Global Warming Science is Far From Settled

The US Senate Minority Committee on Environment and Public Works has released a statement on man made global warming claims. While the UN global warming conference is underway, hundreds of renowned scientists are coming forward denouncing global warming. Read the full statement here.

POZNAN, Poland - The UN global warming conference currently underway in Poland is about to face a serious challenge from over 650 dissenting scientists from around the globe who are criticizing the climate claims made by the UN IPCC and former Vice President Al Gore. Set for release this week, a newly
updated U.S. Senate Minority Report features the dissenting voices of over 650 international scientists, many current and former UN IPCC scientists, who have now turned against the UN. The report has added about 250 scientists (and growing) in 2008 to the over400scientists who spoke out in 2007.

A full report is set to be released by Thursday morning. The following are the best quotes from scientists in the report:

Warming fears are the “worst scientific scandal in the history…When people come to know what the truth is, they will feel deceived by science and scientists.” - UN IPCC Japanese Scientist Dr. Kiminori Itoh, an award-winning PhD environmental physical chemist.

“The IPCC has actually become a closed circuit; it doesn’t listen to others. It doesn’t have open minds… I am really amazed that the Nobel Peace Prize has been given on scientifically incorrect conclusions by people who are not geologists,” - Indian geologist Dr. Arun D. Ahluwalia at Punjab University and a board member of the UN-supported International Year of the Planet.

“The models and forecasts of the UN IPCC “are incorrect because they only are based on mathematical models and presented results at scenarios that do not include, for example, solar activity.” - Victor Manuel Velasco Herrera, a researcher at the Institute of Geophysics of the National Autonomous University of Mexico.

“It is a blatant lie put forth in the media that makes it seem there is only a fringe of scientists who don’t buy into anthropogenic global warming.” - U.S Government Atmospheric Scientist Stanley B. Goldenberg of the Hurricane Research Division of NOAA.

“For how many years must the planet cool before we begin to understand that the planet is not warming? For how many years must cooling go on?” - Geologist Dr. David Gee the chairman of the science committee of the 2008 International Geological Congress who has authored 130 plus peer reviewed papers, and is currently at Uppsala University in Sweden.

“Gore prompted me to start delving into the science again and I quickly found myself solidly in the skeptic camp…Climate models can at best be useful for explaining climate changes after the fact.” - Meteorologist Hajo Smit of Holland, who reversed his belief in man-made warming to become a skeptic, is a former member of the Dutch UN IPCC committee.

“Many [scientists] are now searching for a way to back out quietly (from promoting warming fears), without having their professional careers ruined.” - Atmospheric physicist James A. Peden, formerly of the Space Research and Coordination Center in Pittsburgh.

“Creating an ideology pegged to carbon dioxide is a dangerous
nonsense…The present alarm on climate change is an instrument of social control, a pretext for major businesses and political battle. It became an ideology, which is concerning.” - Environmental Scientist Professor Delgado Domingos of
Portugal, the founder of the Numerical Weather Forecast group, has more than 150 published articles.

“CO2 emissions make absolutely no difference one way or another….Every scientist knows this, but it doesn’t pay to say so…Global warming, as a political vehicle, keeps Europeans in the driver’s seat and developing nations walking barefoot.” - Dr. Takeda Kunihiko, vice-chancellor of the Institute of Science and Technology Research at Chubu University in Japan.

The report will include evidence of solar activity, sea level data, and evidence of cooling, among other things. Contrary to popular belief, the science is not settled as the global climate change alarmists contend. Far from it.

Despite all the evidence, US lawmakers and our president elect are promising to spend billions of our dollars to combat a non-existent problem. The media refuses to report any contrary evidence.

Add this to the list of betrayals by the US media and the politicians they protect.

Cross Posted at The Lonely Conservative

Warrantless Surveillance: The “Secret Court-Domestic Syping” Spin

Three dozen lawmakers will now have access to the “secret court” orders !

Now that the Dems have pushed for this “compromise”, doesn’t that make you feel oh, so, safe???

And don’t you just love the leftie spin?

“Domestic Syping” (that is if you are communicating with al Qaeda or a terrorist organization).

“Secret Court” (that is if you can’t use Google to discover their names which are openly shared on the “Secret Court” FISC 2006 Membership roster.)

According to the CRS Report for Congress (January 24, 2007), a January 17, 2007, letter from Attorney General Gonzales to Chairman Leahy and Senator Specter advising them that a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court judge had “issued orders authorizing the Government to target for collection international communications into or out of the United States where there is probable cause to believe that one of the communicants is a member or agent of al Qaeda or an associated terrorist organization,” stating that all surveillance previously occurring under the TSP will now be conducted subject to the approval of the Foreign Intelligence SurveillanceCourt . . .

Here's a summary of the news with sources hyperlinked.

Shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, President Bush authorized the NSA to monitor telephone calls between the U.S. and overseas without warrants if one party was believed to be linked to al-Qaida or related groups. . .

A federal judge in Michigan ruled in August that the wiretapping program was unconstitutional. Judge Anna Diggs Taylor ordered the president to shut down . . . “the illegal program”. The federal government appealed the ruling. . .

The push for access was driven by Rep. Silvestre Reyes, D-El Paso, and Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va. — the heads of the House and Senate intelligence panels, respectively — who warned Justice Department officials they would face congressional subpoenas if they did not turn over the records. . .

A deal was struck on Wednesday to resolve Congress' latest conflict with the administration over the National Security Agency's surveillance effort, and provides new evidence of the administration's more accommodating approach to the Democrats who now control Congress. . .

The agreement follows the administration's announcement two weeks ago that it was shutting down NSA's warrantless surveillance program and replacing it with a plan approved by the secret court that administers the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. The NSA had conducted the domestic spying more than five years without such court oversight. . .

Under Wednesday's accord, announced by Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, more than three dozen lawmakers will have access to the secret court orders governing the program, which were issued Jan. 10, and the applications from the Justice De artment that preceded them.

The lawmakers include the House and Senate leadership, the two intelligence panels and the heads of the two judiciary committees, officials said. . .

Lawyers for the American Civil Liberties Union, representing 10 groups and individuals that contend they have had to arrange secret meetings to communicate with overseas associates because of the wiretaps, said the case cannot be moot because the administration claims Bush still has power to conduct surveillance without warrants. . .

A federal appeals court in Cincinnati Wednesday will listen to arguments presented in the ACLU's lawsuit against the National Security Agency on the warrantless wiretapping issue . . .
the Bush administration "filed legal papers seeking to dismiss the ACLU lawsuit because the NSA surveillance is now under the review of the secret intelligence court." . . .

However, the ACLU said it filed a new brief "opposing the government's motion and pressing the appeals court to rule on the case, . .

The ACLU also said that "without more information about what the secret FISA court has authorized, there is no way to determine whether the NSA's current activities are lawful." . . .

Source: http://www.upi.com/SecurityTerrorism/view.php?StoryID=20070129-035658-2127r

The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court was created by section 103(a) of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (50 U.S.C. 1803(a)). It was originally comprised of seven district judges from seven circuits named by the Chief Justice of the United States to serve a maximum of 7 years.

In 2001, the U.S.A. Patriot Act (section 208) amended the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to increase the number of FIS Court judges from seven to eleven, "of whom no fewer than 3 shall reside within 20 miles of the District of Columbia." The membership of the Court in 2006 was as follows.

And link to “Secret Court” FISC 2006 Membership Roster

CRS Report For Congress January 24, 2007
The U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review: An Overview



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