Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 11/27/2009 3:23:40 PM PST by neverdem
No apologies for revisiting Climategate, for this is the exposé of the can of worms that is the AGW mindset that just keeps giving. Now, what would you say if I were to tell you that the BBC News website is running a story on Professor Michael Mann, of Pennsylvania State University, one of the boys in Phil Jones’s gang hut at CRU East Anglia? “B****r me!” you would probably respond. “Don’t tell me the BBC has finally caught up with Climategate.”
Relax. I’m not telling you that; and it hasn’t. Instead, the BBC “News” site is running a story based on an article in Science magazine. Under the headline “Past climate anomalies explained,” it begins: “Unusually warm and cold periods in Earth’s pre-industrial climate history are linked to how the oceans responded to temperature changes, say scientists.” In this instance, “scientists” turns out to mean primarily Michael Mann, who is generously quoted.
“We reconstructed patterns of [the Earth’s] surface temperatures during those two intervals,” he explains, the two intervals being the “little ice age” and “medieval warm period”. There is much chatter about ice cores, tree rings and coral. There is no reference to the fact that this man is involved, very prominently, in the controversy surrounding the CRU at East Anglia, or to his interesting semantic convolutions in redefining the word “trick”.
Still less is there any acknowledgement that, at the moment, commentators in the United States, in online video reports, are reading increasing chunks of the CRU computer code and bursting into laughter at the incredible manipulations they reveal as, hour by hour, the Climategate scandal unravels. Issues relating to tree rings, not to mention Michael Mann, are central to that deconstruction of what is now being accepted, even by AGW supporters, as the junk science practised...
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.telegraph.co.uk ...
What’s the word from downunder?
When is Katie Couric going to “notice” this story?
The more the state controlled media ignore the story, the more they undermine their own credibilty. With the internet, the story of climategate isn't going to die.
Yup. Their own act of ignoring this SCANDAL OF A MILLENIUM (never has science so undermined itself, not since its beginnings) makes it a DOUBLE story. The second story becomes that of the media complicity itself.
The carbon tax and Climategate were big talk at my Thanksgiving. I was very thankful for the people that recognized the value of amplifying this story to every corner and mind they could reach.
The giant hoax is not going to be able to slip away or ignored by those concerned about realities. The first comment to the article says it all:
[b]I know. It’s shameful. The Washington Times is running an editorial on climategate today (http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/nov/27/the-global-cooling-cover-up/?feat=home_editorials). But from the BBC, nothing.
And Mann’s expertise now extends to coral? How many coral might be involved I wonder? 12? 3? Maybe one, that’s been sat in a fridge for thirty thousands years but was recently moved next to someone’s central heating outlet?
The BBC is worse than a poor joke, worse than shameful, it’s a propagandist organisation on a par with Pravda – no fooling, no exageration for effect; this willful turning away from a *massive* story, one that affects all our lives, is right up there with the worst denial of the soviet days. The only difference is that the BBC is a tad smarter, but unfortunately for them, we are smarter still.
And yet, I do of course wonder what we’d be talking about if there were no internet. Something to think about eh? If there *were* no blogs, no net, no free communications, we’d know nothing of this. We’d be poor ignorant sheep heading for slaughter.[/b]
Same here. I had the pleasure of reducing my four nieces and nephews (in various stages of university degree obtainment) to open mouthed silence. Apparently, the MMGW Kool-Aid is served early and often on our college campii.
For dessert, I weaved in the term "Luddite" and asked if any one of them had ever heard the term or knew what it meant. Big Fat Zip. And these kids are in the hard Sciences, not Lib Arts.
Sigh.
It probably wouldn't have made any difference if they were Lib Arts
It is shocking how few of these kids know what Phlogistan or Ether are.
Thanks neverdem.
> What’s the word from downunder?
Interestingly, the NIWA stories are being run in our newspapers, but they aren’t making alot of noise yet.
The two big stories on this subject would be:
First, our National Government is progressing with implementing a Carbon Trading Scheme. I received a letter from one of our National MPs on Friday, describing Climate Change as one of the most important issues facing our Nation. Gimme a break, ay!
Second, our National Government has negotiated a deal with some Maori to permit some Iwi (tribes) to plant trees and collect carbon credits on Crown land owned by the Department of Conservation — effectively a massive transfer of wealth from the many to a very few. Most of this wealth will never see the average Maori pocket. Where does it go? I dunno...
Succinctly captures the attitude of the MSM. Brilliant.
I have been sending links to pertinent articles to my friends via e-mail. I hope others are doing likewise. I also gently chide my friends if they rely on the MSM for their information. Climategate gives me another opportunity to demonstrate to them that they are missing important news if they rely on the MSM.
The MSM continues to destroy themselves. Good riddance.
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