How government cash created the Climategate scandal

Herald Sun ^ | Monday, March 22, 2010 at 10:53pm | Andrew Bolt

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Australian climate scientist policy analyst Sonja Boehmer-Christiansen tells the British parliamentary inquiry into Climategate just how much global warming science is corrupted by politics and money. Excerpts:

I was peer reviewer for IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change)… Since 1998 I have been the editor of the journal, Energy & Environment (E&E) published by Multi-science, where I published my first papers on the IPCC. I interpreted the IPCC “consensus” as politically created in order to support energy technology and scientific agendas that in essence pre-existed the “warming-as -man-made catastrophe alarm."…

3.2 Scientific research as advocacy for an agenda (a coalition of interests, not a conspiracy,) was presented to the public and governments as protection of the planet… CRU, working for the UK government and hence the IPCC, was expected to support the hypothesis of man-made, dangerous warming caused by carbon dioxide, a hypothesis it had helped to formulate in the late 1980s…

3.3 ... In persuading policy makers and the public of this danger, the “hockey stick” became a major tool of persuasion, giving CRU a major role in the policy process at the national, EU and international level. This led to the growing politicisation of science in the interest, allegedly, of protecting the “the environment” and the planet. I observed and documented this phenomenon as the UK Government, European Commission, and World Bank increasingly needed the climate threat to justify their anti-carbon (and pro-nuclear) policies. In return climate science was generously funded and required to support rather than to question these policy objectives… Opponents were gradually starved of research opportunities or persuaded into silence. The apparent “scientific consensus” thus generated became a major tool of public persuasion…

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Thanks to Dr. Bogus Pachysandra for pointing out this article....

Also found at

Prison Planet

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fyi

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Might be interesting to see how Wikipedia plays this:

Climatic Research Unit email controversy

[Red Badger]

IOW, WE ARE VICTIMS, FEEL SORRY FOR US!................

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

You mean ...us ...the taxpayers?

[Tarpon]

Pssst, hey science buddy, want a government grant? Just produce the studies we want, doesn’t matter how you do it, just produce the right studies.

You think climate change is bad, it’s the whole rotten science grant core that is terrible. Start your quest with DDT and the lies told in Rachael Carson’s junk science book “Silent Spring”.

[gleeaikin]

I don’t care what Wiki or anybody else says, or whether climate change/warming is real or not. We need to stop lining the pockets of our enemies and non friends with oil money. We need to develop both our standard and renewable energy resources to keep our jobs and money at home.

[Red Badger]

No, it sounds as if the writer is blaming "politics and money" for corrupting the people responsible for Climategate. Like the episode of All in the Family where Meathead made a phone call and used a fictitious name to secretly send a message to a friend long distance without paying the phone company a dime. When Archie pointed it out as "stealing", Meathead, self-righteously claims he is a "victim of the system."..............

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And the UK Paper the Guardian has done something useful:

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Direct link with nice illustrated Index to the Guardian Work:

Guardian Special Investigation

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Money talks,
Suckers walk.
You can’t touch,
Gore’s lock box.

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From Prison Planet:

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The CRU case is not unique. Recent exposures have taken the lid off similar issues in the USA, the Netherlands, Australia, and possibly in Germany and Canada…

It is at least arguable that the real culprit is the theme- and project-based research funding system put in place in the 1980s and subsequently strengthened and tightened in the name of “policy relevance”.

This system, in making research funding conditional on demonstrating such relevance, has encouraged close ties with central Government bureaucracy. Some university research units have almost become wholly-owned subsidiaries of Government Departments. Their survival, and the livelihoods of their employees, depends on delivering what policy makers think they want. It becomes hazardous to speak truth to power… 

[Grampa Dave]

Gorebull Warming is fueled and heated up by our tax $’s and donations from those who front so called green energy products and other mythical green stuff like Mythanol.

[zeugma]

BFL

[BOBTHENAILER]

yep-——been knowing this for a long time.

It’s a green, green, green, green world

and we be paying for it up to now

and we be really paying for it when a Cap & Tax passes

[Carry_Okie]

Excellent piece.

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Tomorrow could be interesting....:

Science and Technology Committee

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The disclosure of climate data from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia

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Report to be published

The Committee will publish 'The disclosure of climate data from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia', HC 387-I, its Eighth Report of Session 2009-10, on Wednesday 31 March 2010 at 00.01am. Volume II, the oral and written evidence, will be published at 11am on the same day.

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wONDER IF WE WILL JUST GET A WHITEWASH?

[Red Badger]

wONDER IF WE WILL JUST GET A WHITEWASH?

If they try and fudge it this time they will be discovered relatively quickly. They would be a laughingstock forevermore............

[Marine_Uncle]

Thanks for the ping.