Science czar John Holdren and ClimateGate: Perfect together
Ah, science czar John Holdren.
He’s been hyping climate change catastrophe since the 1970s, has been a master of stonewalling critics of his population control zealotry, and knows how to hide behind friendly water-carriers in the media.
So, you won’t be surprised to learn he is smack dab in the middle of the exploding ClimateGate scandal.
Dr. Tim Ball and Judi McLeod at Canadian Free Press shine the light (hat tip: @crabbycon) :
Obama Science Czar John Holdren is directly involved in CRU’s unfolding Climategate scandal. In fact, according to files released by a CEU hacker or whistleblower, Holdren is involved in what Canada Free Press (CFP) columnist Canadian climatologist Dr. Tim Ball terms “a truculent and nasty manner that provides a brief demonstration of his lack of understanding, commitment on faith and willingness to ridicule and bully people”.
…“There is a multitude of small but frightening stories in the massive files,” Ball writes. “For example I’ve known solar physicists Sallie Baliunas and Willie Soon for a long time. I’ve published articles with Willie and enjoyed extensive communication. I was on advisory committees with them when Sallie suddenly and politely withdrew from the fray. I don’t know if the following events were contributing factors but it is likely.
“Baliunas and Soon were authors of excellent work confirming the existence of the Medieval Warm Period (MWP) from a multitude of sources. Their work challenged attempts to get rid of the MWP because it contradicted the claim by the proponents of anthropogenic global warming (AGW). Several scientists challenged the claim that the latter part of the 20th century was the warmest ever. They knew the claim was false, many warmer periods occurred in the past. Michael Mann ‘got rid’ of the MWP with his production of the hockey stick, but Soon and Baliunas were problematic. What better than have a powerful academic destroy their credibility for you? Sadly, there are always people who will do the dirty work.”
Indeed, Holdren’s emails show how sincere scientists would be made into raw “entertainment”.
How the deed was done
“A perfect person and opportunity appeared. On 16th October 2003 Michael Mann, infamous for his lead in the ‘hockey stick’ that dominated the 2001 IPCC Report, sent an email to people involved in the CRU scandal;
Dear All,
Thought you would be interested in this exchange, which John Holdren of Harvard has been kind enough to pass along…” At the time Holdren was Teresa and John Heinz Professor of Environmental Policy & Director, Program in Science, Technology, & Public Policy, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government. He is now Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Assistant to the President for Science and Technology, and Co-Chair of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology—informally known as the United States Science Czar.
In an email on October16, 2003 from John Holdren to Michael Mann and Tom Wigley we are told:
“I’m forwarding for your entertainment an exchange that followed from my being quoted in the Harvard Crimson to the effect that you and your colleagues are right and my “Harvard” colleagues Soon and Baliunas are wrong about what the evidence shows concerning surface temperatures over the past millennium. The cover note to faculty and postdocs in a regular Wednesday breakfast discussion group on environmental science and public policy in Harvard’s Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences is more or less self-explanatory.”The Wednesday Breakfast Group
“This is what Holdren sent to the Wednesday Breakfast group.
“I append here an e-mail correspondence I have engaged in over the past few days trying to educate a Soon/Baliunas supporter who originally wrote to me asking how I could think that Soon and Baliunas are wrong and Mann et al. are right (a view attributed to me, correctly, in the Harvard Crimson). This individual apparently runs a web site on which he had been touting the Soon/Baliunas position.”
“The exchange Holdren refers to is a challenge by Nick Schulz editor of Tech Central Station (TCS). On August 9, 2003 Schulz wrote;
“In a recent Crimson story on the work of Soon and Baliunas, who have written for my website techcentralstation.com, you are quoted as saying: My impression is that the critics are right. It s unfortunate that so much attention is paid to a flawed analysis, but that’s what happens when something happens to support the political climate in Washington. Do you feel the same way about the work of Mann et. al.? If not why not?”
“Holdren provides lengthy responses on October 13, 14, and 16 but comments fail to answer Schulz’s questions. After the first response Schulz replies, “I guess my problem concerns what lawyers call the burden of proof. The burden weighs heavily, much more heavily, given the claims on Mann et.al. than it does on Soon/Baliunas. Would you agree?” Of course, Holdren doesn’t agree. He replies, “But, in practice, burden of proof is an evolving thing-it evolves as the amount of evidence relevant to a particular proposition grows.” No it doesn’t evolve; it is either on one side or the other. This argument is in line with what has happened with AGW. He then demonstrates his lack of understanding of science and climate science by opting for Mann and his hockey stick over Soon and Baliunas. His entire defense and position devolves to a political position. His attempt to belittle Soon and Baliunas in front of colleagues is a measure of the man’s blindness and political opportunism that pervades everything he says or does…
Like I said last week: The Chicago Way is the Global Warming Mob Way.
Fraudulent bully birds of a feather flock together.
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Diabolical duo..
When the title is BS, the work is also. Grandiose titles have some similarity to say – styrofoam Greek pillars at a convention…both are designed to salve a wounded and needful ego…
John Holdren, ivy league purveyor of junk science. The thug should resign today.
Global warming dies, the human race, reaches new highs.
The boon for the world human population from this hoax going the way of global cooling and the spotted owl hoaxes, is immeasurable.
We were headed for the neolithic, now political junk science can meet its deserved fate.
No more scientific political correctness.
Why is this being discussed. The inventor of the internet, Al Gore, said it was settled science. Who are we to question a Nobel Prize winner? /sarc
Hey wait – isn’t that Tuh-RAYza?! She of the ketchup red jet and war hero husband? Hahahahahaha!
We only have to put up with these Czar’s until 2012.
(No, not the election. The alien astronauts come back and all life comes to a screeching halt)
“Beanies, getyer aluminum beanies here while they last. 2 fer a dollah!“
If there was ever a time to pull back the curtain on ALL ENVIRO RELIGIONS, it is now. Every enviro-nutball cause should be considered suspect- raid all of their hard drives!
The new Age of Mankind.
The Global Warming shills are one more part of the Letist/fascist alliance who need to answer for their treason. But to be humane, understanding and sensitive the ropes used to hang them will be made of natural fibers from a renewable source cultivated by indigenous people.
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Due to the paper shortage you will have to wipe with a spotted owl. Please do not squeeze the spotted owl.
hmm…
all that for the White House..
… on October 16, 2003
… under President George Walker Bush.
the more things change, the more they stay the same?
when will you all realize how much you’ve been HAD, and by whom?
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Frightening evidence that appointees like Holdren are dangerous political apparatchiks hired for their loyalty and willingness to compromise anything for the Marxist cause. Clearly this man is not a scientist nor is he even very bright.
He, along with most of Obama’s other appointees should never be allowed to work in government, much less a position of power. Yet Congressional opponents of Obama’s agenda will never get the opportunity to challenge these illegal and fraudulent “appointments” because Obama is being allowed to operate outside the Constitution.
Also… Barack Obama’s incessant bowing to foreign heads of state belies a very immature and insecure man. Very unsettling and creepy.
Lies, lies and more lies!!!! None of these uber-libs have an argument which can stand on its own merits, so they have to resort to lies and deception to promote their agendas. There come a point when bad ideas should be abandoned. I think libs are just too stupid to do anything but destroy, destroy and destroy some more. Reminds me of islamic terrorists.
In 2003.
In 2009.
I don’t believe working for Harvard is working for President Bush. Reading comprehension cannot be stressed enough.
what is a ‘teresa & john heinz professor’?
Is that just a Balderdash (TM) answer?
Errah, where’s Ted Captain Planet Turner when you need him??!!
Global Warming has been a wonderful way to advance the causes of Marxism while hiding the Marxist agenda.
Since Marxism rejects the notion of a higher power, and holds itself as the highest power, deceit and distortion to advance Marxism under the guise of global warming is perfectably acceptable, at least in the minds of the watermelons (green on the outside, red on the inside).
Errah does he also believe in the hollow earth theory?? Enquiring Minds want to know? He needs to get a UN commission together to find out what killed off the unicorns and the dragons as well as place leprechauns and fairies on the endangered species list. ManBearPig has a carbon footprint the size of a snowshoe.
We can only be grateful it isn’t the size of his arse.
The world will learn, eventually, that “ClimateGate” isn’t some one-off by a bunch of zealots who got carried away.
It’s the way the wannabe enviro-totalitarians do business: start with the Cherished Preconclusion — which is usually based on ideology and not sceince — then work backwards, cherry-picking and even inventing “evidence” to “prove” it. Just like algore and his reckless propaganda film about
Global Warming(TM) Climate Change(TM).It’s a safe bet that when it comes to fudging data and attempting to squelch non-conformist opinions, what we’re seeing now is merely a representative sample of what is widespread in the Eco-Hysteria movement.
Thank God for whistleblowers!! Someone had a big attack of conscience and now the world will know what a hoax has been perpetrated on the world. This MUST get out, loud and clear. Don’t let them sweep this under a rug!! The MSM so far has ignored this. Don’t let them!!
Gee, I wonder if hackers will focus attacks on the NOAA, or the servers of other weather/climate organizations? wink, wink, nod
The Drudge Report displays it very clearly in the headlines, shows how no amount of information will stop these idiots from marching blindly over the cliff:
Climategate: ‘Greatest scandal in modern science’…
Call for Congressional investigation…
Paper: Junk science exposed among climate-change believers…
and then the punchline:
Obama: ‘Step closer’ to climate deal…
A weenie with ketchup?
Just say Tuh-RAYzuh and you’ll know who she is.
THESE LYING (_*_)s HAVE BEEN STEALING THE WEST’S MONEY FOR DECADES UNDER THE FRAUD OF GLOBAL WARMING. GORE SHOULD BE IN A CELL RIGHT NEXT TO BERNIE MADDOFF.
I pray they never find the hackers that did the world the most financially saving favor. The sadists that did their very best to perpetuate this crime, worldwide no less, should face incarceration until hell freezes over. What it’s already cost in studies and ‘greenie’ products should be billed and collected from these flim flam men. We can start by sending a bill to Algore.
Thank you Michelle, and the real journalists (internet bloggers) for doing what the msm refuses and fails to do. It’s up to us now to send on to others because it’s getting so little press most people are completely unaware of it. Ignorance is bliss but someone has to wake them up!
An Obama advisor is corrupt?
You don’t say.
Phht.
NOT NEWS.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
Hey c’mon…They hand-picked 3 trees in Siberia whose tree rings confirmed their theory. Did you expect them to have a representative sample world-wide? That would require `Real Science’
Green Corruption Under The Radar
Work at revealing the shams and deceptions is far from done. Science/Discovery/Green Planet/Nat Geo Channels are still feeding the young and unwashed Gore-science every hour every night, teaching the Holiness of anything “green” and everything else is anti-civilization and inhumane. Listen to your kids/grandchildren from school.
James Greenidge
Queens NY
Why does NASA proudly cluck that its solar cell space probes are sun powered but mentions zit (or grudgingly) about its nuclear deep-space probes being so powered?
This just in: The oceans are NOT rising!
It was discovered that Gilligan had been using the measuring sticks to mark the locations of his lobster traps, and had been periodically moving them into deeper and deeper water.
- the Professor
The Gilligan hypothesis is questionable. In fact, The One, having promised to stem the rising ocean, streached forth his hand and spoke – and it was so.
That, or maybe it never was rising in the first place. Gilligan theory perhaps valid.
BTW, wasn’t Nutty Professor Holdren one of the guys who were all freaked out about global cooling in the 70s? Just sayin.
Well, the lid has been “blown” off of global warming. Time to panic the people with global cooling. Start now to make the most money and get the most power. In 20-30 years, and with a new generation, they can start the global warming con all over again. Meanwhile, based on the ethics of the WH and congress, Holdren will probably be up for the medal of freedom, presented by dear leader; even a Nobel prize for science.
Hey, I received a Nobel Prize! Came in a Cracker Jack box with a really cool whistle.
Jughead is still refusing to accept the obvious. He’s on his way to Kopenhagen with high expectations. What a clown.
Yeah, I heard him this a.m. when he was standing with his buddy from India. He was talking about global warming like he hadn’t heard anything about this scandal. Doesn’t his advisory staff ever fill him in the what is going on in the world? Or is he that deceptive that he will just continue to spin the lie even when he knows it is false. Either way, the Pres is a real doofus. And what is with this huge State Dinner with over 300 guests in honor of the guy from India? Didn’t Obama refuse to even see the PM of Britain when he last visited? Didn’t he have his spouse or the VP or someone do the task?
Not a good week for Obama officials. You have Holdren smack in the middle of this scandal, Timmy “tax cheat” Geithner in the middle of paying (with our money) way too much for the AIG troubled assets to help out his buddies at Goldman Sachs, and who can forget the lashing that Eric Holder took at the hands of Lindsey Graham (who I might note is usually pretty squishy on most things).
They faked lots and lots of data crucial to their bogus argument…. and Holdren was complicit. This is great news for America. Hopefully there are more whistle-blowers out there that can expose more of this.
The people that exposed this deserve a medal.
They know that, but, sadly, many voters don’t care or bother to know. These voters know little of government, rights, or freedoms. As long as they can download the latest song, watch their favorite reality show, and go to work, D.C. means nothing to them. They vote on emotion or habit. For example, I have a neighbor who comes home from work, watches the MSM over dinner, and spends the evening with TVLand. I might as well discuss the latest medical procedure with him as discuss what’s going on in congress and the WH. Best I get is a shrug. If Washington suspended all rights and the Constitution, he would listen to the “spin” on MSM, and turn on “Hogan’s Heroes”. He and the group that depends on the government for everything, is what the dems depend on to get re-elected. I wonder how many Americans know who Holdren is, know what a czar is, or even care? They think that everything should be done for “global warming” even if it means the government sits in their house, 24/7. I blame it on a dumb-downed education, an instant gratification society, and ignorance which relies on emotion to make decisions.
Holdren’s going to be so disappointed he doesn’t get to implement legislation requiring forced abortions and mass sterilization.
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What a bad week for the “democRATs” / liberals / socialists / statists / marxists / communists.
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ACORN files found in dumpsters. Globull warming data falsification e-mails hacked and published. Comrade Obama’s health care agenda tanking his poll numbers. False “jobs created and saved” website outed. Economy still going down the toilet. And SARAH’CUDA ridiculing The Messiah’s actions like 100 kids hitting a pinata! Keep up the good work–the hits just keep coming.
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John Bibb
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Are you HOT for criminal scientists???
Stop calling it ClimateGate people! “Gates” are reserved for when the media picks up on a scandal and sensationalizes it. The media is burying this story. Newsweek and NBC and Obama are saying the climate is on the birnk. Obama says we are one step closer to a global warming deal after meeting with China and India. We need to demand that this becomme ClimateGate because the press is now on to push Cap and Trade through before the whole scam is revealed.
I wonder if Holdren will eat his words now that the “amount of evidence” against the Mann-made global warming hoax is expanding exponentially with the release of these emails. The burden of proof is now squarely on him and his co-conspirators to explain why renowned scientists would be so quick to sell their souls and allow politics to trump science.
Any and all of today’s unsavory characters have at the least past thru the movement, looking for some gratification.
In Soviet Russia Stalin ordered the freight trains to increase their load weight. When his engineers informed him the tracks could not hold the extra weight Uncle Joe did what Uncle Joe always did: he shot some engineers to impress the rest. And when the extra weight did damage the tracks Uncle Joe did what Uncle Joe always did: he shot some engineers to impress the rest.
Try as we might we can not cure a rabid dog or a science czar.
LMAO!!!
Just think that that one tiny line of code is enough to make these scam artists TOAST. (of the burnt variety)
And…it remained to be found AFTER they had ‘scrubbed’ their server. It is just one that they missed!
Hey Michael Mann, Phil Jones, Keith Briffa, Al Gore, et al..
GREEN THIS!!!
Ooops, sorry, the above code discovery piece was not written by Steve Mcintyre, it is was by Marc Sheppard at American Thinker.
As a scientist, I am thoroughly disgusted with the fraud being perpetrated by these alleged “scientists” in the name of AGW fanaticism.
Politicizing science is the worst thing you can do to it, and reeks of old communist regimes and five year plans.
If skeptics are “deniers” then proponents are “fanatics”. By definition.
So, even though this is all hitting the fan and more and more people are waking up to this fraud, our illustrious “leader” has decided to go to the global warming summit in Copenhagen next month. Apparently, he hasn’t yet gotten the message. Oh, someone told him? But he is ignoring the evidence? I am shocked, shocked I tell you!
And yet, has the MSM reported on any of it??? When will they be forced to report the truth? Ever? Can they just continue to be complicit in the downfall of this country?
Global warming is a hoax, the die is set, its over for climate change scammers, the science community can act as honest brokers and fully expose the fraud or the entire science community will take the hit equally with the snake oil salesmen dragging them all down.
Where will science be without credibility? Medieval Europe?
Does the science family really want to suffer for political abracadabra?
The taint is coming, be forthright and not all science could be stained, double down and all the chips comes off the table.
Climatedepot.com, your source for climate info!
Morany, who runs it, is enemy #1 to AGW fanatics.
Morany = Morano
Dave’s law of titles: The importance of a title is inversely proportional to its length. Thus, “President” is rather more important than the long titles Mr. Holdren has held. QED
And that, in a nutshell, is a perfect description of an Alinskyite Progressive.
I just finished reading Rules for Radicals. Oh – my – GOD!!! The whole campaign was right out of that book from the language (“Change”) to the bullying and ridicule. More of us need to read it both to understand the enemy’s tactics and to use them where they can be honestly applied by ourselves against them.
This is a huge, huge, scandal and I disagree with whomever said the hacker(s) should be prosecuted if found. This is a clear case of whistle blowing on massive corruption and fraud on “science” upon which massive global government control, as well as wealth plunder and transfer was to be based.
Kudos to whoever did it.
Thank you!