The National Post has now picked up the CRU hacked/leaked email story.
First we have Terence Corcoran: After Copenhagen, the end of the science:
…Clearly climate science is not Louis Pasteur in his lab or Alexander Fleming searching for antibiotics and discovering penicillin. Providing the proof for man-made global warming is big business and big politics, backed by hundreds of billions of dollar and deep ideological convictions. Have the convictions overtaken the search for scientific proof? The CRU emails, while no smoking gun of fraud and malfeasance, can only add to the already mounting scientific and popular skepticism.
The coming end of certainty over man-made warming was already a possibility before the CRU events. The idea that the science is not settled, or that it is incomplete and uncertain, shows up in many places, even among the true believers…
The Post also offers Climategate which provides some background to the story, and Myron Ebell’s CRU’s climate ‘tricks’, which I’m interpreting to be a sarcastic parody of the Warmists’ response.
At the very least the Climate-Change pushers have to acknowledge that the science is NOT settled and there is plenty of room for healthy skepticism.
Now we’re looking forward to hearing from others in Canadian media. What are you waiting for? Or do you have so much invested that you are afraid to confront the possibility that you may have been duped?
Meanwhile, ChuckerCanuk opines on what Canada would look like now if Stephane Dion had managed to implement his Green Shift.
Bam! Now go to sleep.
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Update:
Inhofe Says He Will Call for Investigation on “Climategate” on Washington Times Americas Morning Show – EPW (H/T Craig)
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Tuesday Update:
Lots of good stuff this morning. While Al Gore continues to preach his propaganda at the Red Star and blasts Alberta’s Oil Sands (“…But, you know, junkies find veins in their toes”), we find that even George Monbiot is admitting that he should have been more skeptical (via Watts up with That – H/T Daryl).
As Andrew Bolt writes:
Scepticism is the essential disposition of our craft, yet too many journalists have abandoned it. Remember: the opposite of sceptical is gullible.
CTV seems to be supporting the Warmists with a token report discussing hackers cherry-picking data out of context. Perhaps they should check out Monbiot. (H/T Springer who has a link to a Glenn Beck report)
Obama’s Science Czar John Holdren involved in unwinding “Climategate” scandal – Canada Free Press (H/T Bruce):
...Obama Science Czar John Holdren is directly involved in CRU’s unfolding Climategate scandal. In fact, according to files released by a CEU hacker or whistleblower, Holdren is involved in what Canada Free Press (CFP) columnist Canadian climatologist Dr. Tim Ball terms “a truculent and nasty manner that provides a brief demonstration of his lack of understanding, commitment on faith and willingness to ridicule and bully people”…
Global warming with the lid off – Wall Street Journal:
…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...
Why You Should Be Hot and Bothered About ‘Climate-gate’ - John Loft, Fox News
Peter Foster: Let the climate debate begin - National Post (H/T Bruce)
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Also please check out Alex Jones’ Infowars.
