Posted on 12/02/2009 5:02:25 PM PST by neverdem
'The science is settled," we've been told for decades by zealous proponents of manmade-global-warming hysteria. But 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.
Yet 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 coverups to "hide the decline" in global temperatures over the last half-century, they say.
Never mind what The Atlantic's Clive Crook, after wading through the climate science e-mail files of the U.K.'s Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, called the "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.
Never mind the expedient disappearance of mounds of raw weather-station data that dissenting scientists were seeking via freedom of information requests from the Climatic Research Unit.
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 about protecting free and open inquiry," he said during the signing ceremony. "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 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'll testify on Capitol Hill this week at a hearing on Climategate, hyped weather catastrophes and demographic disasters in the 1970s. with his population-control-freak pals Paul and...
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The science is settled. It’s getting colder. It will get colder until it gets warmer. It’s a scientific fact.
The science IS settled! They are all crooks! Not that anyone should be confused... They are only slightly more corrupt than our congress - make that government!
It’s nice to see folks following the rules...
Michelle sure has a way with words. I always look forward to her comments regardless of the topic.
Interesting to see that quote from the Atlantic, by no means a conservative publication.
Remember, Michael Crichton was a liberal, but he considered AGW to be a scam, an insult to science.
" In any case, last year, more than 31,000 scientists -- including 9,021 Ph.D.s -- signed a petition sponsored by the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine rejecting claims of human-caused global warming."
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Full disclosure: I am one of those 31,000 scientists.
Further disclosure: A significant number of that IPCC group of "2500 scientists" have asked to have their names removed from that list. But the IPCC insisted on keeping their names on the list -- despite their protests. The actual number of scientists supporting IPCC conclusions is significantly less than 2500.
IOW, that "2500" number is, itself a lie.
Yep it’s getting colder.
I predict it’s going to be very cold in America in December, January, and February. Early in March we may see some warming. Early to mid-April will have changeable weather. By mid-May, we will have a steady warming trend up through the end of August/early September. Then by mid-Sept. we may see evidence of global cooling again.
I suspect that this crime will lose the Dems as many seats as Obamacare come next November.
Lord Monckton’s summary of Climategate and its issues Excellent!
NIH authorizes use of first human embryonic stem cells under new policy
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Thanks neverdem, and thanks Ernest for these:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2397804/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2398974/posts
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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 that "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. She oversaw the destruction of Environmental Protection Agency computer files in brazen violation of a federal judge's order during the Clinton years requiring the agency to preserve its records.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/all_the_prez_climategate_deniers_zYFrmzZLmD366k4Ln6zpON#ixzz0YcxoISMh
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"The Science Is Settled"
Yep, it suuuuuuure is.
"The Science Is Settled"
"Trust me, E=mc3. No - really."
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