Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 03/07/2010 10:16:27 AM PST by RatherBiased.com
It is increasingly clear that the leak of the internal emails and documents of the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in November has done for the climate change debate what the Pentagon Papers did for the Vietnam war debate 40 years ago—changed the narrative decisively. Additional revelations of unethical behavior, errors, and serial exaggeration in climate science are rolling out on an almost daily basis, and there is good reason to expect more.
The U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), hitherto the gold standard in climate science, is under fire for shoddy work and facing calls for a serious shakeup. The U.S. Climate Action Partnership, the self-serving coalition of environmentalists and big business hoping to create a carbon cartel, is falling apart in the wake of the collapse of any prospect of enacting cap and trade in Congress.
Meanwhile, the climate campaign’s fallback plan to have the EPA regulate greenhouse gas emissions through the cumbersome Clean Air Act is generating bipartisan opposition. The British media—even the left-leaning, climate alarmists of the Guardian and BBC—are turning on the climate campaign with a vengeance. The somnolent American media, which have done as poor a job reporting about climate change as they did on John Edwards, have largely averted their gaze from the inconvenient meltdown of the climate campaign, but the rock solid edifice in the newsrooms is cracking.
Al Gore was conspicuously missing in action before surfacing with a long article in the New York Times on February 28, reiterating his familiar parade of horribles: The sea level will rise! Monster storms! Climate refugees in the hundreds of millions! Political chaos the world over! It was the rhetorical equivalent of stamping his feet and saying “It is too so!”
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This is a great article that really sums up how the enviroleft is finally declining. Vigilance is still mandatory however.
with pictures that are a kick!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2465637/posts
Still...the MSM soldiers on. The usual suspects, the NYTIMES, WAPO, NBC, etc...still bring up climategate only to dismiss it.
It’s a blackout of points of view, which differ from the Goracle.
Don’t you just HATE the MSM?
| The lingering question is whether the collapse of the climate campaign is also a sign of a broader collapse in public enthusiasm for environmentalism in general.
Scientists — real scientists — need to understand that this hoax was perpetrated under their flag. Unless they want to join used-car salesmen and congressmen at the bottom of the trust-heap, they need to clean house quickly and loudly. |
The warmists did come scary close to achieving their victory. In fact, judging by the lack of news about the recent scandals concerning the warmists in the mainstream media, they have by no means given up. But it’s getting harder and harder for many people not to simply laugh at these charlatans. They’ve been predicting ever warmer temps for the last twenty years only to acknowledge that there’s been no increase for the last fifteen. Now even apathetic types probably groan when they see Gore’s mug on tv.
Real scientists have been speaking out against this since 1999. Many of them have had their careers destroyed.
Everyone that pays for electricity should DEMAND from their provider that they look into this. They should DEMAND that they not pay for wasteful renewable energy schemes, carbon trading, and any new power plant that attempts to control carbon or burn biofuels.
In the end the power companies have a fiduciary responsibility to you the rate payer. Make them sweat!
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Unless the scientific community ruthlessly condemns and expels the charlatans who perpetrated this hoax, it is science itself — and public support for science — that will take the hit. We've been hearing for years that "the science is settled... 2,500 scientists say... there is scientific consensus..." and so on. Now we find out that "science" lies.