Right Wing Dogma Dictates That Free Thinkers Never Accept The Overwhelming Evidence For Man Made Climate Change But Instead Stick To The Wisdom Of Fossil Fuel Industry Shills And Uneducated Right Wing Talking Heads On Fox News
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spastic frenzy's as they claim that science is not really science, but religion
and that "real" science should eminate from the minds of right wing
politicians, unqualified charlatans, energy industry shills and former tobacco
industry PR men. Most of the deniers are pin heads who don't understand basic
science. They frequently confuse weather with climate and constantly repeat
lies, no matter how many times they have been debunked with facts refuting
them.
Few of the deniers have jobs, they sit around all day at their computers jibber
jabbering with each other on Usenet swapping the same insane lies.
According to the University of East Anglia, the stolen documents and e-mails
had been selected deliberately to undermine the strong consensus that human
activity is affecting the world's climate in ways that are potentially
dangerous. The university said in a statement: "The selective publication of
some stolen e-mails and other papers taken out of context is mischievous and
cannot be considered a genuine attempt to engage with this issue in a
responsible way".
The CRU's researchers said in a statement that the e-mails had been taken out
of context and merely reflected an honest exchange of ideas.[9] Phil Jones,
Director of the Climatic Research Unit, called the charges that the emails
involve any "untoward" activity "ludicrous." Michael Mann, director of
Pennsylvania State University's Earth System Science Center, said that sceptics
were "taking these words totally out of context to make something trivial
appear nefarious", and called the entire incident a careful, "high-level,
orchestrated smear campaign to distract the public about the nature of the
climate change problem." Kevin E. Trenberth of the National Center for
Atmospheric Research said that he was appalled at the release of the e-mails
but thought that it might backfire against climate sceptics, as the messages
would show "the integrity of scientists." He has also said that the theft may
be aimed at undermining talks at the December, 2009 Copenhagen global climate
summit.
Computerworld magazine cited the view of the RealClimate blog that what was not
contained in the e-mails was the most interesting element: "There is no
evidence of any worldwide conspiracy, no mention of George Soros nefariously
funding climate research, no grand plan to 'get rid of the MWP' [Medieval Warm
Period], no admission that global warming is a hoax, no evidence of the
falsifying of data, and no 'marching orders' from our
socialist/communist/vegetarian overlords."
The science historian Spencer R. Weart, interviewed in the Washington Post,
commented that the theft of the e-mails and the reaction to them was "a symptom
of something entirely new in the history of science: Aside from crackpots who
complain that a conspiracy is suppressing their personal discoveries, we've
never before seen a set of people accuse an entire community of scientists of
deliberate deception and other professional malfeasance. Even the tobacco
companies never tried to slander legitimate cancer researchers."
The Daily Telegraph reported that academics and climate change researchers have
dismissed allegations from sceptics that the emails are evidence of a collusion
or international conspiracy, saying that nothing in the emails proves
wrongdoing.
The American Association for the Advancement of Science has "expressed concern
that the hacked emails would weaken global resolve to curb greenhouse-gas
emissions".
The American Meteorological Society stated that the incident did not affect the
society's position on climate change. They pointed to the breadth of evidence
for human influence on climate, stating "For climate change research, the body
of research in the literature is very large and the dependence on any one set
of research results to the comprehensive understanding of the climate system is
very, very small. Even if some of the charges of improper behavior in this
particular case turn out to be true ? which is not yet clearly the case ? the
impact on the science of climate change would be very limited."
The Union of Concerned Scientists was strongly critical of climate change
sceptics using the stolen e-mails to attack climate science, commenting:
"Unfortunately for these conspiracy theorists, what the e-mails show are simply
scientists at work, grappling with key issues, and displaying the full range of
emotions and motivations characteristic of any urgent endeavor. Any suggestions
that these e-mails will affect public and policymakers' understanding of
climate science give far too much credence to blog chatter and boastful spin
from groups opposed to addressing climate change."
Climatologist James Hansen said that the controversy has "no effect on the
science" and that while some of the e-mails reflect poor judgement, the
evidence for human-made climate change is overwhelming.
George Monbiot said that while he did not see the vast conspiracy that global
warming sceptics saw, he did see this as a "major blow" and that "emails
extracted by a hacker from the climatic research unit at the University of East
Anglia could scarcely be more damaging". Moreover, Monbiot was concerned with
what he saw as attempts to conceal and even destroy data that was subject to a
freedom of information request and collusion to prevent peer reviewed
publication by climate sceptics.