Tuesday, February 21, 2012

BREAKING: Gleick Confesses... Eco-fraud: Global warming crusader admits lying, stealing, smearing

Question: Where are all the front-page mea culpas from the all the mainstream media outlets that ran with Gleick’s slime? - Michelle Malkin
Gleick removed from AGU Task Force on Scientific Ethics page - Watts Up With That?
BREAKING: Gleick Confesses - Watts Up With That?
NCSE accepts Gleick’s resignation - Watts Up With That?
Heartland ClimateFakeGate Exposes Rot In Alarmists’ Camp - AJ Strata

...When the false Hockey Stick (showing never-before-seen-warming) was exposed in the middle of the last decade, you would think the alarmists would have learned their lesson about misrepresenting data. Fudging and hiding data (like the directly measured disconnect between tree rings and global/regional temperatures) is scientifically unethical. In the applied engineering world it could be cause for criminal prosecution.

But no – the zealots were on God’s side. So the ends justified any means. Therefore onward they marched.

When the censoring of scientific debate was exposed in the CRU emails at the end of the last decade, you would think those paragons of ‘ climate science’ virtue would stop their madness and consider how far they had sunk. It was clear that a cadre of self appointed ‘experts’ (whose only expertise appears to be in producing shoddy statistics) worked over time to punish dissenting views and data. They almost succeeded....