Monday, 23 November 2009

Just one in depth article...

...in a mainstream print journal analysing the content of the leaked CRU emails and datafiles will be enough to trigger further analysis from what have been up to now green left compliant media sources. That journal may well be the WSJ. This editorial could be a start and do the trick...

...This is horrible," said Pat Michaels, a climate scientist at the Cato Institute in Washington who is mentioned negatively in the emails. "This is what everyone feared. Over the years, it has become increasingly difficult for anyone who does not view global warming as an end-of-the-world issue to publish papers. This isn't questionable practice, this is unethical."
John Christy, a scientist at the University of Alabama at Huntsville who was attacked in the emails, said, "It's disconcerting to realize that legislative actions this nation is preparing to take, and which will cost trillions of dollars, are based upon a view of climate that has not been completely scientifically tested -- but rather orchestrated."
Representatives of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, one of the biggest professional scientific organizations, expressed concern that the hacked emails would weaken global resolve to curb greenhouse-gas emissions. The association believes "that climate change is real, it is related to human activities, and the need to counteract its impacts is now urgent," Ginger Pinholster, an association spokeswoman, wrote in an email Sunday...In another, Phil Jones, the director of the East Anglia climate center, suggested to American climate scientist Michael Mann of Penn State University that skeptics' research was unwelcome: We "will keep them out somehow -- even if we have to redefine what the peer-review literature is!" ...

3 comments:

Carbon Con said...

"Hide the decline"...this is beautiful!

Congratulations Mickey and all - victory in the battle! Now on to win the war and crush Copenhagen once and for all! (err.. the conference that is, not the city!)

Nessa said...

Or maybe not. It will be very interesting to see if there will be repercussions for the "Favorites."

Thanksgiving MeMe

Unknown said...

I would have thought the Association would have been concerned that these alarmist scientists have totally discredited science, but then I suppose the association does that itself by not being concerned about it.