... neither Attila nor the Witch Doctor is happy to take questions:

"The scientists were keenly aware of how their work would be viewed and used, and, just like politicians, went to great pains to shape their message."

A comment like that, written without its being meant as a *damning* comment...OY!

Surprise, surprise about the conclusions reached by the Associated Press "exhaustive review."

"The Age of Envy," AR titled a piece. I'm thinking "The Age of Lying" would be a good title for a piece about the present.

Ellen

So claims the independent...

"Emails stolen from climate scientists at the University of East Anglia show they stonewalled sceptics and discussed hiding data. But the messages don't support claims that the science of global warming was faked, an exhaustive review by the Associated Press has found.

The 1,073 emails examined show that scientists harboured private doubts, however slight and fleeting, even as they told the world they were certain about climate change. But the exchanges don't undercut the vast body of evidence showing that the world is warming as a result of man-made greenhouse gas emissions. The scientists were keenly aware of how their work would be viewed and used, and, just like politicians, went to great pains to shape their message."

http://www.independent.co.uk/e...

Couldn't bear it either..to be as brazen in the face of their unmasking shows to what extent they believe the press and political opposition had been paid off.

Was slightly more encouraged to see Hannity call them out with impunity on Fox this morning.

Here in Aus a swing away from Greens and labour towards Abbott, a staunch skeptic and our new Liberal Party leader seems to suggest that the fat lady hasn't sung to us yet on this one.

With so many of the scumbags in Copenhagen having invested so much in this scam it's going to take Napalm to drive them back, and I suspect their act is going to become even more absurd.

Lets see what influence the blogs and Fox can have on this one.

And bravo to you too for taking the fight to these ignoble dogs.

Good to see you haven't lost your fire after all these years

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Watching the opening of Copenhagen on New Zealand's TV 1 news tonight was vomit inducing.

The Scam started with a video of a terrified young girl screaming her head off while clutching to a palm tree, the sea roaring up to get her. ... Yeah right, so Hollywood, rather than science, will rule the next two weeks - I guess nothing we didn't know there.

And if anything could actually be called child abuse, then it was the young Fijian girl breaking down on the stage, crying, desperate for the world leaders to save her from climate change.

How sick is that. For every Madoff I'll show you someone worse, namely Al Gore, Phil Jones ...

I just got around to reading the whole thing.

It's very good! Thank you for writing it.

Ellen

I'll cross-post this on Marcus' long thread.

This petition, made public on the web, is an episode in a long ongoing process attempting to get the executive committee of the APS to put its statement on global warming on hold for reconsidering.

I wish I could make public some of the letters members have sent. One in particular should be immortalized as a statement of the meaning and nature of science. Eventually we will endeavor to get permission to publish some of the letters.

The post was picked up by instapundit, where we're told it had gotten 80,000 hits as of early this morning. I don't know where the hit figures are given.

http://tiny.cc/Roxl9

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Physicists Ask American Physical Society to Rescind Its Statement on Global Warming Because It Was Based on “Cheat[ing]” and “Corrupted” Work

Jim Lindgren • December 7, 2009 2:29 am

While the wider world is just beginning to realize that the subfield of paleoclimatology is in shambles (and has been for the last decade), scientists in related disciplines are increasingly fighting back against the shoddy work and orthodoxy that was foisted on them.

A small group, including several prominent physicists, are asking the American Physical Society to rescind its political statement on climate change (tip to Bishop Hill):

Dear fellow member of the American Physical Society:

This is a matter of great importance to the integrity of the Society. It is being sent to a random fraction of the membership, so we hope you will pass it on.

By now everyone has heard of what has come to be known as ClimateGate, which was and is an international scientific fraud, the worst any of us have seen in our cumulative 223 years of APS membership. For those who have missed the news we recommend the excellent summary article by Richard Lindzen in the November 30 edition of the Wall Street journal, entitled “The Climate Science isn’t Settled,” for a balanced account of the situation. It was written by a scientist of unquestioned authority and integrity. A copy can be found among the items at http://tinyurl.com/lg266u, and a visit to http://www.ClimateDepot.com can fill in the details of the scandal, while adding spice.

What has this to do with APS? In 2007 the APS Council adopted a Statement on global warming (also reproduced at the tinyurl site mentioned above) that was based largely on the scientific work that is now revealed to have been corrupted. (The principals in this escapade have not denied what they did, but have sought to dismiss it by saying that it is normal practice among scientists. You know and we know that that is simply untrue. Physicists are not expected to cheat.)

We have asked the APS management to put the 2007 Statement on ice until the extent to which it is tainted can be determined, but that has not been done. We have also asked that the membership be consulted on this point, but that too has not been done.

None of us would use corrupted science in our own work, nor would we sign off on a thesis by a student who did so. This is not only a matter of science, it is a matter of integrity, and the integrity of the APS is now at stake. That is why we are taking the unusual step of communicating directly with at least a fraction of the membership.

If you believe that the APS should withdraw a Policy Statement that is based on admittedly corrupted science, and should then undertake to clarify the real state of the art in the best tradition of a learned society, please send a note to the incoming President of the APS ccallan@princeton.edu, with the single word YES in the subject line. That will make it easier for him to count.

Bob Austin, Professor of Physics, Princeton
Hal Lewis, emeritus Professor of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara
Will Happer, Professor of Physics, Princeton
Larry Gould, Professor of Physics, Hartford
Roger Cohen, former Manager, Strategic Planning, ExxonMobil

[Fred Singer would have been a signatory but he's in Copenhagen participating in an anti-conference and there wasn't time to reach him.]

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Found this article yesterday in "The
Australian" of all places.



I remember Obama on his campaign trail whilst puckering up to the
climateniks, lamenting how backward the US was compared to Spains new
"Green" economy.



Even though they may well have to drag these puff-powered
whirlygigs around hanging out their arses, it seems that the cocktail
of envy, mysticism and a desire for the unearned will have
powerlusting pollies repeating history until the cupboard is
bare.



Will these zombies ever get it, or is the lure of a Marxist
utopia too compelling?



Could Branson build a spaceship to ferry us away from it all?





microfilm reader

So reports the Times headline today. Anything to distract from the fact that there was any corruption uncovered!
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From The Times

December 7, 2009

Climate e-mails were hijacked 'to sabotage summit'

"UN officials have likened the theft of e-mails from university climate researchers to the Watergate scandal, after claiming computer hackers were probably paid by people intent on undermining the Copenhagen summit.

Jean-Pascal van Ypersele, a vice-chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), said that the theft from the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit (CRU) was not the work of amateur climate sceptics, but was a sophisticated and well-funded attempt to destroy public confidence in the science of man-made climate change. He said the fact that the e-mails were first uploaded to a sceptic website from a computer in Russia was an indication that the culprit was paid.

“It’s very common for hackers in Russia to be paid for their services,” he said. “If you look at that mass of e-mails a lot of work was done, not only to download the data, but it’s a carefully made selection of e-mails and documents that’s not random at all. This is 13 years of data and it’s not a job of amateurs.”

Mr van Ypersele said that publication of the e-mails had undermined efforts by the IPCC to convince the 192 countries at the summit, which begins today, that they needed to act fast on emissions. “We are spending a lot of useless time discussing this rather than spending time preparing information for the negotiators.”

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/t...

Excellent Hilton.

"Consider the following example. Suppose that I leave a box on the floor, and my wife trips on it, falling against my son, who is carrying a carton of eggs, which then fall and break. Our present approach to emissions would be analogous to deciding that the best way to prevent the breakage of eggs would be to outlaw leaving boxes on the floor. The chief difference is that in the case of atmospheric CO2 and climate catastrophe, the chain of inference is longer and less plausible than in my example."
Richard Lindzen

and how could we ever thank him enough for this ?

http://www.businessweek.com/in...

BTW...check out the beginning of the backlash now running in Aus..and after the brazen international media dick-platting fest running that frontpage fraud on Copenhagen that Mark speaks of, I bet you this backlash will accelerate around the globe.

http://wattsupwiththat.com/200...

Methinks now is the time to sell your "Green Energy" shares

http://wattsupwiththat.com/200...

How could we ever thank you enough Mr. Gore?

I wanted to add Key, but if I were to include him I would have had to include so many other scumbags, especially our traitorous me-tooing little pragmatist opposition, sorry, opposition leader , Mr Turncoat...uh, Turnbull who has now luckily been run out into the street.

All that remains is for him to be shot, the bastard.

I especially loved this paragraph

"One would have thought that the inauguration of the first blatantly anti-American American president would be the coup de grace. All Obamas's commie confederates were grinning from ear to ear, most notably the one-eyed Scottish Idiot, and last and least, our own talented Mr Rudd."

ps: I would add Mr Flip Flop, "John Key" to the collective of looters

Who corrupted science?
Power did.
Who corrupted education?
Power did.
Who corrupted justice?
Power did.
Who corrupted business?
Power did.
Who corrupted medicine?
Power did.
Ergo,
Power corrupts.

"Two thousand years of religious brainwashing touting the Fall of Man as having been responsible for alienating us from paradise, combined with four generations of anti-free-market socialist propaganda driven by envy-ridden intellectuals and educators set the scene for an impending Royal Flush for prudent pollies."

That the intellectuals at the universities don't actually produce anything and are often dependent on Government money.

It is therefore no wonder that these are the intellectuals who spend their careers finding arguments to support parasitic politicians with their gravy trains.

As Orwell noted, the only hope is with the proles! Here defined as the non-intellectual classes outside universities.

May the blog revolution continue!