Rogue Science and Biased Media » Bill Muehlenberg’s CultureWatch

This has not been a good week for the climate alarmists. Nor has it been a good week for the mainstream media. The MSM has proven once again that much of the media is no longer interested in objectivity, fact, and even-handedness, but is instead into advocacy journalism, censorship, and agenda-pushing.

This becomes crystal clear when we consider the startling revelations coming from the leaked climate change emails. This scandal – now dubbed Climategate – is getting bigger by the day, but you would not even know it was happening if you relied only on the MSM.

Researchers must stay on the moral high ground - opinion - 25 November 2009 - New Scientist

The overwhelming impression from this peek into the world of climate scientists is their anger about voluble outsiders who won't play the game by the accepted rules of science. They mean those naysayers who generally publish by blog or in non-peer-reviewed journals; who demand access to raw data and personal computer codes; who take preconceived positions to which almost any data will be moulded - and who then accuse the other side of playing dirty.

This anger is understandable.

Krauthammer: Pending Climate Change Legislation a 'Dead Parrot' | NewsBusters.org

Charles Krauthammer, a columnist for The Washington Post and a regular on "Special Report" called the bill "dead on arrival" and gave reasons why it had no chance of passing.

"It's dead on arrival, as is all climate change legislation," Krauthammer said. "And not just because of political considerations. It's because reality is trumping ideology. And the Obama administration is all about ideology. One, China is not going to help or participate nor India. So anything done here will be worthless. Second, the science is shaky and getting shakier. There has been no increase in temperature over the last decade. Third, it will destroy our economies if you enact the bill that you spoke about. It would utterly destroy our economy and all the western economies. And that's why in the end the American people are saying no, and that's why in Congress it will not pass."

The New Atlantis » The Climate E-mails and the Politics of Science

Australian writer Andrew Bolt has suggested that the CRU e-mail leak is a “scandal that is one of the greatest in modern science.” But the greater scandal may be that the United States and the rest of the world are considering enacting energy-restrictive and economy-damaging climate policies based on ideological distortions of scientific fact.