Global Cooling Radio debuts

Tweet Global Cooling Radio kicks off April 3, 2010 with Lord Monckton.

• via Climate Depot

Arctic Ice increasing at catastrophic rate-latest NSIC graph

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Note solid turqoise line. via WUWT data, details

• Bad news for criminal carbon trading propagandists and profiteers out to rob what is left of the evil US middle class. ed.
  

Arctic Sea Ice Extent (organized crime making millions every day on non-existent global warming)

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3/24/10

Speaking his own words, Tom Hanks shows his 'appalling ignorance'

Tweet "Tom Hanks has said that our war on Islamic terrorism has the same flaws as he perceives our Pacific War against Japan had seventy years ago.

• In both conflicts, some Americans employed crude racial stereotypes of our enemies,

• feared the strange gods they worshiped,

and sought to annihilate them. Hanks' comments reveal, for those of us who still needed evidence,

• the appalling ignorance of Hollywood and its performers."...

US enables organized crime of United Nations against US citizens, UN immune from prosecution

Tweet Continuing many years of organized crime at the expense of oblivious US citizens:

• "That witness said the Afghanistan country director for the U.N. Office for Project Services (UNOPS), which served as the contractor on the project for the U.N. Development Program (UNDP),
  
• spent about $200,000 in U.S. money to renovate his guesthouse. Witness names were withheld by USAID."...

USA Today, 4/16/09: Washington: "Two United Nations agencies spent millions in U.S. money on substandard Afghanistan construction projects, including a central bank without electricity and a bridge at risk of "life threatening" collapse, according to an investigation by U.S. federal agents.

The U.N. ran a "quick impact" infrastructure program from 2003 to 2006 under a $25 million grant from the U.S. Agency for International Development.

• The U.N. delivered shoddy work,
  

• diverted money to other countries and then stonewalled U.S. efforts
  

to figure out what happened, according to a report by USAID's inspector general obtained

• by USA TODAY under the Freedom of Information Act.

"Due to the refusal of the United Nations to cooperate with this investigation,

• questions remain unanswered," the report says.

• Federal prosecutors in New York City were forced to drop criminal and civil cases
  

• because the U.N. officials have immunity, according to the report.
  

USAID has scaled back its dealings with the U.N. and hired a collection agency to seek $7.6 million back, Deputy Administrator James Bever said.

• The aid agency hasn't heeded its inspector general's request to sever all ties.

• "There are certain cases where working with the U.N. is the only option available," Bever said in an e-mail.

The quick-impact program was designed to demonstrate results and promote confidence in the reconstruction effort, but the report suggests it did the opposite.

One U.N. employee told investigators that "about $10 million of USAID grant money

• went to projects in other countries, to include Sudan, Haiti, Sri Lanka and Dubai."
  

That witness said the Afghanistan country director for the U.N. Office for Project Services (UNOPS), which served as the contractor on the project for the U.N. Development Program (UNDP), spent about

• $200,000 in U.S. money to renovate his guesthouse. Witness names were withheld by USAID.

The development program hired UNOPS to do the work and kept a 7% management fee, the report says. The finances were "out of control," an unnamed project services manager told investigators.

An unnamed USAID contractor told investigators that the program was "ill conceived from the beginning. This was a political idea to do quick impact projects that would look good," the report said.

Investigators found that projects reported as "complete" were actually so shoddily built that they were unusable, the report said. For example:

• •A bridge near Kandahar cost $250,000, had to be overhauled by other contractors and still was not safe. The U.N. claimed the bridge was damaged by flood, but a colonel in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers told investigators that "falls between absolute incompetence and a lie; the project was improperly constructed."

• •An airstrip in the southern town of Qalat, originally budgeted at $300,000, cost $749,000 and
  
• could not accommodate military planes.

• •A $375,000 headquarters for Afghanistan's central bank lacked electricity or plumbing, and basement flooding destroyed stacks of local currency.

Investigators found that UNDP withdrew $6.7 million from a U.S. line of credit without permission in 2007, months after the project had ended. UNDP has yet to explain what happened to that money, the report says.

"This is a disturbing report and an egregious example of the kind of fraud and waste that needs to be fixed," said Mark Kornblau, a spokesman for Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N.

• "The U.S. is committed to making the U.N. more accountable." (oh? ed.)

Vitaly Vanshelboim, UNOPS deputy executive director, did not dispute that some of his agency's work was substandard and that money was improperly diverted. He said UNOPS had overhauled itself dramatically since then. An internal U.N. investigation found serious irregularities by one former official that have since been addressed through management reforms, he said.

UNDP spokesman Stéphane Dujarric called the report "disturbing." Both officials denied that their agencies failed to cooperate with investigators....

• USAID's inspector general, Donald Gambatesa told the Commission on Wartime Contracting during a February public hearing that he was "concerned" that his agency was continuing to do business with the U.N.

Commissioner Dov Zakheim, a former Pentagon controller, asked Gambatesa whether the agencies have immunity

• "if they siphon (their U.S. grants) all off into Swiss banks? Is that accurate?
  
• They will be totally immune,
  

• no matter what they do with the money?"

• "My understanding is, yes," Gambatesa replied.

On Monday, Alonzo Fulgham, USAID's acting administrator, met in in New York to discuss the matter with Ad Melkert, the development program's acting administrator, USAID said in a statement. ...

• by Ken Dilanian
  

They admit carbon trading can only harm the planet, so why do they keep selling it? Ask Time Magazine. Time sides with hedge funds.

Tweet The hurricanes and disasters claims from the UN and Al Gore have been admitted to be erroneous (1/24/10). Why doesn't Time Magazine know this? It seems no one at Time Magazine at this late date has yet been bothered to read the UN 'Nobel Prize' winning climate report. They continue to report what they wish it had proven-but did not. The mistakes are there in plain site for anyone to see.

• Instead of reporting the truth, Time doubles down and opens a recent article pumping up-of all things- Al Gore's totally discredited movie. Yes, trillions are at stake on this issue. But for a media member to stoop so low at this late date?

Time ignores that the whole hurricane mantra from the IPCC was made up. Instead, it says, well there may be some doubts, but we found someone else who says BECAUSE SEA LEVELS WILL STILL BE RISING, storms will still be bad.

• For this kind of irresponsible alarmism is there not some legal recourse? Promotion of these ideas has serious consequences.
  
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Under CO2 trading, one side continues to emit whatever it wants into the atmosphere. They just pay a supposed fine to the carbon registry-overseen by the totally incompetent UN-- and a bunch of investment banks. Which have already reported a run of organized crime in carbon trading. But forgetting that,

• this scam encourages emitters to keep emitting, ensuring little or nothing will change. China will never be honest or allow inspections and why should they? Why should they respect anyone involved in this child's game?
  
• It can easily be stopped. It just takes someone demanding the Supreme Court reverse its 2007 5-4 decision on CO2 since it was based on IPCC/CRU data.
  

Revkin, 2/9/10: Dot Earth, "Once emitted, carbon dioxide is a “

• globally well mixed gas”

• that knows no borders.

Every year, commerce becomes increasingly

• “globally well mixed” as well.

So if the world moves toward a system for tracking emissions, who is responsible for a particular batch of carbon dioxide —

• the company that mined and sold the coal, the power plant that burned it, the consumer who buys the exported widget made with the electricity generated by that combustion, or…?

'Climate $cience' and its political $upporters are Oxymoron$--Telegraph

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• Time to say good-bye to 'green' shake down artists.

1/6: "“Climate science” is the oxymoron of the century. There is not a city, town or hamlet in the country that has had its weather conditions correctly forecast, over periods as short as 12 hours, during the past week. This is the

• “exceptionally mild winter” that the climate change buffoons warned us would occur as a consequence of global warming. Their credibility is 20 degrees below zero.

Yet nothing shames them, nothing persuades them to come out of the bunker with their hands high and “fess up”. Patronisingly fobbing off the public with fabricated excuses has become second nature to them. Latterly they have been concocting alibis about the Gulf Stream to explain Britain’s Arctic conditions. Uh-huh? Is it the Gulf Stream that has frozen the Vistula and given Poland a temperature of –25C?

• Is it the Gulf Stream that has caused the worst blizzards in Beijing since 1951?

The entire Northern Hemisphere is frozen. ...That is completely normal, part of the

• random climate fluctuations with which our ancestors were familiar.
  

• Yet fraudulent scientists have gained millions of pounds by taking selective samples of natural climate change,
  

whipping up a Grande Peur and using it to

• advance the cause of world government,
  

• state control and fiscal despoliation of citizens.

2010 should be the year when all that ends.

• It is time for Zero Tolerance of AGW fraudsters and their political masters.
  

It is time to say: Green taxes? We won’t pay them. Nor will we vote for or permit to remain in office any politician or party that supports the AGW fraud.

• This year is one of those rare occasions when we have an opportunity to
  
• punish and control our political masters – provided Britons have the will to break with the two-party system.

Due to the rise of smaller parties – itself the consequence of the misgovernment of the Lab/Lib/Con consensus –

• it is a buyer’s market.
  

The rule of thumb should be: any party that supports the global warming scam is ineligible for our votes.

• It doesn’t matter how ingrained one’s loyalty may once have been to one of the “major” parties,
  

the time has come to impose the popular will on politicians who have learned, since the abolition of capital punishment in 1965, that by forming an anti-democratic consensus they can dictate to the public."...

• (Or, don't waste time with third parties, do what we're doing in the US. Vote on the republican line but only for our own candidate (usually one the GOP establishment would leave in the ditch). ed.

from UK Telegraph article, "'Climate Science' is an Oxymoron. Time for zero tolerance of green agendas," by Gerald Warner, 1/6/10

The UNITED Shakedown NATIONS: Copenhagen speaker weeps, says he's from island nation--lives inland in Australia

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• Andrew Bolt, Copenhagen, 12/17, Herald Sun:
  
• "UPDATE 2

And a mass-murderer at Copenhagen lectures us about our crimes:

The anti-capitalist theme was picked up on by Mr Mugabe, Zimbabwe’s veteran President, who is the target of Western sanctions over alleged human rights abuses.

“When these capitalist gods of carbon burp and belch their dangerous emissions, it’s we, the lesser mortals of the developing sphere who gasp and sink and eventually die.”

UPDATE 3

Nothing is real in Copenhagen - not the temperature record, not the predictions, not the agenda, not the “solution”. In fact, here’s how fake it all is:

The lead negotiator for the small island nation of Tuvalu, the bow-tie wearing Ian Fry, broke down as he begged delegates to take tough action.

“I woke up this morning crying,” and that’s not easy for a grown man to admit,” Mr Fry said on Saturday, as his eyes welled with tears.

”The fate of my country rests in your hands,” he concluded, as the audience

• exploded with wild applause.

So moving. But let’s now learn more from Samantha Maiden about this former Greenpeace official from “Tuvalu”:

But the part-time PhD scholar at the Australian National University actually resides in Queanbeyan, NSW, where he’s not likely to be troubled by rising sea levels because the closest beach at Batemans Bay is a two-hour, 144km drive away. Asked whether he had ever lived in Tuvalu, his wife told The Australian last night she would “rather not comment”....

Still, it’s a long way from the endangered atolls of Tuvalu, with his neighbour Michelle Ormay confirming he’s lived in Queanbeyan for more than a decade, while he

has worked his way up to being “very high up in climate change”.

(Thanks to readers captainperi and Observer of Wodonga.)"