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Inconvenient Questions for Warmists: '1913 set the all time temperature record in N. America, and during the 1930s, as much as 80% of US simultaneously suffered from drought. 1935 saw the most powerful hurricane to ever hit the US,and 1940s saw the most US hurricane strikes of any decade. What caused these severe climatic patterns during the first half of the century?'

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Neo-colonial land grabs carried out on behalf of World Bank-backed British company. Paul Joseph Watson, Prison Planet.com
Friday, September 23, 2011

Armed troops acting on behalf of a British carbon trading company backed by the World Bank burned houses to the ground and killed children to evict Ugandans from their homes in the name of seizing land to protect against "global warming," a shocking illustration of how the climate change con is a barbarian form of neo-colonialism.

The evictions were ordered by New Forests Company, an outfit that seizes land in Africa to grow trees then sells the "carbon credits" on to transnational corporations. The company is backed by the World Bank and HSBC. Its Board of Directors includes HSBC Managing Director Sajjad Sabur, as well as other former Goldman Sachs investment bankers.

The company claims residents of Kicucula left in a "peaceful" and "voluntary" manner, and yet the people tell a story of terror and bloodshed.

Villagers told of how armed "security forces" stormed their village and torched houses, burning an eight-year-child to death as they threatened to murder anyone who resisted while beating others.

"We were in church," recalled Jean-Marie Tushabe, 26, a father of two. "I heard bullets being shot into the air."

"Cars were coming with police," Mr. Tushabe said, sitting among the ruins of his old home. "They headed straight to the houses. They took our plates, cups, mattresses, bed, pillows. Then we saw them getting a matchbox out of their pockets."

"But in this case, the government and the company said the settlers were illegal and evicted for a good cause: to protect the environment and help fight global warming," reports the New York Times.

An Oxfam report documents how the British outfit has worked with the Ugandan government to forcibly expel over 20,000 people from their homes using terror and violence as part of a lucrative scramble for arable land that can be used to satisfy the multi-billion dollar carbon trading ponzi scheme, which is worth $1.8 million a year to the company.

"I no longer own any land. It’s impossible to feed my children - they have suffered so much. Some days all they eat is porridge from maize flour. When people can’t eat well their bodies become weak - there have been lots of cases of malaria and diarrhoea. Some days we don’t eat anything at all," said former farmer Francis Longoli, whose land was stolen by New Forests.

As we have previously documented, the manufactured threat of man-made global warming is being used as a tool of neo-colonialism in the third world, not only through the seizure of land and infrastructure, thereby preventing poor nations from using their resources to develop, but by literally starving poverty-stricken people to death.

Climate change alarmism and implementation of global warming policies is a crime of the highest nature, because it is already having a genocidal impact in countries like Haiti, where the doubling of food prices is resulting in a substantial increase in starvation, poverty and death, with the population being forced to live on mud pies.

As a National Geographic Report confirmed, "With food prices rising, Haiti’s poorest can’t afford even a daily plate of rice, and some must take desperate measures to fill their bellies," by "eating mud," partly as a consequence of "increasing global demand for biofuels."

In April 2008, World Bank President Robert Zoellick admitted that biofuels were a "significant contributor" to soaring food prices that have led to poor people dying from starvation as a result of biofuels dominating land that would normally be used to harvest food.

Even man-made global warming advocate George Monbiot admits that promotion of biofuels "is causing starvation in the poor world," particularly in Swaziland, where the decision to allocate several thousand hectares of farmland to ethanol production despite the country being in the grip of a famine was labeled "a crime against humanity" by Jean Ziegler, the UN’s special rapporteur.

But it’s not just biofuels, a product of global warming alarmism, that are unleashing a genocide against black people in poorer countries, it’s the whole anti-development mantra embraced by climate change activists that is being enforced by supranational organizations like the World Bank and the IMF in the name of reducing carbon dioxide, the evil life-giving gas that plants breathe and humans exhale.

Indeed, poorer countries rejected the 2009 Copenhagen climate agreement precisely because it discriminated against third world nations.

In addition, the Obama administration, firmly supported by Al Gore, last year ordered the World Bank to keep "developing" countries underdeveloped by blocking them from building coal-fired power plants, ensuring that poorer countries remain in poverty as a result of energy demands not being met.

By preventing poor nations from becoming self-sufficient in blocking them from producing their own energy, the Obama administration is ensuring that millions more will die from starvation and lack of access to hospitals and medical treatment.

While ignorant environmentalist leftists preach all day about the effects of global warming having the most impact on poorer countries, it is in fact the poorer countries and their people who are suffering most from global warming alarmism, and predators like the banker-backed New Forests Company.

The seizure of arable land in the name of "global warming" is set to become big business, which is why the United Nations recently announced it is preparing to roll out an army of green helmeted "climate peacekeepers" to intervene in poorer countries to protect "shrinking resources".

Transnational corporations, in league with western governments and offshore banks, have seized upon the climate change scam to carry out genocidal policies and land grabs in the pursuit of selling carbon credits to other transnational corporations who then merely pass on the cost to the consumer.

See report here. By the way, instead of protesting on Wall Street, the third world like mob, most of whom local media in NYC report have no clue about the issues they are said to be protesting like corporate greeda and global warming should move acress town to the UN or find a Greenpeace or Sierra Club building or even City Hall where Mayor Mike Bloomberg has given a few of his millions to the Sierra Club to stop coal firerd plants that provide hald this country’s electricity. Although he and other politicans Nd enviros provide plenty of hot air, it can’t keep the growing poor population in this country warm.

Neo-colonial land grabs carried out on behalf of World Bank-backed British company

Paul Joseph Watson, Prison Planet.com
Friday, September 23, 2011

Armed troops acting on behalf of a British carbon trading company backed by the World Bank burned houses to the ground and killed children to evict Ugandans from their homes in the name of seizing land to protect against "global warming," a shocking illustration of how the climate change con is a barbarian form of neo-colonialism.

The evictions were ordered by New Forests Company, an outfit that seizes land in Africa to grow trees then sells the "carbon credits" on to transnational corporations. The company is backed by the World Bank and HSBC. Its Board of Directors includes HSBC Managing Director Sajjad Sabur, as well as other former Goldman Sachs investment bankers.

The company claims residents of Kicucula left in a "peaceful" and "voluntary" manner, and yet the people tell a story of terror and bloodshed.

Villagers told of how armed "security forces" stormed their village and torched houses, burning an eight-year-child to death as they threatened to murder anyone who resisted while beating others.

"We were in church," recalled Jean-Marie Tushabe, 26, a father of two. "I heard bullets being shot into the air."

"Cars were coming with police," Mr. Tushabe said, sitting among the ruins of his old home. "They headed straight to the houses. They took our plates, cups, mattresses, bed, pillows. Then we saw them getting a matchbox out of their pockets."

"But in this case, the government and the company said the settlers were illegal and evicted for a good cause: to protect the environment and help fight global warming," reports the New York Times.

An Oxfam report documents how the British outfit has worked with the Ugandan government to forcibly expel over 20,000 people from their homes using terror and violence as part of a lucrative scramble for arable land that can be used to satisfy the multi-billion dollar carbon trading ponzi scheme, which is worth $1.8 million a year to the company.

"I no longer own any land. It’s impossible to feed my children - they have suffered so much. Some days all they eat is porridge from maize flour. When people can’t eat well their bodies become weak - there have been lots of cases of malaria and diarrhoea. Some days we don’t eat anything at all," said former farmer Francis Longoli, whose land was stolen by New Forests.

As we have previously documented, the manufactured threat of man-made global warming is being used as a tool of neo-colonialism in the third world, not only through the seizure of land and infrastructure, thereby preventing poor nations from using their resources to develop, but by literally starving poverty-stricken people to death.

Climate change alarmism and implementation of global warming policies is a crime of the highest nature, because it is already having a genocidal impact in countries like Haiti, where the doubling of food prices is resulting in a substantial increase in starvation, poverty and death, with the population being forced to live on mud pies.

As a National Geographic Report confirmed, "With food prices rising, Haiti’s poorest can’t afford even a daily plate of rice, and some must take desperate measures to fill their bellies," by "eating mud," partly as a consequence of "increasing global demand for biofuels."

In April 2008, World Bank President Robert Zoellick admitted that biofuels were a "significant contributor" to soaring food prices that have led to poor people dying from starvation as a result of biofuels dominating land that would normally be used to harvest food.

Even man-made global warming advocate George Monbiot admits that promotion of biofuels "is causing starvation in the poor world," particularly in Swaziland, where the decision to allocate several thousand hectares of farmland to ethanol production despite the country being in the grip of a famine was labeled "a crime against humanity" by Jean Ziegler, the UN’s special rapporteur.

But it’s not just biofuels, a product of global warming alarmism, that are unleashing a genocide against black people in poorer countries, it’s the whole anti-development mantra embraced by climate change activists that is being enforced by supranational organizations like the World Bank and the IMF in the name of reducing carbon dioxide, the evil life-giving gas that plants breathe and humans exhale.

Indeed, poorer countries rejected the 2009 Copenhagen climate agreement precisely because it discriminated against third world nations.

In addition, the Obama administration, firmly supported by Al Gore, last year ordered the World Bank to keep "developing" countries underdeveloped by blocking them from building coal-fired power plants, ensuring that poorer countries remain in poverty as a result of energy demands not being met.

By preventing poor nations from becoming self-sufficient in blocking them from producing their own energy, the Obama administration is ensuring that millions more will die from starvation and lack of access to hospitals and medical treatment.

While ignorant environmentalist leftists preach all day about the effects of global warming having the most impact on poorer countries, it is in fact the poorer countries and their people who are suffering most from global warming alarmism, and predators like the banker-backed New Forests Company.

The seizure of arable land in the name of "global warming" is set to become big business, which is why the United Nations recently announced it is preparing to roll out an army of green helmeted "climate peacekeepers" to intervene in poorer countries to protect "shrinking resources".

Transnational corporations, in league with western governments and offshore banks, have seized upon the climate change scam to carry out genocidal policies and land grabs in the pursuit of selling carbon credits to other transnational corporations who then merely pass on the cost to the consumer.

See report here. By the way, instead of protesting on Wall Street, the third world like mob, most of whom local media in NYC report have no clue about the issues they are said to be protesting like corporate greeda and global warming should move acress town to the UN or find a Greenpeace or Sierra Club building or even City Hall where Mayor Mike Bloomberg has given a few of his millions to the Sierra Club to stop coal firerd plants that provide hald this country’s electricity. Although he and other politicans Nd enviros provide plenty of hot air, it can’t keep the growing poor population in this country warm.

from Climate Realists by Co2sceptic

by Emma Woollacott - The global uptake of carbon by land plants could be much higher than previously thought, meaning that the carbon cycle models used to predict climate change could be wrong.

Scientists at the University of California in San Diego say that plants are taking up as much as 45 per cent more CO2 than previously thought, based on the variability of heavy oxygen atoms in atmospheric carbon dioxide driven by the El Niño effect.

The team found that the oxygen atoms in carbon dioxide were converted faster than expected during the El Niño years. Instead of 120 petagrams of carbon, says the team, the annual global vegetation uptake probably lies between 150 and 175 petagrams of carbon.

And changing this figure would have significant consequences for the coupled carbon cycle-climate model used to predict future climate change.

The team evaluated the data for the global isotopic composition of CO2 - 18O/16O and 13C/12C - over the last 30 years, and found variation between years that was connected with the El Niño phenomenon in the Pacific.

Click source (tgdaily.com) to read FULL report from Emma Woollacott

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from Climate Depot

from Climate Depot

from Climate Audit by Steve McIntyre

William Brune, who acted as a "consultant" to the Penn State Inquiry Committee will be discussing the Mann misconduct "inquiry" in Boulder tomorrow Wednesday, October 5, 2:15 PM (Refreshments at 2:00 PM) at the David Skaggs Research Center, Room 2A305. Directions

The seminar is a Chemical Science Division seminar entitled "Climategate, Michael Mann, and Penn State’s investigation":

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Please note: this special seminar will precede the usual CSD seminar.
There will be a 15 minute break in between the two.
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The release of emails purloined from the Climate Research Unit at East Anglia University inflamed the passion and politics that surround climate science. As one of the climate scientists whose emails were released, Professor Michael Mann, who I recruited to Penn State, became a focal point of this passion in the United States.

Intense pressure was put on Penn State to investigate Professor Mann, initiating a process that led to his exoneration eight months later. As Professor Mann’s department head, I was a participant in Penn State’s investigative process. At David Fahey’s request, I will tell what I can about Climategate, Michael Mann, and Penn State’s investigation.

Brune was a consultant to the first stage - the (preliminary) inquiry (report); the second stage report is here.

Some of the findings of the inquiry flew in the face of facts known to thousands - see tagged CA posts here.

Clive Crook elegantly summarized the Penn State process at Atlantic Monthly saying that the reports in which Brune participated would be "difficult to parody":

The Penn State inquiry exonerating Michael Mann - the paleoclimatologist who came up with "the hockey stick" - would be difficult to parody.

Crook continues:

the report then says, in effect, that Mann is a distinguished scholar, a successful raiser of research funding, a man admired by his peers - so any allegation of academic impropriety must be false.

You think I exaggerate?

This level of success in proposing research, and obtaining funding to conduct it, clearly places Dr. Mann among the most respected scientists in his field. Such success would not have been possible had he not met or exceeded the highest standards of his profession for proposing research...

Had Dr. Mann’s conduct of his research been outside the range of accepted practices, it would have been impossible for him to receive so many awards and recognitions, which typically involve intense scrutiny from scientists who may or may not agree with his scientific conclusions...

Clearly, Dr. Mann’s reporting of his research has been successful and judged to be outstanding by his peers. This would have been impossible had his activities in reporting his work been outside of accepted practices in his field.

If any readers have an opportunity to attend this seminar, reports would be welcome.