An Environmental Disaster Of Epic Proportions

Written By : Melissa Clouthier

An environmental cataclysm occurred this week. Al Gore is somewhere howling in psychic pain. Global warming skeptics and any real scientists rejoice: the fable of Global Warming aka Climate Change aka Impending Doom has been revealed for a scientifically manipulated fraud.

Noel Sheppard of Newsbusters has an excellent wrap-up of the story (damning emails, links) and asks this:

For its part, NewsBusters has sent e-mail messages requesting comment from all of the scientists mentioned in this article. None have responded yet.

However, maybe more importantly, with cap and trade legislation currently before Congress, and an international climate meeting happening in Copenhagen next month, the question is what will America’s leading media outlets do with this news.

Should we expect investigative television programs like “60 Minutes” and “20/20″ to be all over this story interrogating the scientists allegedly involved in these e-mail exchanges?

Will America’s press be as eager to find out the truth of this matter as they were in fact-checking former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin’s new book?

Consider that at the time of this article’s publishing, only FoxNews.com, NPR.com, and WSJ.com have logged printed stories on this subject from this side of the Atlantic.

Will others follow, and if so, how will they report what on the surface appears to be a huge, developing story?

Think of all the people [Al Gore] who stand to make billions should this lie be the foundation for worldwide environmental policy. Think of how the government will invade Americans’ lives to “save a planet” that is in no need of saving. Consider how negotiations between governments will be changed when data gets reevaluated. Hello Kyoto?

The implications of manipulated science of this scale are breath taking. The government funds millions in environmental research. Millions of tax-payer dollars also go for medical research, it should be noted. Public policy is made by the outcomes of this research.

Are Americans supposed to trust so-called scientists, who take money from the government and then give the government self-serving recommendations? This is already a question with government guidelines regarding cancer. Environmental policy is equally pervasive in scope. Each American’s life is depending on the reliability of “science”.

This disaster will mean more than just environmental policy. This disaster calls into question the ethics of government sponsored research and the wall between science and policy.

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I expect they will pull out the Dan Rather explanation of “fake, but accurate”. They will claim they masaged the data for our own good and that it really is true, everyone knows it’s true, but we just can’t get the facts to prove that it is true. So we had to make it say what we all know is true.

And do you know what? That explanation will be good enough for lefties and the media elites to continue in their beliefs about man made global warming.
http://networdblog.blogspot.com/ Christopher_Taylor

This look gigantic, and from what I’ve read so far authentic. The initial “manipulate the data to hide decline” email leak isn’t even being contested by the writer. He offered a feeble attempt at explaining, but no pretense at it being fake.

We’ll see, but the fact-hiding, data-manipulating, and outright admissions that global warming isn’t happening (now at least) are stunning to behold.

You have to understand, this is Mann & company, the guys who came up with the deliberately fraudulent hockey stick graph and tried to hide their info from anyone who wanted to examine it.

If it all ends up being true, that won’t disprove global warming, but it will do tremendous damage to the reliability and trustworthiness of these scientists and anyone associated with or defending them.
D-Vega

I would have to agree. I will reserve judgement until we can confirm something that is not hacked, but it doesn’t look good.
Tennwriter

Let us support the Separation of Science and the State.
http://networdblog.blogspot.com/ Christopher_Taylor

I just think zealots and activists make poor scientists.
http://conservativebootcamp.com martinhale

I would have to agree. I will reserve judgement until we can confirm something that is not hacked, but it doesn’t look good.

Posted by D-Vega
2009-11-20 17:42:14

A couple of points:

The Director of Hadley CRU, Dr. Phil Jones, has acknowledged that the documents were lifted from their servers and that they appear genuine. Also, one of the email streams lifted in the “hacking” was a stream containing Steve McIntyre’s emailed FOIA request for the raw data with which the infamous ‘hockey stick’ graph of temperatures was created by Dr. Michael Mann. Dr. Jones stonewalled Mr. McIntyre for almost three years before he claimed that they’d lost the original data. Mr. McIntyre has examined the emails of his in the body of the stolen material and said that they are genuine and unaltered.

As to the “hacking”, there are a number of people who’re pointing out that there are no hallmarks of an indiscriminate “smash and grab” which one usually sees in a case of legitimate hacking. Hackers generally don’t have a lot of time to browse through masses of documents and selectively take only those which suit their purposes. The 1100-odd files which were lifted from Hadley CRU were very carefully selected, each one revealing something negative about the conduct of the scientists who’ve been at the leading edge of climate alarmism. Whoever took these documents a)knew what they were looking for, and b)was interested in inflicting maximum damage to the alarmists. Many are speaking about an inside job, given the fact that whomever took the documents must have had a lot of time to browse through the hundreds of thousands of documents stored on those servers to find what they wanted. Hackers usually don’t have that kind of time as they’re trying to get in and out before they’re detected.

As the investigation continues, keep in mind that Dr. Phil Jones has more than just his career and reputation on the line here. He also could face serious legal charges over withholding public data subject to FOIA requests. That’s a felony and if it can be established that he intentionally hid or destroyed data to avoid releasing it, he could end up in prison.

But as you say, we’ll learn more in time.
http://networdblog.blogspot.com/ Christopher_Taylor

My guess is that it was an inside job, not some hacker, but it might have been just a frustrated computer specialist who was tired of their stonewalling, failing to share data, refusing to be peer reviewed, and then insulting anyone issued requests.
Rickvid_in_Seattle

Rove did it. All Bu$h’s fault. And racist, to boot!

Debbie Spend-it-now is selling America’s future to the Chinese

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