If it were still possible for Al Gore’s knees to knock together, it would be happening right now. For years, the doughy doomsayer has made a fortune peddling the theory of anthropogenic global warming, while telling us all to shut up because his favorite scientists say so. Now the brainiacs who claim they’re saving the world are scrambling to save face.
Last week a huge file containing internal e-mails and data files from the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit (CRU) was leaked onto the Internet. Keener minds than mine (sorry I can’t narrow it down more than that) are currently combing through it all, but as the Wall Street Journal reports:
Yet even a partial review of the emails is highly illuminating. In them, scientists appear to urge each other to present a “unified” view on the theory of man-made climate change while discussing the importance of the “common cause”; to advise each other on how to smooth over data so as not to compromise the favored hypothesis; to discuss ways to keep opposing views out of leading journals; and to give tips on how to “hide the decline” of temperature in certain inconvenient data.
Some of those mentioned in the emails have responded to our requests for comment by saying they must first chat with their lawyers. Others have offered legal threats and personal invective. Still others have said nothing at all. Those who have responded have insisted that the emails reveal nothing more than trivial data discrepancies and procedural debates.
Yet all of these nonresponses manage to underscore what may be the most revealing truth: That these scientists feel the public doesn’t have a right to know the basis for their climate-change predictions, even as their governments prepare staggeringly expensive legislation in response to them.
But… why would Al Gore lie? Could Leonardo DiCaprio really be so gullible? Why are they trying to shake my faith in Gillian Anderson?
No word yet from President of the Environment Gore on Climategate — he’s still basking in the afterglow of his triumphant SNL cameo — but lesser-known weather-warriors like George Monbiot and Tim Flannery have suddenly forgotten their mantra of “The science is settled.” Whoops! Turns out science isn’t so scientific when you prevent or dismiss all efforts to duplicate your results.
Our leaders want us to stop living our lives, and to fund our own punishment, based on information from places like CRU. If that information is bad and the people providing it are dishonest, we have a right to know.
(Hat tip to Tim Blair)
Update: At the NYT’s Dot Earth blog, Andrew Revkin notes the controversy. With this caveat:
The documents appear to have been acquired illegally and contain all manner of private information and statements that were never intended for the public eye, so they won’t be posted here.
Hasn’t this guy ever heard of the Pentagon Papers?
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Of course it’s all for our own good…as THEY define it.
Climate concerns are not true? say it ain’t so. And Al Gore found out how to lie from his boss.
The more I read, the harder I laugh. Turns out all those right wing crazies weren’t so crazy after all: yes, scientists ARE trying to sell us a load of crap, and no, they DON”T have a good case for AGW. You don’t have to stifle dissent unless your argument is flawed.
I love the NY Times reaction: they aren’t going to print the leaked info because it was never meant to be released to the public. Funny, they’ve never used THAT standard before. Anyone think they’d hesitate to publish documents that would compromise our national security? (Oh, wait…)
It’s about damn time they’ve been exposed as the liars, and frauds that they are. Charlatans, every last one of them. The downside though really is who’s gonna listen to “scientists” now? When something really important, and really scary comes along, they’re just gonna be considered so many Chicken Littles. I would have thought so many people that have PHD after their name would’ve at least made it through The Boy Who Cried Wolf. And apparently the Global Warming dolts are more concerned that someone “broke the law” to obtain these e-mails. I guess I would be embarrassed to be shown as a fool after so many years too.
You know, when I first saw the falling polar bear ad, I was mortified:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxis7Y1ikIQ
But in retrospect, it’s a damn fine metaphor for the plummeting value of AGW data.
Crash and burn, Hanson & Mann.
That’s the old version, Pasta.
Modern PhD candidates all read The Boy Who Cried Wolf Enough Times To Score A Million Dollar NIH Grant To Study The HIV Rates Of Wolf Prostitutes In Thai Brothels.
There once was a man named Gore.
He really was quite a bore.
He thought to retain his notoriety and fame.
So he invented the climate change war.
Nicley done Bill.
Good on the WSJ for reporting on this. And for questioning the deceit of those involved. Those outlets that did mention this focused more on the fact the info was hacked and not that the science has been massaged. The hacker(s)should now be referred to as whistle blowers. Bravo!
What will Obama’s comment on these shenanigans be? I’m waiting to hear what kind of malarky comes out of his mouth.
I’m waiting for Al Gore’s statement…
What a great news day this is. It may signal the end of the global warming scam, but it sure warms my little black heart.
Exactly Minnow, big bucks, buy big projects, for big brains.
P.S. Yah, vee vill be havink back dat Nobel now, Mr. Gore. Tank yoo veery much.
Well, he did say on SNL this weekend that he was going to “outcrazy the crazies”.
Going to?
You’re already there, pal.
Same here. I won’t be convinced it’s true until he denies it.
Now, not only is our mainstream media utterly corrupt and untrustworthy, but it’s also obvious that our scientific community is comprised of a bunch of whores as well. Catty whores, at that. Should we just assume that anyone with government funding or power is a lying sack of ass, or what? Because my vote is “lying sack of ass”.
“Hasn’t this guy ever heard of the Pentagon Papers?”
Sure he has. He was just hoping that YOU hadn’t.
“The documents appear to have been acquired illegally and contain all manner of private information and statements that were never intended for the public eye, so they won’t be posted here.”
Acutally under UK law those emails should have been made available under the Freedom of Information Act.
@Simon, have you had a chance to look at some of those emails? Would you like to?
….so now we only have to worry about how we’re all gonna die from Mayans and meteors, right?
But the NY Times had NO problem posting Sarah Palin’s emails when her account was hacked. No siree.
Classified docs that when published could endanger lives, print away.
Stolen communication between scientists whose research is being used to steal our liberty and every cent from our wallets, unprintable on moral grounds.
Anyone else find it funny that when it fits they agenda “the people have the right to know” outweighs ALL other concerns, but when it hurts their agenda the will use ANY justification to not inform the public?
No, Pearce, just John Cusack movies. Yeeshh.
ccc: But it was vital that they smear, I mean present information about, Palin, she wanted to be VP that would effect us all, unlike Cap & Trade and international treaties that will make everything you buy, and every bill you pay more expensive, while we are in the middle of a HUGE economic crisis, that is a very minor concern.
I want to thank you ccc, that is the PERFECT apples to apples comparison.
@Beige So we just need high taxes on John Cusack, and the world will be safe.
Where’s my freaking Nobel Prize?!
It’s personally kind of disappointing to see how far Tim Flannery has fallen. I knew Tim 20-odd years ago, went on some fossil digs with him, even smoked my first joint with him.
His response to this issue is nothing short of embarassing; trying to hide behind weasel words, while at the same time admitting what guys like Freeman Dyson have been pilloried for saying all along: “When the computer modelling and the real world data disagrees you have a problem.” What’s worse is that he’s trying to dress that up as a *virtue*!
I mean, I remember Tim rabbitting on about “Gaia” even way back then, but silly me, I thought it was just the dope talking.
A few more cracks in the iceberg, it would seem.
… I thought the word was “anthropogenic,” though, unless global warming really is studying human societies. In which case, we have a whole lot more to worry about.
….hellooooooo! I demand my Nobel Prize and my space pony this instant! I suggested how we can save the environment! I DEMAND TO BE RECOGNIZED FOR THIS ACHIEVEMENT.
Eh, I’d settle for capping and trading Cusack. To Cuba, for some rilly good food.
Al Gore was in Atlanta yesterday for a dog-and-pony show touting his new book. (Hey, so that’s why the weather turned cold and rainy!) The ‘Atlanta Journal Constitution’ ‘covered’ the story, but the reporter apparently didn’t have the stones to ask Mr. Gore about this breaking news. Or if he did, he was told not stray from the talking points.
Many of the responses that I’ve been seeing to Climategate have been “But, but…those emails have been taken out of context!”
Have you noticed that every f*cking time the Left gets caught with its hand in the cookie jar, the standard response is “it’s been taken out of context”? Ah, yes, the tired old “out of context” response.
Here’s the ultimate context that the Left and its pet causes always result in: More government regulation, more government involvement, more taxes, more intrusion, more more more more more….. THAT’S the context of this! (And if you think that all these rules and regulations and taxes are only going to affect the rich, I’ve got a nice melting Arctic iceberg to sell you.)
Here’s a novel idea they can gently insert into their “context”, as well as into their collective asses: Get the f*ck out of my g*ddamned wallet, and get your overbearing regulations out of my life. (And no, I am far from “rich”: I work part-time at Wal-Mart, and am living from paycheck to paycheck.)
If you really wanna end so-called “global warming”, there’s a simple solution. Just shove a cork into Al Gore’s mouth, and watch how the hot air suddenly decreases.
Another fun tidbit is that these guys have been conspiring to keep AGW skeptics out of peer-reviewed journals. Then they turn around and dismiss those same skeptics because… they’re not published in peer-reviewed journals! It’s corruption, plain and simple.
A few days ago if you googled ‘climate emails’ or ‘climate hack’ they would be at the top of googles suggestions and if you clicked on the suggestion you would see millions and millions of hits. Now they are nowhere to be found. Makes one go hmmmmmmmm.
Didn’t Al gore invent the internet? Then he would have the power to make things disappear off of there
Just kidding, but I do find it odd. I guess Al Gore does not like to be found wrong.
Guys, you ALL missed the big point on this: Anthropogenic Global Warming is REAL!
You see? It WAS man made (Mann made?)–by the very scientists warning us of the very problem!
Issue solved. Now, go back to your holes. Nothing to see here. Move along.
“Mann made”. ha ha. Funny how his now infamous graph is referred to as the ‘hockey stick’.
This is cute:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEiLgbBGKVk
Vince, that was a thing of beauty. And so, so true.