Dec 08 2009

Even CBS News Is Rattled By Climategate

Published by at 1:01 pm under All General Discussions,Global Warming

I am very surprised to see this kind of reporting from a CBS news website:

The leaked electronic files have proven problematic because the argument for an international treaty is attached to this chain of reasoning: the earth is warming, the primary cause is man-made carbon dioxide emissions, the effect is harmful and can be remediated by limiting CO2 output, and, finally, it’s worth spending billions or even trillions to do so. If foundational data about temperature measurements is in error, as critics now say is the case — well, we might as well cancel the Copenhagen summit and tell all those inbound private jets to turn around and return home.

The probability that global warming alarmism has become a political movement, as MIT climatologist Richard Lindzen has stated and libertarian writer Lew Rockwell has argued, has long been evident. But what we now know is that many of the most prominent climate change scientists have clambered on board that movement, which calls their models, their analysis, and their policy recommendations into question.

Further evidence inadvertently comes from Michael Schlesinger of the University of Illinois, who apparently threatened a New York Times reporter with “the Big Cutoff” on Saturday for writing an article that displeased him. Schlesinger did not immediately respond to questions from CBS News on Monday. (In retrospect, we probably should have figured this out when NASA’s James Hansen called for oil executives to be tried for “high crimes against humanity.” What does that make those of us who drive gas or diesel-fueled cars? Accomplices? Or unindicted co-conspirators?)

Well stated. Even Katie Couric is a bit unsettled:

An ominous cloud is hanging over the climate change summit in Copenhagen, as toxic as carbon emissions. It’s a cloud of doubt about the science behind global warming.

She goes onto cloak herself in false statistical denial, but it is interesting to see the ‘unsettling’ effect Climategate has had as the real picture of man-made global warming becomes clear.

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4 Responses to “Even CBS News Is Rattled By Climategate”

  1. Paul_In_Houston says:

    In an earlier post on my blog, I had asked

    What’s at the bottom of all this?

    Pure naked power.

    When I used that in a comment at Redstate, a commenter replied with “Don’t forget the money angle, Paul“, thus providing me with the title and subject of my latest post ( “Don’t forget the money angle, Paul” ), in which I note …

    With the High Priests of this new religion, money is incidental.

    Simple greed can be reasoned with, bargained with, and/or bought off.

    Messianism cannot.

    I go on, quite a bit, with this, and only hope I did it justice.

  2. OregonGuy says:

    “In this case, the scientist fought back and won an unconditional surrender that revealed the complete corruption of Gore and at least one prominent Harvard climate researcher.”

    Amazing. And nobody heard of this before.

    http://robkremer.blogspot.com/2009/12/another-media-cover-up.html
    .

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  4. Neo says:

    There seems to be a pattern of CBS employees noticing a problem with the idea of “fake but accurate”. It’s almost like they have been down this road before. You think ?