By Paul Chesser on 11.20.09 @ 5:29PM
What made the ACORN-exposing work of James O'Keefe and Hannah
Giles so sensational was that they successfully infiltrated the
habitats of the subjects they investigated, and observed their
normal -- for them -- behaviors.
What made the
ACORN-exposing work of
James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles so sensational was that they
successfully infiltrated the habitats of the subjects they
investigated, and observed their routine behaviors. They didn't
have to coerce or pressure the ACORN office workers to say or do
things they did not want to do. It wasn't "60 Minutes," but it
reflected the new paradigm under cable TV news and Web rules.
James and Hannah were like computer hackers walking in the front
door and literally being given what they wanted.
So now an actual hacker -- or an insider -- has exposed something
similar in the global warming activism realm: scientists at the
University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit (regarded as
Britain's top authority) caught in behaviors they would never
want the outside world to see. Marc Morano at Climate Depot is developing
the link archive and Australian reporter Andrew Bolt
is harvesting revelatory remarks from emails and documents,
as he explains:
So the 1079 emails and 72 documents seem indeed evidence of
a scandal involving most of the most prominent scientists
pushing the man-made warming theory - a scandal that is one of
the greatest in modern science. I’ve been adding some of the
most astonishing in updates below - emails suggesting
conspiracy, collusion in exaggerating warming data, possibly
illegal destruction of embarrassing information, organised
resistance to disclosure, manipulation of data, private
admissions of flaws in their public claims and much more. If it
is as it now seems, never again will “peer review” be used to
shout down sceptics.
This is clearly not the work of some hacker, but of an
insider who’s now blown the whistle.
The clogosphere (climate blogs) is awash in this story (again,
see Climate Depot). Even if this isn't your issue, you ought to
at least spend a little time this weekend (all us
politico-infojunkies still get our fixes on Saturdays, right?)
perusing what Bolt has unearthed. Amazing stuff which Chris
Horner
says could be alarmism's "blue dress moment." As Bolt notes,
it's not just the East Anglians -- it's the foremost global
warmer scientists from all over, caught. Wow.
topics:
Global Warming, Environmentalism, Climate Change
