Delingpole: Wikipedia Airbrushes List of Climate Sceptic Scientists Out of History

Breitbart ^ | 3/8/2020 | James Delingpole

[RightGeek]

Wikipedia has deleted its ‘List of Scientists Who Disagree with the Scientific Consensus on Global Warming’.

Stalin — who set the template for airbrushing inconvenient people out of history — would no doubt have heartily approved of this wanton act of censorship.

But what would probably have pleased him more is the magnificently twisted justification offered by the editor responsible.

“The result was delete. This is because I see a consensus here that there is no value in having a list that combines the qualities of a) being a scientist, in the general sense of that word, and b) disagreeing with the scientific consensus on global warming.”

What this Wikipedia editor is saying, in other words, is that if you’re a scientist who doesn’t believe in global warming then that automatically makes you not a scientist.

In fact many tens of thousands of scientists are sceptical of catastrophic man-made global warming theory, including some of the most eminent experts in the field, among them physicists Dr Richard Lindzen of MIT and Dr Will Happer of Princeton.

But the kind of intolerant leftists who tend to edit Wikipedia pages don’t want you to know this.

[aimhigh]

Wait until they begin persecuting Christians, Christian websites, Bible sites, will all eventually disappear.

[FLT-bird]

They’ve been doing this for years. This is an article from 2009 I remember reading.

http://sciencecanada.blogspot.com/2009/12/wikipedias-climate-doctor.html

[Old Man From WV]

The internet has been great but I’ve said all along that relying on it for factual, historical information is not wise when certain facts can easily be erased with a delete key. There are way too many who still rely on Wikipedia for honest, factual information.

[Verginius Rufus]

What a coincidence. Exactly 400 years ago Wikipedia airbrushed out its list of scientists who doubted the scientific consensus on the geocentric model of the solar system.

[Wuli]

ping

[CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC]

Regarding Crichton's observation on newspapers:

        "If you don't read the newspapers, you are uninformed;
        If you do read the newspapers, you are misinformed."
            ---Mark Twain, longtime newspaper writer/editor, before he was a famous author

[CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC]

Thanks for those 2 links. Here's another saved copy:

https://list.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_scientists_who_disagree_with_the_scientific_consensus_on_global_warming

Did you notice the people responding to the tweet who said they were regular donators to wikipedia, who would now never donate again?

[CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC]

A few points here:

• Not only did WP delete the article, they tried to wipe it completely from the face of the earth by providing no links to any copies or archives of it, including the historical log of old versions that people often use to see when an article changed, who changed it and exactly what lines changed.
• Not only did they do a "Delete," but they did a "Delete and Salt" - meaning that the list is automatically prevented from being re-created, and any similar list will be manually killed as soon as its presence is detected. The "salting" is a historical reference to what ancient armies did to civilizations they wanted to utterly annihilate, far past the military defeat and slaughter and enslavement. They would further salt the agricultural fields of the defeated peoples, so that nothing would grow there for generations (like Rome did to Carthage). Salt was extremely expensive back then (Roman soldiers were even paid in salt for a time), so this was a case of "NO EXPENSE is too great in destroying this former enemy utterly and forever!!"
• Those Wikipediophile Editors who voted for Deletion made nasty little gibes at some of the names on the list, to denigrate their scientific credentials. One example was multiple references to "... an astronaut? LOL!!!" So after searching for an undeleted copy of the allegedly offensive article, I just had to look up exactly which astronaut was the source of their mirthful derision.
  Turns out it was Harrison Schmitt, an Apollo 17 astronaut, who is among other things: A geologist, a professor of engineering physics at UW-Madison, the only professional scientist to have flown beyond low Earth orbit and to have visited the Moon, a former US Senator (R-NM) who chaired the Senate Science, Technology & Space Subcommittee, and much more.
• So, lemme see --- Harrison Schmitt doesn't qualify as a "scientist" because he was also an astronaut?? The sheer hypocrisy of these creeps! Have they ever looked at their own lists of thousands & thousands of "climate experts" around the world who all buy into the UN/IPCC hysteria? Well, once upon a time I actually did read names on the IPCC list. I still remember whose name I first laid eyes upon - it was the current "Minister of Agriculture" for Botswana. Wow! How can you find a more unimpeachable source of climate change expertise than that? Are you all impressed. or what?

[daniel1212]

Did you notice the people responding to the tweet who said they were regular donators to wikipedia, who would now never donate again?

Based upon my experience is becoming more like a cult, in which a plethora of policies provide support for what is actually censorship of conservative info.