Quadrant Online
Gone are apolitical scientists who once told the whole story. In their
place are activists who distort, omit crucial facts, cherry-pick and
torment data contrary to common science ethics. I was initially prepared
to write it off as incompetence, but we’ve seen so much of it, time and
time again, not to grasp that some darker influence must be at work.
The Climategate emails pulled back the curtain on a cabal of scientists
who “hide the decline”; select a small subset of, in one infamous
instance, tree ring-data that supports their claim while ignoring a
broader base of survey findings; conspire to have scientific journals’
editors sacked, and discuss how to stall and stymie perfectly legal
Freedom of Information requests. As those emails showed, the climate
cabal even expressed joy over the death of a persistent critic."
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