Monday, December 14, 2009

ClimateGate Research Unit Disables Its Website | NewsBusters.org
The Climatic Research Unit at the heart of the ClimateGate scandal has eliminated most of the information available at its website.
Climategate: a green conspiracy? — VOICES for REASON
The implication is that the only way the whole edifice of global warming science could be a distortion of reality is if there was a huge, secret conspiracy perpetrated by a fiction-like cabal of mad scientists, hidden away in some smoke-filled room plotting the destruction of the world economy.

Well, the fact is that there is a “massive international conspiracy”—only, it’s not of the secret, smoke-filled-room type. The conspirators are united not by a secret plot, but by a shared philosophy that they promote openly and self-righteously: the philosophy of environmentalism.
Neighbors say keep turbines away: Rural wind projects face unexpected opposition - TwinCities.com
Resistance to rural wind projects may impede state's goals
Climategate - The Great Scientific Fraud - Pravda.Ru
On the eve of the Copenhagen Summit, the scandal broke out that honest scientists have warned that the results were manipulated. Someone from the IPCC decided to tamper with data so that the curve of the graph of temperatures over a thousand years in 2000 reflected a sudden and unexpected heat they called "hockeystick" due to the shape of a "stick" used in ice hockey .
The Voice in My Head: Going Rogue 11, ClimateGate 5
From the AP's article covering (up) ClimateGate:

    The AP studied all the e-mails for context, with five reporters reading and rereading them—about 1 million words in total.

That's less than half the reporters they assigned to "fact-check" Sarah Palin's book.

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