Corruption is apparently not confined to Wall Street or Washington, as hacked emails show it exists at the core of climate change science. The correlative factor is money, in this case research grants, science foundation funding, peer review -- not to mention trillions at stake in the global business of global warming. Should make for an interesting time in Copenhagen in December.
Whether or not the MSM chooses to pay attention, this is the biggest story of scientific fraud in modern times. Dr. Phil Jones is probably not having a good day as he and his colleagues have now been accused of the following:
Conspiracy, collusion in exaggerating warming data, possibly illegal destruction of embarrassing information, organised resistance to disclosure, manipulation of data, private admissions of flaws in their public claims and much more.
But perhaps the most damaging revelations – the scientific equivalent of the Telegraph’s MPs’ expenses scandal – are those concerning the way Warmist scientists may variously have manipulated or suppressed evidence and defied FOIA orders in order to support their cause.
There is so much to this story, just get started HERE and HERE. I've got 15 or so related links that i will put into the comments section. The text below from an anonymous commenter is the best I've seen in 4 hours of reading the variations of this story all over the interweb.
When it comes to the Global Warming theory we have been told that “There is a consensus.” That the “science is settled." That the “data is unequivocal.” That “5000 scientists peer reviewed.” That the “skeptics cannot be taken seriously because they don’t publish in peer review journals.” We are also told that science is objective and it is all about the search for the truth.
What we find through the emails is something completely different:
- That the data is being manipulated to support the theory (these are the people that generate the official global temperatures).
- That they will do anything to avoid scrutiny (“I’d rather destroy the data than to share it with them [skeptic scientists].
- That they will willfully destroy evidence even after requested to retrieve it by the freedom of information act.
- That they will collude on peer review publication selecting their own reviewers from their own team.
- That they will privately admit the weakness of their team’s research but will admit not fault in public – “the science is robust.”
- That they will viciously attack any researcher that publish research that does not conclude to confirm to their theory.
- That they will threaten magazines and editors that dare publish papers not conforming to their theories.
- That they will lead to resignation of boards of scientific journals.
- That their write their scientific reports with the aid of political organization to fit a specific message and agenda.
- That they falsify the number of scientists in the “consensus” to make an impressive case.
- That they are indoctrinated in propaganda techniques (search for “Rules of the Game.pdf”).
The emails portray a clear picture of the leading climatologists, the ones leading the IPCC report, using science as a tool to advance an agenda and to repress an dissenting opinions. The AGW theory is defended at all costs, even if it means that the data needs to be “fixed/fudged/falsified” in order to make their case. Again, these are the people who lead the IPCC assessment reports. The ones who claimed “consensus”. The people getting and distributing the bulk of the climate research grants. The top of the hierarchy in climate science.
At this point, I think everyone needs to stop and ask – how did this happen? How did they science got so tainted. How did it get to be so politicized? What can we trust and what should we discard and reset? And at this point we have no clue what is credible and what is not. At this point we really don’t know if AGW or any other climate theory is real or fiction.
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Michael Crichton predicted all of this on Charlie Rose a few years ago before his early passing.
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See all the links we've gathered HERE
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