Peer Pressure

NRO ^ | December 1, 2009 | Editors

[ricks_place]

The thing to understand about the scandal surrounding the e-mails leaked from Britain’s Climatic Research Unit (CRU) is that it is actually three scandals. There is a scientific scandal, in which the leading lights of the climate-research cabal conspired to fudge data and silence skeptics. There is a media scandal, in which reporters and editors on the “climate beat” at the world’s most prominent news organizations acted as stenographers for the cabal and ignored the scandal when it broke. And there is a political scandal, in which officeholders here and abroad used the bunk science as a pretext for expanding their control of (and take from) the world’s energy markets.

The largest scandal is scientific. The e-mails show climate researchers at a handful of universities and think tanks engaged in unscrupulous behavior. Phil Jones of CRU, Michael Mann of Penn State University, and other leaders of the climate cartel discussed statistical tricks they used to “hide the decline” of atmospheric temperatures. Other data were fudged to cover up warm periods that didn’t fit their theory of anthropogenic global warming (AGW). Tom Wigley of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research suggested “correcting” ocean temperatures downward by 0.15 degrees Celsius “to partly explain the 1940s warming blip.”

[ricks_place]

The UN Global Warming conference is an embarrassing charade.

[xcamel]

FReepmail me to get on or off

Ping me if you find one I've missed.

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[BerryDingle]

Hide the decline (hide the decline)

[Red Badger]

With NEW UPDATED INFO ON:

The pseudo-science of Globull Warming

With forward written by the guys at CRU!

[Red Badger]

He’ll be selling those on the side of the road made into coffee tables ere too long..............

[Oatka]

The Dog Ate My Tree Rings"

[Condor51]

There is a scientific scandal, in which the leading lights of the climate-research cabal conspired to fudge data and silence skeptics ... The largest scandal is scientific. The e-mails show climate researchers at a handful of universities and think tanks engaged in unscrupulous behavior.

If all Scientists had the ethics of these mutts, we 'could' have had this:

'Trust me', E=mc³.

I don't think that would have worked out too well later on.

[CedarDave]

Hide the Decline

[neverdem]

Mr. Inhofe goes so far as to suggest that the agency might not now issue the finding. "The president knows how punitive this will be; he's never wanted to do it through [the EPA] because that's all on him." The EPA was already out on a legal limb with its finding, and Mr. Inhofe argues that if it does go ahead, the CRU disclosure guarantees court limbo. "The way the far left used to stop us is to file lawsuits and stall and stall. We'll do the same thing."

[Billthedrill]

There is, as well, a scandal in this that is criminal, and it is the apparent collusion to prevent the release of data requested under both U.S. and UK FOIAs, including an email deletion cover-up of the act. Were I one of the principals I’d have my attorney on speed-dial.

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !