Posted on 12/24/2009 11:23:09 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The global warming jamboree in Copenhagen was surely the most outlandish foray into intellectual fantasizing since the fourth-century Christian bishops assembled in 325 AD for the Council of Nicaea to debate whether God the Father was supreme or had to share equal status in the pecking order of eternity with his Son and the Holy Ghost.
Shortly before the Copenhagen summit, the proponents of anthropogenic global warming (AGW) were embarrassed by a whistleblower who put on the Web more than a thousand e-mails either sent from or received at the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit, headed by Dr. Phil Jones. The CRU was founded in 1971 with funding from sources including Shell and British Petroleum. It became one of the climate-modeling grant mills supplying tainted data from which the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has concocted its reports.
Deceitful manipulation of data, concealment or straightforward destruction of inconvenient evidence, vindictive conspiracies to silence critics, are par for the course in all scientific debate. But in displaying all these characteristics, the CRU e-mails graphically undermine the claim of the Warmers that they command the moral as well as scientific high ground. It has been a standard ploy of the Warmers to revile the skeptics as whores of the energy industry, swaddled in munificent grants and with large personal stakes in discrediting AGW. Actually, the precise opposite is true. Billions in funding and research grants sluice into the big climate-modeling enterprises and a vast archipelago of research departments and "institutes of climate change" across academia. It's where the money is. Skepticism, particularly for a young climatologist or atmospheric physicist, can be a career breaker.(continued)
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
To make sure I’m clear: I’m not disputing Cockburn’s climate-science point, far from it in fact. I’m just commenting on his first-and-last paragraph rhetorical framing.
Check out Al Gore: A User's Manual, by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair, first published in the U.K. in 2000. Cockburn has been arguing for years that AGW is pure B.S. and that Al Gore's embrace of AGW is first and foremost about Gore's personal quest for power.
(Cockburn called the book a user's manual on the grounds that every expensive and complex tool requires a user's manual, and Gore is a real tool.)
Good for Cockburn, he has been on to the fraud for a long time. I rarely agree with him, but he nails it on this one.
He probably threw that in there so that the lefty freaks would pay attention.
ClimateGate: 30 years in the making ( PDF File with great Detail Available)
It is a less than 1 meg graphical timeline...PDF file.
See link at #26.
Thanks for that link, the info shall be passed on.
Perzackly.
Very nice summary!
LOL!
Here we are in our second week of as many early blizzards and this non-scientist can’t see the simple fact that such extreme weather events are the very hallmarks of global warming induced global climate change?
I’m tired of listening to these movie review style reports being treated as anything other than mere gossipy chatter among the loser class.
It’s 72F in my part of Nashville right now and over 60F in the attic.
My water heater has begun to steam.
WE NEED SOME GLOBAL WARMING NOW
Haul out the shovels,
Turn up the heat before we
All freeze again.
Put on the long johns,
I may be seeing things but
Its snowing out now...
For we need some Global Warming,
Right this very minute,
Frost is on the window,
Temperatures a’plummet,
Yes, we need some Global Warming,
Right this very minute,
This isnt just a simple flurry,
Its non-stop, we are starting to worry
So stoke up the fireplace,
Build up the highest flame that
Weve ever seen.
Algores a fruitcake,
Its time we dumped his “theory”-
Coolings happening now.
‘Cuz we cant dance to his music,
Afford what he is after.
We need a little rising,
Of that ol thermometer,
So we dont get all snappy
B*tching at each other-
We need some Global Warming now.
For Ive grown a whole lot meaner,
Grown a whole lot colder,
Grown a whole lot madder,
Grown a whole lot bolder,
And I dont need Fat Algore
Look o’er my shoulder-
We need some Global Warming now...
Deceitful manipulation of data, concealment or straightforward destruction of inconvenient evidence, vindictive conspiracies to silence critics, are par for the course in all scientific debate. But in displaying all these characteristics, the CRU e-mails graphically undermine the claim of the Warmers that they command the moral as well as scientific high ground. It has been a standard ploy of the Warmers to revile the skeptics as whores of the energy industry, swaddled in munificent grants and with large personal stakes in discrediting AGW. Actually, the precise opposite is true. Billions in funding and research grants sluice into the big climate-modeling enterprises and a vast archipelago of research departments and "institutes of climate change" across academia. It's where the money is. Skepticism, particularly for a young climatologist or atmospheric physicist, can be a career breaker.On the nose! Thanks 2ndDivisionVet (and thanks neverdem for the ping).
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