Posted on 11/21/2009 7:02:01 PM PST by tobyhill
Electronic files that were stolen from a prominent climate research center and made public last week provide a rare glimpse into the behind-the-scenes battle to shape the public perception of global warming.
While few U.S. politicians bother to question whether humans are changing the world's climate -- nearly three years ago the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concluded the evidence was unequivocal -- public debate over the debate persists. And the newly disclosed private exchanges among climate scientists at Britain's Climate Research Unit of the University of East Anglia reveal an intellectual circle that appears to feel very much under attack, and eager to punish its enemies.
In one e-mail, the center's director, Phil Jones, writes Pennsylvania State University's Michael E. Mann and questions whether the work of academics that question the link between human activities and global warming deserve to make it into the prestigious IPCC report, which represents the global consensus view on climate science.
"I can't see either of these papers being in the next IPCC report," Jones writes. "Kevin and I will keep them out somehow -- even if we have to redefine what the peer-review literature is!"
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
The guys were exactly as i knew they were. A bunch of liars who are only interested in advancing an agenda.
>> nearly three years ago the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concluded the evidence was unequivocal
... and this conclusion rested on the shaky foundation of academic fraud uncovered in the leaked emails and data.
But of course the WaPo won’t tell you that.
"The climate fraudsters are who we thought they were. And we let 'em off the hook".
>> A bunch of liars who are only interested in advancing an agenda.
Their grants and consulting contracts — therefore, their livelihoods — were hitched to that agenda.
Full bore group-think. How far science has fallen in this age of political agendas.
Science will never recover from this outright bastardization from the left. They corrupt everything they touch.
There, that's better.
Talk about Unethical, unprincipled propagandist.
It’s funny because these frauds have been exposed and yet they’re still defending their fraud as having some validity to it.
Hey Michael, you of the now discredited "hockey stick" fame, if the issue is settled, and consensus is reached, why is this "vigorous debate" still going on?
Ping for later. The current line is that the university can not vouch for the accuracy of the stolen emails. The MSM is going to run with this.
Compare with The Pentagon Papers. Did anyone ever get away with claiming that since they were stolen they might not be authentic. No. It would have been a pathetically stupid claim, and the media would have ridiculed it.
Now that the shoe is on the other foot the absurd is given full creedence.
Sickening.
It seems the hacked material is considered legitimate, which was probably the first hurdle to get over. Rush mentioned this Friday, but tread lightly around it because the information was so new. I expect he and his global warming consultants will have lot to say about it this coming week.
Sort of like Dan Rather, don’t you think?
environmentalism (global warming), racism and feminism are all lies...they are all just tools to advance liberalism
...china and india are laughing their asses off as they take more jobs from the west, as we strangle our businesses...gee, do you think china and india will fall for these enviro constraints, carbon credits, etc???
...it really is quite astounding that al gore went on the conan obrien show and said that “the center of the earth is extremely hot...several million degrees”...when the actual temperature is 5000-7000 degrees celsius...what a fool!
...what’s even more astounding is that he won two oscars and a nobel prize for his global warming “work”...but then again those two organizations are run by liberals FOR liberals...how else could any reasonable person explain obama, gore and arafat winning nobel prizes, yet not awarding one to reagen who liberated 500 million people from behind the iron curtain
The WP story did overlook the obvious.
“A bunch of liars who are only interested in advancing an agenda.”
You forgot to cite the key issue: Research on the agenda is worth mucho dinero in funding.
This all sounds like a weak, unbelievable plot for a SyFy made-for-tv or straight-to-DVD movie.
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