Such is the state of old media, where only the opinion columns produce news, and the news is only opinion.

Great photos in the pictorial.

Have you notice that ice isn't as thick as it as it should be?

"I'm indebted to Kate McMillan, the remarkable Canadian blogger who runs smalldeadanimals.com, for calling it to my attention."

Well done, Kate -- you really do get results.

Did anyone see Krugman trying to explain away Climategate on the ABC show this morning that Stefanopoulos hosts (I can never remember the name of it)? He was at his pathetic, special-pleading worst, and George Will was having none of it. The best (or worst) of it was that Krugman looked like he didn't believe a word of what he was saying.

"Have you notice that ice isn't as thick as it as it should be?"

That's not ice.

The ice has melted due to globull warming.

That's perigelic dihydrogen oxide.

Exactly why SDA is my favourite site. Notice that the icebreaker could only get to 60 km or nm from the base. Other years it has got much closer.

Here's my email to Globe and Mail subscription dept pour encourager les autres.

As the Globe and Mail has chosen to censor news by not reporting anything of substance on the horrendous Climategate story, you may cancel my subscription to the Globe and Mail forthwith. By your actions you are not Canada's National Newspaper. The National Post has carried climategate stories and is now, in my opinion, Canada's National Newspaper.

Please report my action to your editorial department.

Re tranio's comment: the direct quote:

"On an average year, L'Astrolabe gets closer than 20nm to DDU in the November cruise. Often they can get almost alongside the DDU runway, but as with all averages, there are years like this where the ice was too thick to get closer than 50nm."

Peer Reviewed Data Dump
http://unclemeat.wordpress.com/2009/11/29/peer-reviewed-data-dump/

Once again Kate, you were able to not only drive the debate, but set the terms in which the MSM had to cover this scabby business.

Frankly, they should fire all of the editorial staff at the Ceeb, CTV & the Red Star, hire you and give you a whip.

Whenever the socialist on staff step out of line, beat their ass.

The Globual Mail should be shut down and the buildings, used as a crack house... wait, sorry already a crack house.

Well deserved congrats Kate, you rock..

In the second picture there was a guy smoking a cigarette!! In that pristine environment! What was he thinking? What were those people with him thinking? That guy is a not a AGW believer, he could not sacrifice his habit for the good of mother earth...think of the damage he has already done because the smoke in the photo was probably not the only cigarette he smoked. These photos are all tainted and should not be shown to children.

On a more serious note - I am happy to see that Lorrie has recognized sda as a major source of news, right in his msm editorial! Of course Laurie has never been shy too give credit where credit is due. Laurie is a credit to his profession.

Thanks Skip - updated with that.

Science, the source of so much benefit to mankind, has been used against us as a "Weapon of Mass Delusion". Shell-shocked citizens must now rebuild their political, scientific, educational and journalistic institutions from the smoldering embers. As the smoke clears, and we realize that little of our world remains untouched by the relentless onslaught of greed and lust for power, people of all walks of life will have to band together to rescue decency and honour from the ashes of mistrust. The War Against Reason is over.

Notice the euphemism (political correctness):

"through the alternative media".

What is "the alternative media"?

Please tell the stones: "the alternative media" are the internet blogs.

The irony; this report* is posted on a blog on the internet.
...-

"*Climategate: 'The stones cry out'

Joseph Finlay

The extraordinary revelation of Climategate through the alternative media the world over raises provocative questions about the health of Western notions of truth, science, and intellectual freedom .

Jonathan Leake, writing in the UK's Times Online, offers a balanced overview of the scandal and this fascinating point regarding the chronology of the "breaking" of the story:

It was a powerful and controversial mix - far too powerful for some. Real Climate is a website designed for scientists who share Jones's belief in man-made climate change. Within hours the file had been stripped from the site.

Several hours later, however, it reappeared - this time on an obscure Russian server. Soon it had been copied to a host of other servers, first in Saudi Arabia and Turkey and then Europe and America.

What's more, the anonymous poster was determined not to be stymied again. He or she posted comments on climate-sceptic blogs, detailing a dozen of the best emails and offering web links to the rest. Jones's statistical tricks were now public property.

Note carefully the fact that this modern shot heard round the world first found a point of entry through Russia, then Saudi Arabia, and then Turkey - next Europe, and lastly the United States.

In other words, the traditionally supposed intellectual freedom and free speech climate of the West was "stoney ground" in comparison to the accessibility of outlets under the more repressive regimes of Russia, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey. Perhaps the greater story is the truth itself - and its indomitable will to reveal itself through even the most unlikely of conduits and efforts of even one individual arrayed against a worldwide apparatus of dishonesty.

Jesus, in Luke 19:40, when admonished to silence the truth, made a startling claim about the geological record that collided with accepted scientific notions in His day:

And he answered and said unto them, I tell you that, if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out.

It would appear that the repression of truth in the scientific community and the MSM in the west has indeed caused "the stones to cry out.""

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/11/climategate_the_stones_cry_out.html

Read Lorrie's article in the Calgary Sun and extracted the file from my copy of FOI2009.zip. I can't believe the comments in there. The comments in this file need to be circulated as far and wide as possible. They are far more damaging than the emails ot the AGW scam. It's almost 300 pages in MS Word!

"Sensational" Archaeological Find

"...The Polar ice cap during the last Ice Age might not have been as extensive as previously thought, according to archaeologists looking at the remains of human settlements in the north of Sweden..."

Read the rest at,

read it here

"Sensational" Archaeological Find

"...The Polar ice cap during the last Ice Age might not have been as extensive as previously thought, according to archaeologists looking at the remains of human settlements in the north of Sweden..."

from www.sr.se

PS; I tried posting the whole/exact link but the system rejects my comment...

Detroit News: Climategate prof raked in $22.6 million in grants

...University of East Anglia Professor Phil Jones, the head of the Climate Research Unit that fudged data in order to con people into believing Global Warming, raked in £13.7 million ($22.6 million) in grants...

Again I can not provide a link , the system rejects my comment when I try...

Hey guys, wanna have fun.

Start a conversation to a Liberal with... Isn't it lucky that Bush & Palin caught this global warming scam when they did?

Then watch..

"Notice that the icebreaker could only get to 60 km or nm from the base. Other years it has got much closer."

Along the lines of that observation, another one to watch for will be this year's Mawson's Huts conservation expedition. The team will depart from Hobart for Cape Denison next week (Dec 3) onboard L’Astrolabe. This time around I'm following it for no other reason than to observe the YOY ice/climate against the 2008-09 expedition because they don't appear to be continuing the search for the Vickers monoplane (my sole interest in last year's expedition where I correctly determined from historical photographs that it's far deeper under the ice than their "scientists" predicted :-)

http://www.mawsons-huts.org.au/cms/latest-news/
http://www.mawsons-huts.org.au/cms/blog/

Fascinating photojournalist essay.

Reminds me of the two photo albums with captions my dad made of his actually quite fascinating voyages aboard the CCGS Sir William Alexander up North, and of his time working on the Cambridge Bay DEW Line stations. '55-'58.

a magnificent desolation!!!

NYSlimes blocks the rest with its firewall.

Hot'n'spicy? NYSlimes attempts to put out the firestorm consuming AGW.
...-

"Intrigue and Plot Twists in Global Climate Talks

New York Times ^ | November 29, 2009 | TOM ZELLER Jr.

In the otherwise ponderous and unhurried context of global climate negotiations, the past two weeks have seen a variety of gripping twists.

It started this month in Singapore, where Barack Obama, the U.S. president, and other leaders used the sidelines of an economic forum to deflate expectations for a treaty at the December climate summit meeting in Copenhagen.

“There was an assessment by the leaders that it is unrealistic to expect a full internationally, legally binding agreement could be negotiated between now and Copenhagen,” Michael Froman, a deputy U.S. national security adviser, said at the time.

Those rooting for a climate pact at Copenhagen were left to mull over the meeting’s shrinking significance until — twist! — computer hackers turned the global climate conversation on its head with a trove of spicy e-mail messages.

The correspondence — apparently purloined from a server at a British research center — suggested that a few of the globe’s pre-eminent climate scientists were of a sniveling sort, and perhaps inclined to fudge data, stifle contradictory voices and even traffic in a bit of geeky machismo.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2396381/posts

A decent summation , so far .

Tim Blair links to a National Post article by a statistician about French researchers who also came to the "wrong" conclusions also being given the finger by CRU.
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/11/26/skewed-science.aspx

I have checked quite a few of these suggested links. The East Anglia CRU leaks are being covered in other media.
There is no question that this is morphing into seperate story in Canada:
CBC is the only so called news media NOT reporting this, and CTV must be walking in stride with them.
Who are making those decisions?
Mr. Harper I resent my taxes going toward a propagandist organisation.

An article in the Star on Al Gore , by the Middle East Bureau Chief , no doubt their foremost climate expert . Odd , again no comments .

I checked out the Gore piece, too, Bill D Cat, but left immediately upon seeing it was a "no comments" zone. Odd how that happens so often at the Star, isn't it?

Was always fascinated by Antarctic pictures.

Sometimes the snowbanks in MB also glowed a soft blue.

I never really minded the snow & cold - it was the long hours of darkness the got to me. No different here - or Palm Springs, for that matter.

Great pictures. I liked the line about this year we had to stay further out (paraphrased).

Yes, the Ceeb is reporting it, but, their POV is, of course, in the tank for the warmongers.

"Climate science still sound" from Quirks and Quarks

and

"A flawed report and a government that won't say boo" by D Simon Jackson, boy wonder, who has never had a real job, but knows so much better than the rest of us, because he's an enlightened environazi.

and

"Hackers skewed climate-change emails: scientists"

Notice a pattern?

Yes, the Ceeb, is -so- unbiased.........

Jema54 @ 2:41 said "Laurie is a credit to his profession." I second that motion.

Kate:
I have put together a doc file re Harry's READ ME txt file. It has been "made readable" for the folks. How can I send it to you?
JimK

The comments on realclimate.org seem to be hitting a raw nerve with Gavin Schmidt. There's close to a thousand of them now and many are not very supportive:

"So there’s an array of fudge factors in the CRU code and your only response is that maybe it wasn’t “used?” How about your code that WAS used? Do we get to see whether or not the code in your models and data analyses that WERE used was of similar “quality?”

I have a Ph.D. in Computer Science, and ~30 years of experience as a software engineer. From what I’ve seen of the CRU’s code and its software management techniques, I wouldn’t trust your results to determine anything of any importance whatsoever, to say nothing of a major reorganization of the world’s economy.

Your only hope of regaining any credibility is to open source all of your code and data IMMEDIATELY. The only example we have of the quality of your organization’s work is APPALLING.

[Response: I have NO IDEA who you are, but if the CODE WAS NEVER USED in a publication, then it is not really relevant to any ASSESSMENTS that ONLY RELY on the published literature. CODE THAT WAS NEVER INTENDED TO BE PUBLIC should probably be EXEMPT from YOUR STANDARDS FOR PUBLISHED CODE. Try having your system hacked and then defend every stray piece of code in it. - gavin]

Notice how the HARRY READ Me files are now just a tiny bit of "stray" code, just like the efforts of these scientists to slander and muzzle their critics are just an unfortunate but entirely understandable over-reaction to ones' critics.

I'd encourage SDA readers to post comments on realclimate.org as well. It helps to keep up the pressure on these crooks.

I've just read the following. Christine Stewart was a Liberal cabinet minister.

"No matter if the science of global warming is all phony...
climate change provides the greatest opportunity to
bring about justice and equality in the world."
- Christine Stewart,
former Canadian Minister of the Environment"

Detroit News: Climategate prof raked in $22.6 million in grants

Friend of USA: Here is a LINK

(Obtained from Luboš Motl's blog,
The Reference Frame)

What ice? Almost every picture was as white as this page.

Harper should sell the CEEB to Rupert Murdoch for a buck. He might still say that's too much.

I think now we have to move on to what is surely the end game here. We have socialist govt's all over the world falling over themselves to pass a world treaty designed to take our money and distribute it as they see fit without any say on our parts. Elections in many countries can't come soon enough to get rid of this pestilence, and this is their last gasp of setting up a framework that gives them power in perpetuity. A delay in Copenhagen's desired implimetation, may buy us enough time to get sane govt's elected

One can dream...

I wonder what price it would fetch. It's damaged goods, if you ask me.

Re Christine Stewart, fmr Canadian Minister of the Environment.
"From Their Own Mouths: Global Warming is a Fraud

"We need to get some broad based support, to capture the public's imagination... So we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements and make little mention of any doubts... Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest." - Stephen Schneider, Stanford Professor of Climatology, lead author of many IPCC reports

"Unless we announce disasters no one will listen." - Sir John Houghton, first chairman of IPCC

"It doesn't matter what is true, it only matters what people believe is true." - Paul Watson, co-founder of Greenpeace

"We've got to ride this global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic and environmental policy." - Timothy Wirth, President of the UN Foundation

"No matter if the science of global warming is all phony... climate change provides the greatest opportunity to bring about justice and equality in the world." - Christine Stewart, fmr Canadian Minister of the Environment

"The only way to get our society to truly change is to frighten people with the possibility of a catastrophe." - emeritus professor Daniel Botkin

"We require a central organizing principle - one agreed to voluntarily. Minor shifts in policy, moderate improvement in laws and regulations, rhetoric offered in lieu of genuine change - these are all forms of appeasement, designed to satisfy the public’s desire to believe that sacrifice, struggle and a wrenching transformation of society will not be necessary." - Al Gore, Earth in the Balance

"Isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn't it our responsibility to bring that about?" - Maurice Strong, founder of the UN Environment Program"

http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=27941

Great quotes Alan.

Cristine Stewart, for those who did not watch the HOC a long time ago, was one of Crouton's 'fall girls' (Crouton threw all his women M.P. s under the bus) - she lost millions...somewhere..in her portfolio has Human rights commissioner! That outfit that went after Ezra, Mark, Kate, Kathey and others had Christine's stolen tax payers money to use to 'fight' citizens deemed 'enemies of the people' by the Liberano commissars.

Stewart was shredded by the Reform party; she quit in disgrace - the money? Never found.