Big bucks riding on data [Leaked e-mails cast doubt on global-warming strategy]

Toronto Sun ^ | 2009-11-25 | Lorrie Goldstein

[Clive]

While Al Gore was preaching to the faithful at $500 a pop in Toronto last night, the explosive news on climate change leading up to the huge UN meeting starting Dec. 7 in Copenhagen was happening elsewhere.

In what has been dubbed "Climategate," but more accurately resembles the surreptitious release of the Pentagon papers on the Vietnam war, computer hackers last week broke into the files of one of the world's leading climate monitoring agencies at the U.K.'s University of East Anglia.

They then aired over the Internet the self-described "dirty laundry" of many of the world's leading mainstream climate scientists.

The thousands of e-mails and other documents going back over a decade have prompted calls in the U.K. and U.S. for public inquiries into the controversial material and the security breach that led to its release.

The revelations have led to a tsunami of analysis and commentary in the climate blogosphere, which is far ahead of the mainstream media on the story. That isn't surprising given the documents call into question much of the current orthodoxy on global warming many media have inaccurately reported as undisputed fact for years.

One e-mail reveals leading British climatologist Phil Jones of UEA writing in November 1999 about using a "trick" to "hide the decline" in global temperatures.

Jones said in a statement he used the word "trick" in the sense of "a clever thing to do" and with no intent to deceive.

In another startling e-mail, U.S. climatologist Kevin Trenberth of the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research, commenting last month on the fact global temperatures haven't risen as they should have in recent years if the theory of man-made global warming is correct, wrote: "The fact is that we can't account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can't ... Our observing system is inadequate."

Trenberth has said he feels violated by the release of his correspondence and that his comments are being reported out of context and selectively.

Similar complaints by other climate scientists are unlikely to quell the controversy and not only because many previously argued the dip in global temperatures since 1998, while man-made carbon dioxide emissions have continued to rise, was insignificant.

The documents also show prominent British and American climate scientists discussing how to avoid disclosing their data to requests under their countries' freedom of information laws, including deleting information. This is concerning because sharing original data with fellow scientists is key to verifying research, since it allows others to independently replicate the results.

HIDE PAPERS

The documents reveal climate scientists plotting to keep scientific papers they disagree with from being published and how to discredit scientists and scientific journals of which they disapprove.

Others, critics charge, show climate scientists committing the cardinal scientific sin of manipulating the data to fit their theories, instead of the reverse.

Some e-mails simply show climate scientists can be jerks -- labelling opponents "idiots," pronouncing themselves happy over the death of an unpopular colleague and fantasizing about punching out a skeptic.

Supporters insist all this simply shows science is a messy business, doesn't prove any conspiracy to hide the truth and that too much other research has been done to discredit mainstream climate theory.

But that misses the point. Much of this research -- on which tens of billions of public dollars have been spent worldwide over decades -- is the foundation upon which governments are about to put a price on emitting carbon dioxide. The result will be a massive increase in the cost of living for virtually everyone in the developed world.

Copenhagen will be a negotiation about transferring billions of dollars of wealth from the developed world to the developing one, with no guarantees it will help the planet.

That's what this controversy is really all about.

[Clive]

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[Marie]

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[screaminsunshine]

What a surprise. Globaloney is a HOAX, FRAUD!

[Bon mots]

Really Scary News From Planet Gore! (This is totally serial!)

Click on either of the images below to see the idiot Goracle make one foolish proclamation after another...
He is the left's man of science

The Polar Ice Cap Will Be GONE in 5 Years!"

(It will not. In fact, right after Gore made this silly proclamation it was found that the North Polar ice cap has significantly GROWN in both area and thickness.)

"The center of the Earth is extremely hot, several million degrees..."

(It is not! The center of the earth is only estimated to be between 4000 and 6000 degrees.)
:)

In the above clip, not only does Gore claim that the earth's core is hotter than the surface of the sun, but he says that we have invented drill bits that do not melt in that heat. What planet is this cretin from?

[shalom aleichem]

Yes, this is main stream media, albeit foreign. Ernest Hemmingway’s paper

[WKUHilltopper]

I guess they’ll be discounting that 500 bucks a plate once this fakery becomes more public knowledge.

[SkyPilot]

What do ACORN and Global Warming scam criminals have in common?

ACORN Docs Pulled from Dumpster

The "Community Organizer" not only worked for the criminal enterprise ACORN, he is trying to ram through Global Warming Scam and Tax on the American people.

At least we can say he is consistently evil and corrupt.

[UCFRoadWarrior]

Now, if we can just get Global Warming’s obnoxious cousins....Free Trader Globalists....to admit that Free Trade is a scam, too....

The only three things Al Gore went public on in his political career was the Global Warming Hoax, Inventing the Internet, and Free Trade (NAFTA).....and 100% proof he lied royally about the first two....

[SkyPilot]

"The center of the Earth is extremely hot, several million degrees..." - - ManBearPig Gore

The way Al is going now, he might just get to experience it first hand.

[Admin Moderator]

Please don’t post profanity

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Lorrie gets it.

[TStro]

Wrong. I thought it was a hoax. Now we know it was a criminal conspiracy.

[fanfan]

Thanks for the ping, Clive.

[eyeamok]

Every single person involved should be put on trial for TREASON , then Execute the whole bunch.

[uncbob]

Jones said in a statement he used the word "trick" in the sense of "a clever thing to do" and with no intent to deceive.

Bill Clinton ought to sue this guy for stealing his parsing of the English Language

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[GOPJ]

Thanks for the ping.

[DTA]

With Al Gore and AWG scammers the term “living high off the hog” term gets the twist,

http://www.snopes.com/politics/bush/house.asp

hogs live high off us instead.

Al Gore is a grifter hired by those who want to take money out of your and my pocket.

Canada is net producer of Oxygen. Under AWG scheme, Canada’s taxpayers have to pay Carbon ransom for NON-EXISTING Carbon polution.

AWG is a fraud, with premeditated intent to defraud.
If a Deadhead like Gore got paid $100 to peddle it,one can only imagine huge money at stake in this scam. Hundreds of billions of dollars.

Mind the Canadian media and how they try to ignore Climategate.