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Green Activist Call E-Mails A ‘Major Blow’


By K. Daniel Glover  |  November 24, 2009


British writer and environmental activist George Monbiot yesterday acknowledged that troubling comments within the hacked e-mails of some climate scientists are a "major blow" to the quest to convince people that man is responsible for global warming.

Monbiot, a columnist for The Guardian, wrote at his blog that he is "dismayed and deeply shaken" by the e-mails. He also called for the resignation of the head of the climate research unit that was hacked:

Yes, the messages were obtained illegally. Yes, all of us say things in e-mails that would be excruciating if made public. Yes, some of the comments have been taken out of context. But there are some messages that require no spin to make them look bad. There appears to be evidence here of attempts to prevent scientific data from being released, and even to destroy material that was subject to a freedom-of-information request.

Worse still, some of the e-mails suggest efforts to prevent the publication of work by climate sceptics, or to keep it out of a report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. I believe that the head of the unit, Phil Jones, should now resign. Some of the data discussed in the e-mails should be re-analyzed.

Monbiot rejected the argument that the e-mails completey undermine the science underpinning global warming theory. He also couldn't resist the urge to take a satiric shot at critics of that theory by penning an imagined "damning e-mail which confirms that the entire science of global warming is indeed a scam."

But kudos to him for admitting that the scandal is at least a bit scandalous. That is one huge step farther than New York Times environmental reporter Andrew Rivkin has been willing to travel.


K. Daniel Glover is the online communications strategist for AIM for Accuracy In Media. He has worked as an editor, writer and new media specialist in the Washington area since 1991, spending most of that time at National Journal and Congressional Quarterly.


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ucm4u
November 24  at  4:54 pm  |  #1  |  Link

Finally…the proof.  Most of us with half a brain have known all along.  Now that the truth is out can we put this topic to bed…for good?

jossch
November 26  at  12:06 am  |  #2  |  Link

This liberal crap is like most, one huge LIE ! The truth will barely see the light and the Media will refuse to cover this story.

Kenneth Tremble
November 26  at  3:00 am  |  #3  |  Link

I have said it before and I am saying it again, Global Warming is NOT caused by human beings but by the SUN. When the SUN is in each hemisphere it is felt in parts of it. So Australia has planted over one million trees. If every country did this it would be not a religion with Al Gore as its high priest.

kim
November 26  at  11:43 am  |  #4  |  Link

Why wait for proof from man? G-d says the day and nite and the seasons never change? He also said he was coming to destroy the enemies of Israel and those who destroy the earth,like shooting DDT into the moon and many other things that have NOTHING to do with the G-d given oil..When is the US and the world going to stop listening to men istead of G-d,,men never saved anyone and G-d warned as our Forefathers that when the people reject Him that HE would send jihad as locaust..no one is to blame but POEPLE..they need to humble themselves and turn to G-d and then HE will heal our land..Al Gore lied about discovering the web, so why believe him now.and G-d said all gov are ran by the god of this world.

Kenneth Tremble
November 27  at  12:54 am  |  #5  |  Link

I have read that house of Al Gore puts out more Carbon Emissions in a month than his surrounding neighborhood does in a year. He travels everywhere by jet plane which is the worst Carbon Emitter of all. Basically he is saying, Don’t do as I do, do what I say.

C. Roy
November 27  at  6:40 am  |  #6  |  Link

Notice the deafening silence from the liberal smart-asses?

Wesley in Dallas
November 28  at  9:47 am  |  #7  |  Link

And to think, Obama is due to sign the Kyoto Treaty on Global Warming. Bush refused to sign it two times in two terms…Good for him!

I believe scientists have said that the Earth and the Sun orbit closer every 27 years, and lasts for 7 to 10 years. Also, you have to take El Nino and La Nina into account, those jet streams alternate controlling how far south a cool or cold front can move, and how far north a warm or tropical front can move northward.

In large cities, the Ethanol content percentage has risen from 20% to 30% during Summer Months, cities with fewer than 350,000 people had no ethanol additives, now all fuel has the additive, but only at 10% in Winter and 20% in Summer.

If you have been to L.A. recently, where Ethanol is at 40% during the Summer, the smog has turned Yellow. That is due to high ethanol content, and scientist have also found the Ethanol causes cancer, upper respiratory problems, emphysema, and other health ailments.

The older G-5 Jets such as what Al Bore uses, compared to the new G550’s, produces 40% less pollution and get horrible mileage.

Big Al has made a fortune off the so-called Global Warming, he created the Carbon Credits, which he says he uses for all the Power his huge house uses, the SUV’s he owns, and the fuel for the G-5 jet. He is a modern day scam artist. Still talks about the decline of the Polar Bears in the Arctic. I do not know where he gets his information, since they have determined that there are three times the number of Polar Bears in the Arctic now than ever before.

So, if the Cap and Trade (The Climate Bill) was to pass the senate, our utility bills would increase (as Obama put it) up to 80% to 90%, all Coal would be banned (including Clean Burning Coal) no more Coal Oil which heat all of the norther U.S., all utilities would increase. On top of that, there will be required standards on Automobiles and Homes, thus forcing people to spend tens of thousands of dollars to increase insulating your home, up to demanding the argon gas, double pane glass windows.

And we all have known all along, that all this was a scam. Mt. St. Helens volcano eruption put more Co2, sulfur, and other gases into the atmosphere than all the man made carbons used since the iron age. What a crock!

FRAUDCOP
November 28  at  5:48 pm  |  #8  |  Link

Watch to see if the liberals try to spin this story that the hacking of the e mails and revealing the truth is a bigger issue than the hoax of global warming.

Diane
November 29  at  4:26 am  |  #9  |  Link

I was thinking this past week about all the damage that The Liberal Green Giant has done inside this country !  I was not only thinking about the tremendous amount of money that has been wasted on this huge scam; but also about all of the little children all across America who were scared out of their wits by Al Gore’s lies and movies inside the govt school classrooms !  I know of some children who were actually going home and having terrible nightmares afterwards about the world falling apart.  And some kids were also being given bad grades by some teachers if they did not believe in global warming.  In fact, I was talking with some parents this past Sept who were called to school by a teacher who was all upset because their little girl refused to write a paper about the ways that global warming was affecting the earth, and what she could do to help change that!
 
I can also remember seeing that video of Al Gore on Fox News last year in which he was instructing the kids inside a classroom NOT to listen to their parents, if their parents did not believe in global warming, because HE was the expert and because HE knew better !  Can you imagine ?  A small camera was sent to school with a child by her father last year who wanted to see just what Al Gore was saying to the kids, and then the father shared the video with Fox News. Al Gore had no clue that his presentation was being filmed by a young student. So now that the truth has finally been exposed ; where is AL ? Is he in hiding ?  If not, he should be !

Wesley in Dallas
November 29  at  11:36 am  |  #10  |  Link

The only thing Al Bore is an expert on is how to make hundreds of Millions off is one of the largest scams this nation has ever seen.

In light of this exposed un-truth, Crap and Tax should never be allowed to come up for a vote. Seems we no longer need a Climate Bill, which would cripple us in utility Bills. Even a bigger scam than Obama’s Jobs Created and Saved on http://www.recovery.gov, just more in a long string of lies.

Wesley in Dallas
November 29  at  11:52 am  |  #11  |  Link

Until today, despite repeated requests, the UNFCCC had refused to acknowledge whether Corsi, a two-time No. 1 New York Times bestselling author, will be permitted to attend the meetings that have been hailed by organizers as a major step forward in “global governance.”

The first president of the European Union, Herman Van Rompuy, affirmed in a speech captured by the BBC his belief that “2009 is the first year of global governance with the establishment of the G20 in the middle of the financial crisis. The climate conference in Copenhagen is another step toward the global management of our planet.”

Lord Christopher Monckton, a former science adviser to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, asserts the real purpose of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen Dec. 7-18 is to use concern over “global warming” as a pretext to lay the foundation for a one-world government.

At the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen “this December, weeks away, a treaty will be signed,” Monckton told a Minnesota Free Market Institute audience at Bethel University in St. Paul.

Monckton warned that President Obama supports the idea and is ready to sign on the dotted line.

“Your president will sign it,” he said. “Most of the Third World countries will sign it, because they think they’re going to get money out of it. Most of the left-wing regimes from the European Union will rubber-stamp it. Virtually nobody won’t sign it. I read that treaty and what it says is this: that a world government is going to be created. The word ‘government’ actually appears as the first of three purposes of the new entity.”

He has warned the proposal would cede U.S. sovereignty, mandate a massive wealth transfer from the United States to pay reparations for “climate debt” to Third World countries and create a new “world government” to enforce the treaty’s provisions.

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