Newspapers Retract 'Climategate' Claims, but Damage Still Done

Newsweek ^ | 06/25/2010 | Sharon Begley

[Ultra Sonic 007]

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...not only did British investigators clear the East Anglia scientist at the center of it all, Phil Jones, of scientific impropriety and dishonesty in April, an investigation at Penn State cleared PSU climatologist Michael Mann of “falsifying or suppressing data, intending to delete or conceal e-mails and information, and misusing privileged or confidential information” in February.

In perhaps the biggest backpedaling, The Sunday Times of London, which led the media pack in charging that IPCC reports were full of egregious (and probably intentional) errors, retracted its central claim—namely, that the IPCC statement that up to 40 percent of the Amazonian rainforest could be vulnerable to climate change was “unsubstantiated.” The Times also admitted that it had totally twisted the remarks of one forest expert to make it sound as if he agreed that the IPCC had screwed up, when he said no such thing.

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[Mojave]

http://climaterealists.com/index.php

[Darkwolf377]

AGW is the greatest SCAM in earths history to date.

For all your bluster you're not a very good reader, since that was my point.

And what's with getting all huffy about the word "WE", lighten up, Francis.

[TigersEye]

...and here is the problem: Neither of these articles have anything to do whatsoever with climategate. It is a subtle misdirection, she opens up by talking about climategate then mentions the two article retractions, but there is no link between the two.

She's not the only one attempting that misdirection. It's going on right here on FR.

[Darkwolf377]

Good site!

[Crim]

“lighten up, Francis.”

Dont call me francis!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrllCZw8jiM

*grin*

[Darkwolf377]

Any of you homos touch my emails...and WE’ll kill ya! :P

[Darkwolf377]

Any of you homos touch my climate emails...and WE’ll kill ya! :P

[TigersEye]

To claim that climategate is now rendered false by two newspaper’s retractions about a separate issue, and to go on and claim that the AR4 actually isn’t full of mistakes, is a lie.

Thanks for boiling it all down to one bottom line.

[Deagle]

When I believe the media outlets, then I will believe Global Warming...

[agere_contra]

not only did British investigators clear the East Anglia scientist at the center of it all, Phil Jones, of scientific impropriety and dishonesty in April

They cleared the CRU of deliberate scientific malfeasance.

And here's the thing. A civil body with no mandate from the Crown has no competence to declare motive. If they did, their opionion could be held to be libellous.

[rambo316]

And it turns out the main inventor of this hoax, algore, is a rapist at heart. NYPost has the audio of the victim’s horrifying experience at the hands of the goron in his hotel room.

[TheThinker]

I’m not surprised Michael Mann and others have been cleared. The legal system is mostly bought and paid for by the Democratic Party.

[KC_Conspirator]

Newsweak lies and lies and lies and lies. And this article is a lie. Its been an official propaganda arm of the DNC since the early 2000’s.

[Tribune7]

The PSU investigation seems a bit of a white-wash

[FreedomPoster]

When news of PSU self-investigating came out, everyone here predicted that sort of an outcome.

[Beowulf]

fyi

[steelyourfaith]

Thanx !

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[Reeses]

Get off me you big lummox!

[LS]

"I’m not surprised Michael Mann and others have been cleared. The legal system is mostly bought and paid for by the Democratic Party."

I could be wrong on this, but it was my understanding that Mann was under investigation, not from the "legal system," but from Penn State University on complaints that he deliberately and intentionally fabricated climate change data. The University committee was unable to prove this---which in a university setting is critical. You cannot have legitimate free thought without the ability to make legitimate mistakes. Now, I don't think these were legitimate mistakes, but the bar of proof in an academic setting is vastly higher than in a courtroom. This is what makes the rather watered down language associated with Michael Bellesiles's fraud about guns a few years ago so astounding, that even then they ultimately said, "We think the guy fudged data." In Mann's case, they couldn't prove deliberate fudging---but that in no way suggests his data was "clean."

[StAnDeliver]

"She actually only quotes one paper (references another German paper), and here is the problem: Neither of these articles have anything to do whatsoever with climategate. It is a subtle misdirection, she opens up by talking about climategate then mentions the two article retractions, but there is no link between the two...This mistake invalidates the entire point of the article, but the mistakes don’t stop there."

This was the first thing I noticed too -- adopting the known Eurojourno fraud 'technique' of assigning blame/regret to the cause celebre above the fold, and then substituting after the lead. Bait & switch for the vast majority of good-sheep pEU's who skim the front page and don't read past the jumps.

The real problem here is that this is a trial balloon to restart the RICO scheme known as global warming to provide cover for Bobo's cap-and-charade bill.