I noticed this scary 'climate' article by BBC today:
1. Headline: 3/25/12, "Temperatures could rise by 3C by 2050, models suggest," BBC
2. First paragraph: "Global temperatures could rise by 1.4-3.0C (2.5-5.4F) above levels for late last century by 2050, a computer simulation has suggested."
The headline tried to be as scary as possible using the figure 3C. In the first paragraph we find out the real "suggested" number isn't 3C but ranges from 1.4-3C. They don't say any of this "will" happen, only that it "could" happen.
3. Picture and caption: "Climate temperature predictions can influence planning, such as for sea defences." The picture and caption are like a secondary headline. The BBC again goes for the scariest, "sea defences" conjuring up possible wars and deaths.
4. Who paid for the 'study?' (parag. 6):
"The study - run through climateprediction.net with the BBC Climate Change Experiment - ran simulations using a complex atmosphere-ocean climate model."...
a. "Climateprediction.net" leads to the US taxpayer.
"Climateprediction.net is a distributed computing project to produce predictions of the Earth's climate up to 2100 and to test the accuracy of climate models....Climateprediction.net uses the same underlying software, BOINC, as many other distributed computing projects and, if you like, you can participate in more than one project at a time. Read more about BOINC."
What is BOINC? Answer: The chump US taxpayer.
BOINC is based at the University of California at Berkeley. From their website:
"BOINC is supported by the National Science Foundation through awards SCI-0221529, SCI-0438443, SCI-0506411, PHY/0555655, and OCI-0721124. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation."
Here is the NSF logo from BOINCs web page. The NSF is the porn-paralyzed outfit that hands over billions of US taxpayer dollars to every pretty girl on the corner.
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Also OXFORD University was part of it, from the BBC article: "Myles Allen of the School of Geography and Environment and Department of Physics, Oxford University, principal investigator of climateprediction.net"...
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Who else paid for the 'study'?
b. "The BBC Climate Change Experiment," meaning the UK taxpayer. A web page for this group said Oxford University led the study and the UK Met Office climate model was used.
Other links from the BBC Climate site:
"Watch films from 'Climate Chaos', Eight short climate change films. (For legal reasons this is only available in the UK)"
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"Climate Challenge game: Would the planet survive if you were in power? Innovate, trade and persuade other nations to help you save the environment."
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They of course had a big picture of a polar bear:
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The NSF, National Science Foundation, in the US has problems:
The NSF is swamped with personnel using taxpayer money to travel and pursue intimate relationships with NSF subordinates, a decade long pattern of excessive porn watching on the job including live porn acts also paid by the US tax payer. NSF says it has so many internal problems it's not in a position to oversee science projects it funds:
9/29/2009, "Porn Surfing rampant at US science foundation," Washington Times, by Jim McElhatton
""To manage this dramatic increase without an increase in staff required us to significantly reduce our efforts to investigate grant fraud," the inspector general recently told Congress in a budget request.
- "We anticipate a significant decline in investigative recoveries and prosecutions in coming years
- as a direct result.""
UK Government U-Turns on Emissions Trading Scheme" theenergycollective.com
1. "All revenue raised from the emissions trading scheme (£1bn/year), which began earlier this year, will be used to support the public finances, instead of being recycled back to participants."
12/15/11, "Firms say low carbon [dioxide] price threatens EU green targets," BBC
"The EU Corporate Leaders Group on Climate Change (EUCLG) includes Royal Dutch Shell, Enel, Alstom and Acciona....The EUCLG's patron is Britain's Prince Charles. The group's letter called for permits to be withheld in Phase Three of the ETS, which begins in 2013."...
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