Twelve years ago, on November 22nd, someone released emails revealing communications between leading “scientists” on Global Warming. The interactions were not only not flattering, they were damning. The experts were manipulating data and suppressing debate.
Related: A timeline for ClimateGate
It has been 12 years since the intellectual scandal erupted called Climategate. Each anniversary inspires recollections and regurgitation of salient quotations. These quotations speak for themselves; attempts of climate alarmists to parse the words and meaning distracts from what was said in real-time private conversations.
And the scandal got worse after the fact when, according to Paul Stephens, “virtually the entire climate science community tried to pretend that nothing was wrong.” Whitewash exonerations by the educational institutions involved and scientific organizations– was a blow to scholarship and standards as well. The standard of fair, objective, transparent research was sacrificed to a politically correct narrative about the qualitative connection between CO2 forcing and temperature (see Wiki).
WUWT has more, including some of the better quotes culled from the mountain, of which my favorite might be,
“I’ve just completed Mike’s [Mann] Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (i.e. from 1981 onwards) and from 1961 for Keith’s [Briffa] to hide the decline.”
—Dr. Phil Jones, Director of the Climatic Research Unit, disclosed Climategate e-mail, Nov. 16, 1999.
And,
“I can’t see either of these papers being in the next IPCC report. Kevin [Trenberth] and I will keep them out somehow, even if we have to redefine what the peer-review literature is!”
—Phil Jones, Director of the Climatic Research Unit, disclosed Climategate e-mail, July 8, 2004.
It was a coordinated effort (conspiracy/fraud) to prevent science from happening and to control the narrative. But it’s more than that. Billions, nay Trillions of dollars, were at stake. If the fraud could be sustained, the people censoring scientific research in defense of Mann-Made global warming would continue to benefit financially, as would a range of politicians, their oligarchic crony-capitalist buddies, and anyone connected to them.
And before the rise of COVID-19, it was easily the single most significant (potential) RICO case in history, one that continues this week at COP27, where they are binding nations the decades along money-laundering operations using not just your hard-earned wages but those of generations not born who will be made to pay the debt and the interest on it.
And we’ve made considerable advances in demonstrating the fraud, but here we are, watching them institutionalize the funding of the same lie over a decade later.
I’d say it’s disappointing, but the fault is not ours. The party in which we’ve had to place our faith to push back has gotten on the same train (more or less). From big corn to so-called renewables, Republicans are increasingly led by their donor nose-rings to play along.
The only man who made any real effort to dial it back was Donald Trump, and you see what they did and are trying to do to him.
No debate, no science, just fear and political terrorism against anyone who tries to close the laundromat.
We need to do better.
