Some of the Latest Articles Discussing
Climategate:
Investors
Business Daily Editorial: "Climate Con Job"
“These scientists, if they can still be called that, have
successfully conned the world into believing that radical and costly
remediation is needed to stop the planet from overheating. They have
needlessly menaced people and taken taxpayer funds to perpetuate the
deception. They need to he held accountable.”
See entire article:
http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=513436
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Viscount Monckton: 'They Are Criminals"
“What have the mainstream news media said about the Climategate
affair?
Remarkably little. The few who have brought themselves to
comment, through gritted teeth, have said that all of this is a
storm in a teacup, and that their friends in the University of East
Anglia and elsewhere in the climatological community are good
people, really.
No, they’re not.
They’re criminals.”
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/viscount-monckton-on-global-warminggate-hey-are-criminals-pj
m-exclusive/?print=1
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Wall Street
Journal editorial: "Global Warming with the Lid Off"
“Some of those mentioned in the emails have responded to our
requests for comment by saying they must first chat with their
lawyers. Others have offered legal threats and personal invective.
Still others have said nothing at all. Those who have responded have
insisted that the emails reveal nothing more than trivial data
discrepancies and procedural debates.
“Yet all of these nonresponses manage to underscore what may be the
most revealing truth: That these scientists feel the public doesn't
have a right to know the basis for their climate-change predictions,
even as their governments prepare staggeringly expensive legislation
in response to them. “
See entire article:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704888404574547730924988354.html?mod=WSJ_hp_
mostpop_read
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Ian Murray:
"Three Things You Absolutely Must Know About Climategate"
“First, the scientists discuss manipulating data to get their
preferred results. The most prominently featured scientists are
paleoclimatologists, who reconstruct historical temperatures and who
were responsible for a series of reconstructions that seemed to show
a sharp rise in temperatures well above historical variation in
recent decades.
“Secondly,
scientists on several occasions discussed methods of subverting the
scientific peer review process to ensure that skeptical papers had
no access to publication.
“Finally, the
scientists worked to circumvent the Freedom of Information process
of the United Kingdom.”
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/three-things-you-absolutely-must-know-about-climategate/?prin
t=1
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Wall Street
Journal article by Keith Johnson:
"Climate Emails Stoke Debate"
“Phil Jones, the director of the East Anglia climate center,
suggested to climate scientist Michael Mann of Penn State University
that skeptics' research was unwelcome: We "will keep them out
somehow -- even if we have to redefine what the peer-review
literature is!" Neither man could be reached for comment Sunday. “
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125883405294859215.html
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Another article
in Wall Street Journal
by Keith Johnson and Gautam Naik:
"Lawmakers Probe Climate Emails"
“Sen. James Inhofe (R., Okla.), an outspoken critic of the view that
humans are causing global warming, said that in light of the emails,
he will call for an investigation into the state of climate science
if the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works doesn't act
soon.”
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125902685372961609.html
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From the
amusing blogger for the Wall Street Journal, James Taranto:
"Settled Science?"
“(Michael) Mann, who directs Penn State's Earth System Science
Center, said the e-mails reflected the sort of "vigorous debate"
researchers engage in before reaching scientific conclusions. "
“This is downright Orwellian. What the Post describes is not a
vigorous debate but an attempt to suppress debate--to politicize the
process of scientific inquiry so that it yields a predetermined
result. This does not, in itself, prove the global warmists wrong.
But it raises a glaring question: If they have the facts on their
side, why do they need to resort to tactics of suppression and
intimidation?”
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704779704574552533758682774.html
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And this one "You've Taken the Words Out of My Mouth"
http://online.wsj.com/article/best_of_the_web_today.html#printMode
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Canadian
climate scientist Tim Ball and Judi McLeod on the involvement of
President Obama's science advisor: "Obama's Science Czar John
Holdren involved in unwinding 'Climategate' scandal" [H/t Marc
Morano - Climate Depot]
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/17183
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Washington
Times article by Stephen Dinan
"Browner says hacked e-mails don't change anything"
(Carol Browner is former director of the EPA and President Obama's
energy and environment advisor)
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/nov/25/climate-czar-says-e-mails-dont-change-anyt
hing//print/
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"Climategate:
some comments by Prof. S. Fred Singer" on the blog for the
Institute for Economic Affairs,
http://blog.iea.org.uk/?p=954.
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Prof. Singer's
televised debate with Robert Watson, former the head of the IPCC
and a science advisor to Al Gore, please see
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/the_daily_politics/8374523.stm
[H/t Richard Wellings] [SEPP comment: Watson's claim that the data
cannot be released because it does not belong to the CRU is
stunning. After billions in taxpayer money spent, the public cannot
review the data because it is proprietary? It may be far cheaper to
buy the data first before spending an additional pound in buying
electricity to run the computer models that use data that has not
been independently reviewed.]
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American
Thinker: Excellent review of key issues:
"CRU's Source Code: Climategate Uncovered"
by Marc Sheppard [H/t Joe D'Aleo -- ICECAP]
http://www.americanthinker.com/printpage/?url=http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/11/crus_
source_code_climategate_r.html