Comments on: Climategate, Copenhagen and what it all means http://lonelyconservative.com/2009/12/climategate-copenhagen-and-what-it-all-means/ Observations from a conservative in a blue state. With a little help from my friends! Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:42:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Lonely Conservativehttp://lonelyconservative.com/2009/12/climategate-copenhagen-and-what-it-all-means/comment-page-1/#comment-13453 Lonely Conservative Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:01:49 +0000 http://www.lonelyconservative.com/?p=13478#comment-13453 Thank you! Thank you!

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]]> By: Wakefield Tolberthttp://lonelyconservative.com/2009/12/climategate-copenhagen-and-what-it-all-means/comment-page-1/#comment-13452 Wakefield Tolbert Mon, 07 Dec 2009 23:30:55 +0000 http://www.lonelyconservative.com/?p=13478#comment-13452 The whole "<I>Dog Ate My Fortran Code Along with the Tree Rings</I>" caper is getting more and more interesting by the minute, even if the excuses (lack of server space for a major institution!) are getting rather stale by now. Interesting for the "science" at stake yes, such as it was for all the tomfoolery, but much more so for a peek at what is really going on here: Ideology. Not that Copenhagen is on hold by any stretch due to damaging reports coming from the CRU labs and now probably other highbrow institutions also engaged in the fakery. It never was at risk, since the truth--and science--are not really at stake here, and to this crowd assembling to make something really stink in Denmark the truth matters not. What matters is not truth and science but politics and money and therefore power. Good posting. Might we also call this, as Mark Steyn did, the latest "Tree Ring Circus"? The whole “Dog Ate My Fortran Code Along with the Tree Rings” caper is getting more and more interesting by the minute, even if the excuses (lack of server space for a major institution!) are getting rather stale by now. Interesting for the “science” at stake yes, such as it was for all the tomfoolery, but much more so for a peek at what is really going on here: Ideology.

Not that Copenhagen is on hold by any stretch due to damaging reports coming from the CRU labs and now probably other highbrow institutions also engaged in the fakery. It never was at risk, since the truth–and science–are not really at stake here, and to this crowd assembling to make something really stink in Denmark the truth matters not.

What matters is not truth and science but politics and money and therefore power.

Good posting.

Might we also call this, as Mark Steyn did, the latest “Tree Ring Circus”?

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]]> By: Who Needs Congress When You Can Get the EPA to Do Your Dirty Work? | The Lonely Conservativehttp://lonelyconservative.com/2009/12/climategate-copenhagen-and-what-it-all-means/comment-page-1/#comment-13451 Who Needs Congress When You Can Get the EPA to Do Your Dirty Work? | The Lonely Conservative Mon, 07 Dec 2009 19:34:23 +0000 http://www.lonelyconservative.com/?p=13478#comment-13451 [...] Do you ever feel like you’re living in some alternate reality than these people? My local newspaper’s front page headline today is “Nations Must ‘Dig Deeper’ on Emissions.” (No link found at their website, but the article is the same as this AP story.) This is the same “news” business whose editors claim they reserve the front page for local news. There are two more pages devoted to the Copenhagen conference, with only a tiny little four-paragraph blurb about how a UN official admiteed the CRU’s hacked emails are damaging to the scientists’ reputations, but “evidence of a warming Earth is solid.” Oh really? [...] [...] Do you ever feel like you’re living in some alternate reality than these people? My local newspaper’s front page headline today is “Nations Must ‘Dig Deeper’ on Emissions.” (No link found at their website, but the article is the same as this AP story.) This is the same “news” business whose editors claim they reserve the front page for local news. There are two more pages devoted to the Copenhagen conference, with only a tiny little four-paragraph blurb about how a UN official admiteed the CRU’s hacked emails are damaging to the scientists’ reputations, but “evidence of a warming Earth is solid.” Oh really? [...]

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