All the president’s ClimateGate deniers
Graph via Steve McIntyre
My syndicated column today looks at the global warming cultists in the Obama administration who are working overtime to paper over the ClimateGate scandal. Yesterday, Phil Jones, the head of the U.K.’s Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia stepped aside while the university investigates. Penn State prof Michael Mann, purveyor of the infamous hockey stick graph of spiking global temperatures peddled by Al Gore, is also under investigation. GOP Sen. James Inhofe, vigilant watchdog over global warming shenanigans, wants Babs Boxer to investigate. As Obama heads to Copenhagen to crusade for massive interventions to stop global warming, a new Harris Poll shows a significant shift in public opinion away from the cult of climate change. Jonah Goldberg dissects the groupthink that has gripped the global warming industry and its media enablers. Ed Driscoll takes you on a tour through global warming evolution in six and a half minutes. Well now: “Moderate” (liberal) GOP candidates/lawmakers led by GOP cap-and-tax 8′er Mark Kirk are running as fast as they can from the global warming hot mess.
Hide the decline, hide the decline…
Oh, and just a reminder:
Former Vice President Al Gore had four White House meetings in April. The records suggest these were not social calls for Gore, who won a Nobel Peace Prize for his work to curb global warming. Two of the meetings were with John Holdren, Obama’s top science and technology adviser.
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All the president’s ClimateGate deniers
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2009
“The science is settled,” we’ve been told for decades by zealous proponents of man-made global warming hysteria. Thanks to an earth-shaking hacking scandal across the pond, we now have mountains of documents from the world’s leading global warming advocacy center that show the science is about as settled as a southeast Asian tsunami. You won’t be surprised by the Obama administration’s response to ClimateGate.
With pursed lips and closed eyes and ears, the White House is clinging to the old eco-mantra: The science is settled.
Never mind all the devastating new information about data manipulation, intimidation, and cult-like cover-ups to “hide the decline” in global temperatures over the last half-century, they say. The science is settled.
Never mind what The Atlantic’s Clive Crook, after wading through the climate science email files of the U.K.’s Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, called the overpowering “stink of intellectual corruption” — combined with mafia-like suppression of dissent, suppression of evidence and methods, and “plain statistical incompetence” exposed by the document trove. The science is settled.
Never mind the expedient disappearance of mounds of raw weather station data that dissenting scientists were seeking through freedom of information requests from the Climatic Research Unit. The science is settled.
In March, President Obama made a grandiose show of putting “science” above “politics” when lifting the ban on government-funded human embryonic stem cell research. “Promoting science isn’t just about providing resources — it’s also about protecting free and open inquiry,” he said during the signing ceremony. “It’s about letting scientists like those who are here today do their jobs, free from manipulation or coercion, and listening to what they tell us, even when it’s inconvenient — especially when it’s inconvenient. It is about ensuring that scientific data is never distorted or concealed to serve a political agenda — and that we make scientific decisions based on facts, not ideology.”
Yet, the pro-sound science president has surrounded himself with radical ClimateGate deniers who have spent their entire professional careers “settling” man-made global warming disaster science through fear-mongering, intimidation, and ridicule of opponents.
*Science czar John Holdren, who will testify on Capitol Hill this week at a hearing on ClimateGate, infamously hyped weather catastrophes and demographic disasters in the 1970s with his population control freak pals Paul and Anne Ehrlich. He made a public bet against free-market economist Julian Simon predicting dire shortages of five natural resources as a result of feared overconsumption. He lost on all counts. No matter.
Holdren’s failure didn’t stop him from writing forcefully about mass sterilization and forced abortion “solutions” to a fizzling, sizzling, overpopulated planet. And it didn’t stop him from making a living making more dire predictions. In 1986, Ehrlich credited Holdren with forecasting that “carbon-dioxide climate-induced famines could kill as many as a billion people before the year 2020.” He went on to Harvard and the White House. On the David Letterman show earlier this year, Holdren fretted that his son “might not see snow!”
Canada Free Press (CFP) columnist Canadian climatologist Dr. Tim Ball notes that Holdren turned up in the ClimateGate files belittling the work of astrophysicists Sallie Baliunas and Willie Soon at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in the Solar, Stellar, and Planetary Sciences Division. Holdren put “Harvard” in sneer quotes when mocking a research paper Baliunas and Soon published in 2003 showing that “the 20th century is probably not the warmest nor a uniquely extreme climatic period of the last millennium.” First, deny. Next, deride.
*Energy Secretary Steven Chu picked derision as his weapon earlier this year when peddling the Obama administration’s greenhouse-gas emission policy. “The American public…just like your teenage kids, aren’t acting in a way that they should act,” the Wall Street Journal quoted Chu. He dismissed dissent by asserting “there’s very little debate” about the impact of “green energy” policy on the economy.
There’s “very little debate,” of course, because dissenters get crushed.
*The Obama team’s chief eco-dissent-crusher is climate czar Carol Browner.
As I’ve reported and reminded over the years, she oversaw the destruction of Environmental Protection Agency computer files in brazen violation of a federal judge’s order requiring the agency to preserve its records during the Clinton years.
Over the past year, the EPA has stifled the dissent of Alan Carlin, a senior research analyst at the Environmental Protection Agency, who questioned the administration’s reliance on outdated research on the health effects of greenhouse gases – and also sought to yank a YouTube video created by EPA lawyers Allan Zabel and Laurie Williams that is critical of cap-and-trade. Browner reportedly threatened auto execs in July by telling them to “put nothing in writing…ever” about their negotiations with her.
And she is now leading the “science is settled” stonewalling in the wake of ClimateGate. “I’m sticking with the 2,500 scientists,” she said. These people have been studying this issue for a very long time and agree this problem is real.” Book-cookers are good at making it seem so.
In any case, last year, more than 31,000 scientists — – including 9,021 PhDs — signed a petition sponsored by the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine rejecting claims of human-caused global warming.
But hey, who’s counting? The science is settled.
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Australia rejects a massive cap-and-tax bill.
Richard Lindzen: No, the science isn’t settled.
Paul Driessen: Time to cancel Copenhagen.
Ron Bailey on the scientific tragedy of ClimateGate:
How can the world of climate science recover? First, carry out independent investigations of the activities of the researchers involved. Pennsylvania State University has announced that it will investigate the activities of researcher Michael Mann who worked closely with the CRU and several times expressed in the leaked emails his desire to stifle the scientific work of researchers with whom he disagreed. In Britain, Nigel Lawson, former Chancellor of the Exchequer, has called for an independent investigation of the CRU. Tireless journalistic global warming scold George Monbiot has declared, “It’s no use pretending this isn’t a major blow…. I believe that the head of the unit, Phil Jones, should now resign.”
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Greatest scandal of the century. This will have far-reaching implications in deconstructing Leftist strategies in employing fake crises to extort taxpayer monies and political control. This is a major blow to their long-term plans.
Those poor poor cuddly polar bears. Science has failed them again.
I’m waiting for the UEA to release a face-saving video documentary “When Boots met Asses” any day now.
the global warming scam is very much like this administration, pure BS. browner is just another lying liberal lacking ethics and standards, which is the norm for this administration.
When is somebody going to put Goofy Gore in jail for running a scam?
yep global warming…tell that to Dallas residents driving in the snow today…my mother said it was snowing in Las Cruces, NM yesterday!! yep global warming…
Cultists is really le mot juste for those who believe in ManBearPig. Did you hear Eleanor Rodham Clift tell Pat Buchanan that Global Warming was like God, you didn’t need proof to believe in it?
This is just the tip of the iceberg (pun intended) for these scammers. More will come out as the global warming dissenters feel safer to come out with their views and scientific facts.
What will be the next big fake crisis?
So can algore be arrested now??
Now could we investigate the sources of funding for this monster and see how it correlates to political funding?
Where is Gore anyway??? No comments from him, and no one is bothering to ask him about it?? Is he in a bunker somewhere hiding? He needs to make a statement!
someone needs to tell ms clift that trillions of tax payer dollars are not being subsidized to prove the existance of God; gorbal smarming on the other hand gets buttloads of grants and tax payer subsidies, so maybe she should just stuff her head up her bum where it belongs.
I believe Gore’s head would fit in there too. Sorry.
Inventor of carbon credits? Kenny-boy Lay. Yup, big Bush contributor. Global warming alarmist W, is the guy who gave him the “Kenny-boy” moniker. Anyone surprised?
I just wish to goodness this bho was not going to Copenhagen. No telling what he will sign our nation away or how much money he will give in this crud global warming fraud. This whole thing makes me sick!
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Hard to say, but I bet dollars to peanuts it will target either the car business or the oil companies.
Anyone remember the Ozone hole and the end of R12 freon? I guess that big hole just closed up in 1996, right? I mean, no one outside the signers of the Montreal Protocol ever manufacture R12 on their own, right?
The next “Crisis of the Month” (Ben Bova, short story) will be along shortly.
I’m just glad that the scam was publicly exposed. My question is: Where is the mainstream media? How long can they cover up REAL news before they can no longer hide themselves?
On a lighter note: Channeling Hillary; “Belief in Global Warming now requires the willing suspension of brain activity”
One thing is settled for sure: the scientists and denier blowhards behind this scam are crooks and incompetents. THAT has been settled once and for all.
It’s like when a child is discovered with his hand in the cookie jar and promptly denies doing so as if the repeated assertion will make it true.
Unfortunately that child is Teh Won on his way to Coppenhagen to open up the cookie jar (our tax dollars) to all the pygmy nations!
There will be those that will say that other temperature sources support AGW. Don’t believe it. The NASA satilites don’t measure temperature. They measure emmissions from oxygen molecules. That data has to be interpreted, converted to actual temperature. The East Anglia CRU data is used to make that conversion. Tainted dated in tainted data out. Australian data treatment is linked to CRU.
The only reliable global temperature data right now is from the ARGO ocean bouy project and it is limited to upper water temperatures not land temperatures.
The entire temperature record must be rebuilt and publically verified before we do anything regarding CO2 levels.
Don’t they recall Nobel prizes when appropriate? I’d say it is.
I hope Inhofe pounds this home at every opportunity.
Now the question remains: how many scientists will stick with the sinking climate warming ship. Obama and his cronies are rearranging the deck chairs and the band is playing, but the ship is sinking regardless.
Consider this: there are many, many more scientists that didn’t sign out of fear of persecution by the fanatical AGW inquisition. I include myself in that select group.
If dissent is the ultimate form of patriotism, then skepticism is the ultimate form of scientific inquiry.
I’m not a doctor, but I’d prescribe the Preston Brooks treatment for Chu, Socialist Internationalist Browner, and “Dr.” Mann.
It is the Piltdown Man Hoax all over again. And it took scientists 30 years to admit they were wrong in that case.
These people, including Holdren and Obama, should be tried and jailed for trying to pull off the scam on the world. This is essentially the biggest car-jack/robbery ever perpetrated on humanity. And Obama’s is driving the get-away car.
It’s a travesty that we have this con man as President.
Thank you MM for keeping this in the light of day. We’re being attacked from every direction by liberal thieves. They need to be defeated.
The Republicans better do everything they can to go after these people. Get them the testify and make sure they are put in a position of admitting the fraud or lying under oath. Then jail them.
A note about carbon credits:
The truth is, if I were faster on my feet I would have tried the same thing. It seems that there is always some jerk-a** out there trying to get us all to change our ways based on their own personal fraudulent belief that mankind is destroying himself.
Well, why shouldn’t capitalists find some way to profit from it, if it is going to be the law of the land? For a long time it seemed that GW legislation was a foregone conclusion, so a number of right-leaning capitalists would be right to figure out how to make a buck. As a technician, I actually profited handsomely from R12 to R134a conversions, even though I completely disagreed with the suppositions surroundeing the ozone problem.
If Ken Lay did come up with carbon credits, so what? I’m only ashamed that we let the leftists have such a head start, because if they got their way, that would be trillions in econimic activity.
I have come to the conclusion, that yes, this movement is indeed a RELIGION… What happens when you say a certain RELIGION has a founder who was a PEDOPHILE, and that the RELIGION is more like a CULT then a RELIGION… You are met with THREATS, DENIAL OF TRUTH, and finally with NAME CALLING… Well the same is going on in the “RELIGION OF CLIMATE CHANGE”… The usual,nothing to see here, keep moving along, nothing going on here, keep the line moving… However, I have a little more respect for the integrity, and basic smarts of the AMERICAN PUBLIC… This entire “MOVEMENT” will go down with the weight of it’s own DISGRACE…
What about Al Gore???? Where is he??? He is the leader of this scam and NO ONE is even wondering about where he is or what he has to say for himself. Obama is complicit, but GoreButt is the LEADER of this movement. Where.is.he?
Well better late than never. I have been complaining about this CONSPIRACY for a long time.
Let us not forget that not one question came up in the debates on global warming, and that John McCain bought into this completely, making it hard for Palin to speak her mind on the subject.
We had NO questions on global warming or freedom.
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GLOBULL WARMING dropped a few inches of climate change (aka snow) here in El Paso, Tx. yesterday. Some freeways are closed due to ice.
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Cue the polar bears–maybe we can put them on the border to slow down the tsunami of UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS (aka illegal aliens) flooding our country. I hear the bears work cheap!
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John Bibb
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My point about Ken Lay and carbon credits was that this mess involved much more than people like Obama and Gore. This has been an institutional effort involving our majorest of major corporations, our most elite of elite academia and our always corruptible politicians. We citizens are being warred upon by our united corrupt establishment. Let’s not weaken ourselves by piling onto Democrats only and onto a few prominent individuals.
This is a massive comprehensive fraud. There is a ton of investment in place that took decades to put in place that stands to turn into rubble overnight. Those “men behind the curtain” that we are ignoring are not going to give up without a fight. This is far from over. Look for the cause to morph into something else. Like merged into a health care bill.
A good start for us would be to vote out ALL incumbents. Just close your eyes, block your ears and vote against all incumbents. It’s not just everyone else’s congressman that is corrupt and/or spinelessly incompetent, it’s yours too.
The “Science is settled.”What’s been said by many all along.Fraud,scam,power grab,money and control.There is a fly in the ointment now.
Who? John McCain?
Yeah right. Most of the Republicans in Washington are in bed with these thus too.
Those of you trying to take back the party you never had will need to get rid of those Republicans BEFORE you will have any significant progress towards conservatism or, for that matter, reason.
This story should make the conservatization of the Republican Party a top priority. I won’t hold my breath. Still, as I have said before, when the Republican Party puts forth the best available candidate for the job, I will vote for him.
As far as the story itself goes, most of us with three or more working brain cells have known for a long time (I’ve known since BEFORE the so-called “decline”) that this global warming scam was a load of crap. The environment cannot be used to destroy the environment. That’s just foolish, and it’s a wonder so many people were hoodwinked by these scoundrels.
With all these illegal encroachments by the federal government, it’s a wonder tarring and feathering hasn’t been revisited.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
Five years ago I saw the chart that showed temperatures over the past hundred years going up and down and up and down wthout any correlation in the rise of CO2.
This has been a fraud from Day One. No scientist who has an elementary understanding of the data could ever promote the idea of human activity causing catastophic changes to the planet.
LESSON LEARNED: On ANY topic, if someone is trying to panic and rush you into a decision, increase your skepticism by ten-fold.
In other words, the entire agenda of the Left.
I called my senators and congress critter and told their aids that I think they should support Inhofe’s request for a full investigation and urge Obama to cancel his trip to Copenhagen.
But, alas, I live in Massachusetts and I fear my calls fell on deaf ears.
Real science is impartial, transparent, and never, ever settled. You cannot buy it with government money. It is not something which can be voted upon. It is an open-ended search for the truth.
Not only are they cooking the books, they’re using unreliable data to begin with. Check out this site: http://www.surfacestations.org
According to Paul Krugman on Sunday’s This Week, we are all just too dumb to understand that these emails are simply the way academics talk to each other. You’re all a bunch of morons, so you might as well join the Democrats!
Those cuddly polar bears are increasing in number, so if they’re endangered, maybe its coming from an ursine equivalent of an STD or AIDS. Obama was all for science when it was on the side of his one-world government politics, but now that that’s in doubt (or worse), you won’t hear a peep about scientific method. If memory serves, true science is about open analysis of data and all scientists being able to independently reproduce the same results from the same data. That is not possible now that the gurus have dumped the data, kept their peers from reviewing their work and tried to get scientists with opposing views blackballed by scientific publications. Smells like dead polar bear in here. Oh, no, that was Al Gore’s credibility. Sorry.
being able to perpetrate a fraud like this in the ACEDEMIC/SCIENCE community is unfortunately all too easy these days, as the community is made up of leftists who want the world to be a socialist paradise, as long as they get to be part of the apperatchik due to their long years of studying drivel. our colleges get all their funding from the gubmint, and they are intollerant of any counter voices to leftist ideology, hence global warming is a consensus, as is business is greedy and bad.
Well this academic says that Krugman does not have a clue about what he is spouting off about. “I have a Nobel Prize so you can’t question me” is bunk! It seems that Nobels are being issued for politics, not knowledge.
These faked crises and bogus emergencies are a disgusting MO of the Left as pretexts for extending the tentacles of Marxist governance. Let the grand juries begin please. There is now ample evidence of massive criminal collusion across the board and the American people need to see an active criminal justice system focusing on Congress and the bureaucrats as well as their Wall Street cronies. Only then can we move forward towards liberty and a more limited government.
How sad that much of the scientific community has allowed itself to be perverted to these awful nefarious ends. et tu Copernicus?
That’s what I said a couple weeks ago. It’s Piltdown Man-made warming.
Errah, as it should be, Climategate is the only thing heating up! Dump ManBearPig stocks now!!!
Keep in mind that although there are tens of thousand of eminent scientists now standing up to the frauds, the vast majority of the scientific community (including the skeptics) are liberals in their political convictions. So this makes the scandal all the more interesting and credible. There are honest liberals out there and they are helping to turn the tide.
Well I’m having snail darters on toast, while my pet spotted owl sits in his cage, hooting contentedly.
Every light is on in my house, powered by a nuclear facility down the street.
Cholesterol is a lie.
Nuclear Winter is a lie.
Silent Spring is a lie.
Ethanol is a lie.
Second hand smoke is a lie.
Guns kill people is a lie.
What will Lindsey Gramnesty do??!! Doesn’t he have his finger in the pie on this?
Errah . . .
Phew! I thought we had an interloper for a minute there!
Check this out. Monkcton on Beck. This guy is the new world hero in my opinion.
Plenty of snow jobs though.
We are certainly in agreement. I was simply taking a different angle in examining the process of making a profit on prevailing conditions.
I think you’r eright — this framework has been in the oven for a long time. When these maroons went after chlorofluoro-carbons, they knew if they won they would go after bigger fish, and they won, so here came AGW.
I have said before on this blog that these people know their bread is buttered by us buying into their crap, and as soon as we don’t any longer, their research dollars and any profits in the future go up in smoke. (Much like their spending money on the weekends.
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As for voting them out? Good luck getting everyone to agree that “their guy” is as much a part of the problem as all the other legislators. But it sure would be nice for a change.
I hope not – you never know where that finger’s been.
Nobel Prize is now like getting the Biggest Loser award.
Seems the hacker’s work cured global warming.
Nobel prize squared for him?
Exactly. You spend the rest of your life unlearning the BS they taught you in school. And the big breakthroughs come from people who are skeptical of the “known”.
Great work Michelle. That quote of Obama’s is infinitely damning. They need to invent a new word to describe these liberals: hypocritical no longer suffices.
I feel like we are living in truly Orwellian times; with corruption at the highest levels, doublespeak, one set of rules applying to liberals and another to conservatives. I cannot believe that these people get away with all of this, right under our noses. It’s insane.
Don’t we have some fellow posters here that believe AGW is reality? I know I’ve debated a couple on this site. If you’re out there, I think we’re all interested in your take on this matter. At least I am.
Amen.
Especially HealthScare.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
This is not a political issue to me. If the threat were real, I would expect responsible science to show how, and perhaps action could be taken. However, this is obviously all about politics and ideology, so people turn a wary eye to profiteers like Al Gore who tell us the science is settled when it clearly is not. And of course other countries want us to completely change our policies on energy which of course will cost jobs, raise energy costs, and lower our standard of living, just what liberals seem to always want. Why is it that 30 years ago, global cooling was all the rage?? Now its global warming. Cmon, pick your catastrophe already! Everybody wants to do things that preserve resources, and don’t hurt the planet. But mother nature herself is responsible I believe for weather TRENDS, and it sounds to me like man made global warming is a bunch of smoke and mirrors.
(hypocritical no longer suffices)
No it does not, thats why anything a Liberal spouts I refer to it as Asspeak.
Asking Bab Boxer to investigate this scandal is like asking asking Bill Clinton to investigate sexual harassment in the White House. Should I assume that Senator Inhofe is only asking for an investigation in order to force them to say ‘no’ on the record?
And just who is that red-eyed blue toilet plunger head with horns supposed to be in the M4GW video? Gore? Jones?
mchristian asked what will be the next big crisis. HIV/AIDS has been that big crisis for 25 years and even now garners more grant money than heart disease, cancer or strokes, all of which kill more people. Like global warming, AIDS has become a cult whose high priests may never be questioned. True believers looking for absolution consume toxic AIDS medications like Kool-Aid. Indeed, the cult has its own holy office of the inquisition that trolls the Internet for heretics to be targeted for character assassination.
Recently, this cult received a jolt when Dr. Luc Montagnier, discoverer of HIV, expressed second thoughts. He told documentary filmmaker Brent Leung that co-factors must be present for HIV to cause AIDS, such as malnutrition, unsanitary living conditions and substance abuse. Otherwise, he said, a healthy body will flush the invading virus out of its system within two weeks on its own without the aid of medicines. So far, the CDC and the NIH have been unavailable for comment.
To be a liberal you gotta believe that AIDS is spread by a lack of federal funding.
Madoff cooked the books and got a century of prison time.
These guys get a trip to Copenhagen.
I just submitted the following to my local newspaper. I would add that for centuries there have been people who believed that the Earth cannot sustain its population. Such beliefs, aided by Darwinism, led to the eugenics movement to purge the world of the less competent humans and eventually to HItler’s Master Race genocidal action.
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Scientific Mistakes and Scandals:
Toward the end of the 18th century, the Reverend THOMAS ROBERT MALTHUS predicted that overpopulation would lead to “widespread poverty and starvation which would only be checked by disease, high infant mortality, famine, war or moral restraint”. While “Malthusian population theory was eventually dismissed for its pessimism and failure to take into account technological advances in agriculture and food production”, it did lead to reforms to the paternalistic poor relief policies of prior British governments. But at least Malthus was sincere and logical in his application of the scientific method – albeit mistaken.
The current man-made global warming situation does not benefit from a mistake in logic, but rather has all of the elements of the greatest scientific scandal in recorded history. Scientists advocating for man-made global warming have hidden, manipulated or discarded data that does not support their theory. They have suppressed opponents and skeptics, in some cases damaging their careers. They have colluded with government officials and leaders around the world to undermine the very essence of scientific inquiry. As a result, climate science, rather than being a field of rigorous scientific inquiry, is more a political tool to advance one-world governance using the Earth’s environment as a critical political issue. Fundamentally, climate science is not only unsettled but chaotic.
During most of my career with the Department of Defense, I created, funded and managed science and technology efforts. I taught science and technology management for over a decade. I witnessed the constant competition between those who were advancing radically new scientific ideas and those whose careers were vested in incremental improvements in scientific fields. My observation is that there is no such thing as settled science. Take physics for example: The last couple of centuries have seen Newton, Einstein, and a variety of competing general field theories. If physics, which is the core of science, is so unsettled, then virtually every other field of science inquiry is unsettled.
The saddest part of the apparent climate science scandal is that it undermines virtually all prior scientific inquiry associated with the environment. Simply, the data collected to date cannot be trusted and the analysis based on this data is useless as a result. The hope in all of this is that this man-made global warming scandal will remove the politics from the science and allow a vigorous and open debate of all scientific points of view. The bottom line is that at this point nobody can say with certainty what impact mankind has had or is having on the climate.
Virtually the entire environmental movement rests on the foundation of Rachel Carson’s book, Silent Spring, which was an attack on the most effective pesticide in the world — DDT. There are numerous articles about how the reaction of the politicians and their environmental supporters basically killed the use of DDT and, therefore, opened up many of the world’s poorest people to deadly malaria.
Climate gate is but another chapter in the saga of the most disgraceful episode of science chicanery in history.
publius, your letter is very good. I agree with it completely. I am a former Chemistry teacher myself and red flags shot up when I first heard the theory in the early 80s. What I noticed was seemingly intelligent people saying that it didn’t matter if it were true, as long as it got people taking better care of the environment. How short sighted. It is the classic ends justifies the means.
So now what are the ends: A distrust of science. Fools continuing on the fools errand, including the President of the United States. Billions wasted on useless research and probably countless deaths. And no doubt skepticism about helping the environment.
It would be nice if we learned a lesson. But that rarely ever happens. DDT is still banned world wide, and millions are still dieing in Africa (yet we are sending them nets).
Science is about debate, and distrust. Else we end up with another chimpanzee getting pawned off as pre-human. To get an theory supported, one must run a gauntlet of peers. It may be slow, but only resistant can shine the plow. Truth is mighty fine.
Just wondering how everyone who voted for crap and trade feels now that the science was a lie. I received a 4 page letter stating why my representative just had to vote to save the planet from green house gases. Either congress doesn’t know a snow job when appears or congress just wants another excuse for a power and tax grab.
Fat chance of that. Sen. Inhofe should listen to Sen. Boxer’s comments on CSPAN. Come global cooling or high water she’s in the tank for carbon reduction:
Barbara Boxer is a liberal fascist who is going to force us, through Cap and Trade or through EPA regulations, to cut our carbon output. In fact, she is “very excited” that our sinking economy and loss of jobs have already cut energy usage in this country. Improving the economy is the last thing she wants. Democrats would do nothing to help the economy recover, if they didn’t need to get re-elected. Come to think of it, they aren’t doing anything to help us recover.
If crap and trade passes and all the environuts receive everything they want to make us regress to the 1600′s, I would like to see every single entity affected by this to just say no and blow it out your ear Federal Gov.
Has anyone in the administration started comparing global warming deniers with 9-11 truthers yet? That would seem to be the next logical step from the Alinsky playbook.
I work at an International engineering company with hordes of foreigners and “intellectuals”. I’ve had a sign on my cubicle for over a year that reads, “CARBON CREDITS FOR SALE
3 FOR $1
GUARANTEED LOWER PRICING THAN alGORE”
I guess I’ll have to lower the price now. Needless to say I’m scorned by these “intellectuals” as a “Cowboy from Texas”. Well, “I would rather be a Redneck with common sense than a Harvard Grad with none”.
On another point… On December 2nd, 2009 at 11:02 am, SHoward said:
A note about carbon credits: The truth is, if I were faster on my feet I would have tried the same.
Nothing is wrong with making an “HONEST” buck. But there IS something wrong with a dishonest one and please don’t associate Capitalism with neccessarily being dishonest. There ARE dishonest Capitalists but…Capitalists don’t kill(or steal/rob) people. Dishonest Capitalists do…I am proud to be a Capitalist thank you, but not the one you described…
On December 2nd, 2009 at 2:21 pm, stillontheroad said:
If crap and trade passes and all the environuts receive everything they want to make us regress to the 1600’s, I would like to see every single entity affected by this to just say no and blow it out your ear Federal Gov.
#850441On December 2nd, 2009 at 2:28 pm, J S Ragman said:
Has anyone in the administration started comparing global warming deniers with 9-11 truthers yet? That would seem to be the next logical step from the Alinsky playbook.
#850453On December 2nd, 2009 at 2:39 pm, nosheep said:
I work at an International engineering company with hordes of foreigners and “intellectuals”. I’ve had a sign on my cubicle for over a year that reads, “CARBON CREDITS FOR SALE
3 FOR $1
GUARANTEED LOWER PRICING THAN alGORE”
I guess I’ll have to lower the price now. Needless to say I’m scorned by these “intellectuals” as a “Cowboy from Texas”. Well, “I would rather be a Redneck with common sense than a Harvard Grad with none”.
On another point… On December 2nd, 2009 at 11:02 am, SHoward said:
A note about carbon credits: The truth is, if I were faster on my feet I would have tried the same.Nothing is wrong with making an “HONEST” buck. But there IS something wrong with a dishonest one and please don’t associate Capitalism with neccessarily being dishonest. There ARE dishonest Capitalists but…Capitalists don’t kill(or steal/rob) people. Dishonest Capitalists do…I am proud to be a Capitalist thank you, but not the one you described…
Junk science. It’s all intended for power and profit. Anyone who supports it is nothing more than an useful idiot to those who are its “priests”. Even the nature shows are into the farce, often contradicting themselves in their shows. For example, one show we saw a few days ago, stated that polar bears come out of hibernation in the Spring. However, they declared, because of global warming, the ice is melting, which reduces their chances in hunting. Last time I checked, ice melts in the Spring. They could have phrased it better, because it came out like they are idiots. We’ve had global warming before and everything did just fine, in some cases, better, without Al Gore and the U.N.. I wonder how the polar bears managed to survived the big ice ages?
He tried to compare them to flat-earthers, but it didn’t work.
Sorry, “He” is Al Gore.
Think about it. You job and taxes might hinge on the welfare of a polar bird and an owl. Windmills lining all our interstate highways like they they somehow beautify the countryside. Unreal insanity.
It’s amazing how ads by firms from office copiers to big Oil have fallen in lockstep with the green crowd to show how caring and “responsible” they are in saving the whole planet when a six mile asteroid couldn’t do the job. I await the purging of all this bogus green alarmist programming from the likes of the Discovery/Science/Animal Planet/Green Planet/National Geographic cable TV crowd because I now consider them the political arm of the Democratic and Green Parties by pushing this agenda-laden fake science on viewers and our kids.
James Greenidge
Queens NY
Funny thing is, ask any environut what the similarity is between a wound up rubber band and petroleum and you will always receive a blank look. Ask what happens when the sun goes down and the wind is not blowing and you will always get a blank stare. Ask them what a battery banks capacity would need to be to run an average of 8 hours at night to provide inverted power to 5,000 homes – you would get a blank stare.
The same group will tell us all, however, how bad wind turbines are because the turning blades kill birds and huge arrays of solar panels ruin the natural beauty of the land they are installed on. You just cannot win for loosing with the Greenies.
This is via RealClearPolitics from Robert Tracinski at TIADaily.com. It illustrates what these Climate-Change Liars have been willing to do to squash dissent.
Phil Jones, head of the Climatic Research Unit resigned today. He said the climate had changed at CRU. “It was warming so rapidly that my continued employment was no longer sustainable.”
Dr. Jones may have trouble collecting his pension, as the CRU tossed all the raw data showing when Jones began working there. Some Members of Parliament have questioned the accuracy of the “value-added” data showing 123 years of service.
And where is Al Gore? Good question. He needs a jail cell with the rest of them. But he’s probably having the waist in his ManBearPig outfit let out a few more inches.
Something make me want to play that Henry Rollins video…
LIAR….
I guess that beachfront property I bought in Pasadena ten years ago is not going to pan out.
Could this be construed as a some kind of criminal scam? Perhaps criminal charges could be meted? It would appear that these folks were ready to take more than that knucklehead Madoff ever did. Through their policies recommendations and cap n trade bills. They were trying to perpatrate this scam on the entire world. It boggles the mind how much money would have been stolen in the name of this schlock.
NJ Aviator;
Awesome. Thanks for bringing up one of my favorite Rollins Band moments.
‘HAHAHAHAHAA! SUCKER!’
Mr. P says – So now what are the ends: A distrust of science? Fools continuing on the fools errand, including the President of the United States. Billions wasted on useless research and probably countless deaths. And no doubt skepticism about helping the environment.
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What the climate scientists have done by colluding with the politicians is damage scientific inquiry itself. Look back in history at the suppression of Galileo because of his superior understanding of the solar system and universe. You would think that the scientific community would be courageous in defending its principles and its search for truth – or God in the magnificence of eternity. Instead every scientist, regardless of his or her field of science, is now looked at with a sense of scorn and even ridicule because their life’s work cannot be trusted.
By the way, a true conservative is concerned about the resources used and its impact on the environment. As far as I can tell, the true progressive could care less about the environment as long as there is political power to be gained and free men and women to be subjugated.
Thank you, Mr. P., for echoing my anger and disgust with what has and is happening.
Maybe the WONderful One can have one of his flunkies drive around the locations in DC where “day workers” hang-out, pick them up, and bring them back to the White House. Then they can put on the white lab coats that the “doctors” used last month, and mill around on the White House lawn repeating the mantra “the science is settled.”
Bring in the state-run media so it can get prime coverage on the 6 PM telecasts and above the fold in all the major dailies.
Yeah, that’ll work.
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This was a great post and article about this scam. We all must tell EVERYBODY we know about this! If all they watch is the MSM, they haven’t heard much or anything about the real truth of this.
Let’s ALL HELP KILL COPENHAGEN!
God bless the people who released the ‘Scientists’ emails, they are total heroes.
This will make a great movie someday.
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absurd thought -
God of the Universe makes
humans cause global warming
simply by exhaling
the Sun has little effect
.
absurd thought -
God of the Universe says
keep people all worked up
about global warming
despite inconvenient facts
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absurd thought -
God of the Universe says
demonize scientists
who can prove climate-change
is not caused by humans
.
absurd thought -
God of the Universe says
ignore Sun’s activity
fire thousands of scientists
who say warming comes first
.
absurd thought -
God of the Universe says
create a HUGE industry
only employ those millions
who perpetuate its lies
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http://bit.ly/8iDKEq
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According to MSNBC, we may freeze due to global warming. Anything to make some money.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34242705/ns/technology_and_science-science
Once proud of their country politicians and acclaimed scientists of authority have been blinded with greed with remedies of impinging disasters of global warming are now toast. Who will we be believeing in for the future? Everyone of any authority is now corrupted. We are on our own.
You don’t get a peace prize.
I’m still “hanging my hat” on God. For the post-modernists among us whose last refuge of truth was the scientific establishment. Ummmm. Sorry. You’re on your own now. Your life is a pretty meaningless cruel joke. Read Ecclesiastes (it’s in the Bible), Solomon went through the same thing you’re going through and he managed to figure it out eventually.
Honestly I have been wondering how the fall of this Last Bastion of Absolute Truth (in the minds of many in society) is going to effect our world. I guess we’ll have to wait and see.
Drudge is now reporting that Barbara Boxer is calling for an investigation…of the hackers who released the info!
Yeah, I just saw that, too. Maybe they did break the law, but doesn’t every leftist sychophant that blocks access to a port or recruiting office? And doesn’t Babs think they’re heros or something?
Noooo double standard here, right?
What about the bastions of leftist journalism releasing sensitive information during the Booooooosh years?
Nothing wrong with that, eh Babs?
The First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
According to Eleanor Rodham Clift (That’s funny!), Global Warming is religion. Therefore, Congress can pass no laws predicated on Global Warming since that would be establishment of a state religion which is expressly forbidden by the First Amendment.
Next!
ECS