wikipedia’s articles on global warming, on the greenhouse effect, on the instrumental temperature record, on the urban heat island, on climate models, on global cooling. On Feb. 14, he began to erase the Little Ice Age; on Aug.11, the Medieval Warm Period. But re-writing natural history was not enough for Connolley. He moved on to recreating the personal histories of prominent global warming skeptics… In October, he turned his attention to the hockey stick graph. He rewrote articles on the politics of global warming and on the scientists who were skeptical of the band. Richard Lindzen and Fred Singer, two of the world’s most distinguished climate scientists, were among his early targets, followed by others that the band especially hated, such as Willie Soon and Sallie Baliunas of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, authorities on the Medieval Warm Period. This wasn’t just a hobby for Mr. Connelley, it must have been his full-time obsession. He re-wrote over 5,000 Wikipedia articles! But can’t anybody re-write articles at Wikipedia? You can’t hold it against Connolley that he was very passionate and prolific about the subject, can you? It seems Mr. Connolley had a little more control at Wikipedia than you or I have. Solomon again elaborates.., His control over Wikipedia was greater still, however, through the role he obtained at Wikipedia as a website administrator, which allowed him to act with virtual impunity. When Connolley didn’t like the subject of a certain article, he removed it — more than 500 articles of various descriptions disappeared at his hand. When he disapproved of the arguments that others were making, he often had them barred — over 2,000 Wikipedia contributors who ran afoul of him found themselves blocked from making further contributions. The efforts of people like William Connolley, Michael Mann, the folks at CRU and the rest of the rabid hockey stick team have paid off in spades for the global warming alarmists. I know intelligent, educated, scientists who actually believe that the medieval warm period is the creation of revisionist history of global warming “deniers.” They don’t understand that before the global warming controversy started heating up (pun intended) in the 1990′s the medieval warm period and the little ice age were standard fare for anybody studying the thermal history of the Holocene. It has been the alarmists, like William Connelley, who have tried to “get rid of the Medieval Warm Period.” Connolly’s Biography on Wikipedia Connolly has his own biography on Wikipedia. At this moment (December 20th, 2009, 6:10 pm Mountain Time) the article says this about his “Wikipedia activity”… A July 2006 article in The New Yorker reported that Connolley briefly became “a victim of an edit war over the entry on global warming”, in which a skeptic repeatedly “watered down” the article’s explanation of the greenhouse effect.[10] The skeptic later brought the case before Wikipedia’s arbitration committee, claiming that Connolley was pushing his own point of view in the article by removing material with opposing viewpoints. The arbitration committee imposed a “humiliating one-revert-a-day” editing restriction on Connolley. Wikipedia “gives no privilege to those who know what they’re talking about”, Connolley told The New Yorker.[10] The restriction was later revoked, and Connolley went on to serve as a Wikipedia administrator from January 2006 until 13 September 2009.[10] (More at above url)
Fuck you liar. Selective data to show the least rise is essentially fraud. It is virtually all you have presented. You are a fucking liar. The earth has not slowed warming and the models have not failed. They have not been perfect but they have not failed. Calling the models failed because observed temps have been at the low side of probability bands is fucking ridiculous and essentially wrong. The earth has not slowed warming. At all. Any heat being taken in by the oceans has not disappeared and will effect future climate. You are so deluded by right wing propaganda that it's not even funny. In addition to being a liar.
The earth has not stopped or even slowed in it's warming. Every science org in the world and 97% of the world's climatologists still agree on the basics of man made global warming. That's a fact. You can ignore it but it's still there.
Here is the actual, non-fraudulently manipulated chart of models vs reality. and here the author exposes the fraud for the deceptive bullshit that it is. http://blog.hotwhopper.com/2013/10/how-roy-spencer-and-john-christy-trick.html
Ice Expert Predicts Lake Superior Will Completely Freeze Over This Winter - See more at: (CNSNews.com) – Lake Superior hasn’t completely frozen over in two decades. But an expert on Great Lakes ice says there’s a “very high likelihood” that the three-quadrillion-gallon lake will soon be totally covered with ice thanks to this winter’s record-breaking cold. The ice cover on the largest freshwater lake in the world hit a 20-year record of 91 percent on Feb. 5, 1994. Jay Austin, associate professor at the Large Lakes Observatory in Duluth, Minn., told CNSNews.com that he expects that record will be broken this winter when the most northern of the Great Lakes becomes totally shrouded in ice. The thickness of the ice on Lake Superior “varies tremendously,” from a very thin sheet in some areas near the coast to several feet thick in other spots, Austin says. The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reports that the mean thickness of the lake ice is 26 cm, or a little over 10 inches. Lake Superior ice thickness Austin attributes the large amount of ice on the lake to the “extraordinary cold winter we’ve had,” pointing out that Duluth recently experienced an all-time record of 23 straight days of below-zero temperatures. The previous record of 22 days was set in 1936 and tied in 1963, according to the National Weather Service. Austin, who studies the effect of lake ice, predicts that it will have a “very strong influence” on the regional climate this summer, with the “air conditioning [lake] effect” more pronounced than usual. “Typically, the lake will start warming up in late June, but it will be August before we see that this year,” Austin told CNSNews.com. As of February 10th, ice covered 80.4 percent of all the Great Lakes, compared to 38.4 percent last winter, according to NOAA. That’s considerably higher than the lake’s long-term average of 51.4 percent under ice. The record for maximum ice coverage of 94.7 percent was set in 1979. The lowest ice accumulation occurred in 2002, when just 9.5 percent of the surface of the Great Lakes was frozen solid. - See more at: http://cnsnews.com/news/article/bar...l-completely-freeze-over#sthash.u02rcELr.dpuf
As someone who works with statistics and models every day as a career.... All I can say is that this chart and the linked article are complete bullshit.
"It's a Meltdown" <iframe width="640" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/G1T6jk5eDF8?feature=player_detailpage" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> .....but not in the way FC was hoping for, LOL!