As predicted long ago by people with a rudimentary understanding of science, the “Climate Gate Conspiracy” finally merits is rightful place…
.aka, in the JPP.com Conspiracy Thread files.
A lot could be said here; the Climate scientists that were under “suspicion” have been
thoroughly and completely exonerated (*see links below); two-time Bush voters, Tea Bag partiers, and Fox News fans have become inextricably ensconsed in an self-imposed alternate universe – an echo chamber free of facts and built on the foundations of half-truths, lies, and dubious “factoids” as published on Matt Drudge and the Sarah Palin facebook page; and that the lines of communication and consensus agreement between the real universe where normal people live and the universe of the rightwing echo chamber have been permanently severed.
In some of the more intellectual corners of the interwebs (which I typically avoid, preferring to troll internet porn – just kidding) a raging debate has been occurring on whether conservatives have reached “epistemic closure”; i.e., some fancy-pants philosophical psychobabble which I will defer to Bruce Bartlett to explain:
If you really want to see conservative “epistemic closure” in action, check out
Lord Monckton – a major celebrity of the righting Climate Denialist jihad. The dude is now claiming that Barack Obama was born in Kenya. Hilarious!
Yes, fellow denizens of the interwebs: a major star of the climate denier circuit not only clings with a death grip to a ridiculous and fantastical conspiracy theory of a global network of lying climate scientists; but also thinks the President of the United States is a fifth columnist who was secretly born in Kenya.
There you have it, folks. Conservative “epistemic closure” indeed, Mr. Bartlett…..well played, sir.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/rig...oning_the.html
*”Climate Gate” Inquires:
http://www.realclimate.org/docs/387.pdf
http://www.uea.ac.uk/mac/comm/media/...sessment+Panel
http://www.factcheck.org/2010/04/som...e-conclusions/
http://factcheck.org/2009/12/climategate/
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