Climategate: Gates that are not gates (Commentary)

if nixon's guys broke into a building that did not end in -gate, what would be using?

@tommic: I notice that neither you nor any of the others congratulating this writer are dealing with all the actual emails I posted above. What are you afraid of?

Wouldn't it be really, really good if our planet is not doomed? Wouldn't it be wonderful if we found that the warming that had occurred wasn't our fault? If they have--as the actual emails from the actual scientists posted above prove--been militating against having their work reviewed by deleting it instead of responding to legal FOIA requests, would you still want to defend them?

Please note: The UEA is a public institution; their work was paid for by grants from multiple governments, their work was the basis upon with the UN IPCC report was built, and they and their "scientist" defenders act as if they have all rights to privacy. If it was the Bush Administration accused of deleting data and emails, how would you have responded?

First you engage in a vitriolic attack on me and accuse me of things I did not say. Then you admit that I did not say them and continue on with your vitriol. At no point did I take issue with anything you cited as having happened. Your anger is misdirected.

Here's to your free speech!

Samthsixth, you didn't claim anything but your postings indicate that you do not beieve in climate change and those things I listed Have happened. It does not matter what you say because they are true. Now I am done even responding to your idiotic postings Bye forever moron

Damn I thought this was a post saying she had done Playboy. Thats all the news i ever want to hear about her.

Falsifying data, twisting facts, to fit an opinion or objective is nothing new for scientific researchers. Throw in millions , if not billions of $'s and anyone can be bought. If Global Warming is fact and caused by mankind the damage caused by these nitwits is incalulable. However, if human caused Global Warming is not real then the hacker finding these e-mails should get both Obama's and Gore's Nobel prize.

I will now quote the top UN IPCC Japanese Scientist Dr. Kiminori Itoh, and his statements from June 2008, long before Climategate, that warming fears: are the "worst scientific scandal in the history’. Dr. Itoh, is an award-winning PhD environmental physical chemist who specializes in optical waveguide spectroscopy from the Yokohama National University,

He writes of “inaccurate temperature measurements,” including chapters that call man-made global warming fears “the worst scientific scandal in the history.”

“I also cited the opinions of Dr. Akasofu (Professor Emeritus, University of Alaska) in the last part of the book. He sincerely advises us‚ ‘When people come to know what the truth is, they will feel deceived by science and scientists’. . . I sincerely think he is correct,” Itoh wrote.

So it went from all media television outlets, save for Russian Times and Fox News, completely ignoring the controversy, hoping people would just lose interest,

To having a few half baked commentators like Bill Nye the Science Guy and Al Gore trying to say that there is nothing substancial in the e-mails, despite CRU East Anglia having to step down because of the science fudging controversy,

To now commetators complaining about partisan politics and sensationalism, yet featuring a blog post with the most sensational and polarizing politian today: Sarah Palin and continuing to say "move along, nothing to see here."

she is such an idiot

Samthesixth, how bout dealing with all the lies, disinformation, and obsfucation that people like you spew forth. I guess glaciers aren't melting, Pine Island glacier in Antartica isn't losing sixteen meters a year in depth or the gulf stream isn't slowing down. I suppose the release of methane gas in Siberia and Alaska is not happening either. The oceans didn't warm up 1 degree on average worldwide in the last two years. People like you need to do nothing your beyond help

The First Global Revolution of the Club of Rome
- “The First Global Revolution” (1991) published by the Club of Rome.

“It would seem that men and women need a common motivation, namely a common adversary, to organize and act together in the vacuum such as motivation seemed to have ceased to exist or have yet to be found. The need for enemies seems to be a common historical factor…Bring the divided nation together to face an outside enemy, either a real one or else one INVENTED for the purpose…

Democracy will be made to seem responsible for the lagging economy, the scarcity and uncertainties. The very concept of democracy could then be brought into question and allow for the seizure of power.

In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill. The real enemy [of the elites and their minions] then is humanity itself.”

AL GORE LIED!!!!

In addition to education, modern propaganda must build on societies need for safety, security, and community. It must exploit human weaknesses in a comprehensive, total, and unyielding manner through all available channels. This is accomplished by inundating individuals with constant propaganda such as the news, youtube, magazines, and teachers.ons. As previously mentioned, the large media outlets refuse to provide dissenting opinion. The UN now has its own youtube channel called “Raise your voice and change climate change.” The cover of the Economist on newsstands today reads “Stopping Climate Change,” and every news article I read uses the word “consensus.”

The end effect of this organized media blitz is to focus the public on one event, climate change, to the exclusion of all the rest. The ability to set the public agenda and determine social perceptions is a powerful tool in social psychology. For it is clear that when individuals are faced with large social opposition or view themselves as out of the norm, individuals typically move towards the mean. The mean in this case is fascism and socialism.

Let’s review a few recent headlines. Yesterday in Columbia, Missouri notebooks were being given to students with Obama’s slogan and campaign picture on the front. Children have been videotaped literally signing President Obama’s praises and the University of Minnesota is discussing how to best reindoctrinate “biased” individuals. Today, there is news about Obama’s education czar’s educating children with “black books” which included discussions of grotesque sexual acts.

Around the world, educational systems, beginning in elementary school, are organized to promote social change. In some instances, children can now attend public schools such as The Little Village Lawndale High School in Chicago and focus exclusively on social justice classes. To highlight the calculated attempt to indoctrinate our youth, in March 2009 the United States Congress passed the Generations Invigorating Volunteerism and Education Act (GIVE). Under section 6104 of the bill, entitled “Duties,” the legislation states “Whether a workable, fair, and reasonable mandatory service requirement for all able young people could be developed, and how such a requirement could be implemented in a manner that would strengthen the social fabric of the Nation and overcome civic challenges by bringing together people from diverse economic, ethnic, and educational backgrounds.”

Despite the role of the media, our most pernicious enemy is found in the classroom. The first goal of modern propaganda is to develop conditioned reflexes through education and social dialogue. Jacques Ellul describes the role of education as “pre-propaganda.” Thus, it is no accident that climate change, social justice, and sex education are taught to young students, while there is no religious acceptance or comprehensive discussion of the principles of liberty and freedom.

Al gore lied!!! Most people believe propaganda is just “lies” or “tall stories” that influence the weak and feeble minded. However, modern propaganda is a sophisticated and calculating machine that invades every aspect of our lives. The formidable author Jacques Ellul in his expansive work on the subject describes this process as designed to create proselytes and militants rather than wise or reasonable men. In support of Ellul, a judge in Britain recently ruled that Tim Nicholson’s climate views “a belief in man-made climate change … is capable, if genuinely held, of being a philosophical belief for the purpose of the 2003 Religion and Belief Regulations.” Now environment organizations and fanatics such as Greenpeace can literally join the religiously deluded.

Climategate, what a joke this is. Non believers in climate change now claim its all based on missinformation. How about all the lies, denial and disinformation the people who don't believe in climate change have spewed forth over the years. This whole scandal is just BS

But in college we were never allowed to use TIME to prove anything due to the fact that it's all opinion and owned by Time Warner (CNN) who has political interest in these topics.

The only knowledge Sarah Palin has of global warming is to see the ice melt in her ice tea.

it is a scandal. it is always the little lie for everyones best interest and with the best of intentions. take the high road and say; that was fucked up, what's next.

The kicker is, the more they do it the more people see through it and are turned off and go find the news on the internet. It's like Republicans trying to convince the world they are for real.

Why won't Al Gore debate Lord Monckton? Or anybody else?

Great commentary, agreed completely.

You wrote: "Case in point: Today the Washington Post let Sarah Palin publish an Op-Ed in its newspaper. I'm not going to do them the courtesy of linking to it. (Here's a good point-by-point rejoinder from the Atlantic though: http://politics.theatlantic.com/2009/12/palins_boycott_copenhagen_op-ed_annotate..."

So you won't link Palin's Op Ed but you link the rebuttal? LOL. How well you exemplify the hostile bias you complain about.

I read no further. Not because you might or might not have a point, but like you said, one gets sick of trying to digest the kind of slop written by people ruled by their agenda.

I wish the warmers could learn from their past mistakes and think things out before they act, most of the warmers dont have a clue what the cap n trade scheme is about. Remember Ethanol and how it was going to save us from global warming, well how many people do you think died of starvation because we were putting food in our gas tanks. Is there anyone that works at current that isnt biased and can offer a balanced report about the current global warming crap?

It deserves the "gate" suffix in that Watergate was a controversy because some idiots got caught breaking in and trying to steal information that could use to defame their opponents. With this e-mail thing, similarly some idiots broke in and stole some information for the purposes of defamation, only we call it "hacking" in this instance.
It's not the use of "gate" that's wrong, it's the focus of the news. It should be only on these criminals, the idiots who illegally gained this information, the fact that the purpose of that was ONLY to defame, and the fact that it doesn't.

sarah palin is RETARDED

i'm sick of ppl tacking "gate" on the end of a word in order to try and manufacture buzz. (usually faux entertainment and the rest of the MSM)

Not to mention the E-Mails in question were from ten years ago and it was two scientist arguing back and forth about judging tree rings and some other scientific way of interpreting climate change. BIG DEAL, but as usual the na sayers grab hold of anything like the Oil company payed scientist disclaiming global warning for financial reasons. I can only imagine these very same type of people saying so what when Pompay started rumbling.

Very nicely put.

Tigergate has been used btw. Any news story gets gate added to it for some reason.

haha, great post...and so true!

people are so freakin' quick to throw a "-gate" around to promote a scandal...it's just too easy and too overdone.

has anyone used "Tigergate" yet? if not, then it's mine and no one can use it :)