Putting ClimateGate in perspective

JoNova ^ | March 29th, 2010 | joanne

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I attribute much of the recent rapid rise of the skeptics to the ongoing effects of ClimateGate. Yet, in a sense, the e-mails that were sprung from East Anglia did nothing more than confirm what most skeptics already suspected. Lawrence Solomon, author of The Deniers, has written an unusually good summary in the form of a speech for the Colorado Mining Association.

With his permission, I’ve included my favourite points here, as well as a copy of the full speech. His blog is a part of the Energy Probe team.

The Climategate emails confirmed much of what the sceptics had been saying for years.

• They confirmed that the peer review process had been corrupted, that scientists were arranging friendly reviews.
• They confirmed that the science journals had been corrupted.
• That journals that refused to play ball with the doomsayers faced boycotts and their editors faced firing.
• They confirmed that sceptical scientists were being systematically excluded from the top‐tier journals.
• The Climategate emails confirmed that journalists were likewise threatened with boycotts if they didn’t play ball.
• The Climategate emails confirmed that the science itself was suspect. That the doomsayers themselves couldn’t make the data work. That they were debating among themselves some of the same points that the sceptics raised, and were privately acknowledging that they didn’t have answers to the issues that the sceptics raised.
• The Climategate emails confirmed that the doomsayers were so determined to hide their data from inquiring minds that they were prepared to break the law to hide it – and did break the law – by avoiding Freedom of Information requests.

• The Climategate emails confirmed that raw temperature data collected from countries around the world was destroyed. It appears the UK is missing raw temperature data going back to 1850.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

fyi

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

From the comments Solomon has a series of articles :

Climate change: The deniers

Looks like these start October 11, 2007, 9:48 AM by Ron Nurwisah at the national Post.

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The Post's series on scientists who buck the conventional wisdom on climate science. Here is the series so far:

Statistics needed -- The Deniers Part I
Warming is real -- and has benefits -- The Deniers Part II
The hurricane expert who stood up to UN junk science -- The Deniers Part III
Polar scientists on thin ice -- The Deniers Part IV
The original denier: into the cold -- The Deniers Part V
The sun moves climate change -- The Deniers Part VI
Will the sun cool us? -- The Deniers Part VII
The limits of predictability -- The Deniers Part VIII
Look to Mars for the truth on global warming -- The Deniers Part IX
Limited role for C02 -- the Deniers Part X

End the chill -- The Deniers Part XI
Clouded research -- The Deniers Part XII
Allegre's second thoughts -- The Deniers XIII
The heat's in the sun -- The Deniers XIV
Unsettled Science -- The Deniers XV
Bitten by the IPCC -- The Deniers XVI
Little ice age is still within us -- The Deniers XVII
Fighting climate 'fluff' -- The Deniers XVIII 
Science, not politics -- The Deniers XIX
Gore's guru disagreed -- The Deniers XX

The ice-core man -- The Deniers XXI
Some restraint in Rome -- The Deniers XXII
Discounting logic -- The Deniers XXIII
Dire forecasts aren't new -- The Deniers XXIV
They call this a consensus? -- Part XXV
NASA chief Michael Griffin silenced - Part XXVI
Forget warming - beware the new ice age -- Part XXVII
Open mind sees climate clearly -- Part XXVIII
Models trump measurements -- Part XXIX
What global warming, Australian skeptic asks -- Part XXX

In the eye of the storm of global warming -- Part XXXI
From chaos, coherence -- Part XXXII
The aerosol man -- Part XXXIII
The Hot Trend is cool yachts -- Part XXXIV
You still need your parka in Antarctica -- Part XXXV
IPCC too blinkered and corrupt to save -- Part XXXVI
Why melting of ice sheets 'is impossible' -- Part XXXVII
Climate change by Jupiter -- Part XXXVIII

[steelyourfaith]

Excellent. Thanx !

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[Marine_Uncle]

Thanks E. Yet another conformation, not that we need it, that the whole AGW scam was well.... a scam. Criminal in nature and intent.

[Marine_Uncle]

Nice little summary as how the AGW crowd have sucked gas for a long time and now have nothing but farts to offer the world.
Let us hope Obi, Holdren, Lisa Jackson and their clown crew are totally shut down and no further carbon trade taxes or further EPA standards can be enacted. The bastards are a bunch of enemies of the American State.

[Marine_Uncle]

Nice list of links E. Think I shall bookmark this posting.

[Marine_Uncle]

Forgive me Administrators.... but Al Gore is a fucking dick head. Kid’s, shield your eyes.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

LOL!

I think the Climate Gate topic has been beaten to death...and still very little in the USA Lame Stream Media.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

A comment on this article at the website led to this article;....FR Thread:

UN Recruits George Soros to Help With Climate Financing

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

See link at #10 for further proof....that this scam was about money.

[Oceander]

[Marine_Uncle]

Your so right. The American press is staying clear of this as best as they can.

[Marine_Uncle]

Their collective conscience cannot fathom the loss of trillions of dollars.