Posted on 12/05/2009 11:48:34 AM PST by ricks_place
'Dangerous, deceitful' attempts to derail Copenhagen summit condemned
Gordon Brown tonight led a chorus of condemnation against "flat-earth" climate change sceptics who have tried to derail the Copenhagen summit by casting doubt on the evidence for global warming.
Sceptics in the UK and the US have moved to capitalise on a series of hacked emails from climate change scientists at the University of East Anglia, claiming they show attempts to hide information that does not support the case for human activity causing rising temperatures.
On the eve of the Copenhagen summit, Saudi Arabia and Republican members of the US Congress have used the emails to claim the need for urgent action to cut carbon emissions has been undermined.
But tonight the prime minister, his environment secretary, Ed Miliband, and Ed Markey, the man who co-authored the US climate change bill, joined forces to condemn the sceptics.
"With only days to go before Copenhagen we mustn't be distracted by the behind-the-times, anti-science, flat-earth climate sceptics," Brown told the Guardian. "We know the science. We know what we must do. We must now act and close the 5bn-tonne gap. That will seal the deal."
According to the government adviser Sir Nicholas Stern, 10bn tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions must be taken out of the atmosphere by 2020. So far agreement is in place for only half of that amount.
Ed Miliband gave his most damning assessment of the sceptics yet, describing them as "dangerous and deceitful".
He said: "The approach of the climate saboteurs is to misuse data and mislead people. The sceptics are playing politics with science in a dangerous and deceitful manner. There is no easy way out of tackling climate change despite what they would have us believe..."
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Excellent, Keep it going
Good grief, these people(as students of Alinsky) have no shame, the only deceit being perpetrated is that of the proponents of global warming. Alinsky teaches shameless projection.
And they don’t even really believe it themselves, it’s just another tool in their arsenal to achieve their one-world government.
Dangerous and deceitful? Which group falsified data, rigged experiments, prevented challengers from being published, conspired to delete information when faced with Freedom of Information requests and somehow managed to lose the original data?
A leftist hoiks globull warming. Dog bites man.
What have been happening to Gordon Brown’s approval ratings?
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain. Go - before I lose my temper! The Great and Powerful GoreBrownMann has spoken!"
Name-calling is a liberal's first defense when he has no real facts on his side.
This rule shows up just about 100% of the time and is a very reliable rule in dealing with liberals.
Name-calling is a liberal's first defense when he has no real facts on his side.
This rule shows up just about 100% of the time and is a very reliable rule in dealing with liberals.
“What have been happening to Gordon Browns approval ratings?”
It doesn’t really matter in Britain. He was installed rather than elected, as 2 of the last 3 PMs were. It’s the Tories’ “turn” next year anyway so he can do whatever he likes.
Don’t think that America is anything other than unique in having the degree of representation it does.
You don’t look behind the door unless you’ve hid there yourself Gordon.
Alarmist? Fake science? Guilty dog barks first ,,Gordon.
Is the one on the left the lap top?
Sounds like what we should be having is constitutional conventions all over the world rather that climate change conventions.
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The AGW alarmists are panicking. The clock is running out.
I wonder what Brown thinks of lying scientists.
From what I gather, the polls say his party is going to get demolished in the elections next year.
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