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DeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: Climate contrarians spinning hard with stolen email files
Grist - the Latest from Grist: Skeptics claim global warming is fake after top scientists’ emails hacked at CRU
Climate Progress: Watergate Redux: Break-ins Reported at Another Top Climate Research Center
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@Sunfire2109 The links off this might lead somewhere. http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2009/11/20/climategate/ 11/29/2009 |
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Climate supports climate scientist conspiracy: http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2009/11/20/climategate/ 11/26/2009 |
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RT @drgrist: Hacked Emails Reveal Global Warming Deniers Are Crazed Conspiracy Theorists http://bit.ly/4WTeLg #climate #capandtax 11/25/2009 |
Climate contrarians spinning hard with stolen email files
DeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science —
... of work.
I have been going through all the files today and I hate to disappoint but it just ain't the scandal everyone wants it to be.
These emails are blissfully being spun by the climate contrarians as proof of some type of worldwide conspiracy by scientists to fake the climate change crisis. Michelle Malkin, who relishes Ann Coulter-esque statements goes so far as to say that call it "the global warming scandal of the century.”
Right.
As Brad Johnson writes, it's more likely proof that climate deniers are the crazed conspiracy ...
Skeptics claim global warming is fake after top scientists’ emails hacked at CRU
Grist - the Latest from Grist —
... , are jumping on the (illegal) hacking to claim that global warming is a hoax, full of fudged data and dishonest, conspiratorial scientists. It’s “ ...
Climategate in Perspective, Featuring Isaac Newton
DeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science —
... They wasted no time declaring global warming a vast science-wing conspiracy, orchestrated by a powerful handful of white-coats who, when not publishing in reputable peer-reviewed science journals, were (gasp) emailing each other to talk shop and vent about climate skeptic ...
SuperFreak Dubner embraces ClimateGate conspiracy theories
Grist - the Latest from Grist —
... (R-Okla.), and other global warming deniers in an interview with Fox Business Network host David Asman. Dubner purports that the hacked University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit emails reveal that the supposed “consensus” on global warming is because ...
Swiftboating Climate Science (aka. climategate) - what you need to know
DeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science —
... the right-wing propaganda network, this story immediately popped up in all of the familiar spots: industry-funded conservative think tanks, conservative and global warming denier blogs, talk radio blowhards, the Drudge Report and Glenn Beck / Fox News. When all of these folks latch onto a story with such force, it is a good indication that the story is false (see: the Van Jones smearing and the $1761 clean energy bill lie).
Brad Johnson at The Wonk Room has a good early roundup of denier reactions.
Marc Morano, who ...
The oily echo machine behind "climategate"
DeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science —
... The most vocal organizations around the University of East Anglia hacked email story (aka. "climategate") have been involved in a decade-plus campaign to delay action on climate change. ...
Watergate redux: Break-ins reported at another top climate research center
Grist - the Latest from Grist —
... Watergate hotel. Photo: NARATwo weeks ago, thousands of illegally hacked emails from a British climate research center were dumped on a Russian ...
Breaking: Impersonators attempt to access Canadian government Centre fo Climate Modeling and Analysis
DeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science —
... On the heels of the controversial story about emails and data stolen by hackers from the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, it has now been revealed that individuals posing as network technicians attempted to infiltrate another climate data center operated by the Government of Canada. ...
Watergate Redux: Break-ins Reported at Another Top Climate Research Center
Climate Progress —
... Two weeks ago, thousands of illegally hacked emails from a British climate research center were dumped on a Russian webserver, timed to influence the politics of of the international climate negotiations commencing next week in Copenhagen, Denmark. Beginning Thanksgiving week, conservative media and Republican politicians have compared the climate scientists whose private emails were hacked to ...
U.S. conservative’s definition of ‘fascism’: Defending climate science from Exxon-Mobil corruption
Climate Progress —
... Joining the Climategate swiftboating campaign against climate science, conservative pollster Scott Rasmussen has accused scientists of falsifying data about global warming — an incendiary charge. In the most recent of his instapolls designed to reinforce conservative talking points, Rasmussen finds that “[f]ifty-nine percent (59%) of Americans say it’s at least somewhat likely that some scientists have falsified research data to support their own theories and beliefs about global warming. Thirty-five percent (35%) say it’s Very Likely. Just 26% say it’s not very or not at ...
A case of classic Swift-Boating: How the right-wing noise machine manufactured “Climategate”
Climate Progress —
... In mid-November, thousands of emails from the University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit webmail server — a top climate research center in the United Kingdom — were hacked and dumped on a Russian web server. Polluter-funded climate skeptics, along with their allies in conservative media and the Republican Party, sifted through the e-mails, and quickly cherry picked quotes to falsely accuse climate scientists of concocting climate change science out of whole cloth. The skeptics also propelled the story, dubbed “ ...
