Earlier this month, someone, appearantly from Russia, hacked into the e-mail server of the Climate Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia and stole hundreds, perhaps thousands of e-mails dating back as far as 1996, and made a file out of them on his own server in Russia. The hacker then passed those emails to global warming denialists, who then made them public. Hacking into private computer files and stealing the items within them is a crime, and thus the e-mails obtained would not be admissible in any American court of law, for that would be rewarding illegal behavior (Not even the police or the FBI could legally do such a thing without a warrant or a subpoena, let alone any private citizens.). Then denialists picked through the e-mails and cherry-picked a few out of context passages to try to “prove” that the entire man-made global warming hypothesis (MMGWH) was a fraud.
Monthly Archives: November 2009
Could Isaac Newton be discredited?
Here are some little known and damaging facts about the scientist who supposedly discovered the law of gravity, among other achievements.
How (I think) the corporate dominated media shaped last year’s Presidental election
At the risk of sounding like a crackpot conspiracy theorist , here is how I think the mainstream media manipulated the election process to make a candidate as much to their liking as possible:
OK, Democrats, the best possible candidates for you are Hilary Clinton and Barack Obama. Ignore all the others, ESPECIALLY Dennis Kucinich. He is too extreme!
Republicans, we want John McCain to be the next President. The others are too weak and we especially don’t want RON PAUL in charge!
Great! The Democrats are fighting, fighting FIGHTING over Obama and Clinton! YAY! Let’s play that up for all it’s worth, to make the Republicans look stronger.
Finally, Obama has won the Democratic nomination. And McCain has won on the Republican side. Maybe we can get a WOMAN on the Republican ticket to attract some of the Hilary supporters and ensure McCain’s victory. Here’s Sarah Palin! Obama has picked a white guy to be HIS running mate. Ho hum….
Damn! Obama WON. No matter, once he takes office, we can whip up the opposition to him as much as possible to give him a hard time. Then he will NEVER threaten our interests.
An excellent proof that global warming today is man-made
One of the expected proofs of the man-made global warming hypothesis is that, because carbon dioxide (CO2) is lower in the atmosphere, the increased amounts of it will result in the lowest level of the atmosphere warming and the higher levels cooling. If most of the recent warming was due to the Sun, we would expect all levels of the atmosphere to warm equally.
Damning evidence of fraud by Nils Axel-Morner
Nils Axel-Morner is a global warming denialist who has claimed that sea-level rises predicted by supporters of global warming are not happening and even that sea levels were higher in the historical past.
First, check out this blog entry from Tim Lambert:
http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2009/11/the_australians_war_on_science_42.php
Growing Earth nonsense
Neal Adams, a comic book artist, has claimed that the Earth and other solid bodies have grown in the past, based on how certain areas can be fit together by “shrinking”.
Accusing Al Gore of hypocrisy
Take a look at this paper:
http://icecap.us/images/uploads/OCregGoreHypocrisy051609.pdf
Comparing apples with oranges in climate denialism
World Climate Report is one of those blogs that is dedicated to global warming denialism. Here is a recent entry there:
http://www.worldclimatereport.com/index.php/2009/10/20/baffling-island/
A flawed and misleading video about global warming
This is a video made by the Cassiopeia Project, an web based institution made to teach science to the masses via creative videos. This particular one tackles the global warming issue:
Dale Husband's Intellectual Rants 