Posted on 12/02/2009 6:15:23 PM PST by ricks_place
A congressional hearing that was supposed to be a routine recap of global-warming science Wednesday turned into a fracas involving e-mails stolen from some prominent climate scientists.
The e-mails were stolen from the University of East Anglia in Britain, from one of the three labs in the world that constructs global temperature records. The private exchanges have become a goldmine for skeptics who argue that global warming is a plot rather than a real man-made problem.
At Wednesday's hearing before a House select committee, Rep. James Sensenbrenner (R-WI) called for an investigation of the e-mails. He said at best, official reports about global warming will now need to be reviewed.
"At worst, it's junk science and it's part of a massive international scientific fraud," he said. And not just fraud: "There's increasing evidence of scientific fascism that's going on. And I think, as policymakers who are making decisions about the state of the American economy for the next several generations, we ought to have accurate science."
President Obama's top science adviser, John Holdren, agreed that the e-mails should be thoroughly investigated. At issue is whether they provide evidence of scientific malfeasance, or just bad manners.
(Excerpt) Read more at npr.org ...
This was not science. It was/is an international agenda.
The hacker or insider who released this stream of evidence should receive the Nobel prize.....not the 0 in the White House. I wonder how much Al Gore has in his data base? Maybe a staffer will release his info or a hacker access his
Waterloo.
NPR has greyed out its comment section. Typical for gutless liberals.
As to the “warmer” issue, NPR must stand for NO Proof Required. Liberal Losers...
Not once in the article do they state what was in the emails. They are trying to isolate this story as a small portion of the science, but the results from this research as the primary basis of the UN report and the scientists involved are in at least three parts of the globe. So, I don’t know about SPECTRE or CHAOS, but isn’t that the definition of global conspiracy?
So, Senator. Yes, there is a global conspiracy and your party is so in bed with global warming that you have stopped all critical thinking. If there is truly convincing science, then the skeptics can repeat the analysis with the same data and get the same results - oh never mind, that data has been dumped. If it was settled science, there wouldn’t be thousands of scientists taking out NY Times ads to stop this group think march to socialism.
By the way Senator. If the EPA is able to regulate CO2 as a harmful gas, they are being given the authority to limit the number of human being in this country - since we are CO2 machines. Is it okay with you if we start this process by limiting your children’s reproductive ability? We need to cut emissions and I can think of no better target than your offspring.
Sorry. I apparently promoted Inslee to the Senate in the previous post. So either replace Senator with Rep of substitute Boxer for Inslee - it works either way.
Lord Monkton argues convincingly that they would have been compiled over a period of months - an act that would be of an insider.
Not sure, but would bet that it is. The over-riding factor is that emails were stolen! Who cares whether they reveal information that is true (not pertinent). The MSM and of course that includes government subsidized PBS will never report the truth. Unfortunate isn’t it...
While we wait for MSM to catch up on today’s news...read the blogs and become aware of what is actually going on. Eventually, the MSM will catch up (even if they do not want to)...
Heck, even if they do not cover the major stories, the news will get out and the world will know what the hell is going on. Thank goodness for the internet!
Stolen, stolen, stolen.
Actually, they were probably LEAKED.
First they were leaked to the BBC. Which sat on them for a month and did nothing.
Then they were posted to the internet, where bloggers did the job the press wouldn’t do.
The rest is history, however much NPR would like to deny it.
In Buffalo NY if you only read the Buffalo News for information, you would not yet know this scam has been busted, that resignations were taking place.
And they call them selves an un biased news paper
Tigers whore gets all the coverage
Deep throat who leaked the scam is not to be talked or written about
If those emails were passed through the routine internet...and not a VPN...they’re no more stolen
than a postcard in the mailroom....ANY mailserver administrator ....ANYWHERE in the world ...could easily have read them...and drawn the OBVIOUS conclusions regarding fraud...
Actually, I think you’re right! Someone in this system smelled a rat and decided that it worth the consequences to allow the public to know what was going on. If this is true, we should hold him/her up for an award! This was a major effort to open up this secretive society of scientists to some open scrutiny. Thank you whomever you are...
“If those emails were passed through the routine internet...and not a VPN...they’re no more stolen
than a postcard in the mailroom....ANY mailserver administrator ....ANYWHERE in the world ...could easily have read them...and drawn the OBVIOUS conclusions regarding fraud...”
I’m glad to see someone knows how email works—I’m always flabbergasted that people expect email to be private. Back in 1994, when I first got on the Internet, EVERYONE knew it was insecure. I recall sending a fake email, with a faked header and return address, using a USENET news reader, just to see if I could do it. It was easy.
Jon Stewart “reported” this Climate scam on Comedy Central tonight.......the train has LEFT the station.
“I’m glad to see someone knows how email works”
Ok good. The files aren’t really “emails” in the purest sense. They’re all individually numerically unique .txt files - not the kind of files produced by either mbox or maildir format.
Also, the files are completely void of any header information, indicating once again that they didn’t come directly from a “mail server”.
My conclusion is that they’re from an “archive system” - something like “mailArchiva”. That is a searchable archive that stores vast amounts of copies of “email content”
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