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Human induced climate change gets ready to join phlogiston, alchemy, astrology and the geocentric universe on the scrap heap of scientific history. Paging Algore!

Climategate: the final nail in the coffin of 'Anthropogenic Global Warming'?

By James Delingpole Last updated: November 20th, 2009

If you own any shares in alternative energy companies I should start dumping them NOW. The conspiracy behind the Anthropogenic Global Warming myth (aka AGW; aka ManBearPig) has been suddenly, brutally and quite deliciously exposed after a hacker broke into the computers at the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit (aka Hadley CRU) and released 61 megabites of confidential files onto the internet. (Hat tip: Watts Up With That)

When you read some of those files – including 1079 emails and 72 documents – you realise just why the boffins at Hadley CRU might have preferred to keep them confidential. As Andrew Bolt puts it, this scandal could well be “the greatest in modern science”. These alleged emails – supposedly exchanged by some of the most prominent scientists pushing AGW theory – suggest:

Conspiracy, collusion in exaggerating warming data, possibly illegal destruction of embarrassing information, organised resistance to disclosure, manipulation of data, private admissions of flaws in their public claims and much more.

One of the alleged emails has a gentle gloat over the death in 2004 of John L Daly (one of the first climate change sceptics, founder of the Still Waiting For Greenhouse site), commenting:

“In an odd way this is cheering news.”

But perhaps the most damaging revelations – the scientific equivalent of the Telegraph's MPs' expenses scandal – are those concerning the way Warmist scientists may variously have manipulated or suppressed evidence in order to support their cause.

Here are a few tasters. (So far, we can only refer to them as alleged emails because – though Hadley CRU's director Phil Jones has confirmed the break-in to Ian Wishart at the Briefing Room – he has yet to fess up to any specific contents.) But if genuine, they suggest dubious practices such as:

Manipulation of evidence:

I've just completed Mike's Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) amd from 1961 for Keith's to hide the decline.

Private doubts about whether the world really is heating up:

The fact is that we can't account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can't. The CERES data published in the August BAMS 09 supplement on 2008 shows there should be even more warming: but the data are surely wrong. Our observing system is inadequate.

Suppression of evidence:

Can you delete any emails you may have had with Keith re AR4?

Keith will do likewise. He's not in at the moment – minor family crisis.

Can you also email Gene and get him to do the same? I don't have his new email address.

We will be getting Caspar to do likewise.

Fantasies of violence against prominent Climate Sceptic scientists:

Next time I see Pat Michaels at a scientific meeting, I'll be tempted to beat
the crap out of him. Very tempted.

Attempts to disguise the inconvenient truth of the Medieval Warm Period (MWP):

……Phil and I have recently submitted a paper using about a dozen NH records that fit this category, and many of which are available nearly 2K back–I think that trying to adopt a timeframe of 2K, rather than the usual 1K, addresses a good earlier point that Peck made w/ regard to the memo, that it would be nice to try to “contain” the putative “MWP”, even if we don't yet have a hemispheric mean reconstruction available that far back….

And, perhaps most reprehensibly, a long series of communications discussing how best to squeeze dissenting scientists out of the peer review process. How, in other words, to create a scientific climate in which anyone who disagrees with AGW can be written off as a crank, whose views do not have a scrap of authority.

“This was the danger of always criticising the skeptics for not publishing in the “peer-reviewed literature”. Obviously, they found a solution to that–take over a journal! So what do we do about this? I think we have to stop considering “Climate Research” as a legitimate peer-reviewed journal. Perhaps we should encourage our colleagues in the climate research community to no longer submit to, or cite papers in, this journal. We would also need to consider what we tell or request of our more reasonable colleagues who currently sit on the editorial board…What do others think?”

“I will be emailing the journal to tell them I'm having nothing more to do with it until they rid themselves of this troublesome editor.”“It results from this journal having a number of editors. The responsible one for this is a well-known skeptic in NZ. He has let a few papers through by Michaels and Gray in the past. I've had words with Hans von Storch about this, but got nowhere. Another thing to discuss in Nice !”


There is more. Read it all at https://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100017393/climategate-the-final-nail-in-the-coffin-of-anthropogenic-global-warming/

Tell your friends. Tell your enemies. This crap sandwich isn't toast yet but the bread is starting to burn.

Fraulein Obamski
This is very unsettling, comrade. Whatever hoax can we create that would ever surpass this one!? And all my waste carbon credits, still in the back of the closet!! Whatever shall we do!
I'm not sure I can ever be proud of my country again . . . .

Worry not modern socialist progress in creation of Red Planet is inevitable and immune to ancient Greek concepts like logic and science. Tonight we will have glorious step in Amerika toward equal health care for all. Motherland of marxist miracle Europe is officially the new USSR and statist already are whipping individual states into submission. MSM will provide cover for sloppy science as always.

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I much anticipate watching the Legacy Media climb farther and farther out on that limb and screech defensively that they are right and everyone else is wrong.

This is a most progressive stance, Comrades, until that is the limb breaks.

But if we use enough force, then the limb will not break.

Or its breaking will not be reported on.

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If the limb breaks but no one reports it in the media, is it really broken?

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Red Square wrote:If the limb breaks but no one reports it in the media, is it really broken?

It depends upon whom we ask. If it is someone in the media, they will reply "Of course not! Nothing actually happens until we grant it real-world status!" If we ask the one upon whose head it fell, the answer will be "You betcha!" If we ask Obama, Gibbs will reply, "President Obama was not bowing; former President Bush placed a limb where President Obama would trip over it." So much baloney but so few sandwiches.

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Oh, Opiate--this administration feeds the multitudes. It feeds the multitudes with shit sandwiches. Every month we are given a passel of shit sandwiches and we take a bite every day, eat half, and spit half of it out on the other people. Who will become addicted to shit sandwiches.

You are quite right about the Legacy Media's granting of real-world status. I think that we should ask them to prove it. Let's put the Couric Monster, Charlie Gibson, and Bryan Williams, and I would include Chris Matthews if his leg's trembling wouldn't destroy the experiment, in an airplane at 30,000 feet. And cut the engines.

It wouldn't fall. Because they wouldn't grant it the status of having the engines cut.

But then obviously this theorem is limited in application. Either it doesn't work to make Ms. Couric's legs like those of a Steinway or she likes having legs like a Steinway.

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Commissar Theocritus wrote: You are quite right about the Legacy Media's granting of real-world status. I think that we should ask them to prove it. Let's put the Couric Monster, Charlie Gibson, and Bryan Williams, and I would include Chris Matthews if his leg's trembling wouldn't destroy the experiment, in an airplane at 30,000 feet. And cut the engines.

It wouldn't fall. Because they wouldn't grant it the status of having the engines cut.

This experiment could not possibly work. Let us assume the initial conditions of having Couric Monster, Charlie Glibson, Liar Willams and Chris Refuse in the plane and then cut the engines. Then, let us assume the experiment was a failure and the plane crashed and broke into pieces no bigger than what will be left of a plumber's paycheck after PelosiCare ravages it. Don't you see? If the media does not report the results of this experiment, then it never happened! This means that the Legacy Media's control over reality is a universal constant like the speed of light or Climate Change. Note even proving that these things are demonstrably false can prove that they are demonstrably false.

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The answer is very simple here comrades, we deny the deniers, say those emails were merely decoys for morons like that now non-person Ian to grab and run to the Media. By doing that he exposes more thoughtcriminals who would support such foolish things.

It's a purge comrades, a small scale purge without the show-trial.

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Sadly, I don't see this story being exposed to the light of day. If it does, I still have doubts it will be far reaching. If it does get to many, can we send Algore to prison for swindling?

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But what would happen if the Couric Monster, the Gibson Git, or Lickspittle Williams weren't around to pay the proper obeisance to President Zero?
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Here is Bryan Williams interviewing Our Ego in Chief.

We have to keep him around.

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One interview is just like the last, but instead of something running down... up?... Chris's leg, it shall be running down his chin, Commissar Theocritus.

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Commissar_Elliott wrote:The answer is very simple here comrades, we deny the deniers, say those emails were merely decoys for morons like that now non-person Ian to grab and run to the Media. By doing that he exposes more thoughtcriminals who would support such foolish things.

It's a purge comrades, a small scale purge without the show-trial.

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Sadly, I don't see this story being exposed to the light of day. If it does, I still have doubts it will be far reaching. If it does get to many, can we send Algore to prison for swindling?


Irony of the day: The NY Times has its panties in a bunch because of the way the documents were obtained:

NY Times wrote: The documents appear to have been acquired illegally and contain all manner of private information and statements that were never intended for the public eye, so they won't be posted here.

http://newsrealblog.com/2009/11/23/new- ... more-16018

Gosh, maybe we should have told them these documents were classified information related to US security and then the info would have been all over the front page faster than you can say "I hacked Sarah Palin's email account."

The NY Times of 1971 had numerous handwringing sessions about publishing the Pentagon Papers, but they published them anyway. "All the news that fits our agenda, we print."

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Opiate, let's not forget that the NYT also was glad to tell the terrorists how we tracked their communications, which led them to go underground to untraceable mules.

Who needs enemies, when you have the NYT?

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Comrade Dan "Rather-hate- Bush-and- be- fired," has much in common with the NYT. The Truth is but transitory & an inconvenient lie and therefore, the heart and soul of liberalism.

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I'm a fan of James Delingpole. He wrote the book "Welcome to Obamaland: I Have Seen Your Future and it Doesn't Work". Worth a read if you want a conservative/libertarian British perspective on what is happening in America. He has a very zany, at times random, sense of humor. Or humour.

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Commissar Theocritus wrote:Opiate, let's not forget that the NYT also was glad to tell the terrorists how we tracked their communications, which led them to go underground to untraceable mules.

Who needs enemies, when you have the NYT?

The thing that was so absurd about this action by America's birdcage-liner-of-record is that the editors live and work in a city which had been the victim of two catastrophic attacks and was the target of numerous others that were frustrated by the efforts of the agencies they sought to subvert. If they have no regard for their own worthless asses, they should at least have the decency to think about the millions of poor saps who share their overpriced island with them.

But, of course, the lives of a few million proles are irrelvant when contrasted with the more important goal: Get Bush.

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Fraulein Obamski wrote:Comrade Dan "Rather-hate- Bush-and- be- fired," has much in common with the NYT. The Truth is but transitory & an inconvenient lie and therefore, the heart and soul of liberalism.

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Party dogma states that Revolutionary Truth supercedes factual truth. The climate change incident demonstates that principle in action.

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[ off ]Olga Katrina, I too like Delingpole. He was, and is, the television reviewer for <i>The Spectator</i>, and he's good enough that I read his work on Brit television I'll never see. He also wrote <a href=" to Be Right</a> and it's worth the read. It's an alphabetic list of terms, and it's pro-American. In other words, Lord F'g Zero would hate it.

Opiate, there are times that I think that the Legacy Media is like the madhouse in <i>The Twelve Monkeys</i> where all the inmates are nattering to themselves, unconcerned with the reality outside. It's like that scene in <i>Pretty Baby</i> when the bailiffs come in and take the furniture in the New Orleans cat house, while the madam, drunk on absinthe, is thrown out of bed, bottle in hand, blinking, not knowing what happened.

One can hope. But then Lord Freaking Zero would like to subsidize failing news organs, as a means of further ensuring his control.

He's already got one of his Czars, Cass Sunstein, who is putting his little brain to work on improving the civility of the Internet--in other words, censoring it.

Wait for it. There will shortly be an attempt to shut down this site. I so proclaim. Not that we are all that dangerous, but a million hits a year for the three years that I've been coming here is respectable.

Commissar Theocritus if I may sidetrack praise of glorious global warming gang and their cheerleader media maniacs to share small personal pride. If you like movie Pretty Baby my cousin was one of the young tasties in yum yum cat house. She has scenes playfully wrestling with Brook Shield on a bed and playing and singing guitar in Model T stuck in mud hole. Her dad was exclaimed rodeo clown working big name shows like the Stockyard and Calgary Round up.

Back to sacred socialist art of brown nosing. Sorry for break in penetrating proletarian prose.

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GG, not to worry. Your lickspittle toadeating will always carry you far. It carried me to where I am today. Which is, uh, Bruno! Where are we? What day is it? What time is it?

Oh. My. God. I'm asking Bruno for something. That last Jiffi-Lobo must have been a doozy. Now I'm ready for Obamacare.

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Climategate is now being discussed on a major Russian news channel. And the stolen files are currently being held on Russian servers, suggesting that the hackers could also be Russian. What is the world coming to?

Let's see...

- news organizations in Russia are being controlled by the government
- Putin's government is not buying the Global Warming story and radically opposes any cap-and-trade style restrictions
- Putin's government is known to have orchestrated hacker attacks in the past
- the scandal occurred on the eve of the Global Warming summit in Copenhagen
- hackers in Russia may be great experts in hacking, but they wouldn't know the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit (aka Hadley CRU) from a hole in the ground - not without a special lead from a different sort of experts (cough-FSB-cough)

... where are you, John le Carré, when we need you? Can't you break out of the mold of your moral-equivalency-cold-war-spy-stories and do something newsworthy while you've still got a freaking chance?

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On a side note, this isn't the first time I see the truther kook Alex Jones treated by the Russian media as a mainstream political commentator. It's a good illustration of how badly the Russians are misinformed about America's political landscape and how little they understand the processes going on in this country.

Including Alex Jones in this story was like asking someone out while having a gigantic booger hanging down from your nose.

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Off the subject a bit, but I have a good friend who lives in Loving County, the least-populated county in America. Fewer than 100 people, 1.5 times the size of Rhode Island. Mary Belle was working some stock pens and a CNN van came by. Lots of Loving County "human interest" stories. They interviewed her and after they left she found she had a bloody booger hanging from her nose. So she told me. Well, it fits on CNN. This was before Faux Noise.

It makes sense to me that Russian hackers got that data, and power to them. Beats the hell out of making viruses for Windows. I'm told that one reason that PCs have more viruses (beside there being a lot more PCs and they're easier to attack) is that the Soviets had given computers, and Windows ones are cheap to make, to Bulgarians, and when the subsidies stopped, the Bulgarians had to have something to do.

One thought is that this obvious scientific fraud will tarnish all science, which is possible. Recall that Savaronola burned lots of books; collateral damage.

We are in an age when things which can be proven to work right now--cell phones, computers--have to be rigorously designed, but everything else is determined by faith, the secular faith of climatology. I predict denial, denial, denial, aided by the lapdog media. And I don't know if it can be buried or not.

I don't even think that the Couric Monster et al break a sweat in their denials, any more than a medieval priest worried about someone who said that the pig bones were not the bones of Christ.


 
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