The collusion of the climate crowd ( RE: The Global Warming Hoax )

Watts Up With That? ^ | July 7, 2012 | Christopher C. Horner -- First published in the Washington Examiner,

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

The collusion of the climate crowd

Posted on July 7, 2012 by Anthony Watts

Union of Concerned Scientists (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

By Christopher C. Horner
First published in the Washington Examiner, reposted here with permission

Not long ago, the American Tradition Institute initiated a transparency campaign using federal and state freedom of information laws to learn more about how taxpayer-funded academics use their positions to advance a particular agenda. On its face, this should have been welcomed by the Left, which often lays claim to the “transparency” mantle. It is instead causing great angst.

Our project would compile the context to the “Climategate” scandal, which, as activist academics central to its revelations assured us, was really an out-of-context misrepresentation. Curiously, the same people think this project a very bad idea.

So do the media and environmentalist establishments. Of the latter, the Union of Concerned Scientists became particularly exercised, mobilizing left-wing groups to urge universities not to satisfy our requests for public documents.

None of these groups, incidentally, was troubled by a series of similar requests by Greenpeace, whose effort we replicated. They only became opposed when we sought the emails of the sort of activists with whom they work.

Some of these, recently obtained from Texas A&M University, provide one explanation for this reversal.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Got to include this:

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For example, they reveal a sophisticated UCS operation to assist activist academics and other government employees as authorities for promoting UCS’s agenda. This includes “moot-courting” congressional hearings with a team of UCS staff, all the way down to providing dossiers on key committee members, addressing in particular their faith, stance on gay marriage and stimulus spending. Of course.

[sauropod]

mark

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

fyi

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Ernest.

[Marine_Uncle]

So many of “them” seem to actually take pride in their deceitful antics.

[CedarDave]

At FR we are already aware of this, but it's nice to see in print:

The media, academia and environmentalist pressure groups share an agenda, and work closely together to advance it. Remember this when these interests assail efforts to obtain public records shedding light on these activities.