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Mark Steyn: The Dog Ate My Tree Rings
National Review Online ^ | November 29, 2009 | Mark Steyn

Posted on 11/30/2009 10:30:23 AM PST by neverdem

The most obvious thing that strikes anyone wading through the CRU documents is how easy it was for a small number of "experts" to propel their data-raped conclusions first into a "peer-reviewed" "consensus" and then up through western governments into the international fait accomplis of Kyoto, the IPCC and now Copenhagen. I initially assumed stuff like this was just a bit of naked obstructionism toward a few troublemakers:

I find it hard to believe that the British Antarctic Survey would permit the deletion of relevant files for two recent publications or that there aren't any backups for the deleted data on institutional servers.

But no, it was systemic. Hysterical queens like Gordon Brown are demanding we introduce global taxation, micro-regulation of every aspect of your life, massive multi-trillion dollar transfers from the productive sector to eco-rackets and transnational bureaucracies, bovine flatulence levies and extraterrestrial surveillance of once sovereign states on the basis of fevered speculations for which there is no raw data:

SCIENTISTS at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have admitted throwing away much of the raw temperature data on which their predictions of global warming are based.

It means that other academics are not able to check basic calculations said to show a long-term rise in temperature over the past 150 years...

The data were gathered from weather stations around the world and then adjusted to take account of variables in the way they were collected. The revised figures were kept, but the originals — stored on paper and magnetic tape — were dumped to save space when the CRU moved to a new building...

In a statement on its website, the CRU said: “We do not hold the original raw data but only the value-added (quality controlled and homogenised) data.”

The CRU is the world’s leading centre for reconstructing past climate and temperatures. Climate change sceptics have long been keen to examine exactly how its data were compiled. That is now impossible*.

No raw data, huh? But why let that stand in your way?

Only Monday, a British parliamentary committee proposed that every citizen be required to carry a carbon card that must be presented, under penalty of law, when buying gasoline, taking an airplane or using electricity. The card contains your yearly carbon ration to be drawn down with every purchase, every trip, every swipe.

But don't worry. It'll all be very scientific. Your carbon allowance numbers will be kept in a big database. Maybe in East Anglia?

(*Or, as Jim Treacher puts it, the science is settled ...at the bottom of the dumpster.)


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: climategate; globalwarming; hadleycru; marksteyn; steyn
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To: neverdem

Steyn is the closest thing we have to a true heir to GK Chesterton.


21 posted on 11/30/2009 1:38:21 PM PST by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: neverdem

thanks for the links.


22 posted on 11/30/2009 1:44:58 PM PST by cyn
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To: neverdem
I forsee a market for counterfeit carbon cards.
23 posted on 11/30/2009 1:51:46 PM PST by razorback-bert (We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.)
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To: Travis McGee

And leftists DO “just trust” the elites.
It’s a religious level of faith.

I figured that out when, repeatedly, I “logic trapped” a lib in the utter failures of liberal policies.

“They know what they’re doing, I trust them.”


24 posted on 11/30/2009 1:53:47 PM PST by MrB (The difference between a humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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To: Travis McGee; Joe Brower; El Gato; Squantos; wardaddy; Eaker; Jeff Head; Billthedrill; ...
"Just trust us!"

We're from the government, and we're here to help.

NRA: The Untold Story of Gun Confiscation After Katrina

It's a less than 8 minute compilation of short videos. I've only seen parts of it before this. Check Annie Oakley with her Bible & gun.

25 posted on 11/30/2009 2:04:26 PM PST by neverdem (Xin loi minh oi)
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To: Billthedrill

This scam has cost us billions. It’s waaaaay beyond mere white collar crime - this is the real deal. These guys belong in prison.


26 posted on 11/30/2009 2:13:18 PM PST by GOPJ (Anthropogenic global warming-the most costly and widespread scientific FRAUD in history-James Lewis)
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To: subterfuge
That would be great except for one thing. When Republicans have solid majorities for any length of time, they turn into big spending hacks that disdain actual freedom.

Those ranks were also filled with loads of RINOs, so they weren't that solid. We can thank the rats for one thing: they knocked off plenty of RINOs in 2006 & 2008.

On top of that, with tons of debt and a huge deficit, big spending hacks will be primaried now.

27 posted on 11/30/2009 2:15:33 PM PST by neverdem (Xin loi minh oi)
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To: GOPJ
This scam has cost us billions. It’s waaaaay beyond mere white collar crime...

That it is, and the primary evidence has just turned up destroyed. The MSM are giving it the "cleaning out the closet" spin. It's a lot more like Nixon's missing 18 minutes of tape.

28 posted on 11/30/2009 2:36:25 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: neverdem; Just mythoughts; Marie; winoneforthegipper; roses of sharon; Skooz; Pan_Yan; ...

I love the way he writes....


29 posted on 11/30/2009 2:44:33 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach ( Support Geert Wilders)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
"I love the way he writes..."

~& thinks, and speaks.

One day the man's going to assume the Golden EIB microphone when Rush decides on a well earned retirement, enjoy his remaining life and golfs.

Thing about Steyn is, he laughs.
Laughs about Liberal-Socialists.
Laughs at Liberal-Socialists.
Laughs at Liberal-Socilaist boondoggles.
So Mark laughs often *&* a lot.

Mark Steyn taught me how to laugh, at whom and when.
If I learned one thing after his lesson it was Liberal-Socilaists hate being laughed at and/or otherwise mocked.
They despise it. LOL

So, my calling became clear. LOL!!'
Thanks, Mark. ;^)

30 posted on 11/30/2009 3:05:47 PM PST by Landru (Forget the pebble Grasshopper, just leave.)
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To: neverdem; OKSooner; honolulugal; Killing Time; Beowulf; Mr. Peabody; RW_Whacko; gruffwolf; ...
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FReepmail me to get on or off

Ping me if you find one I've missed.



31 posted on 11/30/2009 3:06:30 PM PST by xcamel (The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it. - H. L. Mencken)
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To: Billthedrill
It's a lot more like Nixon's missing 18 minutes of tape.

You're right, Bill. It is.

The MSM should treat this the way they'd treat EXXON if EXXON was caught destroying information about an oil spill ... They would "get" that...

32 posted on 11/30/2009 3:16:38 PM PST by GOPJ (Anthropogenic global warming-the most costly and widespread scientific FRAUD in history-James Lewis)
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To: razorback-bert

As couterfeit cards become prblematic, they’ll just put your carbon info on a chip, implanted in your forehead or right hand....


33 posted on 11/30/2009 3:29:33 PM PST by genetic homophobe (They hate Sarah because she lovingly carries a failed abortion on her hip.)
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To: neverdem

You have GOT TO read Treacher: http://jimtreacher.com/archives/002138.html


34 posted on 11/30/2009 4:57:42 PM PST by GVnana ("Obama is incredibly naive and grossly egotistical." Sarkozy)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Thank you BTTT


35 posted on 11/30/2009 6:16:43 PM PST by Just mythoughts
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0,1,26424705-948,00.html

10AM UPDATE: TONY Abbott has promised a fight on climate change after rolling Malcolm Turnbull to take over the Liberal leadership.

Mr Abbott, Mr Turnbull and Joe Hockey contested a three-way spill at a special partyroom meeting in Parliament this morning. Mr Abbott won by a single vote, 42-41.

He said he was humbled but exhilarated by the win.

“We are gearing up for the fight of our lives,” he said at his first press conference as leader, adding that he was not frightened to fight an election against Kevin Rudd on climate change.

WHOOPEEE!!!


36 posted on 11/30/2009 6:26:33 PM PST by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum)
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To: stephenjohnbanker; neverdem
Great post.

Yes it is. Thanks neverdem. HOORAY Mark Steyn...(data-rape ROFLMAO!)!

37 posted on 11/30/2009 6:53:42 PM PST by PGalt
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To: Landru

“If I learned one thing after his lesson it was Liberal-Socilaists hate being laughed at and/or otherwise mocked.
They despise it. LOL

So, my calling became clear. LOL!!’

I like to tweak em until the vein in their neck pops out ;-)


38 posted on 11/30/2009 7:15:03 PM PST by stephenjohnbanker (Support our troops, and vote out the RINO's!)
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To: neverdem; All

“We’ll never get the hard core left to agree with us. They are just too stupid or evil, but they are only about one fifth of the electorate. Destroy political correctness and we could have solid majorities as far as the eye can see. “

Hear that GOP??

Get off your bloody arse!!


39 posted on 11/30/2009 7:20:30 PM PST by stephenjohnbanker (Support our troops, and vote out the RINO's!)
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To: Fred Nerks

Wowee!

Good Job...Fred!


40 posted on 11/30/2009 8:04:16 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach ( Support Geert Wilders)
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