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Climate Change E-Mails Cry Out for a National Conversation
Fox News ^ | November 30, 2009 | John R. Lott Jr.

Posted on 11/30/2009 5:46:01 PM PST by JohnRLott

With the Copenhagen climate talks starting next week, climate-gate keeps getting worse. There is no precedent for so many academics engaging in coordinated efforts to distort research for political ends. The problems go well beyond deleting e-mails to prevent their disclosure from a Freedom of Information Act request. The UN claims that “there is ‘virtually no possibility’ of a few scientists” biasing their reports. But it doesn’t just involve a few minor figures: implicated are the most powerful and well placed people in academia -- heads of departments and centers.

The Climatic Research Unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia, which has been at the center of the scandal, has been incredibly influential in the global warming debate. The CRU collected the world's most extensive surface temperature data set by far and its research and mathematical models formed the basis of the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's 2007 report.

But the CRU’s temperature data and all of the research done with it are now in question. The leaked e-mails show that the scientists at the CRU don’t know how their data was put together. . . .

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: climaquiddick; climatechange; climategate; foxnews; globalwarming; hadleycru; johnlott; michaelmann; philjones; tomwigley; un; unitednations
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1 posted on 11/30/2009 5:46:04 PM PST by JohnRLott
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Beam me to Planet Gore !

2 posted on 11/30/2009 5:48:41 PM PST by steelyourfaith (Time to prosecute Al Gore now that fellow scam artist Bernie Madoff is in stir.)
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To: JohnRLott

How come the same nitwits who don’t trust computers for voting think computer climate models are infallible?


3 posted on 11/30/2009 5:50:00 PM PST by muir_redwoods (Obama: The Fresh Prince of Bill Ayers)
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To: JohnRLott

Arrest!Prosecute! Imprison! That is what we do to frauds and extortionists in America.


4 posted on 11/30/2009 5:50:22 PM PST by o_zarkman44
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To: JohnRLott

Thanks for weighing in on this topic, Dr. Lott.

Say hello to Jason, for us.


5 posted on 11/30/2009 5:50:23 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (Fight Crime. Shoot Back.)
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To: JohnRLott
The weakness of "peer review" is exposed here. The fraudsters WERE the "peers" and controlled the peer review process.
6 posted on 11/30/2009 5:54:07 PM PST by PapaBear3625 (Public healthcare looks like it will work as well as public housing did.)
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To: JohnRLott
I think we already had the "national conversation." It consisted of a single two-word sentence: "We won."
7 posted on 11/30/2009 5:54:38 PM PST by Steely Tom (Obama goes on long after the thrill of Obama is gone)
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To: steelyourfaith

“Global warming” is a total hoax contrived to get control of our economy and YOUR life!!!


8 posted on 11/30/2009 5:56:33 PM PST by londonfog
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To: muir_redwoods

Because those same nitwits’ control of the climate computers is complete and the computers will tell them what they want, not so much with election computers.


9 posted on 11/30/2009 5:58:34 PM PST by arthurus ("If you don't believe in shooting abortionists, don't shoot an abortionist." -Ann C.)
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To: JohnRLott

Hey, rather than having their summit in Copenhagen, why not have it in a tent at the North Pole since the weather is warm?


10 posted on 11/30/2009 6:04:55 PM PST by HarleyD
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To: JohnRLott

One month ago “Climategate” wasn’t even a word. Now it will get over 12,000,00 hits on Google. Climategate is the biggest scam in history.


11 posted on 11/30/2009 6:07:40 PM PST by LiberConservative (0bama was elected to lead, not to bow.)
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To: londonfog
“Global warming” is a total hoax contrived to get control of our economy and YOUR life!!!

Throughout history soothsayers have used changing climates to impose taxes upon their followers and to wage war against unbelievers. It was always the crisis of their time, the end of the world, and the solution was always to give up something of value to the soothsayers who have discovered the means to solve the problem.

Once upon a time they asked for the virgin daughters, the fatted calf, the best of the harvest. Today they still seek out to take our children through their control of education, to take the best of the harvest through the imposition of harsh taxes, and in return they once again promise to a solution to a problem, a problem over which they have no control and no solution.

On the flip side, in this day and age, there are no virgin daughters left to give them. Their educational and cultural policies have stolen the innocence of childhood of even that singular gift.

12 posted on 11/30/2009 6:07:44 PM PST by coconutt2000 (NO MORE PEACE FOR OIL!!! DOWN WITH TYRANTS, TERRORISTS, AND TIMIDCRATS!!!! (3-T's For World Peace))
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In Mexico, they are airing commercials (save the Polar Bears and the like) in both Spanish and English calling it “Hopenhagen.”

I propose “Hopelesshagen” — it fits better and is more accurate.


13 posted on 11/30/2009 6:12:20 PM PST by freedumb2003 (Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks. Sic semper tyrannis)
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The Climatic Research Unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia, which has been at the center of the scandal, has been incredibly influential in the Global Warming™ debate debacle.

Fixed it.

14 posted on 11/30/2009 6:19:35 PM PST by Mr_Moonlight
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To: coconutt2000

Astute and profound. These “flat earth” globalist environmentalist liars need to raise birds in prison for life.


15 posted on 11/30/2009 6:28:39 PM PST by londonfog
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To: JohnRLott

MSM climategate deniers never get around to doing what John Lott does well in this piece: directly quoting the source material. Vivid, compelling quotes reveal the men working the levers behind the curtain.


16 posted on 11/30/2009 6:42:59 PM PST by TChad
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To: JohnRLott

It appears that Jones and Mann may have led a conspiracy — insofar as they apparently tried to rig the peer review process to block publication of studies that were authored by dissenters from the Jones/Mann/IPCC orthodoxy.

One wonders if any of the blocked authors have suffered injuries sufficient to support a common-law tort action or even a RICO suit against Jones, Mann and their putative co-conspirators?


17 posted on 11/30/2009 6:51:37 PM PST by Hawthorn
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One wonders if any of the blocked authors have suffered injuries sufficient to support a common-law tort action or even a RICO suit against Jones, Mann and their putative co-conspirators?


This approach might just be the only way to get the fraud more public while raking these so called scientists over the coals.

MSM is digging in to marginalize or ignore this fraud. Who will be in Copenhagen to get this fraud in the faces of the attendees?? So far it appears that only believers are likely to be there. Even our official government stand support this fraud.


18 posted on 11/30/2009 7:43:05 PM PST by Joan Kerrey (The bigger the government = The smaller the people)
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To: LiberConservative

I just searched the CNN website and got ZERO hits for Climategate. I guess they haven’t mentioned the word a single time in any of their programs.


19 posted on 11/30/2009 7:53:30 PM PST by o2bfree (This president is giving me a headache!)
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To: LiberConservative

Its more on Google now. If you go to www.bing.com, its at least 57,000,000 million.


20 posted on 11/30/2009 8:20:43 PM PST by jdokey
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