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Citizens Electoral Council of Australia

Media Release  23rd of July 2007

Craig Isherwood, National Secretary
PO Box 376, COBURG, VIC, 3058
Phone: 03 9354 0544 Fax: 03 9354 0166
Email: cec@cecaust.com.au
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ABC hatchet job fails to suppress global warming truth

"Four hundred years ago, Johannes Kepler, the man who discovered universal gravity, actually refuted the method of the IPCC report, of statistical analysis, as being like Plato's Cave, of seeing the shadows on the wall … as being reality. But these guys are just looking at the statistics of what they are empirically seeing, that's ‘true' for them. Now Johannes Kepler actually proved that the previous models before him were incorrect, method-wise. Method is very important—that's the crux of it."

When LaRouche Youth Movement member Lucas Duncan intervened in the studio audience discussion following the ABC broadcast of the Great Global Warming Swindle, he went to the heart of the scientific debate. Minutes earlier, marine geologist Bob Carter's assertion that 1998 was the "hottest year on record", and the earth had since cooled, was howled down by IPCC mouthpiece Prof. David Karoly, who insisted that a statistical analysis using averages showed the earth had warmed. The average of the three years 2006, 2005 and 2004 was warmer than the average of the three years 1997, 1998 and 1999, and a linear projection between those averages showed global warming, he said (see graph 1). Carter's use of physical measurements shows the earth has cooled since 1998; Karoly's statistical averages shows warming. The difference, is method. Kepler proved statistical averages are flawed, and a fraud. The standard solar systems models prior to Kepler—those of Ptolemy, Copernicus and Tycho Brahe—all had planets orbiting in perfect circles, despite the observed contradiction that the planets sped up, and slowed down (perfect circles would have caused uniform motion). The contradiction was dismissed, by each model using an average of the planets time and speed (called mean time). Kepler rejected the use of average time, and insisted on taking the actual observed measurements, and in doing so, made the most profound discoveries in astronomy: that the planetary orbits were elliptical, and swept out equal areas in equal times. The rest is scientific history.

 

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Graph 1
Data from source: http://vortex.nsstc.uah.edu:80/public/msu/t2lt/tltglhmam_5.2
Chart adapted from John Christy & Roy Spencer, source: http://www.marshall.org/pdf/materials/415.pdf

 

The ABC's host Tony Jones called this a "slightly obscure point to be making" and didn't give the "scientists" on the panel the opportunity to answer. But by that time, it was just another example of the sheer bias in the ABC's handling of the broadcast.

The ABC crafted the "expert" panel to create a predictable effect. Out of the eight panelists, Bob Carter was the only scientist supporting Durkin's general hypothesis. Professor Carter recently reported at a Lavoisier Group meeting, that the ABC invited and disinvited him several times and at that time he still didn't know whether he'd be on the panel. He had never experienced this type of behaviour in his entire academic career.

Tony Jones ridiculed Martin Durkin's failure to identify Fred Singer's period as head of the US National Satellite Weather Service as the early 1960s, but the ABC had told William Kininmonth, the head of the Australian Bureau of Meteorology's National Climate Centre (for twelve years until 1998) and a former Australian delegate to the World Meteorological Organization Commission for Climatology, that he was not required on the expert panel, despite the fact that he said he would be available. Why would the ABC prefer to feature Mont Pelerinite Ray Evans and former punk rock band member, Michael Duffy over Kininmonth? The ABC also knowingly picked Robyn Williams for his howling protests against Durkin's film going to air. However, Williams was quite happy having genocidalist, Dr John Reid on his Ockham's Razor program last year. Dr Reid said a "humane way to reduce the population might be to put something in the water, a virus that would be specific to the human reproductive system and would make a substantial proportion of the population infertile." Dr Reid made numerous hideous statements on population control without a whimper of protest from Williams. At the end Williams merely said, "Some startling suggestions there from John Reid..."

Most of the so-called errors that Martin Durkin made, were not errors at all and any honest scientist will tell you, in most part the criticism of Durkin's charts was baseless and even fraudulent. The 1990 IPCC report showed temperatures were clearly higher during the Medieval period. This was too inconvenient for the global warmers, so since 2001 the IPCC has attempted to rewrite history, by using what is known as the hockey stick graph. (see graph 2) The hockey stick is a proven fraud and the computer program used to generate it, produced hockey sticks from just about any set of data! This is the "up-to-date graph" Durkin didn't use.

If the ABC had integrity, it would now subject Al Gore's movie to similar scrutiny, and a similar debate. That probably won't happen, but the widespread recognition of the bias in the broadcast means that many Australians know that what they were exposed to contains truths, despite the efforts to discredit it.

 


Graph 2
Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/graphics/2006/11/05/nwarm05.gif


For Martin Durkin's response to the ABC's treatment of his documentary, see Saturday's Australian (22/7/07):
http://theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,,22105154-7582,00.html


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