“…What these documents reveal is the greatest scientific scandal of our times—and a tragedy. It’s not just their graphs but their battle lines that are drawn all wrong. Science is never “settled,” and certainly not on the basis of predictive models. And any scientist who says it is is no longer a scientist. And the dismissal of “skeptics” throughout the Jones/Mann correspondence is most revealing: a real scientist is always a skeptic. …” —Mark Steyn   Maclean’s column   December 3 2009 (online)

EXTRA AWARDAGE:

Mr. Steyn also gets some kind of award for making me laugh with his spot-on airquotes, which readers know I love, so.  I particularly liked this two-fer as he quotes the “president” of “Europe”:

But the Maclean’s editors must have had to at least be cajoled by Mark into putting the absolutely spot-on quotes around “science”, here in the headline:

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Or to put it another way, the “debate is over” when we damn well say it’s over.  Not when we’re told it’s over by zealots and alarmists and fraudster “scientists” and liberals on the take, and their sycophantic, politically-correct minions.  Not when we’re told “the science is settled”. 

This poll result, despite the incessant blathering and badgering and hectoring from liberals and academics and Hollywood and liberal-left media who, in a manner increasingly befitting the very definition of fascism, attempt to ram their “man-made global warming” mantra down our throats on a daily hourly minute-by-minute basis, with a zeal akin only to a religious fundamentalist or extremist.

Americans Skeptical of Science Behind Global Warming
Thursday, December 03, 2009

Most Americans (52%) believe that there continues to be significant disagreement within the scientific community over global warming.

While many advocates of aggressive policy responses to global warming say a consensus exists, the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 25% of adults think most scientists agree on the topic. Twenty-three percent (23%) are not sure.

But just in the last few days, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs seemed to reject any such disagreement in a response to a question about global warming, “I don’t think … [global warming] is quite, frankly, among most people, in dispute anymore.”

Fifty-nine percent (59%) of Americans say it’s at least somewhat likely that some scientists have falsified research data to support their own theories and beliefs about global warming. Thirty-five percent (35%) say it’s Very Likely. Just 26% say it’s not very or not at all likely that some scientists falsified data.

This skepticism does not appear to be the result of the recent disclosure of e-mails confirming such data falsification as part of the so-called “Climategate” scandal. Just 20% of Americans say they’ve followed news reports about those e-mails Very Closely, while another 29% have followed them Somewhat Closely.

• …One reason for this skepticism may be the role the United Nations has played in promoting the global warming issue. Only 22% of Americans consider the UN to be a reliable source of information on global warming. Forty-nine percent (49%) disagree and say the international organization is not reliable on that topic. Twenty-nine percent (29%) aren’t sure.

• …Even as Obama and senior members of Congress are pushing major anti-global warming initiatives, Americans overwhelmingly believe they should focus on the economy instead. Seventy-one percent (71%) say the bigger priority for U.S. national leaders is stimulating the economy to create jobs. Only 15% say they should focus instead on stopping global warming to save the environment.

•  …As for Gore, despite winning both the Nobel Peace Prize and an Academy Award for his advocacy of efforts to fight global warming, only 31% of Americans consider him an expert on the topic. …

Ahhhh.

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Here’s some more “headlines” (also featuring the pseudo-french!): 

“Joel Johannesen:  Citizens should ignore ClimateGate media fraudsteurs”

Or this one…

“Joel Johannesen:  CTV instructs us to ignore ClimateGate, and just follow along like good liberaleurs.”

Or this one (I know it’s a little long, but some colons are!):

“Joel Johannesen:  I hereby declare that I’m beyond reproach by simply putting my name before the idea I want you to absorb, followed by a colon, thereby enabling me to set forth my propaganda and advance my agenda as if it’s merely somebody else who’s saying it… sort of like the CBC with their week-late ground-breaking headline:  ‘Hackers skewed climate-change emails: scientists’.”

Observant readers will detect that in the CBC’s case, they put the now hilarious word “scientists” after the colon (they often deliver it up the rear), but in both cases, CTV and CBC are all about the colon.  Yes, it naturally follows that they are full of colon contents.

Sorry lamestream media, but this is the sort of editorial device that is reserved for political advocacy bloggers like me, because I’m all about advancing an agenda, and openly so.  Even still, I neither bend over to (almost) reveal my colon, nor do I attempt to ram any ideas through one’s colon —or any orifice for that matter.  When a news media outfit constantly does it, it’s simply horrible journalism bent on proving they can’t be trusted to deliver unabridged facts (and possibly hoping you’re bent over to accept it). 

The liberal-left lamestream media constantly use this little contrivance, but as we can see with increasing ease, they’re simply making big fat asses of themselves.

Oh crap.  There goes the credibility.
Anus.  There I said it. Also: sphincter.  I was dying to say that one.

EXTRA POOP:

Britain’s “climate change secretary” is the guy whom the CTV actually describes as the awesome “Climate Chief” in their hilariously tendentious headline,  in an apparent effort to screw you over with highfalutin titles when in fact the guy is really just another left-wing political minion —hardly a “Climate Chief” in any sense of the term.  He is quoted in the article as saying this, with regard to the, um, “message” he’s trying to get out there through the aforementioned colon:

“We are not going to take the easy way out, it would be a profoundly irresponsible thing to do—the science is clear and settled.”

Holy intellectual diarrhea, batman!  “[T]he science is settled” —coming from a science-y “chief”?  Poop out another one, “chief”. 

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Great interview with a great Canadian…. but (UPDATED) also see latest headlines below, as captured by Drudge.

Part 1

Part II

DrudgeReport.com headlines:
• PAPER: CLIMATE CHANGE ‘FRAUD’…
• CLIMATEGATE: Scientist at center of e-mail controversy to step down…
• Penn State Professor also under investigation…
• Inhofe Asks Boxer to Probe Potential Scientific ‘Conspiracy’…
• Australia’s Parliament defeats global warming bill…
• ‘It’s all unravelling now’…
Also, these previous entries:
• CLIMATE-CULT: STUDENTS BRAINWASHED WITH ‘WARMING’ SONG…
• Climategate: ‘Scientific establishment hopelessly compromised’…
• Taking the private jet to Copenhagen…

I’ll also (once again!) share with you the latest email newsletter from the Canadian Taxpayers Federation:

Dear Supporter:

Last week, radical global warming activists held an eight hour sit-in at federal Environment Minister Jim Prentice’s Calgary constituency office. Another group of radicals camped out at the office of Conservative Minister Rona Ambrose. 

These groups are pressuring the Conservative government to commit to draconian carbon dioxide reduction measures in advance of a UN-sponsored climate meeting in Copenhagen this month. 

Will you join us in insuring the government is not just hearing from radical environmentalists by contacting Minister Prentice and Prime Minister Harper today?

The CTF is warning in national newspapers that Canada signing onto agreement in Copenhagen would lead to billions of tax dollars being shipped off in environmental aid to countries such as Burundi and Uganda coupled with crippling energy taxes and dubious proposals for carbon trading schemes. 

Radical global warming activists were recently dealt a serious blow when thousands of e-mails and research files surfaced from the Climate Research Unit (CRU) in the United Kingdom suggesting prominent scientists from around the world have been working together for years to “cook” temperature data.  The CRU is one of the four main temperature record sources used by the United Nations to justify protocols such as Kyoto and now Copenhagen.

In two just released videos (here and here), CTF president Troy Lanigan sits down with Climatologist Dr. Tim Ball to discuss what he calls the “fraud” of Climategate.

The matters surrounding Climategate are serious and require governments here and abroad to investigate the legitimacy of temperature readings from their respective state-funded institutions before imposing dubious econoimc policies during a recession.

These stories are still not reaching the mainstream media to the extent they should.  We urge you to first watch, then forward these interviews to your contact list.  We also encourage you to send us a donation so we can arrange and produce important interviews like this in the future.

—Troy, Maureen, and the rest of the CTF team

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• ClimateGate at the Montreal Gazette: They just don’t get it. Or they do, and facts don’t matter

 

I’m actually going with the latter.

From: B. Yale
Sent: Sunday, November 29, 2009 10:20 PM
To: ProudToBeCanadian.ca
Subject: Climategate

Joel…..

The Montreal Gazette also took a small hop on to the Climategate bandwagon.

After an eight day silence they finally reported the story in Saturday’s edition.

But just so you wouldn’t get the wrong idea, they ran three other stories on the same page.

One about the Arctic ice meltdown still being a severe problem; another about criticism of Canada’s foot dragging by the head of the UN; and a third about all those nasty toxins in the oilsands water.

Now if only we could get the Gazette to report on the scandals at ACORN…..something else they’ve managed to completely ignore for months on end.

B.Yale

Hey B. Yale,

You’re right.  I looked.  Rather than reporting the story as they should, with all the shrill journalistic alarm bells that they normally ring when reporting on the news items that advance their agenda (like “man-made global warming” or “A Christian said the word ‘damn’”), they clearly BURIED the story as best they possibly could.  When I looked at it to verify what you said, I literally laughed out loud.  Anyone with the intellect above that of a pea can see they are perfidious.  It’s actually hideous journalism. 

But on the plus side, it helps expose them for their role in the whole “man-made global warming” farce, and thereby helps us expose them as the farce they have themselves become.

They could just as easily have filled their pages with news of the building glacial ice in Antarctica, the increasing numbers of polar bears in the Arctic, the fact that temperatures have actually gone down in the past several years and haven’t risen in the last decade, stories on the the huge increase in the acreage of forests in North America over the past few decades, the fact that *actual* pollution and smog and poisons in the atmosphere have decreased over the decades and that our air is cleaner now than it has been in a generation or more, or any number of other such enviro-news stories.  But they chose instead those you mentioned in a clear attempt to distract from the real, big story of the historic farce. 

EXTRA, EXTRA!

The excellent Media Research Center reports today:  Nets Ignore Climategate:  While Fox News Channel and CNN Report, CNN Dismisses Relevance.  And on it goes.  The liberal media, which holds itself out to be absolutely fair and balanced and objective and as honest purveyors of fact, is pushing an agenda. Spinning and obfuscating the very truth they pretend to hold as inviolable, to present the news so that you see it their twisted, tendentious way.  That’s a scandal in and of itself.  Who will begin to report on this scandal — because I want to invest in that media company and be able to retire early.

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As ClimateGate is more fully digested and the mendacious lamestream media becomes more and more overwhelmed by the presence of the giant BS-detecting elephant in the room, they are hilariously — and very slowly and sheepishly and extremely reluctantly — jumping on board our sanity train (I started with “truth train” but that sounded too much like them). 

At some point, the media always jump on board, if only to hide their own failed complicity in originally trying to help cover up their liberal-left, agenda-driving perfidy, and to now portray themselves as the benevolent beacons of shiny truth —we always were, Jack!  They are effectively re-writing history of course, and suddenly propelling themselves as the original advocates of truth, rather than the original purveyors-in-chief of all the total BS the enviro-nuts (or any other division of the secular-progressive, liberal left) have been advocating —in this case, such nonsense as the “science is settled”, the “debate is over”, and of course “man-made global warming” — and manifestly, the politics, socio-economic, and ideological farce division of the entire Liberal-Left movement. 

Most often they are today writing up articles or reading their news reports on TV as though they are themselves breaking the story.  As anybody who reads this blog or several others, they’re actually at least a week late.  The sensible set —or what they called “skeptics”, “deniers”, “nutbars”. “Republicans”, “Conservatives”, “idiot bloggers”, or “war criminals”, depending on who you talked to, had started stalking about it when it actually happened. 

Others, like the state-owned, socialism-reliant, and studiously sycophantic enviro-nut propagandists at the CBC, now write it up from the purely defensive perspective, insinuating that the breaking ClimateGate story is just short of an assemblage of pure BS from that usual bunch of right-wing—gee I don’t know—“Nazis” or “teabaggers” or “neocons” or “homophobic racists”, or something — always through nuance and insinuation mind you—never actually calling us those things.  (Their online commenters do that for them, after the CBC and the other-like minded self-anointed media elites dutifully set them up with their tendentiously-worded articles, and then they actually approve the kind of hate comments I’m referring to in their own forums, thus enabling them to also tout that they are open-minded and advocate “free speech”).  Actually it’s the exact same sort of writing style and presentation of “news” that I see whenever the liberal media writes up something about Christianity.

The Telegraph has been particularly candid about the whole ClimateGate thing, perhaps because one of the most notable “man-made global warming” proponents writes at a competing left-wing sheet in the U.K., the Guardian.  Its famous left-wing advocate George Monbiot has famously conceded in that paper, since the story broke, that this is all very, very bad for him and them and their sacred movement.

Today the Telegraph deploys climate author Christopher Booker to write up this succinct synopsis of what we know so far.

Climate change: this is the worst scientific scandal of our generation

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).

[...]

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.

And I particularly like Booker’s conclusion:

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.

  There are other articles in the Telegraph worth looking at — each headline apparently prefaced with the template “CLIMATEGATE:”, such as this one:  Climategate: University of East Anglia U-turn in climate change row.    Even the left-wing BBC, which not unlike the CBC are veritable puppets of the enviro-left “man-made global warming” set, are reporting some it somewhat responsibly, if not also sneeringly with healines designed to lay “blame” for the leaking of the emails being “stolen” rather than the bigger story of the massive fraud, cover-up and scandal of the “man-made global warming” farce itself, to wit:  “Inquiry into stolen climate e-mails”. 

I’ve written it up several times, as have columnists here at PTBC. 

Also a good article by the (Canadian) Sun Media’s notably conservative-tolerant Lorrie Goldstein today:  ‘Botch after botch after botch’ – Leaked ‘climategate’ documents show huge flaws in the backbone of climate change science.

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February 7, 2008 article: “Jail politicians who ignore climate science: Suzuki” 

  Still think we should JAIL ALL THOSE WHO IGNORE THE “CLIMATE SCIENCE”, SUZUKI?

Talk about your asinine pronouncements of abject intolerance and anti-science coming back and biting you in the pseudo-science and exceedingly naive left-wing junior politician ass. 

The right-thinking folks like me who, after thorough study, constantly and openly highlighted and then questioned the “science” and politics (I always referred to it more succinctly as the “political science” to advance my interest in accuracy, and to properly differentiate it from actual science) behind the “man-made global warming” —were never silent about it.  Quite the contrary.  We were and remain a loud voice in the wilderness.  I don’t need to prove it.  Even if the media refused to openly discuss our objections in print or on TV, the leftists and Gore’s zombies and other enviro-nuts kept telling us to shut up, and actually sought to shut us up by any means possible —literally including putting us in jail.  One liberal-leftist wrote online that we should be EXECUTED.  So clearly, we weren’t silent. 

We were and are dismissed as “deniers”.  (Some liberals get all confused over their pseudo-science terms though, and also call us “racists”, and “homophobes” and of course the new term du jour, the ever-pleasant “teabaggers”.)  But now that it has been all but solidly proven that the left has sought — and continues to seek— to silence the truth from being revealed in what we now see is the anything-but-settled “science” around the “man-made global warming”, the liberal media has not reported on it with any degree of candor at all.  They’re keeping it under wraps.

And that’s not merely “denying”.  That’s pure deception.  A cover-up of massive proportion, matched only by the size and scope of the hysterical “man-made global warming” fraud itself.  A pathological lapse of principle and integrity.  No wonder they call liberalism a disease.

Nets That Touted ‘Deniers’ ‘Conspiracy,’ Now Mum on Left’s Global Warming Distortions

By: Rich Noyes
November 24, 2009 11:34 ET

As of Tuesday morning, the broadcast networks still haven’t uttered a single word about the revelations late last week of e-mails showing scientists on the left-wing side of the global warming debate plotting to hide data and silence those on the other side in an effort prop up the notion of a “consensus” on the issue. But when the liberal side of the debate charged that their opponents were involved in a “conspiracy” to tilt the debate in their favor, those same networks eagerly jumped on the story and castigated the evil “deniers.”  …

I don’t seek jail terms for them.  But the media and other “deniers” should be castigated by consumers and voters alike, because they’re lying to you and trying to deceive you through a purposeful, agenda-driven, ideologically-based omission of facts.  Our side never did that.

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