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SATURDAY HOT READ: SCIENTISTS BEHAVING BADLY

By Charlie Sykes

Steven Hayward on Climategate.....

Slowly and mostly unnoticed by the major news media, the air has been going out of the global warming balloon. Global temperatures stopped rising a few years ago, much to the dismay of the climate campaigners. The U.N.'s upcoming Copenhagen conference--which was supposed to yield a binding greenhouse gas emissions reduction treaty as a successor to the failed Kyoto Protocol--collapsed weeks in advance and remains on life support pending Obama's magical intervention. Cap and trade legislation is stalled on Capitol Hill. Recent opinion polls from Gallup, Pew, Rasmussen, ABC/Washington Post, and other pollsters all find a dramatic decline in public belief in human-caused global warming. The climate campaigners continue to insist this is because they have a "communications" problem, but after Al Gore's Nobel Prize/Academy Award double play, millions of dollars in paid advertising, and the relentless doom-mongering from the media echo chamber and the political class, this excuse is preposterous. And now the climate campaign is having its Emperor's New Clothes moment.

Wednesday, Dec 9 at 1:14 AM Hank wrote ...

Brian H. is also a genius to stereotype anyone who disagrees with him as some sort of red-neck, dumb hick - this "Bob and Brian" of which you speak I know of not, dear Brian. I lived in CA for 10 years, also. I don't work in a factory, but what's wrong with that, you elite snob? You LIBS always resort to name-calling when you run out of sensible arguments, which is pretty quickly. The evidence is in - "Global Warming" is a fraud - just admit it. You'll feel better about yourself, I'm sure.

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Tuesday, Dec 8 at 9:53 AM Turnip Truck Ted wrote ...

What better way to persuade readers of a conservative blog than a link to HuffPo? Brian is a genius.

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Tuesday, Dec 8 at 9:51 AM Turnip Truck Ted wrote ...

If it's on HuffPo, it must be true.

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Tuesday, Dec 8 at 9:10 AM Brian H. wrote ...

Yes Anon - I assume your one of those deer hunting, mouth breathing, factory working, Bob and Brian listening to - red necks that only leave your home town to go "UP NORT" or to "DA DELLS". There is A LOT more world out there than just Wisconsin you idiot.

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Tuesday, Dec 8 at 7:14 AM Anonymous wrote ...

Yo, Brian, it sure seems warmer here in Wisconsin over the last ten years - NOT! Did we even hit a 90 degree day last summer?

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Tuesday, Dec 8 at 12:04 AM Hank wrote ...

@Brian H.: Thanks for posting a link to the Leftiest of the Lefty sites - Huffington Post - Howl, Moon-Bats, Howl!!

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Monday, Dec 7 at 7:48 PM Terry wrote ...

“The real climate scandal is the contrast between the global scandal these emails have provoked and the muted response to 20 years of revelations about the propaganda planted by fossil fuel companies.” – Geroge Monbiot http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cif-green/2009/dec/07/climate-change-denial-industry http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/georgemonbiot/2009/dec/07/george-monbiot-blog-climate-denial-industry

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Monday, Dec 7 at 7:41 PM Jordan wrote ...

Ahh yes, The Yoda of morons is back...wonderful to see, since there is truly one, and only one, Moron H. Btw, stupid point and I'm not following your stupid link. Have a nice day:)

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Monday, Dec 7 at 6:26 PM Brian H. wrote ...

Hey Morons and Puppets - Did you see the new report: "The 2000s was the warmest decade EVER". You've stayed so dizzy on Charlie's magical merry-go-round for so long that you couldn't even see this coming. But you're right this is probably just junk science and another way for those evil politicians to get their grubby hands in your pockets. I'm sure that's all it is: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/07/decade-of-2000s-was-warme_n_382414.html

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Monday, Dec 7 at 12:21 PM Alex Sheehan wrote ...

Why there is no sign of a climate change conspiracy in hacked emails. http://bit.ly/7vuNc7

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Monday, Dec 7 at 8:16 AM MADDOG wrote ...

If you libs are going to believe in Global Warming then why don't you call your benevolent leaders and ask them why WE have to give up our life styles to save the planet but they don't. Ask them why WE have to go to jail for not accepting non-health care but they are exempt from it. Ask them....and until YOU have real answers just shut the hell up.

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Monday, Dec 7 at 5:39 AM KK wrote ...

I've always told my friends that you can't believe science funded/backed by politicians...you must do you own research. I find it odd how global temps seem to be, for the most part, proportional to the level of sun spot activity there is and it goes in ~10 yr cycles..we are at the min now with temps being down..soon they'll start rising again. Al used research from 10-20 yrs ago..duh..temps dropped for 10 yrs, expect heating now. It's all cyclic..unless my car's emissions are creating sunspots

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Sunday, Dec 6 at 10:32 PM TWP @ Foundation wrote ...

I would like to share your optimism, but do not underestimate the capacity of people to participate in the most outrageous of lies if they believe they'll benefit by it or be harmed by opposing it. "Climate Change" is not dead.

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Sunday, Dec 6 at 8:25 PM DWIGHT wrote ...

Even if there is global warming you can't prove that man is responsible, and if it could be proven that man was responsible I wouldn't trust the group of thugs and thieves "Al Gore and the social justice crew" to give America an even break.

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Sunday, Dec 6 at 8:15 PM Jordan wrote ...

Pollution is real EinSteve. Nobody is in favor of pollution. Man made global warming is undisputedly not. There is no crisis. There is no need to cripple the manufacturing economy more than it has been already. No need to do 99% of the green crap that's being forced down our throats thanks to Al Gore and this Global warming hoax. Go to Potawotami and take a breath (outside)… you won’t collapse. THERE IS NO F-ING CRISIS SO STAY OUT OF OUR F-ING LIVES AND OUR WALLETS. Get it?

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Sunday, Dec 6 at 6:52 PM WiFritz wrote ...

To Jim: If I had to venture a guess, I'd say more cases are diagnosed, but the number of cases are probably relatively flat. Look at OCD. When I was a kid, it was just being a kid. Now you have a disease.

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Sunday, Dec 6 at 6:20 PM Jim the Fireman wrote ...

Hey, I live in the country and I have adult-onset asthma. Of course, 30 years as a firefighter didn't help. There there is achicken/egg question. Is ther more asthma because of poluution (which is less than it was 30 years ago)? Or is there more asthma because our ability to diagnose it is so much better. 30 to 40 years ago my mild asthma wouldn't have even been diagnosed as asthma. They'd just call it a nagging cough.

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Sunday, Dec 6 at 5:49 PM Ummm wrote ...

now I believe in global warming because, as Steve pointed out, some people have breathing problems in big cities - wow, I almost didn't think about that...

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Sunday, Dec 6 at 2:10 PM Steve wrote ...

Ok, so you think Global Warming isn't real. What about all the people with breathing problems in large cities? Just keep building the freeways bigger and ignoring mass transit so the oil and gas lobby can get fat on us sitting in traffic.

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Sunday, Dec 6 at 10:49 AM The Foundation is Crumbling... wrote ...

and the walls are about to come crumbling down on the leftists. This is their core sacrament, and it's bogus. Let them try and ram C & T through. Same with "Healthcare Reform". We'll ram them the heck out of office, off the stage, and into the ash heap of frauds and losers where they belong. They are feeling the pressure, now! Watching them squirm is highly entertaining. Tick, tick, tick....

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Sunday, Dec 6 at 10:40 AM Jordan wrote ...

What am I thinking... Gore is a trillion times worse than Milli Vanilli. "Girl you know it's true” never was the impetus for sleazebag liberal politicians to strip productive citizens and businesses of their hard earned $ in the name of saving the planet. “Don’t lose my number” never gave credibility to a radical left wing socialist president to run to Copenhagen and definitively speak about the “global warming crisis.” Hell, MV were pikers compared to Al Gore. My mistake

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Sunday, Dec 6 at 9:38 AM ijeff wrote ...

People need to start thinking big. This is so much bigger than a few "off the cuff" emails. Especially when you factor in some real scientific facts such as we haven't experienced any warming over the past 10 years!!!!!

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Sunday, Dec 6 at 8:44 AM Jim the Fireman wrote ...

You gotta admire Algore's business model. Start a company that sells carbon credits and then jet around the world setting up a bogus scare with the solution being ta-da! buy carbon credits! The icing on the cake is that he got the Nobel committee to buy into this garbage. Paraphrasing "Animal House", you screwed up, you trusted him!

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Sunday, Dec 6 at 2:49 AM Dan wrote ...

Makes you wonder what other "science projects/experiments" have been fixed? I am sure this isn't the only time supposed scientists have shown to be a fraud. I just think it is on this large of scale.

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Saturday, Dec 5 at 10:37 PM Hank wrote ...

Unfortunately the Ruling Class of current DEMS doesn't seem to give a... fig about what the people think - I'm still afraid they will ram through Crap and Tax regardless of the consequences, just as they want to ram through P-Lousy Health Care. They think this is their moment of Supreme Power, and they must wield it, because they know better than the rest of us. They "know" global warming is happening, you idiots, regardless of any real data. GW is the not-so-new Religion of the Left.

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Saturday, Dec 5 at 10:31 PM ijeff wrote ...

I like the Milli Vanilli analogy to Al Gore though Al Gore is a an even bigger fraud. Are we finally nearing the point where the average person using some common sense can see what a political scam this has all been? My dream is to see Al Gore giving a speech where everybody laughs!

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Saturday, Dec 5 at 9:40 PM Jordan wrote ...

What am I thinking... Gore is a trillion times worse than Milli Vanilli. "Girl you know it's true” never was the impetus for sleazebag liberal politicians to strip productive citizens and businesses of their hard earned $ in the name of saving the planet. “Don’t lose my number” never gave credibility to a radical left wing socialist president to run to Copenhagen and definitively speak about the “global warming crisis.” Hell, MV were pikers compared to Al Gore. My mistake

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Saturday, Dec 5 at 9:27 PM Jordan wrote ...

Al Gore winning the Nobel and an Oscar is Milli Vanilli 2.0; a complete and total fraud that thankfully has now been exposed for all to see (no thanks whatsoever to the f-ing MSM). He should be stripped of those preposterous awards just like MV was of their grammy’s. My dream of dreams is that Al Gore ends up just like MV did: totally humiliated, flat broke and a poster child of fraud for generations to come.

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Saturday, Dec 5 at 8:45 PM LD wrote ...

Michael is probably checking the Daily Kos to find out what he is going to say.

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Saturday, Dec 5 at 8:37 PM WiFritz wrote ...

None of you know what you're talking about. Where is Michael to bring clarity to this complex issue?

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Saturday, Dec 5 at 6:48 PM TAL wrote ...

Fox news showed Al Gore getting off his private jet and getting into a gas guzzling SUV. This guy is nothing but a hypocrite.In Al Gore's little world, it is " DO AS I SAY AND NOT WHAT I DO".

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Saturday, Dec 5 at 5:27 PM Anonymous wrote ...

Would that be the same Al Gore who buys his carbon credits from a company he owns? 'If I take money from my left pocket, and put it in my right pocket, I have helped to save the earth. What a good boy am I.' Oh, to be a liberal and live in a world where such things make sense... Perhaps Al should be given an award of some kind. Oh, wait... The only settled debate in all this is whether Al is a fraud.

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Saturday, Dec 5 at 4:55 PM Art wrote ...

With trillions at stake here for the global community, the passage of any treaty or legislation based on this questionable research would be a farce. Wise up and quit listening to Al Gore's bogus preaching. He's already made millions off this BS.

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Saturday, Dec 5 at 3:58 PM TerryN wrote ...

Hide the decline. The sum of all the research at East Anglia and the attitude of the IPCC.

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