Friday, November 27, 2009

Don't miss this: Mark Steyn: Cooking the books on climate
The more frantically they talked up "peer review" as the only legitimate basis for criticism, the more assiduously they turned the process into what James Lewis calls the Chicago machine politics of international science. The headline in the Wall Street Journal Europe is unimproveable: "How To Forge A Consensus." Pressuring publishers, firing editors, blacklisting scientists: That's "peer review," climate-style. The more their echo chamber shriveled, the more Mann and Jones insisted that they and only they represent the "peer-reviewed" "consensus." And gullible types like Ed Begley Jr. and Andrew Revkin of the New York Times fell for it hook, line and tree-ring.

The e-mails of "Andy" (as his CRU chums fondly know him) are especially pitiful.
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And that's what Andrew Revkin did, week in, week out: He took the words out of Michael Mann's mouth and served them up to impressionable readers of the New York Times and opportunist politicians around the world champing at the bit to inaugurate a vast global regulatory body to confiscate trillions of dollars of your hard-earned wealth in the cause of "saving the planet" from an imaginary crisis concocted by a few dozen thuggish ideologues. If you fall for this after the revelations of the past week, you're as big a dupe as Begley or Revkin.
Why Global Warming Must Be a Fraud - An Editorial
Incidentally, even if man-made Global Warming is just a giant hoax, which I do believe, I still think there are great reasons to stop using gasoline...
No Impact Man confuses weather and climate
Back in the winter of 2006, two things made Colin Beavan really think about global warming: a mild spell of weather when people were walking around his Manhattan neighbourhood in shorts and T-shirts, and a relentless wave of news reports about climate change. What better way to write about global warming than to put himself, his wife and their daughter on a carbon diet for a year?
Obama to plead US case at global warming summit - Breaking News - TheState.com
The White House said it will send a half-dozen Cabinet secretaries to the talks, including Energy Secretary Steven Chu and Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, as well as the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, which is preparing regulations to cut greenhouse gases.

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