… and therefore Wikipedia can’t really be trusted.  It’s sort of like the lamestream media in that way.  Or Barack Obama.  Once you’ve been exposed as having broken the sacred bonds of truth and honesty, even on a few issues, you lose the complete trust of the sensible set, and are ultimately completely screwed.  It’s really an all or nothing proposition when it comes to trust and touting oneself as an honest source of objective information.

Wikipedia has long been suspected by conservatives and other sensible people of having a bias against anything conservative (again, like the lamestream media).  But columnist Lawrence Solomon now exposes what I’m going to call apparent intellectual fraud with regard to the whole “man-made global warming” fraud, and its resulting ClimateGate scandal.  His weekend column at NatPo is reported and discussed at the excellent WattsUpWithThat web site this weekend (that place is a solid go-to site for ClimateGate, etc), but the original Solomon column from Saturday Dec. 19 2009 is right here. 

Here’s a snippet of the salient bits regarding Wikipedia:

…The Climategate Emails reveal something else, too: the enlistment of the most widely read source of information in the world — Wikipedia — in the wholesale rewriting of this history.

[...]

…U.K. scientist and Green Party activist William Connolley — would take on particularly crucial duties.

Connolley took control of all things climate in the most used information source the world has ever known – Wikipedia. Starting in February 2003, just when opposition to the claims of the band members were beginning to gel, Connolley set to work on the Wikipedia site. He rewrote Wikipedia’s articles on global warming, on the greenhouse effect, on the instrumental temperature record, on the urban heat island, on climate models, on global cooling. On Feb. 14, he began to erase the Little Ice Age; on Aug.11, the Medieval Warm Period. In October, he turned his attention to the hockey stick graph. He rewrote articles on the politics of global warming and on the scientists who were skeptical of the band. Richard Lindzen and Fred Singer, two of the world’s most distinguished climate scientists, were among his early targets, followed by others that the band especially hated, such as Willie Soon and Sallie Baliunas of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, authorities on the Medieval Warm Period.

All told, Connolley created or rewrote 5,428 unique Wikipedia articles. His control over Wikipedia was greater still, however, through the role he obtained at Wikipedia as a website administrator, which allowed him to act with virtual impunity. When Connolley didn’t like the subject of a certain article, he removed it — more than 500 articles of various descriptions disappeared at his hand. When he disapproved of the arguments that others were making, he often had them barred — over 2,000 Wikipedia contributors who ran afoul of him found themselves blocked from making further contributions. Acolytes whose writing conformed to Connolley’s global warming views, in contrast, were rewarded with Wikipedia’s blessings. In these ways, Connolley turned Wikipedia into the missionary wing of the global warming movement.

[ Read more ]

The “Medieval Warm Period” that Solomon refers to is also referred to a lot by Lord Monckton, whose video I last posted explained how the ClimateGate “scientists” bastardized it.

It’s really not as confusing as it might sound.  It’s simply a massive fraud being perpetrated on you, which is being aided and abetted by most of the lamestream media, academia, liberal Hollywood, and exacerbated by the likes of Wikipedia and others.  It’s not by shear coincidence that all those institutions are well-know as centers of liberal-leftist advocacy.

Possibly related posts:

• Site down this morning due to…global warming. Yup.
• Oh dear. Now global warming is “irreversible”
• VIDEO: Al Gore won’t debate man-made global warming theory: so our Steve Milloy brings debate to him
• 52% say NO, there is NO “scientific consensus” regarding “man-made global warming”
• Steve Milloy re-debunks global warming science

 

Great 2-minute read from Gerald Warner, “an author, broadcaster, columnist and polemical commentator who writes about politics, religion, history, culture and society in general” in the Telegraph in the U.K..

Copenhagen climate summit: ‘most important paper in the world’ is a glorified UN press release

When your attempt at recreating the Congress of Vienna with a third-rate cast of extras turns into a shambles, when the data with which you have tried to terrify the world is daily exposed as ever more phoney, when the blatant greed and self-interest of the participants has become obvious to all beholders, when those pesky polar bears just keep increasing and multiplying – what do you do?

No contest: stop issuing three rainforests of press releases every day, change the heading to James Bond-style “Do not distribute” and “leak” a single copy, in the knowledge that human nature is programmed to interest itself in anything it imagines it is not supposed to see, whereas it would bin the same document unread if it were distributed openly.

After that, get some unbiased, neutral observer, such as the executive director of Greenpeace, to say: “This is the single most important piece of paper in the world today.” Unfortunately, the response of all intelligent people will be to fall about laughing; but it was worth a try – everybody loves a tryer – and the climate alarmists are no longer in a position to pick and choose their tactics.

[ READ THE REST ]

Possibly related posts:

• What Copenhagen exposed
• Gerald Hayes hammers the press corps
• Copenhagen feels like home
• Nuclear Nonsense
• Lieberman-Warner: A State-by-State Snapshot

 

Since we’re told by the secular-progressives on the left…

“…fighting the man-made global warming is, well, a ‘moral’ thing, so confess your sins!  Repent, sinners!  Join the crusaders for ‘environmental justice’!  Not to be confused with whatchucall yer ‘social justice’, which is kinda a diff’rent religion but it’s still like good ‘n it’s a ‘moral’ thingy ‘n stuff too… and of course passing the ‘health care’, uh, ‘reforms’ are a ‘moral’ deal too… but whatever… church and state!  Oh hang on.  Oh shut up!  Green jobs now! Green jobs now! …”

… the Fraser Institute made this helpful aid:

Possibly related posts:

• First clues to liberals’ moral bankruptcy
• Nearly half the country agrees: Liberals have lost their “moral right to govern”
• The Moral Minority
• Hey Atheists: Get Your Own Moral Code.
• Arrested Moral Development

 

Good recap by Andrew Bolt helping show once again that the Copencrappin’ summit is little more than a summit of socialist tyrants and murderers and rabid anti-capitalists addressing not “man made global warming” or even their new name, “climate change”, but actually they’re fighting God-given freedom and capitalism.  And they’re fighting to “redistribute wealth” —or just steal it through the guise of outright “man-made global warming” fraud — from successful, capitalist, free countries and their hard-working citizens, to poor countries most often led by tyrannical socialist dictators who hate America, capitalism, the west generally, and everything we stand for, and hold their people and their countries down as socialist dictators and communists.  And so on.  You know, as we’ve been saying for years. 

Putting our economy in the hands of Chavez fans

Andrew Bolt
Thursday, December 17, 2009 at 10:34pm

These maniacs in Copenhagen are voting on your future:

President Chavez brought the house down.

When he said the process in Copenhagen was “not democratic, it is not inclusive, but isn’t that the reality of our world, the world is really and imperial dictatorship…down with imperial dictatorships” he got a rousing round of applause.

When he said there was a “silent and terrible ghost in the room” and that ghost was called capitalism, the applause was deafening.

But then he wound up to his grand conclusion – 20 minutes after his 5 minute speaking time was supposed to have ended and after quoting everyone from Karl Marx to Jesus Christ – “our revolution seeks to help all people…socialism, the other ghost that is probably wandering around this room, that’s the way to save the planet, capitalism is the road to hell….let’s fight against capitalism and make it obey us.” He won a standing ovation.

[...]

UPDATE 2

And a mass-murderer at Copenhagen lectures us about our crimes:

The anti-capitalist theme was picked up on by Mr Mugabe, Zimbabwe’s veteran President, who is the target of Western sanctions over alleged human rights abuses.

“When these capitalist gods of carbon burp and belch their dangerous emissions, it’s we, the lesser mortals of the developing sphere who gasp and sink and eventually die.”

UPDATE 3

Nothing is real in Copenhagen – not the temperature record, not the predictions, not the agenda, not the “solution”. In fact, here’s how fake it all is:

[Read it]

EXTRA TRUE BLUE re the REAL “GREEN”

Also good is an op/ed by Kevin Gaudet of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, in the Vancouver Sun and possibly other Canwest papers today:
Copenhagen grifters plan $3,000 con on every Canadian family

By Kevin Gaudet, Special to the Sun, December 17, 2009

Would you be upset if you knew your government was about to get duped in a con that would cost your family at least $3,000 a year in new taxes? That is exactly what is happening in Copenhagen right now.

The developing world has teamed up with global warming activists in Copenhagen at the world climate conference. Together they are planning the big con. Key to the con is to play on the eco-guilt of the developed world; using it to scam cash from “rich countries,” and transferring it to the developing world; all in the name of “ending climate change.” The Copenhagen grifters are hoping to cash the cheques before the developing world wakes up to the con.

A leaked draft version of the agreement on the table at the Copenhagen climate conference reveals plans for a massive transfer of wealth out of Canada. This transfer will come in the form of new taxes and the establishment of a new world government body for climate change housed in the World Bank.

Lord Christopher Monckton is reported to have obtained a working copy of the draft agreement. …

Possibly related posts:

• Liberal POLITICAL scientists all agree on “man-made global warming”; Real scientists? Not so much.
• British Man-Made Global Warming Deniers Too Stupid For Words: BBC Liberal Media Experts
• The myth of global warming
• A More Serious Consensus: “investment” in “man-made global warming” ranks #30 in global usefulness
• More climate scientists manage to get word out about man-made global warming bunkum

 

This video features a light 40 minute lecture — to scientists — by the very entertaining and knowledgeable Lord Monckton, whom I featured here in a blog entry the other day, arguing with one of those “mad-made global warming” moonbats protesting at Copencrappin’.  He’s also an adviser to the group, CFACT, who turned the tables on Greenpeace and draped banners over the Greenpeace ship “Rainbow Warrior” reading “Ship of Lies” and “Propaganda Warrior”. 

Possibly related posts:

• Counterinsurgency against Greenpeace ship “Rainbow Warrior” in Copencrappin’ — now “Ship of Lies”
• MUST SEE VIDEO: Rex Murphy on ClimateGate … with bonus MUST SEE REACTION from CBC news anchor!
• More on ClimateGate: Hide the Decline video song
• ClimateGate continues! VIDEO - Citizen reminds CBC “News”: it won’t go away!
• CBC shuns ClimateGate, but whatdoyaknow, is showing Al Gore’s “documentary” -on their “news” channel

 

The sensible set take action. 

”…the [CFACT] activists daringly boarded Greenpeace’s Arctic Sunrise with neither stealth nor force, but by baffling the crew with doughnuts, and unfurled a banner that read “Ship of Lies” off the starboard side. …”

Read about it here

See the video:

Hat tip and a doughnut to Warren Z.

Possibly related posts:

• Greenpeace admits to using lies, exaggeration to sell their global warming “science” to the stupids
• Copencrappin’ update: U.N. head Moon announces end of U.N., finally!
• Copencrappin’ summit: Country runs out of limos and prostitutes to satisfy “needs”
• Culture Warrior
• Canadians on board the good ship Harper Conservative

 

“There is no time for posturing or blaming.” —UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon, bat.  He was posturing and blaming the U.S. and other western capitalist nations TALKING ABOUT the “man made global warming”/Copencrappin’ summit of bat poo.  But of course if “there is no more time for posturing or blaming”, which is what the UN does all day long, the UN is done like a bat’s dinner.  Ahhh.  The UN.  Good times.

Hat tip to columnist Peter Foster for inspiring me to bestow this honor.

Possibly related posts:

• Copencrappin’ summit: Country runs out of limos and prostitutes to satisfy “needs”
• JunkScience.com Announces Top Ten “Most Embarrassing Moments
• Bloc-head’s state of inner-bloc-head health should be next Parliamentary tribunal project
• The moon and sparrows
• Prime Minister announces Canada and U.S. reach softwood deal

 

I love this.  The CTV perseveres in repeating — as truth — a lie to Canadians, which even the liar has admitted wasn’t true.  CTV leaves their story up nonetheless. 

Look at the difference in coverage —not just the photos they used (CTV with Gore posing as an erudite professor; the Times showing him looking a tad sheepish —like a smarmy, sweaty liar who has just been caught, once again, lying). 

Inconvenient truth for Al Gore as his North Pole sums don’t add up

December 15, 2009

There are many kinds of truth. Al Gore was poleaxed by an inconvenient one yesterday.

The former US Vice-President, who became an unlikely figurehead for the green movement after narrating the Oscar-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth, became entangled in a new climate change “spin” row.

Mr Gore, speaking at the Copenhagen climate change summit, stated the latest research showed that the Arctic could be completely ice-free in five years.

In his speech, Mr Gore told the conference: “These figures are fresh. Some of the models suggest to Dr [Wieslav] Maslowski that there is a 75 per cent chance that the entire north polar ice cap, during the summer months, could be completely ice-free within five to seven years.”

However, the climatologist whose work Mr Gore was relying upon dropped the former Vice-President in the water with an icy blast.

“It’s unclear to me how this figure was arrived at,” Dr Maslowski said. “I would never try to estimate likelihood at anything as exact as this.”

Mr Gore’s office later admitted that the 75 per cent figure was one used by Dr Maslowksi as a “ballpark figure” several years ago in a conversation with Mr Gore.

The embarrassing error cast another shadow over the conference after the controversy over the hacked e-mails from the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit, which appeared to suggest that scientists had manipulated data to strengthen their argument that human activities were causing global warming. …

I guess CTV News doesn’t follow — or report — the news so much. 

EXTRA SWEATY— NEWS EDITOR FUN WITH MIND MOLDING

I liked the picture accompanying the caught in a lie headline on Drudge Report —they used one that was obviously from the same set of photos the CTV looked at, only Drudge chose a more appropriate one.  Unlike the one the Gore-loving sycophants at the CTV “News” department and its editors chose, it didn’t cast Gore as honest old Professor Know-It-All.  Then again, Drudge is referring to the truth.
Reporters catch Gore in ‘embarrassing error’ about Arctic ice—Gore admits. (Same story linked as above)

Possibly related posts:

• VIDEO: Watch BBC video of story on judge ruling on Al Gore’s inconvenient political propaganda
• In today’s “I did NOT know that” file: Al Gore: Cigarettes a SIGNIFICANT factor in global warming!
• Can you save Al Gore? Win $100,000 in the Ultimate Global Warming Challenge
• VIDEO: Al Gore won’t debate man-made global warming theory: so our Steve Milloy brings debate to him
• CTV Newsnet boosts “draft Gore for Prez!” campaign. It’s a Canadian “news” story!