Climate News The real crime in Climategate
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01 December 2009
While some are checking the statute books regarding the different treatments of hackers versus whistleblowers, and others are checking conspiracy laws regarding damaging careers through perversion of the peer review process and suborning editors to exclude unpopular opinions, I would like to say what I think the real crime is in Climategate.
The criminals are not limited to The Team, the climate scientists and paleoclimatologists whose emails and files were leaked to the public.
A section of politically active scientists, policy makers, politicians and NGOs in effect put on white coats and told us that our planet was gravely ill, and that we needed to follow their prescriptive advice to save ourselves from a deadly disease. That's really how they framed the discussion, and they classified everyone who disagreed as a denier, like a smoker dismissing his cough and waving away the X-Rays.
That's not a crime. But it's pretty close to it to change the readouts on a patient's condition to convince him to undergo expensive treatment, label other doctors as quacks if they disagree with the changed diagnosis, and to refuse to show the patient the data underlying the charts.
They may protest that the diagnosis is too technical for the patient to understand and that their actions are for the patient's good. They may even believe it. But I call it quackery.
And the crime is malpractice. Deliberate and conscious malpractice. And since they arrogated the power unto themselves to diagnose the disease and prescribe a cure, they might also be charged with practicing medicine without a licence.
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Global warming originally started of as a belief system. Over the decades media has gotten better at reporting weather events around the Globe. Day in and day out there was always a weather event to be viewed that gave us all a sense of something catastrophic happening with the climate. Whether it was million dollar homes on fire in the LA Hills or flash floods running through a village in Wales, we were all conditioned into believing there was growing evidence of changing catastrophic weather conditions in the world. The scientists really believed this to be the case and so were predisposed to the eventual outcome. But, really all that was happening was that we were just seeing more documented weather events from around the world, nature like we had never witnessed before, but nothing unusual. Unfortunately, a lot of these intellectual scientists convinced themselves something big was happening with the climate. So from there either subconciously aor deliberately made the science appear to demonstrate the perception. Climate science was manipulated to fit the predisposed "instinct" of these scientists.
I think Lord Monckton has the best analysis on the subject which also includes a practical approach and strategy.
At the following link you can download a PDF file.
wattsupwiththat.com/2009/12/01/lord-moncktons-summary-of-climategate-and-its-issues/
Email these people Prime Minister Harper:pmpm.gc.ca
Canadian Envinroment Minister Jim Prentice: Ministerec.gc.ca
Protest he inaccurate Climate Change measurements that are being used to Proclaim the Copenhagen Treaty: www.gopetition.com/online/32485.html
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