Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 11/25/2009 6:02:09 PM PST by tobyhill
Three leading scientists who on Tuesday released a report documenting the accelerating pace of climate change said the scandal that erupted last week over hacked emails from climate scientists is nothing more than a "smear campaign" aimed at sabotaging December climate talks in Copenhagen.
"We're facing an effort by special interests who are trying to confuse the public," said Richard Somerville, Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Scripps Institution of Oceanography and a lead author of the UN IPCC Fourth Assessment Report.
Dissenters see action to slow global warming as "a threat," he said.
The comments were made in a conference call for reporters.
The scientists—Somerville, Michael Mann of Penn State and Eric Steig of University of Washington—were supposed to be discussing their new report, the Copenhagen Diagnosis, a dismal update of the UN IPCC's 2007 climate data by 26 scientists from eight nations.
Instead they spent much of the time diffusing the hacker controversy, known in the media as "Climate Gate."
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
Smeared with their own words.
That’s becoming a common defense.
Poor, poor babies. Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!
For certain somebody is trying to "confuse" the public.
"Confuse" New euphemism for screw.
The only two linchpins of AGW are:
1) The reconstructed paleoclimate record claiming unusual warming in present times.
2) The IPCC climate models that claim human greenhouse gasses are an important forcing of global climate.
From everything I've seen so far, both are incorrect, and possibly represent outright fraud.
...and that's OUR job, dammit!"
I don’t see where the global warming alarmists have any other option but to try and fight this.
They really don’t have a way to save face in light of these new revelations and they are facing the probability of total academic disgrace and for many, economic ruin should the global warming bubble burst.
I’d be suprised if they had a different response.
And out of context of course ...
Well, they *are* in Britain where a true report which destroys someone’s reputation is considered libel.
Of course, us Yanks (and I use that the way Brits and Aussies do, so no offense to those of you whose ancestors resisted The War of Northern Aggression) don’t have to accept that notion of libel or smear.
But the e-mails aren’t the really d*mning thing: scientists are catty with those who uphold competing theories. The comments in the FORTRAN code prove there was fraud.
These tenured academics have felt so insulated and invulnerable, it's going to take some time before they concede defeat and kiss their positions, their scientific careers, all the notoriety, and all that money good bye.
LOL @ ‘running the muck’.
“Well, they *are* in Britain where a true report which destroys someone’s reputation is considered libel.”
Close, but not quite. In Britain, the onus is on the person making the report to *prove* that it’s true. IMHO, in many ways, that’s better than the reverse; which makes it awfully easy to besmirch someone’s reputation.
Now there is a great example of propagandizing. There is no fact checking, no semblance or reporting balance, and really no logic. Pure propaganda, that is all those bastards have. They HAVE to lie because truth is not their friend.
You think Obamacare has been a dirty fight, you ain't seen nothing yet. The left have gone “all in” on global warming. A defeat would be worse for them then any global warming scenario.
Actually, a ‘smear’ (and often ‘an attack’) has been re-defined as catching liberals saying what they really mean then repeating it.
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