Son of Log Lady !
Posted on 12/05/2009 7:21:27 AM PST by ClimateDepot.com
A professor who is accusing global warming skeptics of engaging in "tabloid-style character assassination” of scientists, called an American climate skeptic “an assh*le” on the December 4, 2009 live broadcast of BBC's Newsnight program.
“What an assh*le!” declared Professor Watson at the end of the contentious debate with Climate Depot's executive editor Marc Morano. A clearly agitated Watson had earlier shouted to Morano “will you shut up.”
Video of BBC “As*h*le” clip is here.
Full one-on-one BBC debate segment between Prof. Watson and Climate Depot's Morano is here in two parts.
The remark was broadcast live on BBC and prompted an on-air apology to viewers from the BBC later in the program for the offensive language.
Watson (Email: a.watson@uea.ac.uk) is a professor at the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia, which was the source of the disclosed files. Watson's emails appear in the hacked Climategate files.
During the live debate, Morano challenged Professor Watson for being in “denial” over the importance of Climategate and noted that “you have to feel sorry for Professor Watson.”
“[Watson's] colleague, [Professor] Mike Hulme at the University of East Anglia is saying this is authoritarian science, he is suggesting the [UN] IPCC should be disbanded based on what Climategate reveals," Morano said.
"[UK environmentalist] George Monbiot is saying many of his friend in the environmental and the climate fear promoting business -- as Professor Watson is part of -- are in denial. You have to feel sorry for Professor Watson in many ways here,” Morano explained.
A clearly agitated Watson called Morano his “psychic colleague" and blurted out “Will you shut up just a second!?”
Morano summed up his views on what ClimateGate reveals during the debate. “It exposes the manufactured consensus. Your fellow colleagues are saying this,” Morano said to Watson.
Morano also noted that President “Obama is probably attending [the UN Conference] because they are circling the wagons because of the magnitude of this scandal.” (See: 'Welcome to the delayers': Obama's 'half-hearted climate efforts' welcomed by skeptics – Nov.17, 2009)
“You have UN scientists turning on UN scientists. This is the upper echelon of the UN and it has been exposed as the best science that politics and activism can manufacture. Prof. Watson's whole argument is 'trust me, take my word for it,'” Morano added.
Professor Phil Jones, Watson's colleague, has temporally stepped down pending an investigation into the Climategate scandal, which many observers say exposes data manipulation, suppression of peer-review process, blacklisting, data destruction, willful violation of Freedom of Information Act requests. [Editor's Note: Climate Depot's Morano, who BBC described as “one of America's leading climate change skeptics,” is also cited in the released Climategate files. On July 23, 2009, AP reporter Seth Borenstein asked the Climategate scientist about a “a paper in JGR (Journal of Geophysical Research) today that Marc Morano is hyping wildly.” Penn State Professor Michael Mann (who is now under investigation) apparently wrote back to Borenstein: “The aptly named Marc 'Morano' has fallen for it!”]
Professor Andrew Watson of the University of East Anglia, the University at the center of the Climategate controversy, has come to the defense of his colleagues this week and is claiming that the whole email and data release is much ado about nothing.
But other scientists disagree. One of Watson's colleagues at the University of East Anglia, Professor Mike Hulme, declared Climategate reveals climate science had become 'too partisan, too centralized.” Hulme, a climate scientist who was listed as “the 10th most cited author in the world in the field of climate change, does not mince words on the magnitude of the scandal.
Hulme has even suggested that the UN IPCC has run its course. ”
“It is possible that climate science has become too partisan, too centralized. The tribalism that some of the leaked emails display is something more usually associated with social organization within primitive cultures,” Hulme wrote on November 27, 2009.
“It is also possible that the institutional innovation that has been the [UN] I.P.C.C. has run its course. “The I.P.C.C. itself, through its structural tendency to politicize climate change science, has perhaps helped to foster a more authoritarian and exclusive form of knowledge production,” Hulme explained.
Other prominent scientists have weighed in as well.
UN IPCC contributing author Dr. Eduardo Zorita wrote on November 26, 2009 that the three UN scientists at the center of the Climategate storm “should be barred from the IPCC process.”
“Michael Mann, Phil Jones and Stefan Rahmstorf should be barred from the IPCC process,” Zorita wrote. “The scientific assessments in which they may take part are not credible anymore."
“By writing these lines I will just probably achieve that a few of my future studies will, again, not see the light of publication," Zorita candidly admits, a reference to the ClimateGate emails discussing how to suppress data and scientific studies that do not agree with the UN IPCC views. Also see: Another UN IPCC scientist speaks out: Prof. Aynsley Kellow says colleagues showed 'willingness to manipulate raw data to suit predetermined results' - CBS News
Phil Jones, the man at the has left many unanswered questions about his actions. See: Caught in Another Untruth? THEN: UN IPCC's Phil Jones, Dec 3, 2008: 'About 2 months ago I deleted loads of emails, so have very little – if anything at all' - NOW: UN IPCC's Phil Jones, Nov 24, 2009: 'We've not deleted any emails or data here at CRU'
The media is now starting to investigate the data handling at the center of Climategate. See: BBC: CRU's programming 'way below expected standards'
Climategate's impact is so deep that even the top UN scientists at the heart of the scandal have begun to turn on each other. See: J'accuse! Jones vs. Mann: Climategate's Phil Jones accused of making error of judgment by his colleague Michael Mann - 'I in no way endorse what was in that email'...could not 'justify'
Mann sez, “I just pulled this out of my ... .”
Ha ha. There’s going to be a lot more Ed Begley moments in the future. I really hope it is filmed when Al Gore finally loses it, jumping up and down on an anchorman’s desk and flinging his own feces around the studio like an ape.
Now that sounds so scientific, so reasoned. These guys aren’t used to having to deal with one on one confrontations. They are used to walking into the room full of intelligentsia and being treated like blessed oracles of truth.
Andrew Watson is “happy” and so is likely greatly interested in @$$40|3$.
The professor has a girly voice...
Prof. Watson calls Morano an ‘asshole’ on Newsnight
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8WDcQon9DY
We can’t let the MSM win this.
Best ClimateGate clips (show everybody you know):
Haha! These guys can’t hold their own in a debate, here’s another one with Piers Corbyn:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anHuOAXIl0M
He destroys the guy.
Well, ya know, if you had just the right covalent bonding with just the right particle ionization, it could precipitate the development of a crystalline structure and THE SKY COULD FALL!......../sarc
AW: Absolutely Not!"
LOL.
Typical liberal response. If you can’t win the debate, insult the debater.
s/[professor|scientist]/charlatan/ig
Pretty much sums up the Warmer's whole argument.
Typical vulgar lying "progressive"
Professor Watson shouts “...SHUT UP !...” at his BBC debate opponent. How ironic, Climate Alarmists had previously shutdown all non-conforming research, papers, debate, and IPCC input from Climate Skeptics and now illustrate their continued arrogance after their incompetence was revealed by an honest colleague at East Anglia in an information release! Watson is a CRUminal.
So, now they'll all need grant money again...and even more because they have to investigate two things....cheating and non cheating.
Gore was on Letterman last night...A taped show from November...Said he donated his half a mil from his Peace Award to some organization.
How does Gore pay for all the stuff he does....iN TRUTH, All he really does is "count" the money all the WAY TO THE BANK.
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