SDA gets results!
CBC;
The U.K.’s University of East Anglia says the director of its Climatic Research Unit is stepping down pending an investigation into allegations stemming from the publication of hacked emails.
Phil Jones, the director of the global research centre on climate change, announced that he will stand aside until an independent review determines whether he overstated the case for man-made climate change.
The university said Peter Liss will become acting director of the climate research unit.
As I noted yesterday, this comes on the heels of an announced Penn State investigation into Michael “hockey stick” Mann.
Via John, who found it accidentally buried in the CBC Technology & Science headlines, where few will find it to comment. But we’ll help them out with that.
Over a week ago I wrote;
“But this event is less bombshell than it is bottle genie. No matter what efforts are undertaken by a protective media to bury this scandal, no matter how badly the warmist industry tries to spin it away, the CRU data release is now part of the permanent climate debate, and it ain’t ever going away.”
The number of those voicing doubts is growing exponentially – a graduate student at MIIT Tech, this lengthy article in Reason.
More here from a “working scientist” – “I don’t see how these messages can be interpreted in any other way as an attempt to break the law, and I don’t see how they can be defended:”
(In related news….)
A spelling mistake (or two) there. But I’m sure you tinfoil hat denialists will get my point.
PS I’m still awaiting the cheque from BIG OIL.
Here’s a site to give you all a good laugh
http://www.desmogblog.com/
Thank goodness the story has hit the MSM. I don’t get Fox on my cable, so I’ve been sitting in my F150, listening to Glenn Beck, on satellite radio. It’s getting cold, so I’ve had to leave the motor running.
Rent seeking for dummies .
Hopefully , sooner or later , some of these frauds are going to have to find a place to rent instead of making fortunes rent seeking .
You had me for a while, Kate, but when I see that you link to “a working scientist” who has been affiliated with pharmaceutical companies, well, I’m sorry, but that just destroys your whole thesis. /sarc
Write to your MPs and to PM Harper.
This whole thing may be a lot of fun, but we don’t want our own dear country to sign up to anything in Copenhagen
Just watch this very powerful piece of propaganda; send it to your friends and enemies.
Why should the devil have all the good songs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Hftsk4gWqI
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091201/ap_on_sc/eu_britain_climate_hacked_e_mails
I just stumbled onto a very useful link thanks to fellow Blogging Tory “Sort of Political” to Popular Technology.net where they have compiled a list of 450 peer-reviewed papers supporting skeptism of AGW! If the warmists want to keep talking peer-reviewed papers, let’s point them here:
http://www.populartechnology.net/2009/10/peer-reviewed-papers-supporting.html
Caroline
The National:
“A terrible accident last week has resulted in the deaths of the entire staff of the CBC Climate Change Unit consisting of 8 executives, one reporter, and 2 intern liasons. They were all found in the area of the Temporary Climate Data Units (Dumpsters)and had all fallen on swordlike objects. Their offices had been vacant for almost a week, but other staff just assumed they had left early for Copenhagen. Investigators are speculating that they were practicing for their part in the Winter Solstice Festival when some sort of misadventure overtook them. A mass Green funeral is planned and will be announced shortly.”
Everyone should read the link James provided to Lord Moncton. He has stated that it was a whistle blower , not a hacker (he would know since he was on the Science board in GB); I also read about the whistleblower posted as a link here at sda.
Now the elephant in the room, here in Canada, is ‘where is our whistleblower?’ We have whistleblower legislation, just like GB, and our PM will certainly follow up on any whistleblower in this nation, who has any moral decency.
Unabomber (Theodore Kaczynski) + Maurice Strong = AGW fraud.
The Ted & Mo* Show.
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>>> “I’m wondering how long it’s going to take people to recognize that Ted Kacinski is the patron saint of what is happening now on the “green” front:”
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“64. Voltimand:
As in the case of the Unabomber and his “manifesto,” so here: at bottom, the “eco-crime” is the existence of human beings exploiting non-human nature.
I’m wondering how long it’s going to take people to recognize that Ted Kacinski is the patron saint of what is happening now on the “green” front: human beings are evil because their existence disturbs the tranquil balances of the the “natural” (read: non-human) world. Human beings who employ (read: exploit) the resources of the natural world commit eco-crimes. And we all know what should be done with criminals who kill.
The only thing I would require in implementing the obvious program which these “eco-crimes” mongers are peddling is that when the guillotine begins to fall, these scientists be the first to mount the scaffold.
From where I sit, the real issue here is not the environment at all–that is a massive con. The real issue is human hatred of human beings.
We need to “cut to the chase” and get rid of of the whole enviro-scam–it is merely a bait-and-switch diversion. Environmentalists don’t want a living natural world. What they want are dead human beings.
Sounds unlikely and exaggerated? Re-read Wretchard’s essay one more time.”
http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/2009/12/01/the-fifth-commandment/#comments
(*Mo: Hi. Moi is Canada’s “Liberal leader” Bob Rae’s Uncle Mo. Gleetings flom Beijing, China.)
Vanderleun from Tim Blair: “The Newspaper of Rectum”.
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“New York Slimes: “1881: This past Winter, both inside and outside the Arctic circle, appears to have been unusually mild. The ice is very light and rapidly melting …”
(Reducing the NYT’s carbon footprint. Polar bear dining on redundant AGW journalists)
“The motto of the Times should be “Hello again suckers!”
Today Tim Blair pulls up over a century of melting doom at “The Newspaper of Rectum” with ETERNAL MELTING
• 1881: “This past Winter, both inside and outside the Arctic circle, appears to have been unusually mild. The ice is very light and rapidly melting …”
• 1932: “NEXT GREAT DELUGE FORECAST BY SCIENCE; Melting Polar Ice Caps to Raise the Level of Seas and Flood the Continents”
• 1934: “New Evidence Supports Geology’s View That the Arctic Is Growing Warmer”
• 1937: “Continued warm weather at the Pole, melting snow and ice.”
• 1954: “The particular point of inquiry concerns whether the ice is melting at such a rate as to imperil low-lying coastal areas through raising the level of the sea in the near future.”
• 1957: “U.S. Arctic Station Melting”
• 1958: “At present, the Arctic ice pack is melting away fast. Some estimates say that it is 40 per cent thinner and 12 per cent smaller than it was fifteen years [ago].”
• 1959: “Will the Arctic Ocean soon be free of ice?”
• 1971: “STUDY SAYS MAN ALTERS CLIMATE; U.N. Report Links Melting of Polar Ice to His Activities”
• 1979: “A puzzling haze over the Arctic ice packs has been identified as a byproduct of air pollution, a finding that may support predictions of a disastrous melting of the earth’s ice caps.”
• 1982: “Because of global heating attributed to an increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide from fuel burning, about 20,000 cubic miles of polar ice has melted in the past 40 years, apparently contributing to a rise in sea levels …”
• 1999: “Evidence continues to accumulate that the frozen world of the Arctic and sub-Arctic is thawing.”
• 2000: “The North Pole is melting. The thick ice that has for ages covered the Arctic Ocean at the pole has turned to water, recent visitors there reported yesterday.”
• 2002: “The melting of Greenland glaciers and Arctic Ocean sea ice this past summer reached levels not seen in decades, scientists reported today.”
• 2004: “There is an awful lot of Arctic and glacial ice melting.”
• 2005: “Another melancholy gathering of climate scientists presented evidence this month that the Antarctic ice shelf is melting – a prospect difficult to imagine a decade ago.”
It pleases me to no end that layoffs in the hundreds continue at the New York Times newsroom. No other staff of “pros” deserves it more.”
http://americandigest.org/mt-archives/enemies_foreign_domestic/new_york_slimes_1881_this.php
maz2
Great find. I’m sending those headlines to my friends.
If the warming advocates were real scientists they
wouldn’t have resorted to vulgar slanders, such as
the use of the mindless insult “denier” for anyone
who expresses the slightest doubt about the Party
Line. If there were real science there instead of
bad statistics, it could be shouted to the rooftops.
Trust me, if I had a climate model which could
show skill ten years into the future you’d know about it!
What might be a good idea is to set various models
running, with results in some public forum, where
anyone and all could compare with the actual
climate.
After all, weather channels and web pages do that,
more or less. They give current and predicted
weather, and one easily keep track of their
predictions from day to day.
“Australia’s global warming bill defeated
SYDNEY (AP) — Australia’s Senate has rejected legislation to set up an emissions trading system in the country to reduce greenhouse gas pollution.
The Senate voted Tuesday to defeat a bill that is the centerpiece of the government’s plans to slash Australia’s emissions by up to 25 percent below 2000 levels by 2020 as part of global efforts to fight global warming.
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd wanted the legislation passed before he attends next week’s U.N. summit on climate change in Copenhagen so he could portray Australia as a leader on the issue.
The government’s next step is unclear. Rudd could use the failure of the bill to call early elections, but is unlikely to do so before next year, when elections are due anyway.
(Excerpt) Read more at fox11az.com …”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2398055/posts
what appears to be over looked in this whole affair is that the politicians have been negligent in their duty to govern prudently, they have bought into this scam through ignorance, or for the tax to be generated by this hoax, either way, that is not what they were voted in for. Their dependence on “advisers” is NO excuse, as they choose their advisers. We need to now find a way to make these public servants more accountable to the electorate, and not just the noisy special interest groups.
The Gores and Suzukers are in full tilt CYA mode, Suzuker is hiding, but he shouldn’t, he might just get house arrest, and his biggest problem would be to pick which of his many houses to be JAILED in. Like that term Dave, it’s yours! For the record you two of the biggest moronic Globull warming charlatans the world has ever seen should remember. Albertas oil companies are cleaning up one of Gods greatest oil spills here in the oilsands, keeping any more of this oil from flowing into the river systems surrounding it. You stupid fools don’t give us any credit, Jail all of you fraud artists now before you completly break the western world. I’ll offer you 10,000 for your seaside mansion Dave, and 15,000 for yours FatAl, sea levels are a risin don’t you know!
wingwalker quoted Guardian poster: “Canada should be driven out of the Commonwealth, out of NATO, out of the UN, out of the G20. No country should recognise Canadian passports. They should be told to leave Afghanistan. And they should never have have been allowed to take part in WW II ! Some of us are trying to make the world a better and more tolerant place, but these people, with their tar and sand and seals are doing something dreadful to the Indians and giving us all CO2 gas into the bargain.”
That’s GOTTA be flaming satire! ROFLOL!
Kate,
You should probably take this down. Bob MacDonald of Quirks and Quarks has assured us that Climategate is just a bunch of exaggerated hooey driven by a few deniers.
Nothing to here.
Isn’t there an old movie line: “OK citizens, go back to your lives”? All of that weird science about the climate was making everyone cranky and depressed.
bartinsky 10:12. If only it would end this way. Fraud artists need jail time.
Another MSM siting…well, kind of…..
ON BNN, Nigel Lawson was stating his case, rather professionally and, in that ‘prahpah’ British way of presenting his case…..
Just think, he gets to put up with that ditchpig Dizzy Lizzy in a debate…..eek, what a boor she is!
Now that the data is in the public domain where it should be, I have a question.
If the data proves unreliable and we set aside all the published literature corrupted by it, is the science still settled?
“That’s GOTTA be flaming satire! ROFLOL!”
Posted by: chutzpahticular at December 1, 2009 10:41 PM
I honestly wondered about that myself. But when you take it in context with the hundreds of other comments there slagging Canada (assumingly predominantly Brit), it seemed to fit the mould and encapsulated the sentiments of so many others’ that I couldn’t convince myself it was sarcasm. Hence, I pointed it out…
wingwalker wrote: “I honestly wondered about that myself. But when you take it in context with the hundreds of other comments there slagging Canada (assumingly predominantly Brit), it seemed to fit the mould and encapsulated the sentiments of so many others’ that I couldn’t convince myself it was sarcasm. Hence, I pointed it out…”
If that was ‘serious’ the poster in question is a nutcase.
When do we get to read the equivalent email and documents of climate change at the Suzuki Foundation? Where is a good hacker when you need one?
Well, it ain’t dead yet, just came from Wash. Post, USNews, Telegraph and a couple of other places and the AGW Supporters are out, they are in the minority, but they are still out spinning this as hackers stole the emails and the damage is really minimum.
Kindof reminds me of the Titanic w/a Full Steam Ahead.
My main concern is will Obama and Team Liberal stay the course on the LIE so they can march thru their proposed legislation to Transfer the Wealth from rich white folks to poor minority Democrat constituents.
If Obama does, look for Civil War II at a town near you.
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“This is [Gaia’s] sole legacy: a massive post-traumatic stress disorder*.”
“Huffington Post Suffers ClimateGate Panic Attack
Your humble correspondent has been checking the Huffington Post Green section every day since the ClimateGate scandal exploded. After all, that Green section is pretty much predicated on the theory that the earth is warming dangerously and that Man is the cause of it. At first, the Green section had a few relatively minor stories attempting to dispute the revelations of the ClimateGate scandal. However, today the Huffington Post went into a complete panic mode on this topic. Bigtime.
The Green section now features a huge story at the top of the page by Katherine Goldstein which features a slideshow supposedly exposing “The 7 Biggest Lies About the ‘Global Warming Hoax’.” However, even many of their own readers aren’t buying the lame excuses presented as you will see here.
So let us now join the Huffington Post Green section as irritation is expressed over the term “ClimateGate” as they wish it to be replaced by “SwiftHack”:
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2398572/posts
Gaia is a narcissist:
“*(H/T) The “small people”, the “rank and file”, the “loyal soldiers” of the narcissist – his flock, his nation, his employees – they pay the price. The disillusionment and disenchantment are agonizing. The process of reconstruction, of rising from the ashes, of overcoming the trauma of having been deceived, exploited and manipulated – is drawn-out. It is difficult to trust again, to have faith, to love, to be led, to collaborate. Feelings of shame and guilt engulf the erstwhile followers of the narcissist. This is his sole legacy: a massive post-traumatic stress disorder.”
http://www.globalpolitician.com/25109-barack-obama-elections
Global Warming – it’s anything you want it to be!
Great work Kate. Hopefully this will result in some arrests an hard time.
“If the CBC thought this was remotely important, it would be on The National.”
And the story is buried on the Technology page of the website. And interestingly, there is NO direct link to the Tech pages from the Home page. Maybe the Techpages are, like, secret, or something?
I want to start a fund for the legal defense of this “Hacker”. He/she saved us trillions!