Global Warming - Page 18

Skeptics or dummies, you be the judge.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/05/travel/the-wonder-list-chamonix-alps-bill-weir/index.html

My, my look what's happening...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3052926/Our-climate-models-WRONG-Global-warming-slowed-recent-changes-natural-variability-says-study.html

It's all beginning to crumble, fudging the data, cooking the books...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/11561629/Top-scientists-start-to-examine-fiddled-global-warming-figures.html

from wikipedia on ML source;

Funding Sources[edit]

Because it is registered as a charity, the GWPF is not legally required to report its sources of funding,^[13] and Peiser has declined to reveal its funding sources, citing privacy concerns. Peiser said GWPF does not receive funding "from people with links to energy companies or from the companies themselves."^[14] The foundation has rejected freedom of information (FoI) requests to disclose its funding sources on at least four different occasions. The judge ruling on the latest FoI request, Alison McKenna, said that the GWPF was not sufficiently influential to merit forcing them to disclose the source of the £50,000 that was originally provided to establish the organization.^[15]

According to a press release on the organization's website, GWPF "is funded entirely by voluntary donations from a number of private individuals and charitable trusts. In order to make clear its complete independence, it does not accept gifts from either energy companies or anyone with a significant interest in an energy company."^[4] Annual membership contributions are "a minimum of £100".^[16] In accounts filed at the beginning of 2011 with the Charities Commission and at Companies House, it was revealed that only £8,168 of the £503,302 the Foundation received as income, from its founding in November 2009 until the end of July 2010, came from membership contributions.^[17] In response to the accounts, Bob Ward (communications director the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at London School of Economics and Political Science) commented that "Its income suggests that it only has about 80 members, which means that it is a fringe group promoting the interests of a very small number of politically motivated campaigners."^[17] Similarly, based on membership fees reported for the year ending 31 July 2012, it appears that GWPF had no more than 120 members at that time.^[18]

In March 2012, The Guardian revealed that it had uncovered emails in which Michael Hintze, founder of the hedge fund CQS and a major donor to the UK Conservative Party, disclosed having donated to GWPF; the previous October, Hintze had been at the center of a funding scandal that led to the resignation of then-Secretary of State for Defence Liam Fox and the dismissal of Hintze's then-charity adviser, Oliver Hylton.^[19]

Chris Huhne, former UK Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change attacked Lord Lawson's influential climate sceptic think-tank.^[13]

Charitable Status[edit]

There have been calls^{[by whom?]} for the Charity Commission to reconsider the GWPF's charitable status. Campaigning statements made by Lawson have been said^{[by whom?]} to misrepresent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports,^[20] and the Charity Commission insist that charities must use factually accurate material when campaigning.^[21]

In June 2013 it was reported that Bob Ward had filed a formal complaint to the Charity Commission, alleging that the GWPF had "persistently disseminated inaccurate and misleading information about climate change as part of its campaign against climate policies in the UK and overseas", and that this was an abuse of their charitable status. The Charity Commission stated it was "assessing the concerns to determine whether there is any regulatory action for the Commission to take". It would give the foundation an opportunity to respond, and if it was considered to have breached charitable status conditions the foundation would have a chance to show it had corrected the problem before a formal investigation was instigated. Peiser issued a response denying the allegations, stating that "The GWPF has never participated in any campaigning and does not promote any particular line of opinion". Ward described this as untrue, citing what he considered to be examples of inaccurate campaigning statements.^[22]

Temperature graph[edit]

When the GWPF's website was launched in November 2009, a graph used in the logo graphic on each page of the website of '21st Century global mean temperatures' showed a slow decline over the selected period from 2001–2008. Hannah Devlin of The Times found an error for 2003 and noted that if the period from 2000–2009 had been chosen, then a rise in temperature would have been shown rather than a fall.^[23] Bob Ward said that the graph was contrary to the true measurements, and that by leaving out the temperature trend during the 20th century, the graph obscured the fact that 8 of the 10 hottest years on record have occurred this century. The GWPF blamed a "small error by our graphic designer" for the mistake which would now be changed, but said that starting the graph earlier would be equally arbitrary.^[14]

Most ill-informed would prefer to deprecate the webside rather than discuss the evidence...

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http://dailycaller.com/2015/05/04/kofi-annan-eat-bugs-to-stop-global-warming/

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