Local Media Finally Addresses Climategate

Ten days into the Climategate scandal, The Arizona Daily Star has become the first Arizona newspaper to acknowledge that UA Researcher Malcolm Hughes is at the heart of the controversy. 

A nationally prominent climate change researcher at the University of Arizona has been asked by a U.S. senator not to destroy any records he has with a tie to a global controversy over e-mails raising questions about the scientific integrity of some climate scholars.

 

However--as is often the case--the local corporate media become apologists for the status quo.  Check out this sentence from Star reporter Tony Davis.

 

Dozens of e-mails sent and received by Hughes are among those leaked from the stolen batch of messages. The Star is sifting through them and so far has found none he wrote that resembled the controversial e-mails in tone or substance. However, Hughes did receive at least one controversial e-mail from a scientist at the center of the storm.

 

"None that he wrote"?  That's technically true.  However, one of the most controversial emails was written by one of Hughes' researchers. 

 

Here's what Gary Funkhouser of the UA Lab. of Tree-Ring Research wrote:

I really wish I could be more positive about the Kyrgyzstan material, but I swear I pulled every trick out of my sleeve trying to milk something out of that.

 

 I don't think it'd be productive to try and juggle the chronology statistics any more than I already have - they just are what they are...

 

There's no excuse for the folks from the Star to miss the Funkhouser email--after all, I printed it last week.  However, there are some things that are harder to find.  For example, "Peck" is a recipient of many of the emails and appears to be UA Professor Jonathan T. Overpeck

 

Here's a great tool for the local media.  It's a searchable database of all the emails.

 

Climategate has the potential to be a huge scandal and professors from the University of Arizona are at the heart of it.  Those professors have had extensive fawning coverage from the local media.  Now let's see if that same media can escape its Corporate Group Think mentality and actually start giving the story the coverage it deserves.  

 

 

Comments

[elephant]

Even Jon Stewart gets in on the fun.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgPUpIBWGp8

Poor Al Gore: Global Warming Completely Debunked By the Internet You Invented. Plus, “Why would you throw out raw data from the eighties? — I still have Penthouse magazines from the seventies!”

[RonB]

The evidence of "made up stuff" keeps piling up. Every one of the co-conspirators ought to be investigated and if/when found guilty, be fired and be made to pay back all the money they stole from taxpayers. They are not scientists; they are liars and thieves. And Algore should be forced to go on an international apology tour (a real apology, not an Obama apology).

[Steve F.]

John Stewart gets why this is a MAJOR FREAKING PROBLEM for the AGW crowd.

[Mesa Econoguy]

It should be stated that the context of 1) the emails, and 2) the code itself is not known from this information.

It should also be stated that they are ipso facto damning evidence.

Journalists have no idea where to look (other than to their usual sources, other media and college professors, both implicated here)for relevant information on this topic, hence, the silence.

[JT]

There's a global warming sucker born every minute. Bernie Madoff would be proud.

http://www.liberaldrivel.com