Posted on 12/08/2009 8:06:27 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
When you survey the trail of wreckage left by the climate emails crisis, three things become clear. The first is the tendency of those who claim to be the champions of climate science to minimise their importance. Those who have most to lose if the science is wrong have perversely sought to justify the secretive and chummy ethos that some of the emails reveal. If science is not transparent and accountable, it's not science.
I believe that all supporting data, codes and programmes should be made available as soon as an article is published in a peer-reviewed journal. That anyone should have to lodge a freedom of information request to obtain them is wrong. That the request should be turned down is worse. That a scientist suggests deleting material that might be covered by that request is unjustifiable. Everyone who values the scientific process should demand complete transparency, across all branches of science.
The second observation is the tendency of those who don't give a fig about science to maximise their importance. The denial industry, which has no interest in establishing the truth about global warming, insists that these emails, which concern three or four scientists and just one or two lines of evidence, destroy the entire canon of climate science.
Even if you were to exclude every line of evidence that could possibly be disputed – the proxy records, the computer models, the complex science of clouds and ocean currents – the evidence for man-made global warming would still be unequivocal. You can see it in the measured temperature record, which goes back to 1850; in the shrinkage of glaciers and the thinning of sea ice; in the responses of wild animals and plants and the rapidly changing crop zones.
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
“Facts”, “evidence”, “data” - those are just fancy words used to cover up racist, sexist, homophobia.
Check out the video.
This article started out pretty even handed and absolutely drove off the climate cliff! Amazing, they simply cannot help it...it’s like some malevolent controlling force grabbed ahold of their fingers and made them write bilge. Really remarkable.
Monbiot = Moonbat. He can’t help himself, he is insane with occasional bouts of lucidity.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403427/posts
This is straight from the talking points... and wrong. Twelve of the 26 clowns who wrote the screed report for the Copehagen party are up to their lying eyes in Climategate.
The truth is that this is a very big deal.
“Climate denial industry,” sounds ominous, stopping the rain, the wind, the seasons, the cycles of seasons. I hope some of these ignorant clowns are honestly deceived, and not pushing the warming scam so they can get laid by hairy vegetarians. Some of them have to know that everyone is going to get ripped off before this scam runs its course. Obamao and company are trying to screw over the little guys right now. In the end, the same power brokers who have benefited from the economic collapse, the ones who benefit from the destruction of Capitalism and the destruction of Western culture are the people who will walk away unscathed by the warming scam.
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