The Yes Men Punk the Chamber

Is there video of the press conference?

Fabulous! great job Yes Guys!
At least someone's trying to do something.

Sounds more they they "punked" various media organizations in to wasting their time covering a non-event.

This kinda of activism is so childish. They get to pat themselves on the bad for 'out smarting the other side' without actually accomplishing anything.

Will this make the Chamber of Commerce change their position on climate change? No.

Awesome video of @TheYesMen press conference, interrupted by the *actual* Chamber of Commerce: http://sn.im/yesmen1019

Barnie, you're splitting hairs. How many NYT or WaPo readers know the distinction between an original article and something they picked up from a wire? What matters is that they carried the story.

Everyone reader should know it's from a wire service ... it said "By Reuters"

Kate, you're a hottie, but perhaps not very bright :(

The Chamber was not punked, though as you admit you and many other journalists were punked. The Chamber knew what was going on. You and your gal pals did not.

Poor us, poor Americans, so poorly served by our fourth estate.

Mother Jones weeps.

Recent history has not been kind to those who seek to foster and perpetuate the belief that man is responsible for global warming and climate change.

One of the most notorious and phony pieces of data underlying global warming alarmism -- the “hockey stick” graph – has been completely shattered by Canadian statistician Steve McIntyre. Despite vigorous attempts to prevent him getting access to the complete original data, McIntyre finally managed to obtain it. He then replicated it, plotted it, and the infamous hockey stick graph uptick disappeared. Not only did it disappear, it went negative. This finding has now completely undermined the central tenet of Gore’s movie “An Inconvenient Truth”. Inconvenient indeed!

Then there is the recently announced research by a Scottish statistician, Wilson Flood, who analyzed the Central England Temperature record.

The Central England Temperature (CET) record, starting in 1659 and maintained by the UK Met Office, is the longest unbroken temperature record in the world. Temperature data is averaged for a number of weather stations regarded as being representative of Central England rather than measuring temperature at one arbitrary geographical point identified as the centre of England.

The conclusion by Flood from studying these records was that there is no evidence of global warming in the 351 year CET record. For example, Flood found that the average CET summer temperature in the 18th century was 15.46 degC while that for the 20th century was 15.35 degC.

On a similar vein, in 2007, Simon Holgate of the U.K.’s Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory produced a history of global sea levels rise from 1904 to 2003 based upon a set of reliable, long-term observations from 9 tide gauge stations scattered around the world. The overall average rate of sea level rise in Holgate’s study period was found to be about 0.07 in/yr, or 7 inches per century. In addition, he made two other notable findings. The first was that the rate of sea level rise was, on average, greater in the first half of the 20th century than the second, and secondly, there was a large degree of decadal variability in the rate of sea level rise.

Support for this finding can be found separately in data from the supposedly sinking Maldives. In 2003 before members of the Geological Society of America, Nils-Axel Mörner, a now retired professor of geology from the University of Stockholm, presented a paper that clearly demonstrated through hard physical evidence obtained over many years of observation and research, that the sea level around the Maldives Islands has risen and fallen repeatedly over the millennia and most recently from 1790-1970 the sea level rose by about 30 cm to then fall 30 cm in the 1970s to today’s level, which is the statistical norm for the region. His conclusion? The Maldives will not disappear anytime soon.

In the face of this growing body of evidence and no matter how hard they try, AGW advocates cannot table the science that proves to AGW skeptics they are wrong.

To underscore this point, Professor Michael Economides at Houston University has a long standing offer of $10,000 for the first peer-reviewed scientific paper that demonstrates the causality between man-made CO2 in our atmosphere and global warming. It has not been claimed for no such paper exists. That right, not one!

What alarmists fail to note is that the climate change science has irrevocably moved on, for measurement has supplanted mere guesswork, however fashionable the guesswork may have been.

You are correct that Michael Economides is essentially a professor of petroleum engineering. But it does not take a Ph.D in environmental science to read and understand a scientific environmental paper. If that were the case why then is Rajendra Pachauri, head of the UN's IPCC? He is after all a mere railway engineer. By your implied rationale he should not be there for he is unqualified to hold such a post.

And guilt by association is a poor arguement in the absence of hard facts. After all Exxon sponsors some Nature programs on PBS and others Frontline, et al. Does that mean the Nature programs are tainted by this association? No. So why geologists and engineers? Working for mining and oil companies is what they do.

And finally the fact remains that no one has claimed Economides offer.

I like it. Cool post.
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