Move Along, Nothing to See Here...

The Corporate media has finally addressed Climategate and, unsurprisingly has followed the standard MSM playbook--ignore the story for a few weeks until trying to debunk it.

LONDON - E-mails stolen from climate scientists show they stonewalled skeptics and discussed hiding data - but the messages don't support claims that the science of global warming was faked, according to an exhaustive review by the Associated Press.

Notice that all the Mainstream Media Stories mindlessly repeat the line that the emails were "Stolen."  That's a subtle ad hominem attack to try to discredit the source.  When the media print information that really is stolen--for example the Pentagon Papers--they don't bother to mention it. 

But are you going to fall for the spin that the emails were “stolen” or “hacked”?  

Notice that there are no personal emails?  There are no Nigerian scams, no reminders to pick up milk on the way home, no flight confirmations, birthday announcements or notices of leftover retirement party cake in the second floor conference room. 

If someone stole your emails from the last 10 years, what would they get?  Do you even have emails from the last 10 years?

No. This data was carefully compiled by an employee who had complete access to all files over a long period of time.  The documents appear to be carefully screened and frankly look like they were prepared in response to a freedom of information request.

That shouldn’t be surprising, we know that the CRU had received multiple freedom of information requests and tha CRU Director Phil Jones eventually responded by asking his fellow "scientists" to delete their email files.  However it’s likely that at one point, one of the agencies at least attempted to comply with the request and then someone looked at the entire package and decided not to release it.  At that point, a whistle blower sent the entire bundle to the BBC—which unsurprisingly for the MSM--decided that it wasn’t a story. 

Then someone posted the entire package on the web...and now the researchers and their MSM enablers cry fowl and claim that they are victims.

 Refusal to comply with the initial Freedom of Information Request was a crime.  The release was not illegal.  It was the cover up that was illegal.  The emails were not “hacked” or “stolen.”

Not that you will ever read that in the Corporate Status Quo media.

Comments

[RonJ]

"Who are you going to believe," the cheating husband said to his wife when she found him in bed with another woman, "me or your lying eyes?"

[Nick]

What’s going on? CRU takes down Briffa Tree Ring Data and more.

Odd things are going on at the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia.

Widely available data, existing in the public view for years, is now disappearing from public view.

For example this link to Keith Briffa’s Yamal data:
http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/people/briffa/yamal2009/
Now redirects to a generic page of UEA.

Breaking: Copenhagen climate summit negotiations ’suspended’
From the BBC, apparently Copenhagen is falling apart:

Lots of new cold and snow records in the USA this past week.
From the “weather is not climate” department. 815 new snowfall records, 304 low temperature, and 403 lowest max temperature records were set this week.

[Mesa Econoguy]

Seth Borenstein, the high school dropout AP “journalist” who co-authored the “exhaustive review” of the East Anglia emails cited by Greg above, is mentioned in those very emails, because he was tight with the “scientists” in question:

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/12/12/aps-seth-borenstein-is-just-too-damn-cozy-with-the-people-he-covers-time-for-ap-to-do-somethig-about-it/

Kevin, Gavin, Mike,
It’s Seth again. Attached is a paper in JGR today that
Marc Morano is hyping wildly. It’s in a legit journal. Whatchya think?
Seth
Seth Borenstein
Associated Press Science Writer
[7]sborenstein@xxxxxxxxx.xxx

This should disabuse the 15 highly gullible but otherwise sane people left in this country who still believe in “objective” journalism of that foolish and absurdly inaccurate delusion.

[JT]

A Global Warming Sucker is Born Every Minute

What do P.T. Barnum, Bernie Madoff, and Phil Jones have in common? All three knew that a sucker is born every minute and each knew exactly how to take advantage of them for their own personal gain.

http://www.liberaldrivel.com/

[nick]

Gore gets caught in a factual fabrication at Copenhagen.

From the “Inconvenient Truths” department, the Times is reporting that Gore got called out for saying older figures on Arctic sea ice as “fresh” when they were not, and misrepresenting what the scientist actually said. This latest gaff makes three in a row for Mr. Gore, who recently made bizarre claims of the leaked CRU emails being “10 years old”, when there were many, many in the last decade, some in the last month. Gore also recently stated on national television recently that the Earth’s mantle was “several million degrees”, making it likely hotter than our sun.