The Worst Scientific Scandal Of Our Generation

Christopher Booker, author of The Real Global Warming Disaster writes in today's Telegraph:

The reason why even the Guardian's George Monbiot has expressed total shock and dismay at the picture revealed by the documents is that their authors are not just any old bunch of academics. Their importance cannot be overestimated, What we are looking at here is the small group of scientists who have for years been more influential in driving the worldwide alarm over global warming than any others, not least through the role they play at the heart of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Our hopelessly compromised scientific establishment cannot be allowed to get away with a whitewash of what has become the greatest scientific scandal of our age. 

The hacked (or leaked) emails that point to collusion, suppression of contrary evidence and subversion of scientific peer review are the more obvious issues of Climategate.

The deeper scandal shows up in the computer data files that were also released. This is where we see that the data has been fraudulently manipulated to reflect the warming trends these scientists wanted to see.

And why is any of this important? Because it is this bogus computer data that has been fed into the global warming reports of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. This is the data that will be presented in Copenhagen as the rationale for punitive carbon taxes and penalties on the western economies and for restrictions on carbon emissions that will ruin western economies while contributing next to nothing in terms of temperature reduction.

So these scientists, greedy for their tenure and millions in grant money, cooked up this latest global warming scheme. Venal politicians like Al Gore conflated it for their own purposes and a lazy and unquestioning media fed it wholesale to a gullible public.

We can't know whether these scientists ever realized that their phony work would be co-opted this way, but they should be reminded that scientific, political and journalistic corruption need to be exposed. And punished.  

More likely what we can expect in the days to come leading up to Copenhagen are tediously endless lists of red herrings and straw men trotted out by the warmist faithful and their media enablers in defiance of real science. That's because this whole fiasco is not really about science at all. It's about co-opting science to promote a far-left anti-humanity political agenda.

Climategate? Quel Climategate?

The CBC is steadfastly ignoring the Climategate science scandal. A search of CBC.CA on the word Climategate reveals two links - not to CBC news stories, but to literally hundreds of comments on the CBC website put there by individuals that refer to Climategate.

A Google search just now shows 10,800,000 references to Climategate.

UPDATE: The CBC's wilfull ignorance of this scandal is disgraceful. They appear to have taken their cue from the equally guilty BBC, "cranking up their AGW reporting to fever pitch."

Meanwhile, Reuters has uncritically reprinted an editorial by the global warming activist website SolveClimate as a news story, calling the revelations a "smear campaign."

And here is more on the shameful complicity of the media from Mark Steyn.

A Female Hockey Announcer?

With all the attention on hockey sticks this week how on earth did I miss this?

On Wednesday night, New Jersey Devils broadcaster Sherry Ross made history when she became the first female broadcaster to provide play-by-play in English for an entire NHL game.

WW II Aerial Photographs Released

Long before Google Earth, pilots risked their lives and died in unarmed photo reconnaissance aircraft to bring back astonishingly detailed images of enemy facilities and bomb damage. Now a new collection of vintage recon photos has been launched on the Web in England. From the Daily Mail via Instapundit.

Alan Williams, manager of the National Collection of Aerial Photography which houses the photos, said: 'The archive literally shows the world at war.'

Settled Science Unsettled Is Unsettling Scientists Part VI

The science is settled. The debate is over. It is time to act. Global warming is caused by humans. There can be no argument.

So lets assemble the torches, pitchforks, tar and feathers, and lets go after the humans who caused global warming - that cabal of greedy "scientists", venal politicians and their media cheerleaders, aided and abetted by the captains of "green" industry and everyone else who can smell a gravy train.

They are the humans that have scared the planet witless with their bogus global warming. And they should be held accountable. There now. That's settled.

Settled Science Unsettled Is Unsettling Scientists Part V 
Settled Science Unsettled Is Unsettling Scientists Part IV
Settled Science Unsettled Is Unsettling Scientists Part III
Settled Science Unsettled Is Unsettling Scientists Part II
Settled Science Unsettled Is Unsettling Scientists Part I

Climategate And The Silence Of The Media

A week into Climategate, one of the greatest scientific scandals of our time, most Canadian media - CBC, CTV, Globe & Mail, Global News - are averting their gaze. But there is a good summary of the scandal in today's National Post. Be sure to read the comments too for some excellent contributions.

And David Warren at the Ottawa Citizen writes The Skeptics are Vindicated.

Other media -- which have played a leading part for years in giving credibility to "global warming" claims -- are now maintaining the silence of Iago on the revelations. We will see how long this can be sustained.

UPDATE: Climaquiddick - this isn’t just a science scandal, but a journalistic one.

Three Things You Absolutely Must Know About Climategate

Read this and then you decide if the world should still plow ahead with massively disruptive  political and economic interventions to stop global warming.    

From Iain Murray writing at Pajamas Media:

First, the scientists discuss manipulating data to get their preferred results.

Secondly, scientists on several occasions discussed methods of subverting the scientific peer review process to ensure that skeptical papers had no access to publication.

Finally, the scientists worked to circumvent the Freedom of Information process of the United Kingdom.

At long last the theocrats of global warming are being exposed. But don't expect to see much of this in mainstream media.

Back From The Dead?

Here's one for the medical books - or maybe House MD:

56-Year-Old Man Brought Back To Life After 47 Minutes, 4,500 Chest Compressions And 8 Zaps With Defibrillator

Harry_Read_Me

Over the weekend everyone was poring through the CRU emails looking for, well, everything. But emails were only part of what was released into the wild.

Also out there is a file called HARRY_READ_ME.txt. Computer programmers usually include a comments file (aka a readme) with their software and data to explain decisions they make, anomalies they discover and so on. This file contains 15,000 lines of comments from the programmers as they try to fit the results of their programs and data to PREVIOUS results. In other words, they are retroactively massaging their computer models to account for current results.

I am looking forward to someone taking this dataset and code, cleaning it up and running it. Then we will see what it actually represents.

Summaries Of Leaked CRU Files

From Bishop Hill, here are some summaries of the CRUgate files. The numbers link directly to the emails quoted. Some examples:

Michael Mann discusses how to destroy a journal that has published skeptic papers.(1047388489)

Tim Osborn discusses how data are truncated to stop an apparent cooling trend showing up in the results (0939154709). Analysis of impact here.

Phil Jones encourages colleagues to delete information subject to Freedom of Information request.(1212063122)

Jones tells Mann that he is sending station data. Says that if McIntyre requests it under FoI he will delete it rather than hand it over. Says he will hide behind data protection laws. Says Rutherford screwed up big time by creating an FTP directory for Osborn. Says Wigley worried he will have to release his model code. Also discuss AR4 draft. Mann says paleoclimate chapter will be contentious but that the author team has the right personalities to deal with skeptics.(1107454306)

UPDATE: Three scandals in one:

• Suppression of dissenting voices; 
• Manipulation of data to make a political case; 
• Conspiracy to prevent data from being released as required by the Freedom of Information Acts.

A Very Sad Day For Climate Science?

Dr. Tim Ball is a former climatology professor at the University of Winnipeg and outspoken critic of theories of anthropogenic global warming. This article by Dr. Ball appeared yesterday at Canada Free Press in reaction to the release of hacked/leaked data from the Climate Research Unit of the University of East Anglia.

The argument that global warming is due to humans, known as the anthropogenic global warming theory (AGW) is a deliberate fraud. I can now make that statement without fear of contradiction because of a remarkable hacking of files that provided not just a smoking gun, but an entire battery of machine guns.

Of course the IPCC Reports and especially the SPM Reports are the basis for Kyoto and the Copenhagen Accord, but now we know they are based on completely falsified and manipulated data and science. It is no longer a suspicion. Surely this is the death knell for the CRU, the IPCC, Kyoto and Copenhagen and the Carbon Credits shell game.

CO2 never was a problem and all the machinations and deceptions exposed by these files prove that it was the greatest deception in history, but nobody is laughing. It is a very sad day for science and especially my chosen area of climate science. 

I would respectfully disagree with Dr. Ball that it is a sad day for science. Although what happened is a scandal and a disgrace, the truth is now coming out. This should make for much better climate science.