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tinfoil
11-30-2009, 11:18 PM
Just take a look at the reporting done by main stream media outlets. They have barely scratched the surface on the scandal. LOL obviously they are trying to make it go away.

I find you warmers who still trust IPCC scientists to be a strange breed. You like being lied to.

FUCK THE POLICE
11-30-2009, 11:29 PM
"Climategate" is just a bunch of nigh-religious fanatical global-warming hoax believers seizing upon a few out of context statements and making mountains out of molehills. It's disgraceful that it's even mentioned at all. The hacker should be sentenced to life in prison and the organization he's part of should be banned.

tinfoil
12-01-2009, 12:02 AM
LOL out of context.

You are cluless. Seriously. You like being misled. If you're still a warmer after reading the emails-- but that's it! I know you haven't read a single one. Too afraid to find out how fucking stupid you are for following these frauds. Go ahead and stay ignorant. You're hopeless anyway. Mcdonalds is in your future, so it really doesn't matter that you go on believing. It's only the lawmakers I'm worried about. The wind has been let out of the sail for the warmers. It's going to be really tough to keep the show going with a straight face. Half the warmers of just a week ago are harboring serious doubts now. It's only the retarded spoonfed morons like you who will continue to use IPCC as the supeme authority and giver of all knowledge climate.

hahah you crack me up

Onceler
12-01-2009, 12:18 AM
Well beyond obsessive....

tinfoil
12-01-2009, 12:33 AM
At least the UK is taking it seriously.

And as for lorax.ouncler whatever you call yourself, all you ever have your little quip.

go away douchebag. You can't hold a debate with me on science. I kick your ass all over the page. I cite studies that make you warmers look like idiots. all you can do is call IPCC

Well the IPCC has b een discredited. Only you refuse to look at the evidence.
LOL deny much?

Yep, I'm obsessed with this hoax being exposed. Just because you're a little socialist that wants to be taxed doesn't mean there's anything wrong with for wanting freedom. It's you who are the starnge one.

Who wants to be controlled? Liberals!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/6679082/Climate-change-this-is-the-worst-scientific-scandal-of-our-generation.html

Climate change: this is the worst scientific scandal of our generation
Our hopelessly compromised scientific establishment cannot be allowed to get away with the Climategate whitewash, says Christopher Booker.


By Christopher Booker
Published: 6:10PM GMT 28 Nov 2009

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Who's to blame for Climategate?
CO2 emissions will be on top of the agenda at the Copenhagen summit in December Photo: Getty

A week after my colleague James Delingpole , on his Telegraph blog, coined the term "Climategate" to describe the scandal revealed by the leaked emails from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit, Google was showing that the word now appears across the internet more than nine million times. But in all these acres of electronic coverage, one hugely relevant point about these thousands of documents has largely been missed.

The reason why even the Guardian's George Monbiot has expressed total shock and dismay at the picture revealed by the documents is that their authors are not just any old bunch of academics. Their importance cannot be overestimated, What we are looking at here is the small group of scientists who have for years been more influential in driving the worldwide alarm over global warming than any others, not least through the role they play at the heart of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

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Professor Philip Jones, the CRU's director, is in charge of the two key sets of data used by the IPCC to draw up its reports. Through its link to the Hadley Centre, part of the UK Met Office, which selects most of the IPCC's key scientific contributors, his global temperature record is the most important of the four sets of temperature data on which the IPCC and governments rely – not least for their predictions that the world will warm to catastrophic levels unless trillions of dollars are spent to avert it.

Dr Jones is also a key part of the closely knit group of American and British scientists responsible for promoting that picture of world temperatures conveyed by Michael Mann's "hockey stick" graph which 10 years ago turned climate history on its head by showing that, after 1,000 years of decline, global temperatures have recently shot up to their highest level in recorded history.

Given star billing by the IPCC, not least for the way it appeared to eliminate the long-accepted Mediaeval Warm Period when temperatures were higher they are today, the graph became the central icon of the entire man-made global warming movement.

Since 2003, however, when the statistical methods used to create the "hockey stick" were first exposed as fundamentally flawed by an expert Canadian statistician Steve McIntyre , an increasingly heated battle has been raging between Mann's supporters, calling themselves "the Hockey Team", and McIntyre and his own allies, as they have ever more devastatingly called into question the entire statistical basis on which the IPCC and CRU construct their case.

The senders and recipients of the leaked CRU emails constitute a cast list of the IPCC's scientific elite, including not just the "Hockey Team", such as Dr Mann himself, Dr Jones and his CRU colleague Keith Briffa, but Ben Santer, responsible for a highly controversial rewriting of key passages in the IPCC's 1995 report; Kevin Trenberth, who similarly controversially pushed the IPCC into scaremongering over hurricane activity; and Gavin Schmidt, right-hand man to Al Gore's ally Dr James Hansen, whose own GISS record of surface temperature data is second in importance only to that of the CRU itself.

There are three threads in particular in the leaked documents which have sent a shock wave through informed observers across the world. Perhaps the most obvious, as lucidly put together by Willis Eschenbach (see McIntyre's blog Climate Audit and Anthony Watt's blog Watts Up With That ), is the highly disturbing series of emails which show how Dr Jones and his colleagues have for years been discussing the devious tactics whereby they could avoid releasing their data to outsiders under freedom of information laws.

They have come up with every possible excuse for concealing the background data on which their findings and temperature records were based.

This in itself has become a major scandal, not least Dr Jones's refusal to release the basic data from which the CRU derives its hugely influential temperature record, which culminated last summer in his startling claim that much of the data from all over the world had simply got "lost". Most incriminating of all are the emails in which scientists are advised to delete large chunks of data, which, when this is done after receipt of a freedom of information request, is a criminal offence.

But the question which inevitably arises from this systematic refusal to release their data is – what is it that these scientists seem so anxious to hide? The second and most shocking revelation of the leaked documents is how they show the scientists trying to manipulate data through their tortuous computer programmes, always to point in only the one desired direction – to lower past temperatures and to "adjust" recent temperatures upwards, in order to convey the impression of an accelerated warming. This comes up so often (not least in the documents relating to computer data in the Harry Read Me file) that it becomes the most disturbing single element of the entire story. This is what Mr McIntyre caught Dr Hansen doing with his GISS temperature record last year (after which Hansen was forced to revise his record), and two further shocking examples have now come to light from Australia and New Zealand.

In each of these countries it has been possible for local scientists to compare the official temperature record with the original data on which it was supposedly based. In each case it is clear that the same trick has been played – to turn an essentially flat temperature chart into a graph which shows temperatures steadily rising. And in each case this manipulation was carried out under the influence of the CRU.

What is tragically evident from the Harry Read Me file is the picture it gives of the CRU scientists hopelessly at sea with the complex computer programmes they had devised to contort their data in the approved direction, more than once expressing their own desperation at how difficult it was to get the desired results.

The third shocking revelation of these documents is the ruthless way in which these academics have been determined to silence any expert questioning of the findings they have arrived at by such dubious methods – not just by refusing to disclose their basic data but by discrediting and freezing out any scientific journal which dares to publish their critics' work. It seems they are prepared to stop at nothing to stifle scientific debate in this way, not least by ensuring that no dissenting research should find its way into the pages of IPCC reports.

Back in 2006, when the eminent US statistician Professor Edward Wegman produced an expert report for the US Congress vindicating Steve McIntyre's demolition of the "hockey stick", he excoriated the way in which this same "tightly knit group" of academics seemed only too keen to collaborate with each other and to "peer review" each other's papers in order to dominate the findings of those IPCC reports on which much of the future of the US and world economy may hang. In light of the latest revelations, it now seems even more evident that these men have been failing to uphold those principles which lie at the heart of genuine scientific enquiry and debate. Already one respected US climate scientist, Dr Eduardo Zorita, has called for Dr Mann and Dr Jones to be barred from any further participation in the IPCC. Even our own George Monbiot, horrified at finding how he has been betrayed by the supposed experts he has been revering and citing for so long, has called for Dr Jones to step down as head of the CRU.

The former Chancellor Lord (Nigel) Lawson, last week launching his new think tank, the Global Warming Policy Foundation , rightly called for a proper independent inquiry into the maze of skulduggery revealed by the CRU leaks. But the inquiry mooted on Friday, possibly to be chaired by Lord Rees, President of the Royal Society – itself long a shameless propagandist for the warmist cause – is far from being what Lord Lawson had in mind. Our hopelessly compromised scientific establishment cannot be allowed to get away with a whitewash of what has become the greatest scientific scandal of our age.

Onceler
12-01-2009, 07:57 AM
How much have you been taxed on climate-related issues, tinfoil, compared to say...war?

You're weirdly obsessed on this topic. Like, crazy. It's is totally out of whack with the amount that you have had to "pay" for it. And, as I have shown you time & again, the U.S. stands to gain much more economically from faster development of green tech, anyway.

But you'll keep fighting to send hundreds of billions to the Middle East, because you're so outraged over the hefty "tax burden" from climate change.

You really don't think. At all.

Hermes Thoth
12-01-2009, 07:59 AM
Well beyond obsessive....

Science relies on an obsession with truth.

you're a brainwashed zealot, knowing nothing of science or thinking.

Onceler
12-01-2009, 08:09 AM
Science relies on an obsession with truth.

you're a brainwashed zealot, knowing nothing of science or thinking.

Really?

I keep hearing that I'm brainwashed. How so? What am I repeating that indicates this state of mind?

Or are you making assumptions?

DamnYankee
12-01-2009, 08:09 AM
How much have you been taxed on climate-related issues, tinfoil, compared to say...war?

You're weirdly obsessed on this topic. Like, crazy. It's is totally out of whack with the amount that you have had to "pay" for it. And, as I have shown you time & again, the U.S. stands to gain much more economically from faster development of green tech, anyway.

But you'll keep fighting to send hundreds of billions to the Middle East, because you're so outraged over the hefty "tax burden" from climate change.

You really don't think. At all.

Typical dumb liberal. When you've lost the debate, change the subject. How fucking lame.

:facepalm:

Onceler
12-01-2009, 08:13 AM
What debate did I "lose", SM?

Or are you making assumptions, as well?

DamnYankee
12-01-2009, 08:19 AM
What debate did I "lose", SM?

Or are you making assumptions, as well?

I'm assuming since you have no response but to bring up an unrelated subject that you've lost the debate. :)

Hermes Thoth
12-01-2009, 08:20 AM
Really?

I keep hearing that I'm brainwashed. How so? What am I repeating that indicates this state of mind?

Or are you making assumptions?

You believe co2 global warming lies despite scientific proof to the contrary, and by ignoring evidence of scientific hackery and deception on the part of climate scientists.

your view is mostly based on finding a pretense to punish white people. In your jew brainwashed world, white guilt should be the central motivating force of your life.

DamnYankee
12-01-2009, 08:22 AM
Kill Whitey! :good4u:

meme
12-01-2009, 08:23 AM
The commies have taken over the white house and the lamestream media..

wake up people

Hermes Thoth
12-01-2009, 08:24 AM
Kill Whitey! :good4u:

Yes. Boiled down, this is their agenda. "good whites" who cooperate with genocide think they will be spared.

Onceler
12-01-2009, 08:26 AM
You believe co2 global warming lies despite scientific proof to the contrary, and by ignoring evidence of scientific hackery and deception on the part of climate scientists.

your view is mostly based on finding a pretense to punish white people. In your jew brainwashed world, white guilt should be the central motivating force of your life.

Really?

That's what I believe? And I'm ignoring that?

Can you show me where you got that?

Hermes Thoth
12-01-2009, 08:27 AM
Really?

That's what I believe? And I'm ignoring that?

Can you show me where you got that?

Probably from some fascist university of some kind, who's "white guilt" puke you lapped up with relish.

Onceler
12-01-2009, 08:27 AM
I'm assuming since you have no response but to bring up an unrelated subject that you've lost the debate. :)

How are taxes & economics "unrelated"?

Tinfoil talks about them in his post, and has said many times that this is the impetus for his "fight."

Reading comprehension problems?

DamnYankee
12-01-2009, 08:27 AM
Yes. Boiled down, this is their agenda. "good whites" who cooperate with genocide think they will be spared. They'll spare the gays since they can't reproduce anyway.

Onceler
12-01-2009, 08:28 AM
Probably from some fascist university of some kind, who's "white guilt" puke you lapped up with relish.

Oh....but you can't find anything that I actually said to back up your claim of what you think I 'believe" and what you claim I am "ignoring"?

DamnYankee
12-01-2009, 08:28 AM
How are taxes & economics "unrelated"?

Tinfoil talks about them in his post, and has said many times that this is the impetus for his "fight."

Reading comprehension problems? Global warming has nothing to do with war. Reading comprehension problems?

Hermes Thoth
12-01-2009, 08:29 AM
They'll spare the gays since they can't reproduce anyway.

yes. They love gays. They prefer a model of sexual living which cannot possibly produce pesky new offspring. They hate people, white people especially.

Onceler
12-01-2009, 08:30 AM
Global warming has nothing to do with war. Reading comprehension problems?

Taxes do.

Nice try!

DamnYankee
12-01-2009, 08:31 AM
yes. They love gays. They prefer a model of sexual living which cannot possibly produce pesky new offspring. They hate people, white people especially.
That explains why they promote sodomy as well as homosexuality.

DamnYankee
12-01-2009, 08:32 AM
Taxes do.

Nice try!Taxes don't either. You fail once again.

Hermes Thoth
12-01-2009, 08:35 AM
Oh....but you can't find anything that I actually said to back up your claim of what you think I 'believe" and what you claim I am "ignoring"?

Everything you say backs it up. And everything you ignore (the truth) also backs it up.

Hermes Thoth
12-01-2009, 09:26 AM
wow. My last post flattened onceler like a pancake. what a defeated rube he is.

tinfoil
12-01-2009, 09:27 AM
Everything you say backs it up. And everything you ignore (the truth) also backs it up.

I think that's the point. It's about not having any protest to being defrauded.

and BTW, Obama won and didn't end the war. WTF? where's your outrage, libtards?

Hermes Thoth
12-01-2009, 09:28 AM
I think that's the point. It's about not having any protest to being defrauded.

and BTW, Obama won and didn't end the war. WTF? where's your outrage, libtards?

Ultimately they don't care about the science.

Their zeal is based on their notion that destroying white nations is the ultimate form of justice. The highest good.

Onceler
12-01-2009, 09:29 AM
Ultimately they don't care about the science.

Their zeal is based on their notion that destroying white nations is the ultimate form of justice. The highest good.

See, tinny - this is what obsession will lead to.

Hermes Thoth
12-01-2009, 09:31 AM
See, tinny - this is what obsession will lead to.

The truth? Sometimes it does. Sometimes it leads to embracing lies, like your anti west anti white obsession.

Damocles
12-01-2009, 09:44 AM
wow. My last post flattened onceler like a pancake. what a defeated rube he is.
You get a man point for making me laugh.

tinfoil
12-01-2009, 10:12 AM
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/fronts/HOME?site=AP

Just check out the top AP stories link. Not a single mention of CRU emails.
Biggest story in a while.
Google returns more hits for climategate than it does for global warming LOL!!

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/fronts/SCIENCE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME
Not even a story on the science page!!