rssA ‘Climategate’ Victory Lap
Tuesday, December 01, 2009 at 1:21 pm
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Here’s one of the cheerier conservative videos of the day: Myron Ebell and Lee Doren of the energy industry-funded Competitive Enterprise Institute hound the Sierra Club, Greenpeace, and the Center for American Progress for interviews on the so-called “climategate” scandal. (Some quick background: More than 1,000 emails were stolen from the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit. Climate change skeptics argue that the emails are proof that the data is cooked; scientists argue, accurately, that their language is being misinterpreted.)
In the video, produced by PajamasTV, Ebell and Doren describe themselves as “citizen journalists” (they don’t disguise their actual jobs) and mock their subjects with statements like “you’re a denier!” and questions like “is this the Pentagon Papers of climate change?” It’s an interesting 12 and a half minutes, a reminder of the real progress climate change skeptics have made this year.
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Comment posted December 1, 2009 @ 1:48 pm
“mock their subjects”?
Are you an idiot? They showed great respect and didn't even delve into the actual code that is in the documents showing the data manipulation programs. They obviously handled their subjects with kid gloves…classy. You don't need to mock your opponent when the data does that for you.
AGW is over.
Comment posted December 1, 2009 @ 1:52 pm
A 21st Century Psalm
December 7th is coming fast
We must act, before Copenhagen is passed
If that Treaty is law I guarantee
Another occurrence of infamy
As they strip away democracy
We wish to debate the natural state
It was warm for awhile, but cold as of late
The scientist tried to hide the decline
Deny debate through deceit and design
The science was settled and the data deleted
All opposition was effectively defeated
From checking the facts, and results repeated
Who could prove the science was cheated
Man Made Global Warming is a lie
The CRU e-mails and codes do testify
The purpose, a Carbon Debt to apply
Kiss your money, technology and freedom goodbye
The silence is deafening across the land
As the revelations the public now understands
The weathers a carrot meant to disguise
A corrupt agenda before our eyes
And now we see light shining in Truth
Politicians, media, and search engines declare moot
You can glimpse the extent of the hypocrisy
In how they declare there is nothing to see
So much for transparency
Climategate Googlegate Copenhagengate
Who gave you permission to decide our fate?
Censoring discussion denying debate
The Spirit of Truth you desecrate
In all debate Truth intervenes
Asks does the end justify the means?
Demands that honesty remains supreme
That commitments aren’t made on fraudulent schemes.
It’s time for the passive acceptance to end
It’s time to stand for freedom as free men
It’s time to expose the lies and deceit
It’s time to take it to the streets
Do not commit sedition do not get jailed
Non-Violent revolutions do not fail
The voice of the Prophets, Gandhi and King
Are calling for you to get marching
Or just sit back and take the vaccine.
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Comment posted December 3, 2009 @ 11:02 am
Wait a minute: “data manipulation programs”?
Don't all computer programs manipulate data? The whole point of data processing is manipulating data. Of course the number crunching is done by “data manipulation programs.”
I guess that choice of words gives the impression of data being cooked or falsified. Can you point us to a program in those emails that _falsifies_ data?
Or, are we just talking about ordinary things that skeptics are dishonestly describing using suggestive language?
Comment posted December 3, 2009 @ 4:02 pm
Wait a minute: “data manipulation programs”?
Don't all computer programs manipulate data? The whole point of data processing is manipulating data. Of course the number crunching is done by “data manipulation programs.”
I guess that choice of words gives the impression of data being cooked or falsified. Can you point us to a program in those emails that _falsifies_ data?
Or, are we just talking about ordinary things that skeptics are dishonestly describing using suggestive language?
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