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ClimateGate: The Plot Thickens

2009-11-29 19 35 37

According to this, scientists at the Climate Research Unit (CRU) have admitted that they’ve thrown away all of the raw temperature data that their entire global warming hysteria is based on.

Yeah.  You read that correctly.  Isn’t it just so terribly terribly convenient?

This admission comes after thousands of emails sent and received by the CRU’s director showed that he was basically trying to prevent skeptics from ever getting access to that very data.  Even MORE convenient.  The statement on the CRU’s website says, “We do not hold the original raw data but only the value-added (quality controlled and homogenised) data.”

Translation:   Yeah, we threw out the raw data but look!  We’ve got all of the stuff manipulated to say what we want it to say RIGHT HERE!  

A comment written in response to the article caught my eye:

“(This) should be one of the biggest stories of the last 100 years, bigger than the Pentagon Papers or Watergate or any other…because the entire world was being manipulated into action based on the premise that the world might come to an end on science that was supposed to be unimpeachable….Trillions are to be spent that is all based on science that was never vetted as promised, never peer reviewed at any reasonable degree as promised, let alone what should have been the highest degree of peer review ever on something this important to the future of the world…based on manipulated data…based on purposely withholding for years what the science was based on…based on the trust that scientists were given and abused while accusing others of being biased…..and now based on scientists losing all the raw data without telling anyone..based on scientists clearly playing politics at the highest levels…. even breaking the law to keep any truth about what the populace believe could be the end of the world…. It means that fifteen years of NON PEER reviewed science based on lost raw data….is meaningless….nothing said can be trusted.”

Yeah – I’d say that’s a pretty good summary.

Hey, Remember Ed Begley Jr.’s Freakout?

2009-11-28 10 10 16

Hopefully you all had a chance to witness Ed Begley Jr. sputtering in fury at Stuart Varney the other day.  If you did, you’ll have noticed that his main argument in defending the hoax that is global warming hysteria was “peer review studies.”  He talked about peer review studies as if they were incontrovertible proof that global warming exists, that it is all our fault, and that we have to immediately all start riding bikes and cease using incandescent light bulbs or WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE.

Today, I read this article by Mark Steyn, which I loved not only because it completely obliterated Begley’s “peer reviews” but also because it did it in a totally snarky way.  And you know we chicks love the snark.

Steyn explains that the trouble with the peer review system is that chosen “peers” have completely corrupted the process.  The Climate Research Unit (CRU) basically controls the science behind the IPCC, which is what Congress relied on for its cap and trade scheme.  And, it’s what the whole Copenhagen field trip is based on as well.  

When papers are published which go against the CRU, then the CRU folks work to remove them from consideration as legitimate sources of news.  This was all proven in the exposed emails from last week.  An example was of Dr Jones from the CRU writing to his colleague about two dissenting articles, “I can’t see either of these papers being in the next IPCC report. Kevin and I will keep them out somehoweven if we have to redefine what the peer-review literature is!”

Yeah.  You know what that demonstrates?  That the CRU follows the ACORN guidebook of ethical conduct.  And Ed Begley Jr., sputtering and spitting, buys it all, because the alternative is admitting that his “green” lifestyle has been a complete waste of time.

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