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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Yeah, we’re the ones with our fingers in our ears saying, “la, la, la”….idiot.
Those still in denial need to realize the biggest tragedy is this:
Every time anyone looks at ANY article, research, statement, assertion, etc. is going to ask themselves, “Is any of this data connected to Climategate? Is this author connected to Climategate?”
I searching the internet earlier for how much CO2 is a result of natural causes compared to man-made, and thought those questions every time I looked at an article.
It didn’t take long to give up in disgust.
The Daily Show.
Still not on ABC, CBS nor NBC of course.
Global Warming is a steaming load of B.S.
Now, time to move on and eliminate liberals from our Government.
The “science” has never made sense to me. It never explained the several ice ages that sheeted much of my neighborhood.
It has always made more sense to me that climate change is related to that large yellow thing in the sky.
It appears I was right to wonder.
Because it is a SCAM.
And so frackin WHAT? “Econimic activity” is not the same as wealth generation.
If it were, then the government’s spending aka economic activity of trillions annually would make us all rich. Bigger government would thus make us even richer.
You can spend hundreds of billions on windmills, but if the cost of electricity they generate is five times what we pay today, everyone who has to buy that electricity is made poorer.
Grow up or STFU.
When science is perverted for the sake of politics, bad things happen. Malthus mathematical analysis led to the poor being deprived of food and medical care. Darwin’s natural selection led to eugenics and the genocide associated with Hitler’s Master race. Now we have global environmental science leading to one world governance in a secular socialist framework. What fundamentally underpins all of this arrogance is an elitist view that free men and women cannot act responsibly and only the most knowledgeable and compassionate of progressive people know what is best.
Does Gore have to give back his Nobel prize?
Does Gore have to refund his investors?
Does Gore have to go to jail for one-upping Bernie Maddof?
When will we get to read the UN emails on climate change?
About the same time we get to vote for the UN president I suspect.
Excuse you?
The point made was that capitalists are going to find a way to make a buck on anything. As it appeared that crap and tax was going to likely be a reality at some point, finding a way to profit from it is prudent.
This may not be a typical form of wealth generation, but the evidence that capitalists are actually smarter than the eggheads is because no matter what the leftists do, the capitalists will find a way to win.
Now the next time you feel you have a lock adulthood, take a look outside your window.
Every Liberal remembers Eisenhower warning against the, “military-industrial complex” but few if any know his second stated warming in that same farewell message, his warning against the, “scientific-technological elite“!
This speech could have been made last week, read the whole thing.
David
Very true!
And look where we are now, just shy of fifty years later.
The people who engage in gaming the government are called “rent-seekers”, not capitalists. Capitalism involves risk, in order to gain a profit.
People who game the government to ensure that their product or service becomes mandatory or exclusive are out of the risk business, hence out of capitalism. Such folk do not have to offer anything that the “market” wants, or take the chance that competitors or simple lack of demand will deprive them of profit.
My windmill example remains an example of rent-seeking. Boone Pickens wanted the government to build a huge transmission grid to support the thousands of windmills he would profit from. Sports team owners who get cities to fund new stadiums make out like bandits, but the citizens pay the price in higher taxes. Al Gore’s buddies who secured 500 million of our tax dollars for a luxury car to be built in Finland(!) are not capitalists!
They are raiding the public purse for their own profit.
This not…a….goood…thing. Rent-seeking is a primary aspect of socialist and fascist systems. It is something no conservative, no person committed to the Free Enterprise system, would ever call “prudent”.
An email joke make-over is called for here…
Kenny, a young man just out of college, decided to move from the city out to small farming town. One day he sees an ad in the classifieds, a farmer selling a mule for $200. Kenny drives a long way out to the farm, meets the old farmer, checks out the mule and says he’ll buy her but explains that he’ll need to come back tomorrow with a trailer and pay for her then. But the farmer says he needs the money today to pay the bank in town to stop foreclosure on his farm. So Kenny decides to pay him the $200 in advance.
The next morning Kenny rents a trailer and goes back out to the farm to get the mule but the farmer sadly explains that because he forgot to latch the fence gate in his excitement to get to the bank in time, the mule wandered out, chewed on a low hanging power line and was electrocuted. Kenny can see that the farmer really is upset about it and knows the farmer doesn’t have the money to refund so he tells the farmer, “Don’t worry about it all sir. I’ll still take the mule for $100 and you can take as long as you need to pay me back the other $100 you owe me. Deal?” The perplexed farmer of course agrees and asks what he’ll do with a dead mule but Kenny says, “Sorry, you’ll just have to wait and see.”
A few months goes by. One day the farmer is in town and happens to see Kenny at the store, “Hey there Kenny, here’s the $100 I owe you and, by the way, can you tell me now what you ended up doing with the dead mule?”
Kenny explains, “Yeah, I took out a classified ad to raffle her off in one week; $5 a ticket. 150 people mailed in to buy a ticket so, less the $100 to buy her from you and money to place the ad, I made over $600 profit.”
The farmer is really confused and stammers, “But…but…what in the world did you tell the person who won the raffle?”
Kenny said, “Oh that was the easiest part, I just gave them back their $5.”
Kenny Lay went on the become CEO of Enron and devised a scheme to sell carbon credits to save the planet.
Okay, I don’t disagree with any particular point of your last post. I completely agree that algore and his merry scam artists have in fact invented a scam and now seek to profit. (One of my earlier posts alluded to “Crisis of the Month.”)
But look at this from a broader perspective: Yes they were scamming us (hopefully were), but they were also succeeding at scamming us. It looked like we were (hopefully were) headed for crap and tax and other such nonsense. Now, imagine you were an inverstor looking for a new investment vehicle. You may realize that crap and tax isn’t genuine capitalism, but are you certain you wouldn’t seek a way to gain or protect profits?
Look at the money algore was poised to make. I would opine that any investor with money needing a home would at least consider taking advantage of the nonsense. You are right that the new energy paradigm would drain our pockets, so wouldn’t it be wise to refill them from that trough?
Think of it like an oil company investment. As gas prices increase, we all pay more at the pump. But those of us invested in an oil company get some of that back while buying from ourselves.
OTOH, at least oil companies aren’t scams, no matter what o’reilly thinks.
We don’t fundamentally disagree on the breadth of the problem fulldroolcup, just on some of the finer details about how some people may respond to it.
Who is to say what the mean temperature of the earth should be? Do ya think by punishing our industry it will magically change the climate to… to what? Warmer, cooler? What? This is all so crazy!
When mankind discovers how to control solar flares, sunspots, jet stream, volcanic eruptions, etc, then I will believe we can change the weather.
Why are the CRU climate-changer goofs treating weather data as top-secret information?
Under what authority are they allowed to hide data on the weather?!
How about this bumper sticker?
“Pray for Obama! Psalm 109:8.”
That is one subject where O’reilly has a mental disorder. Going back and looking at the CPI price of gasoline in history clearly shows that it has remained a BARGAIN. Yeah, we’re now coming off back down from a peak price but overall even that peak price was cheap compared to say, college tuition.
Perhaps Bill O’Reilly will tell us that the outrageous increases in tuition are the result of a ‘professor shortage’?
BINGO! NASA is doing the exact same thing as CRU.
This of course brings James Hansen into the spotlight. He should have FIRED years ago for his obstruction to any and all attempts for having an open debate as well as for his encouraging words to vandalize coal fired power plants in the UK:
For over TWENTY YEARS he has been collecting a salary on the taxpayer’s dime to advance a HOAX.
What the Democrats and the MSM have to be reminded now that the Climate Hoax is “out of the bag” is the lesson of Watergate.
“It’s not the crime; it’s the cover up that gets you.”
They cannot cover-up, deny, and ignore what has been made known. There is no doubt much more to follow from places like NOAA and NASA. This issue is toxic and for them to stonewall against the obvious is a course of action one would only take out of total desperation.
Whats it gonna take to get honesty back into all the facets of our lives. If all the authorities are liars and corrupt, then what will we believe in. Many have said God. Thats very humble, but God didn’t save those who went to the nazi gas chambers, etc. We need tangible truths and truthers. Even our once proud systems of government are now in shambles. Once we cannot believe in the system anymore whats left? If I were to run for POTUS it would be on the truther platform. Why is it that the liars do what they do? Is it for Power? Money?
So THAT’s where I read it! Your answer is much more clever though!
Kudos and full credit!
I think I feel a chill in the air. Maybe it is the frosty reception that the CRU fraudsters are getting from their colleagues for getting CAUGHT!
How long until all these morons reverse themselves yet again and start warning us of “the coming ICE AGE!”
At least we can prevent that just by running our microwave ovens all the time with the doors open…
Speaking of things to try with microwave ovens…
(Of course I tried it myself and can tell you it really works!)
This pretending that the whole scam isn’t just another big socialist style grab for power, same as with reform of health care, is like a long Monty Python skit, except the characters remain morons before , during, and after the skit and the show isn’t funny.