The contempt that the leaders of the East Anglia Climatic Research Unit have shown for their fellow loyal subjects of Her Majesty might be equaled only by the equal contempt that their American correspondents have shown for their fellow American citizens.
The e-mails sent to and from Phil Jones, Ken Briffa, and other CRU staff members, and the story they tell of the inaccuracies of some of their most sensational publications and possible violations of the law, are bad enough. But the archive also shows that their American counterparts and other correspondents behave just as badly. And so does at least one American government institution: the Environmental Protection Agency.
The two most prominent Americans who have been implicated in the CRU scandal are Michael Mann, of “Hockey Stick” fame, and John Holdren, now the Science Czar at the White House. John Holdren’s attitude has been addressed before. Concerning Dr. Mann, the document side of the archive contains a PDF file of an eleven-page letter from Mann to Representatives Joe Barton and Ed Whitfield of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, dated July 15, 2005, in reply to their official request for information relating to his claims regarding anthropogenic global warming (AGW) and his credentials. Mann begins his letter contemptuously with this footnote:
This response is submitted without waiving any objection I might have to the Committee’s jurisdiction over the subject matter of this inquiry.
What valid objection Mann could have to accepting the jurisdiction of the House Energy and Commerce Committee is far from clear. What is clear is that Mann as a problem with the truth. With regard to whether Mann plays by the rules on replication of scientific results, Mann says:
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Updates:
3:05 pm EST, November 27th, 2009 – Will Climate Scandal Be a Tipping Point?
3:06 pm EST, November 27th, 2009 – The Copenhagen Climate Con
3:08 pm EST, November 27th, 2009 — The Significance Of The Growing Climate Scandal
3:09 pm EST, November 27th, 2009 — Skewed science
4:12 pm EST, November 27th, 2009 – All policy is now climate policy
4:15 pm EST, November 27th, 2009 – Climategate: the whitewash begins
4:16 pm EST, November 27th, 2009 – Can we trust the doom-laden eco-loonies on global warming?
Notes:
Much is being made of the email messages in the “leak” but that is not what is important about the scandal. Keep your eye out for news regarding the “code” behind warmist claims now being analyzed by many experts. There’s not much on it yet but there soon will be. From the hints I’ve gleaned so far it is a real mess.
More Notes:
One other point I picked up today which is important (it’s in one of the links). Canada signed the Kyoto Treaty (a UN bill) but in order for it to become law in this country a separate bill must be passed in our own parliament. Until we do that we are NOT on the hook and so far we haven’t.
Think about it.
The Liberals sucked us into this mess by signing Kyoto. Then Dion, prompted by Iggy, wanted to up the ante with Climate Shaft. So now what are we going to do? In yesterdays NP editorial page Jim Prentice, a very pragmatic guy, said:
“Canada’s already seen, with the Kyoto Accord, what happens when a country signs an agreement without due consideration of the consequences. And from that experience, we have learned two simple but crucial lessons.
First, an effective multilateral agreement on climate change requires the engagement of all emitters, led by the largest: China and the United States.
Second, we will do exactly what we have consistently said we would do: We will match U.S. efforts.”
In other words Canada has no choice but to go with continental harmonization because we are almost totally interdependent with the US in terms environmental, economic and energy issues.
The question remains what will Obama do? Or more precisely what will his handlers Pelosi and Reid tell him to do? Also given the implosion in the polls of Obama, what the US says they will do and what actually gets legislated might be very different.
I have every confidence that Jim Prentice and PMSH will represent us well in Copenhagen and not tie Canada into a Green Shaft. While it might be more fun for us bloggers if they got real macho and told Obama we are not part of his World Government plans, that would not be prudent. This is a time when our trust in the best leadership on the world stage is well placed.
I don’t think the MSM itself really matters that much anymore, so its acknowledgment of the shady science it has been in collusion with to stifle our freedom and prosperity should matter even less, at least not at this time. The UN doesn’t have the power to force individuals into compliance with anything, so each signature on any agreement, be it Kyoto or Copenhagen, is secondary and dependent on signatory nations passing their own legislation, such as the Liberal Green Shaft or the US Waxman-Markey Cap and Trade bill. The MSM may be able to play down the CRU hack and shaky science at this time, but it won’t be able to ignore them when opposing political parties use the info to derail the required legislation at a national level.
The Euroweenies and other assorted left-wing moon-bats, including the Obama administration and our Liberals, have bought into the Global Warming Ponzi Scheme, but there is still enough opposition outside of Europe to keep overly destructive legislation from passing, and eventually developing nations, taking note of the fact that they aren’t really meant to benefit as much as the UN, the EU, and the carbon traders themselves are, will also balk at any meaningful compliance. Likewise, this mass stupidity will begin to wain in earnest after our own middle and lower class populations finally figure out it is they who are meant to pay, both in terms of prosperity and opportunity, and not the evil corporations in some far off place like Alberta or Alaska.
Re: #2 — I don’t often disagree with you Brian but on your latest entry I do. The MSM matters a lot because they continue to pander a lie in the face of irrefutable evidence.
The simple truth is that MOST of the motoring public get their news from a newspaper and shop talk. The net has yet to intrude into this picture although it is making inroads.
My view — people who truly do know what is going on need to get right in the face of news outlets like the Star, Globe, CBC, CTV, CNN… (it’s a long list)…and call them.
I know — we’ll be censored by said organizations because they don’t believe in really free speech — but we must try. I’m doing my bit here but I feel like I’m pissing into the wind some days.
The MSM often lie in the face of irrefutable evidence so what is so new about that Jack? It is one of the reasons that they are rendering themselves largely irrelevant. The bigger the MSM props up this particular scam, the harder it will be for them to ever live it down when the earth fails to burst into flames before the general public gets tired of waiting, and paying. Not that we can ever allow the MSM to sweep their responsibility for spreading this lie under the rug, but it is more important to pressure the conservative political parties we support into pursuing alternative ways of using new media to bypass the MSM when spreading their message.
Re: #4 — ” It is one of the reasons that they have rendered themselves largely irrelevant.”
That’s my entire point, Brian. The only people who know this “stuff” are those who get their news from the net. I don’t have any figures to back up my claim but I will say this.
Most don’t (and that is something to consider).
“Squeek”…
The only people who know this “stuff” are those who get their news from the net.
Sad but true. Got together with an old high school buddy of mine and is wife the other day. He is an engineer she a teacher. They have a home computer but don’t even turn it on for weeks at a time. They had recently been to see the movie 2012 or whatever that doomsday movie is called. They often talk about Michael Moore’s ‘movies’ all of which they have seen. They bought into Gore’s clap trap hook line and sinker. They also read or watch only Canadian news. They don’t get Fox News and refuse to because they’ve heard such terrible things being said about it. Because of this combination of misinformation sources they both expressed serious concerns for the rising sea levels, the man-made global warming etc. They are both well educated but haven’t got two clues to rub together between themselves when it comes down to plain old common sense. God help us if this is how the majority of Canadians live their lives.
Just because people don’t get their news from the net, doesn’t mean that they tune into the MSM religiously either, ignorance being bliss and all. This is why timing is important, and as I have stated, it may not matter at this time because many more people are likely to tune in when legislation that might affect them directly, such as the Green Shaft, is being drafted and promoted, and therefore it is most important that a conservative message be heard at that time.
Liberals continue to paint it as though Alberta and Alaska will bear the green burden, but places like Ontario, Quebec, and the Great Lake’s States, are not far behind Alberta at all in terms of current emissions, have the smokestacks to prove it, and far surpass Albertans when historical environmental damage, like that considered a huge sin by the UN at Kyoto and Copenhagen, is taken into account. When these large populations come to realize that they are being taxed heavily, and their economies hurt by cap and trade carbon taxes, and other green initiatives, global warming will cease to be a big concern for them. This is why it is also a sin that conservative politicians have been unwilling or unable to spread their message. Liberal Dalton McGuinty came to power here in Ontario with a promise to build much needed nuclear power plants, but has instead been wasting our tax dollars building solar panel and wind farms, and so in just this year and the next two, he will drive Ontario deeper into debt than all of the previous governments before him. Eventually this will all come to a head (possibly McGuinty’s), but why aren’t conservative politicians out there shouting down this particular insanity right now?
Re: #7 — “Eventually this will all come to a head (possibly McGuinty’s), but why aren’t conservative politicians out there shouting down this particular insanity right now?”
I don’t know, Brian but it’s a good question.
Australian political meltdown. The MSM IS the problem! Blogs – 1 MSM-0
Even Labour voters are on the warpath, now.
http://twawki.wordpress.com/
It’s all over but the shouting we have gone along with the rest of the sheeples and signed up. Harper is an utter disappointment I thought he would have the cajones to stand up for us but……