The liberal media barons are flummoxed by the following developments andlike the 6 year old who finally realizes there is no Santa Claus, arein deep denial.
There’s a big global warming scandal breaking out across the blogosphere. Earlier I saw Der Spiegel’s, “Climatologists Baffled by Global Warming Time-Out.”
Iactually didn’t pay that much attention to it, since the left’sglobal-warming-media-industrial-complex continues to peddle lies andenvironmental disinformation; and frankly, President Obama’s visit toChina killed the prospects for the Copenhagen climate change accord.
Butthe news this morning is absolutely devastating. It turns out thathackers have exposed a massive conspiracy seeking to hide thescientific consensus that global warming is bunk. See, “Climategate: The Final Nail in the Coffin of ‘Anthropogenic Global Warming’?”Read this whole entry, which posts the key e-mails. This one on thescience community’s campaign to drum out dissenters is justmind-boggling:
And, perhaps mostreprehensibly, a long series of communications discussing how best tosqueeze dissenting scientists out of the peer review process. How, inother words, to create a scientific climate in which anyone whodisagrees with AGW can be written off as a crank, whose views do nothave a scrap of authority.
“Thiswas the danger of always criticising the skeptics for not publishing inthe “peer-reviewed literature”. Obviously, they found a solution tothat–take over a journal! So what do we do about this? I think we haveto stop considering “Climate Research” as a legitimate peer-reviewedjournal. Perhaps we should encourage our colleagues in the climateresearch community to no longer submit to, or cite papers in, thisjournal. We would also need to consider what we tell or request of ourmore reasonable colleagues who currently sit on the editorialboard…What do others think?”
“I will be emailing the journal totell them I’m having nothing more to do with it until they ridthemselves of this troublesome editor.”“It results from this journalhaving a number of editors. The responsible one for this is awell-known skeptic in NZ. He has let a few papers through by Michaelsand Gray in the past. I’ve had words with Hans von Storch about this,but got nowhere. Another thing to discuss in Nice !”
Also, at the conclusion of the piece:
Theworld is currently cooling; electorates are increasingly reluctant tosupport eco-policies leading to more oppressive regulation, highertaxes and higher utility bills; the tide is turning against Al Gore’sAnthropogenic Global Warming theory. The so-called “sceptical” view isnow also the majority view.
Plus, check out Hot Air as well, “Do Hacked E-Mails Show Global-Warming Fraud?” And, Michelle Malkin’s title nails it, “The Global Warming Scandal of the Century.” (And Michelle reminds us, “First things first: The alleged hackers need to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.)
Australia’s Andrew Bolt suggests the scandal “is one of the greatest in modern science.”
More from the BBC, “Hackers Target Leading Climate Research Unit,” and Memeorandum.