Telumehtar wrote:
Dash wrote:
I understand why you'd want to brush this off as a lot of nothing, and I'm sure the left wing blogs are pushing that meme full bore, but it's not the case.
I don't want to brush this off as nothing, but thanks for addressing what you assume my motives are rather than the issues on which I post. As far as what the left-wing blogs are saying, I have no idea, I haven't read any about this issue.
Yes well, that post was in response to this:
Telumehtar wrote:
Dash: Neither of the quotes you present are the "gotchas" that right-wing blogs are making them out to be.
I tend to reply in kind to the tone of what I'm responding to. In this case I had posted articles from the Associated Press and Washington Post, neither of which are, to my knowledge, right wing blogs
Anyway no offense taken or intended on my part.
Speaking of right wing blogs though, here is one that I found interesting:
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/climategat ... ntionally/Much is made of how this is just some small group of scientists, here is a bit about Obama's "Science Czar" John Holdren...
Quote:
But when asked about some of his own extreme statements and predictions, Holdren replied that scientific research had moved on from the latest UN assessment report in 2007. The most up-to-date scientific research was contained in a report written by some of the world’s leading climate scientists and released last summer. Holdren mentioned and referred to this report, Copenhagen Diagnosis, several times during the course of the hearing.
I remember when Copenhagen Diagnosis came out because nearly every major paper ran a story on it. Global warming is happening even faster than predicted, the impacts are even worse than feared, and that sort of thing. I also remembered that the authors of Copenhagen Diagnosis included many of the usual conmen who are at the center of the alarmist scare. So I asked my CEI colleague Julie Walsh to compare the list of authors of Copenhagen Diagnosis with the scientists involved in Climategate.
I’m sure it will come as a shock that the two groups largely overlap. The “small group of scientists” up to their necks in Climategate include 12 of the 26 esteemed scientists who wrote the Copenhagen Diagnosis. Who would have ever guessed that forty-six percent of the authors of Copenhagen Diagnosis belong to the Climategate gang? Small world, isn’t it?