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Its -hard- to lie about a bridge without having it fall down. The weather, not so much. :)

ahhh ... sorry to burst some bubbles, but a doctorate in "climate science" is a one-way ticket to riches; unlike mechanical or chemical engineering where one must actually work for a living. When is the last time mechanical engineers ate up $79 Billion in government grants to produce garbage :)

I wrote the CBC ombudsman
:
Sir,

That this disgraceful waste of money is allowed to broadcast its biased view of the world on taxpayer's backs is a mystery to me. Every day that the news arm ignored the "Climategate" story propelled me to this conclusion:

The CBC has a socialist left wing bias, and only broadcasts those stories that fit that bias.

Rex Murphy got six minutes on the climate story. That was it. How is that news coverage, when only the opinion of one person tells the other side of the climate story?

Not one news article on it, not a single one.

During the interview with the Saskatchewan energy minister, they showed her side by side with melting ice and polar bears, editorializing their simplistic pollyanna view of the world.

I would vote for anyone who would remove all public funds from the CBC..

Thank you.

He wrote:

I write to acknowledge receipt of your e-mail. It is the customary practice of CBC’s Office of the Ombudsman to share complaints with the relevant programmers, who have the right to respond first to criticism of their work. I have therefore shared your e-mail with Jennifer McGuire, General Manager and Editor in Chief of CBC News. If you are not satisfied with the response you receive you may ask me to review the matter.

Sincerely,
Vince Carlin
CBC Ombudsman

And I thought it was Stephen Harper..........

China has dismissed allegations made by a British minister that it was responsible for the near collapse of climate negotiations in Copenhagen.

Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband had singled out China for vetoing an agreement on limiting emissions.

Beijing said his comments were part of a political scheme to "provoke discord among developing countries".

The Copenhagen summit ended without the 192 countries present reaching a firm agreement on climate change.

Isn't it interesting/ironic that "The Emperor's New Clothes" was first published in Copenhagen, Denmark?

And so the blame game takes flight..............

There's a deeper irony in my remarks than you may guess.

Sylvanguy: You're lucky to get a reply. I wrote the ombudsman a half a year ago about their airing of Gore's AIT and fully documented my concerns. He never even replied. I complained to my Conservative MP about it along with my letter and documentation and he did nothing about it. It's discouraging. But keep up the good work.

It never occurred to me when I was studying the rather obscure field known as climatology that within forty years, everyone would be a climatologist. But that's the way the hockey stick is pointing (and this one is real, I estimate there are now ten million climatologists in Canada alone).

Well it's lucky we don't have everyone out building bridges, that's for sure. As it happens, I am really low man on the totem pole, since official climatologists tend to think of me the way you think of them.

I think a lot of the problems have come from faulty assumptions about how to "synthesize" data because of urban heating, different observational regimes, and more recently the desire to make past climates conform to dogma. As they say, my karma ran over your dogma. But they'll still get the pension, twas lucky I hit on the technique of betting against the Leafs.