Manipulating climate

The article below is revealing about how the Climate Change subject has changed from science to propaganda - and how the international COP meetings each year are increasingly dominated by NGOs rather than governmental representatives or scientists.  Media is manipulated, and how scientists are selected (or deselected) to participate is discussed.

For all things political none of this should come as a surprise.  But for science to be hijacked by bureaucrats is somehow worse because it takes away the foundation of evidence and facts we need for decision-making, and to how tell quackery from the real thing.

Metro's dive into the Climate Smart Communities Plan was a certainty the day it was conceived.  All the planning and advisory committee meetings leading up to it were window dressing and a waste of time for everyone involved.  The whole charade keeps the myth alive and people employed however, so we can expect to more of this before Climate Change dies, taking our money along with it.

We still have experts willing to stand for the truth and tell Metro what a mess their Urban Growth study is.  Growth projections drive policies about housing and transportation and will significantly impact our region.  What if Metro got it wrong?  There's no doubt in my mind that they did.  It is not in their best interest to do anything except follow the same course to its bitter conclusion.  Unless someone stops them.  Evidently facts and logic alone won't do it.

The website, Watt's Up With That? is by far the best one on the web that is devoted to climate science.  The link to the website in in the blog list on the right.

Ironically, Change Catches Up With Climate Change Alarmists in Lima

Guest Blogger / December 18, 2014 

Guest opinion; Dr. Tim Ball 

It appears that, as the political and scientific evidence fails, a hard-core group of environmentalists don’t want to face reality. One of the masterstrokes of Strong was to resurrect the concept of the Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) to participate in the political activity. It began with their attendance at the Rio 1992 UNEP conference under a Consultative Status designation. The increasing political nature of the COP is apparently reflected in the attendance data. In a recent article by Till Neeff titled “How many will attend Paris? UNFCCC COP participation patterns 1995-2015” he says, 

The COPs to the UNFCCC (the Conferences of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change) have evolved into environmental mega-conferences (Gaventa, 2010). They have become the key networking opportunity for environmental professionals of all colours, and attract increasingly large numbers of diverse participants (Okereke et al., 2009). Beyond the negotiations, it seems to be the desire to network, to exchange information and to be part of a larger climate change constituency that drive attendance (Schroeder and Lovell, 2012).

The revealed truth is that of the sixteen choices given to people regarding what they think are the important issues in their lives, climate change is dead last. Not only that, but in every sub-category, by age, by sex, by education, by country grouping, it’s right down at the bottom of the list. NOBODY thinks it’s important.
 

This is consistent with findings of the Pew Center polls (Figure 3).

Notice that the priority, at least for the US public, was at the bottom five years ago in 2009. Despite this politicians have paid no attention for five years. Almost all of them continue to put it high on their list of concerns. It is part proof that they don’t care what the public think and are more afraid of being accused of not caring about the planet.

Lima’s failure is a culmination of the deliberate attempts to predetermine the science and the politics overtaken by reality. Neeff summarized what went on there in a heading that says, “COP participants are part of a climate-change – club.” The public knew a few years ago, but the politicians continued to punt a non-existent can, at enormous costs. The real lesson from Lima is that once government takes up an issue it will expand and never be resolved. There is nothing ironic about the fact that, as always, the people will pay the price and the politicians and deceivers will not be held accountable.