Laframboise, Donna

<a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/donna-laframboise">http://www.desmogblog.com/donna-laframboise</a><div>
</div><div>credentials<ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><li style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Degree in Women’s Studies, University of Toronto (1989).<a href="https://www.desmog.com/donna-laframboise/#s1" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">[1]</a></li></ul><h2 id="h-background" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; line-height: 1.2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Background</h2>Donna Laframboise is a journalist, photographer, and founder of <a href="http://noconsensus.org/" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">NOconsensus.org</a>, a website critical of the IPCC and skeptical of climate change. In late 2013, Laframboise became a senior fellow for the <a href="https://www.desmog.com/frontier-centre-public-policy" target="blank" rel="noopener external noreferrer" data-wpel-link="external" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">Frontier Center for Public Policy</a>, a freemarket think tank based in the US and Canada. <a href="https://www.desmog.com/donna-laframboise/#s1" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">[1]</a>,<a href="https://www.desmog.com/donna-laframboise/#s2" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;"> [2]</a>Laframboise is very critical of the Independent Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). In 2010 she organized a “<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20161024172554/http://www.noconsensus.org/ipcc-audit/findings-main-page.php" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">citizen audit</a>” of the IPCC, and produced a report where she claimed that many of the report’s sources were not peer-reviewed.  She published her views in her book <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20161023214944/https://nofrakkingconsensus.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/delinquentteenager_sample.pdf" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">The Delinquent Teenager Who Was Mistaken for the World’s Top Climate Expert</a>. <a href="https://www.desmog.com/donna-laframboise/#s3" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">[3]</a>, <a href="https://www.desmog.com/donna-laframboise/#s4" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">[4]</a>The IPCC has clear guidelines regarding the use of non peer-reviewed sources, and a spokesman has stated that such sources include government statistics or reports from industry associations, and said “We do not believe that it is appropriate to keep out such material from the process.” <a href="https://www.desmog.com/donna-laframboise/#s5" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">[5]</a>Between 1993 and 2001, Laframboise was a member of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, serving as a Vice President from 1998-2001.  Prior to 2002, she wrote for the National Post, Globe & Mail, Toronto Star, Chatelaine, Toronto Life, and other publications. She now <a href="http://www.tripodgirl.com/about.php" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">works as a photographer</a>. <a href="https://www.desmog.com/donna-laframboise/#s1" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">[1]</a>Laframboise is also the author of the blog NoFrakkingConsensus, and was behind the now-defunct website <a href="http://newanthropocene.wordpress.com/2010/08/27/climate-change-hate-is-donna-soggy-behind-the-ears/" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">DeSoggyBog</a> (which attempted to parody DeSmogBlog – <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20100110131725/http://desoggybog.com/index.php" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">archived here</a>), which she describes as a “project of NOconsensus.org.”<a href="https://www.desmog.com/donna-laframboise/#s6" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;"> [6]</a>, <a href="https://www.desmog.com/donna-laframboise/#s7" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">[7]</a><h2 id="h-stance-on-climate-change" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; line-height: 1.2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Stance on Climate Change</h2>March 2015<blockquote class="wp-block-quote" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; position: relative; margin-top: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“Climate change is constant and natural. I live in Canada. A mere 20,000 years ago, 97 per cent of my country was covered with ice. The fact that that ice melted away on its own tells us that Mother Earth has her own rhythms. As a journalist, I have no opinion on whether human activity is having a significant (as opposed to a minor) impact on the world’s climate. What I can tell you is that there are many highly credentialed, experienced, reputable scientists who doubt this. I consider it my job to let the public know that those views exist.” <a href="https://www.desmog.com/donna-laframboise/#s8" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">[8]</a></blockquote>Undated<blockquote class="wp-block-quote" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; position: relative; margin-top: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“Despite media claims to the contrary, the debate is not over. There is no consensus among scientists concerning global warming.” <a href="https://www.desmog.com/donna-laframboise/#s9" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">[9]</a></blockquote><h2 id="h-key-quotes" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; line-height: 1.2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Key Quotes</h2>September 2016<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20161024180617/https://nofrakkingconsensus.com/2016/09/15/obamas-electric-car-fail/" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">Speaking about electric cars</a>, and criticizing the Obama administration for not delivering:<blockquote class="wp-block-quote" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; position: relative; margin-top: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“Anyone can stand at a podium and promise to make all manner of green fantasies come true. But even US presidents with billions at their command aren’t magicians. Barring unexpected developments, changing the way we fuel our cars and heat our homes will be a long term, gradual process.There aren’t any silver bullets. We need to stop imagining otherwise.” <a href="https://www.desmog.com/donna-laframboise/#s10" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">[10]</a></blockquote>November 2014<blockquote class="wp-block-quote" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; position: relative; margin-top: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“Keen to pose as saviours of the planet, politicians across the political spectrum have spent two decades announcing UN-inspired emissions targets that no one has any realistic hope of meeting. When discussing these matters, <a href="https://www.desmog.com/roger-pielke-jr" target="blank" rel="noopener external noreferrer" data-wpel-link="external" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">Roger Pielke Jr.</a>, a professor of environmental studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder, uses phrases such as ‘fantasy island’ and ’emissions impossible.’””[…] This is the dirty little secret lurking behind every new emissions deal: when emissions disappear, so do jobs, economic opportunities, and human well-being.” <a href="https://www.desmog.com/donna-laframboise/#s11" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">[11]</a></blockquote>June 2010<blockquote class="wp-block-quote" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; position: relative; margin-top: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“If the world is divided into two factions – one that believes climate change is a serious problem and another that thinks human influence on the climate is so minimal it’s indistinguishable from background noise – one group [environmentalists] has pulled off a bank heist while the other [skeptics] has been panhandling in front of the liquor store.”<a href="https://www.desmog.com/donna-laframboise/#s12" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;"> [12]</a></blockquote><h2 id="h-key-deeds" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; line-height: 1.2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Key Deeds</h2>May 2, 2016A brief clip of Donna Laframboise was featured in <a href="https://www.desmog.com/marc-morano-cfact-climate-hustle-film" target="blank" rel="noopener external noreferrer" data-wpel-link="external" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">Marc Morano’s film </a><a href="https://www.desmog.com/marc-morano-cfact-climate-hustle-film" target="blank" rel="noopener external noreferrer" data-wpel-link="external" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">Climate Hustle</a>, which began showing on May 2 in the U.S. <a href="https://www.desmog.com/donna-laframboise/#s13" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">[13]</a><blockquote class="wp-block-quote" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; position: relative; margin-top: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“I wasn’t interviewed by those involved and haven’t seen the film, but have been advised it includes a brief clip from a lengthy interview recorded by Australian filmmaker Topher Field in 2013. Others appearing in Climate Hustle include climate scientist Judith Curry who blogs about the film here, Greenpeace founding member Patrick Moore, economist Richard Tol, and biology superstar Daniel Botkin,” Laframboise wrote. “Personally, I’ll take the irreverence and good humour of Climate Hustle‘s creators over puritanical authoritarianism any day.”  <a href="https://www.desmog.com/donna-laframboise/#s13" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">[13]</a></blockquote>December 1–3, 2015LaFramboise was a speaker at the <a href="https://www.desmog.com/2015/11/06/monckton-teams-climate-denier-philip-foster-paris-cop21-disruption" data-wpel-link="internal" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">“Paris Climate Challenge”</a> (PCC) an event organized by the the<a href="https://www.desmog.com/independent-committee-geoethics" target="blank" rel="noopener external noreferrer" data-wpel-link="external" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;"> Independent Committee on Geoethics (ICG)</a> with the goal of “Challenging the groupthink of COP21.” Her talk was titled “Three Things Scientists Need to Know About the IPCC.” <a href="https://www.desmog.com/donna-laframboise/#s52" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">[52]</a>She <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20171125061549/https://nofrakkingconsensus.com/2015/09/01/3-things-scientists-need-to-know-about-the-ipcc/" rel="nofollow external noopener noreferrer" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">offered a transcript</a> including a <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20171125061706/https://nofrakkingconsensus.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/3-things-scientists-need-to-know-about-the-ipcc_notes.pdf" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">PDF with slides and notes</a>, and a<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20171125061712/https://nofrakkingconsensus.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/3-things-scientists-need-to-know-about-the-ipcc_slides.pdf" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;"> slide-only PDF </a>on her blog. <a href="https://www.desmog.com/donna-laframboise/#s53" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">[53]</a>December 2014Donna LaFramboise is a contributor to the book <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20161118124744/http://thefacts2014.ipa.org.au" target="blank" rel="noopener external noreferrer" data-wpel-link="external" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">Climate Change: The Facts </a>published by the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Institute_of_Public_Affairs" target="blank" rel="noopener external noreferrer" data-wpel-link="external" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">Institute of Public Affairs</a> and featuring “22 essays on the science, politics and economics of the climate change debate.” The Institute of Public Affairs, while not revealing most of its funders, is known to have received funding from mining magnate Gina Rinehart and at least one major tobacco company. <a href="https://www.desmog.com/donna-laframboise/#s14" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">[</a><a href="https://www.desmog.com/donna-laframboise/#s14" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">14]</a>The book includes essays and articles from a range of climate change skeptics, with contributors including the following:<ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><li style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Alan_Moran" target="blank" rel="noopener external noreferrer" data-wpel-link="external" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">Alan Moran</a></li><li style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.desmog.com/andrew-bolt" target="blank" rel="noopener external noreferrer" data-wpel-link="external" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">Andrew Bolt</a></li><li style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.desmog.com/anthony-watts" target="blank" rel="noopener external noreferrer" data-wpel-link="external" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">Anthony Watts</a></li><li style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Bernard Lewin</li><li style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.desmog.com/christopher-essex" target="blank" rel="noopener external noreferrer" data-wpel-link="external" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">Christopher Essex</a></li><li style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.desmog.com/donna-laframboise" target="blank" rel="noopener external noreferrer" data-wpel-link="external" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">Donna Laframboise</a></li><li style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Garth W. Paltridge</li><li style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.desmog.com/ian-plimer" target="blank" rel="noopener external noreferrer" data-wpel-link="external" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">Ian Plimer</a></li><li style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.desmog.com/scott-armstrong" target="blank" rel="noopener external noreferrer" data-wpel-link="external" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">J. Scott Armstrong</a></li><li style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.desmog.com/james-delingpole" target="blank" rel="noopener external noreferrer" data-wpel-link="external" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">James Delingpole</a></li><li style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Jennifer Marohasy</li><li style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.desmog.com/joanne-nova" target="blank" rel="noopener external noreferrer" data-wpel-link="external" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">Joanne Nova</a></li><li style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">John Abbot</li><li style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.desmog.com/kesten-green" target="blank" rel="noopener external noreferrer" data-wpel-link="external" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">Kesten Green</a></li><li style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.desmog.com/mark-steyn" target="blank" rel="noopener external noreferrer" data-wpel-link="external" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">Mark Steyn</a></li><li style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.desmog.com/nigel-lawson" target="blank" rel="noopener external noreferrer" data-wpel-link="external" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">Nigel Lawson</a></li><li style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.desmog.com/patrick-michaels" target="blank" rel="noopener external noreferrer" data-wpel-link="external" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">Patrick J. Michaels</a></li><li style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.desmog.com/richard-lindzen" target="blank" rel="noopener external noreferrer" data-wpel-link="external" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">Richard S. Lindzen</a></li><li style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.desmog.com/rm-bob-carter" target="blank" rel="noopener external noreferrer" data-wpel-link="external" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">Robert M. Carter</a></li><li style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.desmog.com/ross-mckitrick" target="blank" rel="noopener external noreferrer" data-wpel-link="external" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">Ross McKitrick</a></li><li style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.desmog.com/rupert-darwall" target="blank" rel="noopener external noreferrer" data-wpel-link="external" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">Rupert Darwall</a></li><li style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.desmog.com/stewart-franks" target="blank" rel="noopener external noreferrer" data-wpel-link="external" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">Stewart Franks</a></li><li style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.desmog.com/willie-soon" target="blank" rel="noopener external noreferrer" data-wpel-link="external" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">Willie Soon</a></li></ul>According to Editor <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Alan_Moran" target="blank" rel="noopener external noreferrer" data-wpel-link="external" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">Alan Moran</a> in a <a href="http://catallaxyfiles.com/2014/12/16/55806/" target="blank" rel="noopener external noreferrer" data-wpel-link="external" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">post at Catallaxy Files blog on Climate Change: the facts 2014</a>, “Donna Laframboise notes the scandalous attribution of Nobel Prize status to all involved in the IPCC” in her contribution to the book. <a href="https://www.desmog.com/donna-laframboise/#s15" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">[15]</a>January 28, 2014Donna Laframboise was a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GzNATrGH7I" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">witness at the UK Parliament’s Energy and Climate Change Committee</a>, alongside prominent climate change skeptic <a href="https://www.desmog.com/richard-lindzen" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">Richard Lindzen.</a> Her <a href="http://data.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/WrittenEvidence.svc/EvidenceHtml/5743" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">full testimony can be read here</a> (video below).<a href="https://www.desmog.com/donna-laframboise/#s16" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;"> [16]</a>, <a href="https://www.desmog.com/donna-laframboise/#s17" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">[17]</a>[videos]no lnx vidsJanuary 28, 2014
Donna Laframboise was a witness at the UK Parliament’s Energy and Climate Change Committee, alongside prominent climate change skeptic Richard Lindzen. Her full testimony can be read here (video below). [16], [17]


November 20, 2013
Donna Laframboise spoke before the European Climate and Energy Institute (EIKE), working to discredit the UN‘s Climate Panel: [18]


September 1, 2013
Donna Laframboise was interviewed by the 50 to 1 Project on her critiques of the IPCC: [19]


February 3, 2013
The website What’s Up With That Watts?, which more commonly reviews the articles and blog posts of climate change skeptic Anthony Watts, published a review of Donna Laframboise’s blog/website Noconsensus.org. [20]
In particular, the critique notes how Laframboise uses the often-debunked Oregon Petition as proof of a “consensus of disbelief.” According to the author, Laframboise also “manipulates with words” in her comparison of global warming and the Soviet Union in the time of Stalin. [20]
The article concludes that “The content at noconsensus.org makes clear that we are dealing with a writer who does propaganda, not any investigative journalism driving by an honest desire to learn and understand.” [20]
November 30–December 1, 2012
Donna Laframboise was a speaker (PDF) at the Eighth International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC-8)/Fifth International Conference on Climate and Energy (ICCE-5) sponsored by both the Heartland Institute and the European Institute for Climate and Energy (EIKE). Her speech, titled “The IPCC – Almost nothing you’ve been told about this organization is actually true” can be viewed below.  [21]


October 17, 2012
Donna Laframboise presented at the Friends of Science  (FoS) Ninth Annual Luncheon on October 17, 2012 in Calgary, Alberta: [22]


July 23, 2012
Donne Laframboise spoke to members of the Institute of Public Affairs (IPA) in Melbourne about “the flaws she has discovered in IPCC reports”: [23]


November 30, 2011
Donna Laframboise spoke at a UK Government Public Meeting alongside Phillip Stott, Ian Plimer, and Matt Ridley among others. She spent most of her speech discrediting the IPCC (Independent Panel and Climate Change), a view she presented in her recently published book, The Delinquent Teenager : [24]


October 9, 2011
Donna Laframboise published her book, The Delinquent Teenager Who Was Mistaken for the World’s Top Climate Expert with Ivy Avenue Press. According to her book’s introduction, “What most of us don’t know is that, rather than being written by a meticulous, upstanding professional in business attire, this [IPCC] report was produced by a slapdash, slovenly teenager who has trouble distinguishing right from wrong. [4]
Climate scientist Peter Gleik posted a review of the book, calling it a “stunning compilation of lies, misrepresentations, and falsehoods about the fundamental science of climate change. It compiles the old arguments, long refuted, about the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which summarizes the state of science on climate change.” [25]
One source has made an “open note” to Donna Laframboise regarding her book’s assertions that: ”[…] rather than being written by a meticulous, upstanding professional in business attire (aka the world’s top scientists & best experts), the Climate Bible is produced by a slapdash, slovenly teenager who has trouble distinguishing right from wrong (aka, activists, 20-something graduate students, people appointed due to their gender or their country). The world needs to confront the folly that is the IPCC.” [26]
According to this source, Laframboise’s “derision of young scientists scientists totally ignores the fact that young men and women have been the backbone of science through the generations.” To back this up, the author points to some of the young graduate students and scientists that were an essential part of the Manhattan Project.
According to an article in the The Heartlander, which praises the book, “Laframboise also sheds light on the extreme political agenda of IPCC Chair Raj Pachauri, IPCC’s scientifically unjustified reliance on Michael Mann’s hockey stick temperature graph, Climategate, and a host of other IPCC-related issues.” [27]
Laframboise has also appeared on the Bolt Report to promote her book. [28]
October 13, 2010
Laframboise criticized David Suzuki for fathering five children, concluding “a man who spends his time preaching that humans are desecrating the environment due to our sheer numbers nevertheless indulged himself five times in this regard.” [29]
One blog examined the “Smoke and Mirrors” behind her article, and describes how her article is a red herring primarily concerned with evoking emotions in her audience. [30]
June 4, 2010
In an article titled BP, Greenpeace & the Big Oil Jackpot, Laframboise suggested that the oil industry is donating large sums of money to environmental causes. Sourcewatch suggests that the article erroneously implies that Greenpeace receives “large cash donations from BP.” [12], [31]
Although the article appears to be pinpointing the group Nature Conservancy, not Greenpeace, it does state that the “big oil jackpot was awarded to those on the Greenpeace side of the debate.”
The article does not mention that many environmental groups, including Greenpeace, do not accept donations from corporations, governments, or political parties. Most donations come from individuals. This differs many of the organizations skeptical of climate change, of which a large number regularly accept large donations from corporations with vested interest in the issues. [32]
April 2010
NOconsensus.org called for volunteers to examine the IPCC‘s 2007 report, as she claims that the report does not cite a large amount of peer-reviewed literature. [33], [34]
The crowd-sourced project, which includes contributions by numerous “Anonymous” auditors, concludes that the IPCC has “misled the public” about the amount of peer-reviewed material in the report. Laframboise concludes that this means the IPCC“s “ability to accurately describe more complex topics is called into question.” [35], [3]
August 2009
According to a WHOIS Lookup, “Desoggyblog” was registered by Donna Laframboise on this date. [36]
Donna Laframboise is behind this “parody” site that actively criticizes (and twists) the position and philosphy of DeSmogBlog. She describes Desoggyblog as a “project of NOconsensus.org.” [6]
Her website consists of only two pages: a Homepage and and a “Critique.” [7], [37]
April 1, 2009
According to a WHOIS Search, Donna Laframboise registered NOconsensus.org on April 1, 2009. The premise of the website, as suggested by the title, is that “there is no consensus among scientists concerning global warming.” [38], [39]
The website’s purpose is to “link you to points-of-view you deserve to hear – to expand the debate at a time when some people are trying to shut it down.”
The scientific portion of the website, “Global Warming Theory 101” offers the following sections: “Weather,” which suggests that while we cannot accurately predict next summer’s weather, we “we claim to know – within a few degrees – how hot it will be 100 years from now” (this claim has been debunked by SkepticalScience), “Petition” which links to the infamous (and many-times-debunked) Oregon Petition, “Questions,” which claims that the UN is suppressing the views of climate change skeptics, and “Crusade” which criticizes Al Gore’s film, “An Inconvenient Truth.” [40], [41], [42], [43]
Others have noted that Laframboise already contradicted her first section, as she has said herself that “weather is not the same as climate.” [44], [45]
The main arguments of NoConsensus have also been debunked at SkepticalScience. Some examples include “Climate Change Myth” #4 (“There is no consensus”), #61 (“Scientists Can’t Even Predict Weather”), and #125 (“The IPCC Consensus is Phony”). [46], [41], [47]
Laframboise suggests that we do not need to act on climate change now, because in the future we will have superior technology:
“It’s almost certain that, 50 years from now, humanity will be better prepared to address climate change than is anyone alive today. Not only will future generations be smarter than we are, but five more decades of technological innovation will equip them with tools we haven’t yet dreamed of.” [48]
AffiliationsFontier Center for Public Policy (FCPP) — Senior Fellow. [37], [49]NOConsensus.org — Founder. [1]No Fracking Consensus [37]Desoggybog — Registrant. [36]The Heartland Institute — Contributor. [50]Social Media@TripodGirl on Twitter.PublicationsDonna Laframboise does not have a background in science, so has not published any peer-reviewed articles. She has contributed to the following books: [51]
The Delinquent Teenager Who Was Mistaken for the World’s Top Climate Expert: An Expose of the IPCC (October 9, 2011), Ivy Avenue Press.The Princess at the Window: A New Gender Morality (1996), Penguin Canada.Sample Publications at the Frontier Center for Public Policy:
A Public Relations Disaster for the Climate Cause — March 10, 2015When Emissions Disappear, So Do Jobs — November 25, 2014Another Climate Change Ransom Note — November 13, 2014Donna Laframboise Challenges Climate Change Orthodoxy — February 26, 2014Resources“Donna Laframboise,” Google Profile. Accessed October 23, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/k08Hp“About Donna,” Nofrakkingconsensus.com. Archived October 23, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/Z0473“UN‘s Climate Bible Gets 21 ‘F’s’ on Report Card,” NoConsensus.org. Archived October 24, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/jLCt5Donna Laframboise. The Delinquent Teenager who was Mistaken for the World’s Top Climate Expert (PDF), 2011. (Page 4). Archived .pdf on file at Desmog.“Appendix A to the Principles Governing IPCC Work” (PDF), IPCC.ch. Archived .pdf on file at Desmog.“Climate Change Hate: Is Donna ‘Soggy’ behind the ears?,” New Anthropocene, August 27, 2010. Archived October 23, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/Xape5“Desoggybog.com,” Archived January 10, 2010. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmogBlog. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/Qef5mSarita Ravindranath. “‘Pachauri is neither a Nobel laureate nor a climate scientist‘,” Sify News, March 12, 2015. Archived October 23, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/Th8IO“About NOconsensus.org,” NOConsensus.org. Archived October 23, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/koeTD“Obama’s Electric Car Fail,” No Frakking Consensus, September 15, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/H4YJDDonna Laframboise. “When Emissions Disappear, So Do Jobs,” Frontier Center for Public Policy, November 25, 2014. Archived October 23, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/h70fD“BP, Greenpeace & the Big Oil Jackpot,” No Frakking Consensus, June 4, 2010. Archived October 23, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/3yQ6S“Climate Hustle: Moi on the Big Screen,” No Frakking Consensus, May 1, 2016. Archived October 24, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/tWGU0“Institute of Public Affairs,” SourceWatch. Accessed May 27, 2015. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/gajy4Alan Moran. “Climate Change: the facts 2014,” Catallaxy Files, December 16, 2014. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/tCUVU“UK Parliament HoC Energy and Climate Change Committee,” YouTube video uploaded by user zzzttt2, January 28, 2014. Archived .mp4 on file at Desmog.“Energy and Climate Change Committee. Oral evidence: IPCC 5th Assessment Review, HC 907,” Parliament.uk, January 28, 2014. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/pqhMD“Donna Laframboise: The UN‘s Climate Panel: A Disgrace to Science,” YouTube Video uploaded by user EIKE – European Climate and Energy Institute, December 10, 2013.“50 to 1 Project – Donna Laframboise Interview,” Youtube Video uploaded by user “TopherField”. Archived .Mp4 on file at DeSmog.“(2) D.Laframboise’s Blind Spot… a peek at noconsensus.org,” Watt’s Up With That Watts, February 3, 2013. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/pQZJF“8th International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC-8): V International Conference on Climate and Energy (ICCE-5). Hotel Bayerischer Hof, Munich, November 30 – December 1, 2012” (PDF) retrieved from eike-klima-energy.eu on November 24, 2012.“FoS Luncheon 2012 Donna Laframboise Part 1,” YouTube Video uploaded by user Friends of Science, December 13, 2012. Archived .mp4 on file at Desmog.“Donna Laframboise Melbourne,” YouTube Video uploaded by user Institute of Public Affairs, July 23, 2012. Archived .MP4 on file at Desmog.“[1 of 2] Great Climate Change Swindle – IPCC is Un-trustworthy,” YouTube Video uploaded by user AWResistance, December 8, 2011. Archived .mp4 on file at Desmog.“Lies, misrepresentations, and a bible for climate change deniers, October 16, 2011,” Customer review by Peter Gleick. Archived October 23, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/SDvbL“Donna Laframboise’s Blind Spot… and the Manhattan Project,” Watt’s Up With That Watts?, January 24, 2013. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/aW0vBJames M. Taylor. “Climate Change Weekly: Bombshell Book Documents IPCC Misconduct,” The Heartlander, October 20, 2011. Archived July 12, 2014. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/lh6iF“IPCC exposed by Author Donna Laframboise (The Bolt Report),” YouTube video uploaded by user wakeup2thelies’s channel, October 30, 2011.“David Suzuki’s Five Kids,” No Frakking Consensus, October 13, 2010. Archived October 23, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/rx4mP“The Smoke and Mirrors of Laframboise’s attack on David Suzuki,” New Anthropocene, October 18, 2010. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/MH1E3“Donna Laframboise,” SourceWatch.“Donate to Greenpeace,” Greenpeace UK. Archived October 24, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/lrwQp“Help Audit the UN Climate Report – Crowdsourcing Project,” No Frakking Consensus (nofrakkingconsensus.blogspot.com), March 8, 2010. Archived October 23, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/hyE7S“The Great Peer-Review Fairy Tale,” No Frakking Consensus, March 6, 2010. Archived October 23, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/uvN8b“Citizens Audit the UN‘s Climate Report,” NOconsensus.org. Archived October 23, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/QzWDt“Whois Record for DeSoggyBog.com,” DomainTools. Accessed October 23, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/lsFnq“An All-Kidding-Aside Critique,” Desoggybog.com. Archived January 10, 2010. Archived .pdf on file at Desmog. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/tcvkg“Whois Record for NoConsensus.org,” DomainTools. Accessed October 23, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/zTGgp“About NOconsensus.org,” NoConsensus.org. Archived October 23, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/koeTD“Weather,” NOconsensus.org. Archived October 23, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/2Ntvt“The difference between weather and climate,” SkepticalScience. Accessed October 23, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/G134x“Questions,” NOconsensus.org. Archived October 23, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/5bwBd“Petition,” NOconsensus.org. Archived October 23, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/uOQ0z“Hypocrisy: The endless tool of misinformation,” New Anthropocene, September 1, 2010. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/nksQi“Extreme Nonsense,” No Frakking Consensus, August 27, 2010. Archived October 24, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/eGrGo“The 97% consensus on global warming,” SkepticalScience. Accessed October 23, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/XpVbh“IPCC reflects scientific consensus on climate change,” SkepticalScience. Accessed October 23, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/X9Q7C“Future Generations: Climate Victims or High-Tech Geniuses?,” NOconsensus.org. Archived October 24, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/m1JLW“Donna Laframboise,” Frontier Center for Public Policy. Archived October 23, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/LdOewDonna Laframbgoise. “More Dodgy Citations in the Nobel-Winning IPCC Report,” (policy document) The Heartland Institute, January 23, 2010. Archived April 27, 2015. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/se2Pp“Peer-reviewed skeptic papers by Donna Laframboise,” SkepticalScience. Accessed October 24, 2016.“About PCC15,” PCCC15.org. Archived November 25, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/iyGdB“3 Things Scientists Need to Know About the IPCC,” NoFrakkingConsensus.com, September 1, 2015. Archived November 25, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/fhRP2Other Resources“Donna Laframboise,” Wikipedia Entry.“Dutch review of the 4th IPCC report gets the thumbs up,” New Anthropocene, July 6, 2010.“Donna Laframboise, the time traveller: paper of ’69!”, New Anthropocene, July 13, 2010.“donna laframboise and cloud screaming,” New Anthropocene.<div>
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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">a massive outbreak of tornadoes left scores dead across eight states this weekend, and given that this weather arose in a warmer, changed climate, President Biden, his <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/12/politics/deanne-criswell-fema-climate-change-cnntv/index.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">FEMA Administrator</a>, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2021/12/11/tornadoes-climate-change/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">numerous</a> <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/12/us/climate-change-tornado-disaster-risk/index.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">news outlets</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUeTNVFB3sI" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">climate</a> <a href="https://apnews.com/article/was-tornado-outbreak-related-to-climate-change-explainer-f360fab5c31602df3573d3f651ba74d0" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">scientists</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/GrantWTSP/status/1470427436827484161" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">meteorologists</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/facethenation/status/1470057283619074052" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">discussed</a> how such an extreme event could be influenced by climate change.Despite all that qualified nuance, the right (predictably) went nuts. Rupert Murdoch’s <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/12/12/dont-buy-the-psuedo-scientific-hype-about-tornadoes-climate-change/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">New York Post</a> and Fox News <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-friends/fox-host-criticizes-those-pointing-out-potential-link-between-deadly-kentucky-tornado" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">were very mad</a> but didn’t exactly have anyone on hand who knew the science well enough to offer any science to the contraryFor their attempted refutation, Breitbart <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/environment/2021/12/12/fact-check-biden-claims-kentucky-tornado-linked-to-climate-change/" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;">cited Steven Koonin</a>, who in turn cited now-quite-outdated reports and their wishy-washy trend observations (which aren’t the point!). <a href="https://townhall.com/tipsheet/spencerbrown/2021/12/13/no-science-doesnt-confirm-climate-change-causes-tornado-carnage-n2600499" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Town Hall cited</a> Steve Milloy, as <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2021/12/13/joe-biden-fema-kentucky-midwest-tornadoes-climate-change/" title="" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">did the Daily Caller</a>, because apparently defending Big Tobacco gives you climate expertise to answer questions actual scientists are still working out.In <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20211213210552/https://mailchi.mp/climatedepot/meteorologist-bidens-tornado-climate-link-utter-bullsht-opposite-to-observational-evidence-tornadoes-blamed-on-global-cooling-in-1970s" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;">an email to supporters</a>, Climate Depot’s headline claimed a “Meteorologist calls Biden’s tornado climate link ‘utter bullsh*t,’” quoting and linking to Chris Martz, who is in fact <a href="https://twitter.com/ChrisMartzWX/status/1469892769598644225" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;">not only not a meteorologist</a>, but not even a college graduate, having <a href="https://twitter.com/ChrisMartzWX/status/1469346198674886664" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;">just completed his first semester</a> at Millersville University. (Though <a href="https://twitter.com/ChrisMartzWX/status/1470500104838729739" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;">Chris did note</a> that geophysics PhD and American Meteorological Fellow Michael Mann “oversimplifies the issue” and “isn’t a trained meteorologist.”)Marc Morano’s email also cites an old post by <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2017/may/11/more-errors-identified-in-contrarian-climate-scientists-temperature-estimates" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">climate satellite mistake-maker</a> Roy Spencer, followed by a reference to Roger Pielke Jr., who is <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/11/12/2063888/-With-COP-Closing-Deniers-Beclown-Themselves-Then-Cry-I-ve-Been-Cancelled-When-People-Laugh" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">making good use of his cramped office</a> by tweeting quotes from the IPCC as though the consensus view of tornado trends has a bearing on this specific event’s conditions. (Generous of Jr. to stop <a href="https://twitter.com/RogerPielkeJr/status/1469428090254217218" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">publicly airing his weird daddy issues</a> long enough to give his opinion on tornadogenesis!)After Pielke <a href="https://realclimatescience.com/2021/12/covid-conspiracies/" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;">is our favorite climate-, covid-</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/Climate_Takes/status/1469696809450811394" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;">Sandy Hook- and Obama birther</a>-<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/7/22/1550894/-In-Midst-of-Heat-Wave-Drudge-Dredges-Up-Faked-Temp-Fraud-Charge" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;">conspiracy</a> theorist: Tony Heller. He excerpted a bunch of old newspaper clippings to prove that, since tornadoes happened in the past before climate change, that means climate change must not be changing the climate in which they form now. (Makes sense, right?)But Pielke Jr.’s appearance in Morano’s email alongside his apparent peers Chris Martz (class of ‘25) and Tony Heller (no class at all) is just the warm-up, the paltering of what past trends may or may not mean for a current situation.And others in conspiracy-land are offering their opinions and asking some “legitimate” questions, and it’s pretty entertaining, in the dark and depressing way this sort of thing is amusing.As <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/alex-jones/alex-jones-says-joe-biden-may-have-used-weather-weapons-create-tornadoes-killed-scores" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">Media Matters reported</a>, Alex Jones, fresh off his court losses regarding aforementioned Sandy Hook school shooting conspiracy theories, told his InfoWars audience that the Biden administration “officially” ordered Texas to turn off the power last February. Which means “the question is did [President Biden] use weather weapons to cause the tornadoes? That’s a legitimate question to ask.”It’s not like this is the first time an InfoWarrior has offered some creative explanations for extreme weather. <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/8/27/1791293/-Infowars-John-Kerry-s-Antarctica-Energy-Beam-Saved-Hawaii-from-Hurricane-Lane" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;">Remember back in 2018 when</a> Jones’s co-conspiracy-theory-conspirator suggested that John Kerry saved Hawaii from a hurricane with an energy beam fired from Antarctica? (Or is that not a legitimate question to ask? We’re unsure of the meaning of the phrase at this point.)Even that’s not the craziest take though! <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/12/1/2066979/-A-Severe-Wobble-of-Earth-Will-Soon-Reveal-Hidden-Planet-Nibiru-The-True-Cause-Of-Climate-Change" title="" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;">Remember the Wobble prediction</a> that aliens are controlling the Earth’s movement — the real cause of climate change — and are soon going to wobble us so hard it reveals the mystery planet Nibiru?Well, since Tony Heller’s <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/12/10/2068559/-CO2-Coalition-s-Newest-Member-Tony-Heller-Just-Got-Kicked-Off-Twitter-for-Covid-Conspiracies" title="" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;">banned from Twitter he’s taken to Gab</a>, and his fellow poster there <a href="https://gab.com/ROGTruth1/posts/107436752641174636" title="" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;">ROGTruth1 has an update for us on The Wobble</a> we discussed the other day: It’s what actually caused the tornadoes, and a bunch of other events!“The temporary wobble in the earth’s axis has been superseded by a severe wobble. So, the regular disturbances which have been a true cause of climate change are now manifesting as more significant events.” From an earthquake in Peru on November 28th, to cold in Europe, earthquakes in Japan, windstorm in Turkey and tornadoes in the US, the wobble’s just getting started.Apparently “soon” in December, a “Massive New Madrid Adjustment (unzipping) will occur over a period of 3 weeks” leading to the “entire region west of the Mississippi” to “sink” and “shift Southwest,” causing “major disruption through the Ohio valley and up through the St. Lawrence Seaway.” After that 3 week cataclysm but also still in “December soon” will be a 150 foot tsunami that “will hit the UK and Western Europe,” while “backwash of up to 50’ will hit the Eastern seaboard of the USA.”If you’re as concerned as we are, rest assured that while there will be “no warnings from the elite that are fully briefed and aware,” the good news is that “half of humanity has been subliminally contacted.”Those of you who have been contacted already, you know the plan. Those that haven’t? Sorry, we can’t say anything further, but you should consider listening to the “experts” cited here if you’re worried, they seem to have things pretty well figured out.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">===</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Hounding of Roger Pielke Jr </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.thegwpf.org/content/uploads/2021/11/Laframboise-Pielke.pdf?mc_cid=5f514b9f6e&mc_eid=8346460a5c" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">https://www.thegwpf.org/content/uploads/2021/11/Laframboise-Pielke.pdf?mc_cid=5f514b9f6e&mc_eid=8346460a5c</a></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Executive summary </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="">Climate change, we're told, threatens the ‘viability of our societies‘. In August 2021, United Nations

Secretary-General António Guterres declared the alarm bells ‘deafening‘. If this is even remotely

the case, humanity is in urgent need of clear thinking.

But the climate movement rejects clear thinking. It has little interest in sorting facts from fiction, in ensuring its efforts are based on evidence rather than dogma. The hostility and venom directed at Roger Pielke Jr, a natural disasters expert who wholeheartedly supports decarbonisation

of the global economy, demonstrates this beyond doubt.

Stray but a little from the dominant climate narrative, and activists will fantasise about your violent death. They will dismiss your peer-reviewed publications as marginal, accuse you of spreading disinformation, and successfully campaign to get you fired from part-time jobs. </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">They will publish false allegations about you on the White House website, target journalists who quote you in

news stories, and subject you to punitive, intrusive, and extensive financial investigation.

In recent years, Roger Pielke Jr has further discovered that academic freedom is an empty slogan at the University of Colorado (Boulder), his primary employer. Rather than defending its most

senior environmental studies professor, his own department is now determinedly harassing and

humiliating him.

1 </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Four days after Christmas 2009, an alternative newspaper in northern New York state published an article purporting to identify the

‘15 Most Heinous Climate Criminals…bastards responsible for

subverting public understanding of climate change’.1

Eschewing

goodwill toward men, author and climate activist Michael Roddy2

declared these individuals liars corrupted by corporate interests.

Their climate stance would, he said, result in human casualties

dwarfing those inflicted by history’s worst mass murderers.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> In addition to defaming these people, the article assigned

them lurid punishments.3

Roger Pielke Jr, then a mild-mannered

41-year-old environmental studies professor at the University of

Colorado Boulder, received a death sentence. The article describes

him wandering in the wilderness, lost and starving, before ‘hyenas

laugh and rip him to shreds’.

Readers were told Pielke routinely expresses the kinds of

concerns that dominate climate sceptic blogs. But that has never

been the case. His 2010 book, The Climate Fix, says he grew up as

‘the son of a world-famous atmospheric scientist’, Roger Pielke Sr.

Having gained a ‘pretty in-depth understanding of the atmospheric sciences’ around the dinner table, he says he has ‘never

questioned the climatic importance of human emissions of carbon dioxide’, and fully supports a dramatic ‘decarbonization of the

global economy’.4</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> The Climate Fix calls for a modest carbon tax to

fund the development of innovative energy technologies. Moreover, Pielke leans left politically. In 2018, he told an audience he has

never once voted for a Republican presidential candidate.5

Yet he

has endured more than a decade of harassment and persecution

from US Democratic Party operatives, green campaigners, journalists, and academic colleagues. His crime? Championing clear

thinking and honest scholarship.

While acquiring an undergraduate degree in mathematics

in the late 1980s, Pielke landed a part-time job with the National

Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), then home to prominent

climate scientists such as Steven Schneider and Kevin Trenberth. </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">At that moment in history, international concern about global

warming was gathering steam, and atmospheric scientists were

gaining political influence.

Pielke had intended to return to the physical sciences after

completing a Masters in Public Policy. But during a stint as an intern with the Science Committee of the US House of Representatives, he realised how profoundly politicians and scientists misunderstand each other’s roles and constraints. Fascinated by the

intersection of these disparate worlds, and hoping to improve dialogue between them, by 1994 he’d earned a PhD in science policy.

The next dozen years were hectic. Pielke worked with NCAR,

Columbia University, Arizona State, and the University of Illinois. He was awarded Germany’s Eduard Brückner Outstanding...</div>=</div><div>=</div><div>cf also deliq teen ~ ipcc</div><div>
</div><div>ivy ave press cda</div><div>
</div><div><div>Into the Dustbin: Rajendra Pachauri, the Climate Report & the Nobel Peace Prize Paperback – September 9, 2013</div><div>by Donna Laframboise  (Author)</div><div>   26 customer reviews</div><div>
</div><div>
</div><div>ajendra Pachauri, the chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), is a non-stop train wreck. The IPCC is supposed to be an objective scientific body, but Pachauri writes forewords for Greenpeace publications and has accepted a 'green crusader’ award. He is an aggressive policy advocate even though his organization is supposed to be policy neutral. In 1996, an Indian High Court concluded that he’d "suppressed material facts" and "sworn to false affidavits." He has long claimed to hold two PhDs, but in fact only earned one.</div><div>
</div><div>This book is a collection of essays about Pachauri originally published as blog posts between February 2010 and August 2013. Essay number one, The IPCC and the Peace Prize, appears here for the first time. It documents how Pachauri improperly advised IPCC personnel that they were Nobel laureates after that organization was awarded half of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize (Al Gore received the other half).</div><div>
</div><div>Scientists aren’t supposed to embellish. They’re supposed to be clear-eyed about what is true and what is false. The idea that hundreds of scientists have been padding their resumés, that they’ve been walking around in broad daylight improperly claiming to be Nobel laureates, isn’t something any normal person would expect.</div><div>
</div><div>But that is exactly what happened. It took the IPCC five years to correct the record. During that time, media outlets, science academies, and senior government officials went along for the ride. The moral of this story is that, when faced with a choice between the unadorned truth and exaggeration, IPCC personnel made the wrong call. Their judgment can’t be trusted.</div></div><div></div><div><div></div><div>hmmn, but rw protest of billbd:</div><div>
</div><div>http://www.thenewamerican.com/tech/environment/item/11276-climate-change-billboard-stirs-controversy</div><div>
</div><div>...</div><div>The Chicago-based non-profit think tank is an outspoken pundit of climate-change skepticism. But its billboard prompted U.S. Representative James Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.) to rethink his scheduled speaking appearance at the Heartland Institute's upcoming <a href="http://climateconference.heartland.org/" target="blank" style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.5s; background: transparent;">International Conference on Climate Change</a>. His press secretary told the <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/leading-house-goper-chastises-right-wing-group-for-comparing-climate-change-believers-to-madment/2012/05/04/gIQAfI521T_blog.html%20" target="blank" style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.5s; background: transparent;">Washington Post</a>, "Congressman Sensenbrenner will not participate in the upcoming Climate Change Conference if the Heartland Institute decides to continue this ad campaign."<p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0.7em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 18px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Author Donna Laframboise <a href="http://nofrakkingconsensus.com/2012/05/05/why-i-wont-be-speaking-at-the-heartland-conference/" target="blank" style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">announced</a> she will not attend the conference as planned. She recently published a book exposing fraud in the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change but says her association with Heartland has now harmed her reputation. She complains she has been unwittingly and "publicly linked to an organization that thinks it's OK to equate people concerned about climate change with psychopaths."Sunday's <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/may/06/diageo-end-funding-heartland-institute" target="blank" style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.5s; background: transparent;">Guardian</a> reported the London-based drinks company, Diageo, which owns brands such as Guinness and Smirnoff, has pulled funding for Heartland. According to a corporate spokesman, however, "Diageo's only association with the Heartland Institute was limited to a small contribution made two years ago specifically related to an excise tax issue." No other Heartland contributors have announced plans to end their support.Environmental economist Ross McKitrick fired off a <a href="http://climateaudit.org/2012/05/04/mckitrick-letter-to-heartland/" target="blank" style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.5s; background: transparent;">letter</a> Friday to Heartland Institute President Joe Bast. "You cannot simultaneously say that you want to promote a debate while equating the other side to terrorists and mass murderers," he wrote. McKitrick said Bast responded immediately and agreed to pull the message.Though the campaign is discontinued, Bast refused to apologize. Instead, he defended it, saying, "This billboard was deliberately provocative, an attempt to turn the tables on the climate alarmists by using their own tactics but with the opposite message." He said those on his side of the climate debate are "subjected to the most uncivil name-calling and disparagement you can possibly imagine from climate alarmists." Bast referenced such incidents as a 2010 <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0210/33371.html" target="blank" style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.5s; background: transparent;">congressional hearing</a> when U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.) made modest headlines comparing climate-change skeptics to Nazi deniers....</div><div></div></div><div>
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</div><div><article id="post-1" class="post-1 page type-page status-publish hentry" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(246, 246, 246); padding-bottom: 3em; padding-top: 3em;"><header class="entry-header" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 760px; width: 760px;"><h1 class="entry-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 400; margin: 0.333333em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; letter-spacing: -1px; hyphens: manual; line-height: 1.2; overflow-wrap: break-word;">about PCC15</h1></header><div class="entry-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px auto; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 760px; width: 760px;"><p style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-style: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: normal;">If you would like to contact us please email <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20190327124121/mailto:info@pcc15.org" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;">info@pcc15.org</a>Challenging the groupthink of COP21Stuart Agnew, Bob Carter, Piers Corbyn, Ed Flaherty, Philip Foster, Roger Helmer, Tom Harris, Donna Laframboise, Viscount Monckton, Patrick Moore, Nils-Axel Mörner, Ian Plimer, [Murry Salby], Roger Tattersall & more …  tba<blockquote style="font-weight: inherit; background: rgb(249, 249, 249); box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px 76px 2em; outline: 0px; padding: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking. – Gen. George Patton</blockquote>Schedule @ 11 rue La Rochefoucauld 75009 ParisTUESDAY 1st Dec10am Coffee/refreshments10.30am startPhilip Foster MA Nat.Sci. (author) Cutting ‘Carbon’ Kills <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20190327124121/https://pcc15dotorg.files.wordpress.com/2015/12/climate-1.mp4" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;">Video of Philip’s talk</a>Nils-Axel (‘Niklas’) Mörner Launching the Independent Committee on Geoethics “When Science becomes disgraced, it’s time for a new Independent Committee on Geoethics” <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20190327124121/https://pcc15dotorg.files.wordpress.com/2015/12/nils-axel-moner.mp4" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;">Video of Niklas’ talk</a> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20190327124121/http://geoethic.com/" style="font-weight: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s; line-height: 1.5;">http://geoethic.com </a><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20190327124121/https://www.researchgate.net/publication/284508526When_Science_becomes_disgraced_it's_time_for_a_new_Independent_Committee_on_Geoethics" style="font-weight: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;">Full paper</a>Lunch 12.30pm – 2.00pmViscount (Christopher) Monckton of Brenchley Climate of corruption: trahison des clercs by the classe politique <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20190327124121/https://pcc15dotorg.files.wordpress.com/2015/12/christopher-monckton.mp4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;">Video of Christopher’s talk</a>Tom Harris: International Climate Science Coalition Progressives should demand a reassessment of climate change concerns – Adherence to global warming dogma violating causes held dear by the left. <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20190327124121/https://pcc15dotorg.files.wordpress.com/2015/12/tom-harris.mp4" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;">Video of Tom Harris’ talk</a> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20190327124121/http://www.climatescienceinternational.org/" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;">www.climatescienceinternational.org</a>4.00 – 4.20 pm teaPiers Corbyn [Weatheraction: long range forecasting] New understanding of the Jet stream and solar activity <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20190327124121/https://pcc15dotorg.files.wordpress.com/2015/12/piers-corbyn-pcc-div-x.mp4" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;">Video of Piers’ talk</a>  <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20190327124121/http://www.weatheraction.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;">www.weatheraction.com</a> WEDNESDAY 2nd Dec10am Coffee; 10.30am startBob Carter: Former professor and head of the School of Earth Sciences at James Cook University Factual constraints on the DAGW hypothesis <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20190327124121/https://pcc15dotorg.files.wordpress.com/2015/12/bob-carter.mp4" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;">Video of Bob Carter’s talk</a>Donna Laframboise, internationally respected journalist Three Things Scientists Need to Know About the IPCC <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20190327124121/http://nofrakkingconsensus.com/2015/09/01/3-things-scientists-need-to-know-about-the-ipcc/http://nofrakkingconsensus.com/2015/09/01/3-things-scientists-need-to-know-about-the-ipcc/" style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;">http://nofrakkingconsensus.com/2015/09/01/3-things-scientists-need-to-know-about-the-ipcc/</a> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20190327124121/http://www.noconsensus.org/" style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;">www.noconsensus.org</a>    <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20190327124121/http://www.nofrakkingconsensus.com/" style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;">www.nofrakkingconsensus.com</a>Lunch 12.30pm – 2.00pmRoger Tattersall [tallbloke science blog] The big orange missing variable in the climate debate <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20190327124121/https://pcc15dotorg.files.wordpress.com/2015/12/roger-tattersall.mp4" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;">Video of Roger’s talk </a><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20190327124121/https://pcc15dotorg.files.wordpress.com/2015/12/paris.pptx" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;">Powerpoint slides</a> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20190327124121/http://www.tallbloke.wordpress.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;">www.tallbloke.wordpress.com</a>Dr Patrick Moore [Ex-Director of Greenpeace: Ocean “acidification” Alarmism in Perspective <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20190327124121/https://www.fcpp.org/sites/default/files/documents/Moore%20-%20Ocean%20Acidification%20Alarmism.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;">Full Paper</a>4.00-4.20pm teaEd Flaherty -[Senior Partner, Juris Doctor; Schwab, Flaherty & Associates, Geneva, Fribourg, Istanbul, Singapore] Law, governments, supra-national organisations and NGOs7.15pm Invitation from Collectif des Climato-realists at ALEPS premises, 35 av. MacMahon 75017 (Arc de Triomphe), 60 pax: multilingual welcome party for our foreign friends present in Paris. RSVP to Marie-France Suivre: collectifdesclimatorealistes@gmail.comTHURSDAY 3rd Dec10am Coffee10.30am startStuart Agnew MEP A Farmer’s Confession… there is no one more zealous than the reformed sinner!Roger Helmer MEP EU, energy and climate policyProf. Murry Salby –  lecture on the big screen Origins of rising CO2 <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20190327124121/http://youtu.be/jZ0R1MCkSOU" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;">http://youtu.be/jZ0R1MCkSOU</a>Lunch 12.30pm – 2.00pmNils-Axel (‘Niklas’) Mörner, [global sea level expert and paleoclimatologist] The liberation from fear of a disastrous sea level rise – observational facts don’t lie <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20190327124121/https://www.researchgate.net/publication/284508403_The_liberation_from_fear_of_a_disastrous_sea_level_riseobservational_facts_dont_lie" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;">Full paper</a>Prof Ian Plimer, [geologist and paleoclimate expert, University of Adelaide ] Heaven & Hell; the Pope condemns the poor to eternal poverty <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20190327124121/http://geoethic.com/2015/10/21/ian-plimer-comment-on-the-laudato-si-papal-encyclical/" style="font-style: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;">Full article</a><p style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-style: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: normal;">4.00pm Tea<p style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-style: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: normal;">Plenary session.<p style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-style: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: normal;">1st – 3rd Dec<p style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-style: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: normal;">11 Rue La Rochefoucauld<p style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-style: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: normal;">75009 PARISAvoid the ennui at Le Bourget COP21 – Listen to some real science and analysis<p style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-style: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: normal;">CONTACTS during Conference:<p style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-style: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: normal;">Tom Harris    +1 613 728 9200<p style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-style: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: normal;">Philip Foster  +44 7931 592197<p style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-style: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: normal;">Roger Tattersall    +44 7803 598832<p style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-style: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: normal;">—History UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has yet to acknowledge receipt of either the <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20190327124121/https://pcc15.org/2007-bali-open-letter/" style="font-weight: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;">2007 Bali open letter</a>, or the 2009 Copenhagen Climate Challenge (a postal trace was done on the latter after it was sent a second time and it was confirmed that Secretary General Moon did indeed receive the open letter). <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20190327124121/http://www.climatescienceinternational.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=280" style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; 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</div><div>COP21’s Green Gibberish</div><div>The Paris climate summit is many things, including a cultural spectacle wrapped in lightweight media fluff.</div><div>
</div><div>The back cover of a commemorative edition of edition of Elle magazine, published in France.</div><div>The back cover of a commemorative edition of Elle magazine, published in France. Click to enlarge.</div><div>
</div><div>I’ve been in Europe for a week. As one might expect following the November 13 Paris terrorist attacks, airports here are now patrolled by soldiers equipped with machine guns.</div><div>
</div><div>But it’s the holiday season. Lights are twinkling, Christmas trees are being sold on sidewalks, and the shops are crowded. I flew to Paris not to report on COP21, the official climate conference, but to participate in a counter-conference that presented alternative points of view. The slogan for that event is a quote attributed to George Patton: If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.</div><div>
</div><div>In the French media, COP21 is receiving the kind of attention associated with the Olympics or a film festival. Politicians have been extensively photographed, and pages upon pages of coverage have been devoted to the proceedings. Whether regular Parisians notice or care is another matter.</div><div>
</div><div>I stayed at a lovely, three-star hotel in the 9th arrondisement for four nights and saw no indication that global warming was on the minds of the families and shopkeepers going about their lives in that neighbourhood. Paris, the world’s top tourist destination, is suffering financially as a result of the terrorist attacks. There has been a slew of cancellations, and new bookings are down dramatically. It will be a lean holiday season for some some.</div><div>
</div><div>Speaking of media coverage, special editions of magazines have been published to commemorate COP21. The women’s magazine, Elle, has released a gorgeous edition that costs €10.</div><div>
</div><div>click to enlarge</div><div>The front cover of a commemorative edition of Elle magazine, published in France. Click to enlarge.</div><div>
</div><div>Kate Pouliquen, Elle‘s editor-in-chief, obligingly ends her opening remarks by mentioning the COP21 start and end dates, plus the address of the French government’s website for this event. A few pages later, Melanie Laurent (an actress) interviews Sylvie Guillem (a ballet dancer). Described by the magazine as “an uninhibited conversation held against a backdrop of urgency and indignation,” the interview is published a second time in English toward the back.</div><div>
</div><div>People familiar with the New Age Bullshit Generator – in which a computer program strings together total nonsense that nevertheless sounds semi-profound – will find similar content in this edition 0f Elle. According to Guillem,</div><div>
</div><div>If as human beings we want to continue to stand on our two legs, we have to step on the brakes and shake up polite discussions.</div><div>
</div><div>In a magazine sponsored by Rolex, whose watches sell for tens of thousands a piece, Guillem denounces “senselessness and waste.” Moreover, she appears blissfully unaware of what the New York Times once called the magazine industry’s “dirty little secret” – that millions of copies are destroyed each and every month, unsold and unread. Guillem tells us that</div><div>
</div><div>Consuming less means renouncing a certain degree of comfort. And that’s very hard in a world where politics say exactly the opposite…</div><div>
</div><div>According to her, humanity is “in the process of massively destroying the planet” and “it’s tiresome to have to convince people that you’re only out to save their lives.” This woman is an archetype, a sublime representative of the highly-emotional, alarmingly misinformed environmental activist.</div><div>
</div><div>Glacier experts can insist until they’re blue that there’s no scientific reason to believe glaciers are at risk of vanishing this century, that such an idea is preposterous. But Guillem inhabits a different planet, and Elle gives her a platform to spout unmitigated rubbish. “It’s no longer a problem of environmental awareness,” she says, but</div><div>
</div><div>a matter of survival…in 25 years there won’t be any more glaciers. In 50 years, no water or fish. That’s what we’ve succeeded in doing! We can’t wait any longer!</div><div>
</div><div>If you dare, you can read the whole, incoherent mess here.</div><div>
</div><div>Another COP21 commemorative magazine was published by Air France, and is being tucked into the back of airline seats throughout the fleet.</div><div>
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</div><div>The entire issue may be flipped through online. A premier contender for the ‘Gibberish Posing as Wisdom’ award emanates from the pen of its own editor-in-chief, Aude Revier:</div><div>
</div><div>Embrace the earth, watch over its fragile splendour, tend to its melancholia and its joys; and then strive, little by little, to change the course of destiny. Cast aside our doubts. Transform ourselves, to transform our lives. And rethink the future to reinvent the world.</div><div>
</div><div>Since this is a French-to-English translation, I suppose one should be charitable. But in a blind test, if presented with the above quote and these ones, produced by the New Age Bullshit Generator, could most people really tell the difference?</div><div>
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</div><div>My Paris hotel, the Eden Opera, was a gem. The rooms are spacious and well-appointed. The wifi is excellent (and included in the room price). Staff members are helpful, friendly, and speak English. I recommend it highly.</div><div>
</div><div>My airfare was paid for, in advance, by the counter-conference organizers. Accommodation, meals, and transportation costs in Paris – as well as here in London (where I’ve met with fellow journalists Christopher Booker and Matt Ridley, among others) – have been charged to my personal credit card.</div><div>
</div><div>Should you be in a position to help defray these costs via a small donation, my own holiday season will be somewhat merrier.</div></div><div>=</div></div><div>==</div></div>