Re: All the President's Climategate Deniers

On Dec 2, 10:57 am, licentissimus <licentissi...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
All the President's Climategate Deniers

Michelle Malkin
Wednesday, December 02, 2009

"The science is settled," we've been told for decades by zealous
proponents of manmade global warming hysteria. Thanks to an earth-
shaking hacking scandal across the pond, we now have mountains of
documents from the world's leading global warming advocacy center that
show the science is about as settled as a southeast Asian tsunami. You
won't be surprised by the Obama administration's response to
Climategate.

With pursed lips and closed eyes and ears, the White House is clinging
to the old eco-mantra: The science is settled.

Never mind all the devastating new information about data
manipulation, intimidation and cult-like coverups to "hide the
decline" in global temperatures over the last half-century, they say.
The science is settled.

Never mind what The Atlantic's Clive Crook, after wading through the
climate science e-mail files of the U.K.'s Climatic Research Unit at
the University of East Anglia, called the overpowering "stink of
intellectual corruption" -- combined with mafia-like suppression of
dissent, suppression of evidence and methods, and "plain statistical
incompetence" exposed by the document trove. The science is settled.

Never mind the expedient disappearance of mounds of raw weather
station data that dissenting scientists were seeking through freedom
of information requests from the Climatic Research Unit. The science
is settled.

In March, President Obama made a grandiose show of putting "science"
above "politics" when lifting the ban on government-funded human
embryonic stem cell research. "Promoting science isn't just about
providing resources -- it's about protecting free and open inquiry,"
he said during the signing ceremony. "It's about letting scientists
like those who are here today do their jobs, free from manipulation or
coercion, and listening to what they tell us, even when it's
inconvenient -- especially when it's inconvenient. It is about
ensuring that scientific data is never distorted or concealed to serve
a political agenda -- and that we make scientific decisions based on
facts, not ideology."

Yet, the pro-sound science president has surrounded himself with
radical Climategate deniers who have spent their entire professional
careers "settling" manmade global warming disaster science through
fear mongering, intimidation and ridicule of opponents.

-- Science czar John Holdren, who will testify on Capitol Hill this
week at a hearing on Climategate, infamously hyped weather
catastrophes and demographic disasters in the 1970s with his
population control freak pals Paul and Anne Ehrlich. He made a public
bet against free-market economist Julian Simon, predicting dire
shortages of five natural resources as a result of feared
overconsumption. He lost on all counts. No matter.

Holdren's failure didn't stop him from writing forcefully about mass
sterilization and forced abortion "solutions" to a fizzling, sizzling,
overpopulated planet. And it didn't stop him from earning a living
making more dire predictions.

In 1986, Ehrlich credited Holdren with forecasting that "carbon-
dioxide climate-induced famines could kill as many as a billion people
before the year 2020." He went on to Harvard and the White House. On
the "Late Show with David Letterman" earlier this year, Holdren
fretted that his son "might not see snow!"

Canada Free Press (CFP) columnist and Canadian climatologist Dr. Tim
Ball notes that Holdren turned up in the Climategate files belittling
the work of astrophysicists Sallie Baliunas and Willie Soon at the
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in the Solar, Stellar and
Planetary Sciences Division. Holdren put "Harvard" in sneer quotes
when mocking a research paper Baliunas and Soon published in 2003
showing that "the 20th century is probably not the warmest nor a
uniquely extreme climatic period of the last millennium." First, deny.
Next, deride.

-- Energy Secretary Steven Chu picked derision as his weapon earlier
this year when peddling the Obama administration's greenhouse-gas
emission policy. "The American public … just like your teenage kids,
aren't acting in a way that they should act," The Wall Street Journal
quoted Chu. He dismissed dissent by asserting that "there's very
little debate" about the impact of "green energy" policy on the
economy.

There's "very little debate," of course, because dissenters get
crushed.

-- The Obama team's chief eco-dissent crusher is climate czar Carol
Browner. She oversaw the destruction of Environmental Protection
Agency computer files in brazen violation of a federal judge's order
during the Clinton years requiring the agency to preserve its
records.

Over the past year, the EPA has stifled the dissent of Alan Carlin, a
senior research analyst at the agency who questioned the
administration's reliance on outdated research on the health effects
of greenhouse gases. Recently, they sought to yank a YouTube video
created by EPA lawyers Allan Zabel and Laurie Williams that is
critical of cap-and-trade. Browner reportedly threatened auto execs in
July by telling them to "put nothing in writing … ever" about their
negotiations with her.

And she is now leading the "science is settled" stonewalling in the
wake of Climategate. "I'm sticking with the 2,500 scientists," she
said. "These people have been studying this issue for a very long time
and agree this problem is real." Book-cookers are good at making it
seem so.

In any case, last year, more than 31,000 scientists -- including 9,021
Ph.D.s -- signed a petition sponsored by the Oregon Institute of
Science and Medicine rejecting claims of human-caused global warming.

But hey, who's counting? The science is settled.

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