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OT: Moorabal/Lal Lal wind farm 3-Jun-2009 At 11:39:40 PM harold

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What really annoys me about AGW alarmism is the butchering of science to support it (mainly in the media) and the lack of any substantial criticism from those who know better.
Al Gore puts out a documentary with ridiculously false claims like Antarctica is melting (when satellites show the opposite) and certain Pacific Islands are being flooded by rising sea levels. Even ABC has news items with ‘scientists’ claiming these islands are sinking under rising sea levels from global warming. Now as a land surveyor I know that the concept of ice melting in the northern hemisphere and then causing the sea level to rise only around a couple of islands in the Pacific is ridiculous. And as a surfer I know that the sea level hasn’t changed locally in the last 20 years. So then there’s a court case in the UK over showing Al’s doco in schools which decides that it has 9 major false claims which have to be corrected. News reports here http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/3310137/Al-Gores-nine-Inconvenient-Untruths.html. So, what happens to Al Gore for his wild exaggerations? Any major criticism? No, he gets a Nobel prize, and the IPCC are happy to share it with him because its OK to tell a few lies as long as your getting the message out. This doesn’t do much for the credibility of the IPCC in my opinion.
Then when someone makes a doco or writes a book disputing AGW they get hammered in the media, for what I’d consider fairly minor issues compared to the huge errors in An Inconvenient Truth.

Surf forecaster Swell Net even had a rant about alarmism recently after the TV news went reporting king tides combined with storm surge as being caused by climate change - http://www.swellnet.com.au/surfpolitik.php?surfpolitik=King_Tides_and_Killer_Sharks_130109.php

Wendy posted this link http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/world/5616255 saying climate change kills 315000 people a year. Well here is a climate scientist who is pissed off with these claims http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/prometheus/a-methodological-embarassment-5314 and says ‘It is a methodological embarrassment and poster child for how to lie with statistics’

Now, I am not saying any of this rant has anything to do with disproving AGW, I’m just saying that its hard to take it seriously with the amount of nonsense that gets put out there.