It means that other academics are not able to check basic calculations said to show a long-term rise in temperature over the past 150 years.

So much for the hyped “peer reviews” on which Ed Begley, Jr. was so desperately relying.

Quelle surprise. Wow the data that could’vebacked up their claims was tossed.

Guess we’ll just have to take their word for it.

Or, as a young English lady from another century once said…”Curioser and curioser.”

Why wouldn’t you want to be them? This won’t phase them a bit. They KNOW they’re right, even if this one data set is fake but accurate.

Ah, but the raw data – the actual numbers, how they were collected, what adjustments must be accounted for in collection techniques – gone, gone, gone! This really is unconscionable. The actual data points – gone.

Processed data is available. That’s like Cheez Whiz, ya’ll.

Dr. Mabuse has pulled out a little Chesterton on these frauds and nailed ‘em between the eyeballs:
http://kraalspace.blogspot.com/2009/11/chesterton-on-climategate.html#links

Sadly, this isn’t all that new. Remember the Club of Rome and their computer model which no matter what you did said we were doomed unless we cut back to a sustainable, nearly subsistence level? It turned out that the model, to give them credit for making it available, had so many constraining assumptions that it did not allow for innovation and new technologies. 30+ years ago, it is laughable. And then there was Nuclear Winter, with all the inputs and data skewed to the worst cases. People noticed that when you ran it against such things as Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it predicted freezing nights and snow. Didn’t happen. Again, they were honest enough to release the code. It was universally derided by leading physicists, though at least one commented that “the psychology might be right.”

I suppose the Times of London counts as MSM?

I’m still waiting to see it on NBC Nightly News, ABC World News Tonight, or whatever CBS is calling their propaganda venue now.

And now… IDIOTS!!!

Been following this on Wattsupwiththat.com, Anthony Watts’ blog for the last week or so. Great site, because many folks with various scientific backgrounds comment.

A scientific theory which cannot be checked is no theory at all. If the data are not available, there is no science here. It might be possible to reconstruct it if the algorithms by which the date were “adjusted” were reliably available, but it sounds as if this was not a systematic process, but rather haphazard. No theory, no case, and certainly no reason to cause severe damage to an already damaged world economy based on these guys’ guesses.

Peer review means simply that an editor got a few reviewers, typically three, to look at the paper and more said to publish it than said to reject it. It means absolutely nothing at all more than that. It should never be construed as meaning that all of the work has been checked, the raw data verified, or even that all of the footnotes have been validated. In some cases, a reviewer is able to write a solid critique of the paper, in other cases he is restricted to answering about 10 questions in 15 words or less for each question. It sometimes happens that there is a single reviewer. Peer review is a highly malleable term that never means any thing approaching a careful, line by line checking. Been there, done that!

Mainstream Media may not be reporting this story, but the internet is abuzz.

As of a moment ago Google shows— about 13,300,000 hits for climategate.

Whereas, “global warming” has now been surpassed by “climategate” with Google showing—- about 9,940,000 hits for “global warming”

I do not believe MSM can keep the lid on this one much longer.

At the risk of sounding like a conspiracy nut, can anybody verify that the data really was dumped when they moved offices, and not just since the freedom of information requests began pouring in? As I recall some of the reports on the hacked emails, some of them discuss destroying the data rather than let it fall into unsympathetic (to global warming) hands. Of course, those emails may have pre-dated the office move, but still . . . I’m skeptical.

I was really hoping you would have linked to the Pelosi 2012 instead of the smart car.

Sadly, I agree with Stephen. Except perhaps for a few deluded Prius drivers, these people are wealthy, they are invited to all the best parties, and neither their closed circle of friends, nor the friendly media will ever expect them to answer any awkward questions about their faith. I don’t see how their life changes.

For several years I have reflected that this was a case of the (largely) the same people, predicting a different catastrophe brought about by similar causes, prescribing the same solution.

Makes you think they are REALLY attached to the solution.

Ed the Roman is right.

President Obama is bound and determined to commit the US to all the stupid CO2 reduction goals in Copenhagen. He doesn’t care about any of this, so why should anyone else?

Suppose the MSM does finally get the word. It will not matter. The elitists will not disappear. They will just go underground for a while. There they will figure out a new meme to wow the media. Interestingly enough, that new meme will have the same solutions offered: total government contol of everyone’s life.

That is what elitists do.

The amount of demagoguery associated with the disciples of this QUACK science is what has made me a complete skeptic since day 1.

“It’s been getting warmer ever since oh…about THE LAST ICE AGE!”

“If we keep this up, maybe the dinosaurs will come back.”

“I’m a global warming agnostic.”

These are three of the things I have regularly said out loud to people HARPING at me about becoming more “green”.

I will do my best to not become completely smug with all of these announcements about the “scientists”.

I remember the Club of Rome report well. I also remember reading years later that the so-called “scientists” were well aware that the modelling was very primitive and that the results were wild projections.

Poor research is found throughout academia. Academic research has been compromised for many decades, but the public is largely unaware, and, sadly, probably uncaring. Certainly, it is not a topic to be found in newspapers.

Generally, a level of understanding that presupposes understanding median, mode and mean is beyond almost all reporters.

The adage “Figures don’t lie….but liars figure” comes suddenly to mind.

Poor secularists… they put their faith in humanity, and (shocker) sinful humans have let them down. To whom will they turn now? There’s always the Earth, but perhaps her need of their protection isn’t quite as urgent a matter as was previously thought.

Does Climategate(or Climaquiddick) discredit science? Of course not.

Why not? Doesn’t the inquisition and sleazy televangelists disprove Christianity? And Sinner, if you’re reading, yes, it would be wrong of us to wish harm on these people, but you gotta admit: we’re not really bound to believe in GW until credible research comes out, and these particular scientists have proved themselves to be untrustworthy in carrying out their charge. Do you admit that’s reasonable? This kind of explodes the dichotomy “either you believe in GW and forget about all other ethical/social issues (especially ones opposed to liberal beliefs) or you are neglecting your stewardship of earth”.

The other distinction lost in the MSM’s coverage and the elitists’s zeal is that between “global warming” and “man-made global warming.” Is the global climate changing? Sure, all the time. Do we have anything to do with it? I doubt it. Will all the carbon taxes and cap & trade do anything to prevent it? Probably not. If the Seychelles are going to be flooded over because of climate change, the smart money is going to go towards evacuation of the islands rather that a futile attempt at prevention.

So, were Noah and his kin the first documented examples of climate change refugees?

Iowahawk…has done himself proud satirizing the global warming scandal:

http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/

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