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ClimateGate Is Watergate Redux
Some environmental leaders have been working to minimize the scandal of ClimateGate, by focusing on the fact the hacked email archive of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit has nothing, besides a few cherry picked quotes taken out of context, that casts a shadow of a doubt upon validity of modern climate science. They are wrong. ClimateGate is a huge scandal, probably bigger than they even imagine.
The real scandal is not the email archive, or even how it was acquired, sorted, and uploaded to a Russian server, but rather the emerging evidence of a coordinated international campaign to target and harass climate scientists, break and enter into government climate labs, and misrepresent climate science through a sophisticated media infrastructure on the eve of the international climate talks.
One leaked archive could have been the result of an aggrieved staff member or rogue hacker, out to grind a political axe or wreak revenge upon a colleague. However, the University of Victoria was targeted in a similar attack, when two people disguised as network computer technicians attempted to penetrate the security of the facility and access the data servers of the Canadian Centre for Climate Modeling and Analysis. When challenged by an employee, the two individuals fled the scene. The network penetration effort was confirmed by University spokespeople in the National Post and was reported by Kevin Grandia of DeSmogBlog.
"This is disturbing news and it shows that there is an organized criminal campaign that is going to great lengths to infiltrate secure facilities and steal private data," said Jim Hoggan, author of the new book Climate Cover-Up: The Crusade to Deny Global Warming. "We don't know who is behind these criminal acts, but we hope they will eventually be unmasked by police."
This campaign has been proved to be international in scope, with criminal acts of breaking and entering probable in both the UK and Canada, as well as coordinated with the sophisticated communications infrastructure founded and built by former tobacco lobbyists that were hired by fossil fuel interests, such as ExxonMobil, to cast doubt on the links between the sale and use of fossil fuels and the changing of the world's climate. This infrastructure was detailed by within Hoggan's book, as well as documented in extensive detail by projects like Exxonsecrets.org.
One major mistake these groups, including ClimateDepot and Newsbusters, made was in labeling this manufactured crisis as ClimateGate. Perhaps a little history is in order, as almost no news reports even referenced the fact that the Watergate scandal centered around the breaking and entering of the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate hotel, by a group of right-wing shadow operatives that a subsequent investigation by the FBI connected to the 1972 Committee to Re-elect the President, CREEP.
President Nixon was exposed as having commissioned the break-in, to uncover the state of the Democratic party, as he had given into fears of electoral defeat and resorted to desperate and criminal measures. Pioneering reporters Woodward and Bernstein made history for exposing the criminal conspiracy at the heart of the White House.
Conspiracy theory has recently become mainstream within the conservative movement in the United States, with both media figures and politicians implying that President Obama falsified his birth records, is setting up death panels to euthanize seniors, or impose communism upon the people of the United States.
The two policy issues that have aroused the most conspiracy theory have been Healthcare reform and Clean Energy Reform, with hugely profitable insurance and fossil fuel companies funding massive lobbying and disinformation campaigns. The Center for Public Integrity recently detailed the massive expansion in lobbying by polluting energy interests, leading to over 1,150 lobbying groups buying influence as the U.S. Congress sought to pass the Waxman-Markey climate bill.
The actual dollar amount spent is unknown, as disclosure laws require few details and have huge loopholes, but the Center calculated that an extremely conservative estimate would give you a minimum figure of more than $27 million dollars spent in direct lobbying from April to June of this year. In a major and still unfolding scandal, Bonner and Associates, an astroturf lobbying organization contracted to the coal industry's trade association, falsified letters to lawmakers from local civil rights, veterans, and other groups opposing federal climate legislation. This comes on top of the documented campaign of industrial espionage against environmental organizations, including Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace, that was exposed last year by Mother Jones magazine.
The picture painted by these facts lead to the open question to if, as huge amounts of corporate money started being spent in unregulated funds, including to ethically compromised contractors and security firms, to defeat federal and international climate regulations, some of that money was diverted to fund a criminal conspiracy?
Could there be a criminal campaign to break into the climate research centers of foreign governments, review their archives for damaging snippets of text, and then elevate a fringe conspiracy theory that climate change is a hoax by the world's scientists, civil society organizations, and governments to impose socialism upon the people of the world? If so, this story would be an eerie and ironic echo of Michael Crichton's "State of Fear" that was embraced by many of the same groups currently promoting the ClimateGate talking points.
However, most journalists seem content to play into the false balance trap that has served the opponents of climate action so well over the years, by looking only at cherry-picked quotes and disinformation turned out by the climate denial industry. While the surface parallels between Watergate and ClimateGate may be strong, to uncover the truth will require a serious investigation by media, law enforcement, or even international security organizations.
An investigation into who is coordinating, funding, and leading a last-ditch effort to stall climate legislation through the use of criminal tactics and a well-funded and coordinated disinformation campaign seems to be beyond the capacity of the field of journalism. An industry so critically wounded by budget and staffing cuts that it is perhaps unable or unwilling to spend the resources or staff time to tackle serious investigative issues, even if the direction of a policy critical to the future development of the global economy depends on the outcome.
If so, the question remains, who will get to the bottom of ClimateGate? This could be a scandal bigger than anybody has imagined.
43 Comments so far
Show AllWill the denialists read even through the first paragraph before they start filling the comments section with their copypaste twaddle?
The hacked e-mails and the attempt to do the same to the UVic shows that there is a concerted effort by Corporations and their lapdogs in government to do anything to insure their short-term profits.
They care nothing for the survival of humanity.
They have shown they are willing to play hardball, break any law, do whatever it takes to make sure they win. They will turn on their own populace to silence dissent.
No serious police investigation will be made a to who committed these acts, for the simple reason the trail would lead right back to the PTB, the governments and Corporations. Therefore, no police investigation beyond a token effort will be made.
We have seen the enemy. Make no mistake that they consider the bulk of humanity to be expendable.
It's time to start fighting back.
[No serious police investigation will be made]
Just as no serious climate deal will be made, the west will use Copenhagen as a way of re-instituting some form of colonial rule over the poorer nations. Somehow, I don't think we'll be fighting back against the corporations; mother nature is another story tho...
"No serious police investigation will be made "
What about the investigation of the hacking incident promised by UEA? Do you think that will be "serious"?
Will it be a police investigation that will carry legal penalties? 'Serious' in my book means you do prison time for espionage.
I meant the University's own investigation of Phil Jones and the content of the emails in question, and whether there is any fire behind the smoke. Is to include data not yet publically known:
"http://www.uea.ac.uk/mac/comm"
"/media/press/2009/dec/CRUreview"
They keep moving the page around so here are the key points. Note that Phil Jones is not Director for the time being:
Sir Muir Russell to head the Independent Review into the allegations against the Climatic Research Unit (CRU)
Thu, 3 Dec 2009
Today the University of East Anglia (UEA) announced that Sir Muir Russell KCB FRSE will head the Independent Review into allegations made against the Climatic Research Unit (CRU).
The Independent Review will investigate the key allegations that arose from a series of hacked e-mails from CRU. The review will:
1. Examine the hacked e-mail exchanges, other relevant e-mail exchanges and any other information held at CRU to determine whether there is any evidence of the manipulation or suppression of data which is at odds with acceptable scientific practice and may therefore call into question any of the research outcomes.
2. Review CRU’s policies and practices for acquiring, assembling, subjecting to peer review and disseminating data and research findings, and their compliance or otherwise with best scientific practice.
3. Review CRU’s compliance or otherwise with the University’s policies and practices regarding requests under the Freedom of Information Act (‘the FOIA’) and the Environmental Information Regulations (‘the EIR’) for the release of data.
4. Review and make recommendations as to the appropriate management, governance and security structures for CRU and the security, integrity and release of the data it holds.
Sir Muir will have the discretion to amend or add to the terms of reference if he feels necessary, devise his own methods of working, and call on appropriate expertise in order to investigate the allegations fully.
The University has asked for the Review to be completed by Spring 2010 and this will be made public along with UEA’s response.
Announcing the Independent Review, Professor Edward Acton, Vice-Chancellor said: “The reputation and integrity of UEA is of the upmost importance to us all. We want these allegations about CRU to be examined fully and independently. That is why I am delighted that Sir Muir has agreed to lead the Independent Review and he will have my and the rest of University’s full support.”
Sir Muir Russell, Head of the Independent Review, said: “I agreed very willingly to Professor Acton’s request to undertake this Independent Review. Given the nature of the allegations it is right that someone who has no links to either the University or the Climate Science community looks at the evidence and makes recommendations based on what they find. My first task is to scope the project, gather the information I need and source the additional expertise that will be required in order to investigate fully the allegations that have been made. Once this has happened I will be in a position to confirm timescales for publishing the review.”
"However, the University of Victoria was targeted in a similar attack, when two people disguised as network computer technicians attempted to penetrate the security of the facility and access the data servers of the Canadian Centre for Climate Modeling and Analysis. When challenged by an employee, the two individuals fled the scene. The network penetration effort was confirmed by University spokespeople in the National Post and was reported by Kevin Grandia of DeSmogBlog."
I'm glad this is being reported on here, I didn't hear of it before.
gnken
"Start Fighting Back?" Your kidding right? Noone fought back for the stolen election in 2000, or 04, noone is fighting back at the Astro Turf Teabaggers, why would anyone want to fight back at climategate.
K B
The next time a bloviator from the American Enterprise Institute (or other climate change denial organization) appears on a shout-show, he should be challenged to publish the private emails from inside his organization.
Better to focus on the merit of their argument?
Better yet, a quarter ton of fertilizer and 55 gallons of diesel fuel in the sewer vault under 17th and M.
#1, I'm not into violence, so no.
#2, My office is just 3 blocks from there.
I don't know if your comment is a weak attempt at humor, or if it is just over-the-top hyperbole. But I think it is totally inappropriate to advocate terrorist acts of bombing, even in jest. Especially in crowded urban areas.
Now THIS is a conspiracy theory that has facts backing it up.
There are quite a few 'conspiracies' which have mountains of facts to back them up, this one included. In this day and age what I've seen isn't a lack of evidence for what appears to be a corporate conspiracy of multinational scope, but a lack of any apparatus with the will and/or means to contend with it. Governments are driven like stolen cars, with full complicity of the media and courts. Our own Declaration of Independence describes our current situation perfectly, and basically says that if there isn't a 'conspiracy', then for the sake of practicality there may as well be.
"But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism,..."
It is our right (and I'd say our duty) to throw off such shackles. It doesn't matter whether it is an 'open' conspiracy of the sort which ruled the southern U.S. during our own apartheid era, which was a cultural phenomena that allowed for a common understanding and agreement among people in general to commit illegal acts, to use fear and/or violence (terrorism), and every means available to suppress a people (and thought itself) and keep them under oppression. This was a culture of terror, and it was illegal, and fully agreed to by many millions of people. Any criminal activity engaged in by two or more people (with or without explicit planning or execution between members) is the very definition of 'conspiracy'. What bothers me is that so many are so utterly afraid of the word that they'll willfully overlook the facts, and the consistency with which they are occurring.
Practically speaking we are looking at a global conspiracy to use governments to cement the multinational corporation as the overseer of every government on earth, and to set these corporations free to exploit and enslave everyone. It makes no difference whether it is a cultural phenomena or some secret Illuminati society running the show through multinational banks, weakening the nations. Orwell's vision is here and language has been corrupted leaving us without any means of discourse or organization.
More power to the hackers! Watch your backs, "mainstream" scientists and your biased "peer-review" form of censorship! Praise to the Woodward and Bernstein who divulged the information contained in the e-mails! No more hiding behind so-called "objectivity" -- now we know how you bend the truth, how you try to silence your critics, how you have politicized your climate "science." This isn't a scandal that will blow away -- the heat is on, and we'll have to fight for the freedom of non-mainstream scientists to get their voices heard.Long live the hackers!
Thank you for cheering on those who seek to steal every last penny from your pocket, and every last gasp of breath from your lungs.
These 'hackers' were government professionals, quite possibly in the employ of the Russian Secret Service. The e-mails were hacked, parsed and cherry picked for dispersal at exactly the right moment to cripple the Copenhagen Talks. Thsi is not a coincidence.
Idiot.
You are encouraging the very people who will enslave you.
In case you are really concerned, let me assure you that I adamantly oppose anyone who seeks to impoverish me or who wishes to asphyxiate me. In the event that these hackers were government professionals, my reaction is twofold: gratitude that some possibly nefarious operatives exposed some ill-mannered, all-too-human scientists, and confidence that this "scandal" will not impede the search for truth about climate change, for this truth is far some settled, in spite of what some politicians and scientists would like you to believe. I'm not asking that you side with Alexander Cockburn (our nation's best-known leftist journalist, in my opinion), just that you not ignore the massive evidence he provides that contradicts the party-line on global heating.Make up your own mind -- don't let some dumb e-mails frighten you!P.S. I refuse to be enslaved!
th4377
You're already a prisoner.
You're in a prison for your mind. You're in the NeoCon Matrix where delusional "intelligent design" takes the place of basic scientific process of deduction. Nothing I've read changes the fact that the greenland glaciers have lost 10 percent of their mass as documented by NASA satellite imagery. Nothing in these emails changes the fact that the mythical Northwest Passageway straight through the middle of Canada is now wide open for supertankers going from Europe to Asia. Nothing changes the fact that the MSL for pilots is now eight inches higher than it used to be. (for you that mean the ocean is eight inches higher than it was 100 years ago.)
The poles are melting, and you want to pick nits and pretend it's not happening. Tell that to the Islanders in the Marshals and Maldives who now have ocean breakers rolling through their bedrooms every high tide and low pressure system. They lived there for 500 years without waves ripping the islands to shreds. Something's changing with world weather, temperature and sea level. Many twin-engine diesel boats can't run at full power any more in Florida because the water's already 90 degrees and the cooling system can't deal with it.
But, meanwhile, back at the "Rush-the-Druggie" conference, we're in a "cooling trend" because one scientist was joking to another in a email.
If we continue to turn the atmosphere into a trash can, we're going to cause a really helpless and slow-witted species to go extinct: Homo sapiens!
TJ
"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent." - Thomas Jefferson
Right on TJ!
Hmm, you quote a slave-owner as you tell me that I'm a prisoner of my own mind. Aren't we all? And who's to say that you don't live in a Matrix? -- More seriously, who's denying the fact of global warming? (Minor though is has been, thus far, for the vast majority of Earth's population -- which is one of the reasons that events like Copenhagen will accomplish very little (except on paper)).
Well said, TJ. I know it can be quite tiresome replying to certain posts...you know it's futile, but you still have to do it.
This is satire, right? Please tell me that there really aren't people out there so totally unaware of the way the Scientific Method works and its contribution to our knowledge of the Universe. If this post was serious, it is absolutely chilling.
Sorry to frighten you further, but I don't consider the "hacked" scientists to have been exemplars of the scientific method. What I find chilling is the desire of so many so-called progressives to attack what, in other contexts, might be called whistleblowers. All I'm saying is: let's air the laundry, dirty or not. Obviously, global warming has not been disproved by this episode. The impartiality and fair-mindedness of some scientists have been called into question, however. "Chilling", you say? What is this, the Inquisition, where we all have to swallow a dogma? No science is ever really "settled" -- even if the broad outlines do achieve a consensus. But this consensus should not exist at the cost of ostracism.
A persistent GW Denier myth:
"Scientists need to be more open with their data".
Ever wonder why its called 'the Scientific Method'? Because what matters is the method, NOT the data, NOT the computer program, the METHOD. A Science Journal is just a collection of recipe's. If you want to verify your Aunt Lucy's baked bean recipe, you don't rummage through her kitchen for the same ingredients and utensils that she used. What if she's using some bean that isn't specified in the recipe? You'll just make the same mistake she made. To verify the recipe, you follow it using your OWN ingredients and utensils. You specifically want to AVOID using a scientists data and programs to verify his methods. And thats why he ONLY COMMUNICATES his methods, in peer-reviewed papers. If his results are important, as the CRU results are, then other teams will apply his method, using their OWN DATA AND PROGRAMS. If they get the same result (and they have) then his METHOD has been verified. Even many DENIER websites understand the need to verify METHODS using their OWN data and OWN programs. Unfortunately for them, they often end up with the same 'hockey stick' plot as the scientists. But, when you find yourself sniffing through a scientists private emails, lesser-used data banks, and old, incomplete computer programs, you are DEFINITELY not engaged in SCIENCE. I think what you're engaged in, is more like CHARACTER ASSASSINATION.
ClimateGate Is Watergate Redux
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Well, that explains the odious "-gate" suffix.
In the unlikely event that the Copenhagen summit produces a decree to abolish the foulest and most noxious bit of overused Amerikan journalistic whimsy ever created-- the above-cited "-gate" suffix-- I will consider it a success.
Clean and sustainable air, water, food, and energy is OK in its own way, but this "-gate" crap will kill us all if it's not stopped cold.
Think of it as "Cold Turkeygate".
· Yr Obd't Servant
Y.O.S., by unleashing an expose of "the foulest and most noxious bit of overused Amerikan journalistic whimsy ever created"...
...you've done it!
You've initiated "Gategate"!
Touché!
[Now receive, O Bosom, this dagger...]
· Yr Obd't Servant
"Well" (to quote Reagan), in W-speak, it was the Bushs!
Yup - must be a real investigative challenge finding out 'who' might gain from creating a false debate that delays even the tiniest 'green' action...
Hmmm... maybe it's the Sierra Club... or ACORN... or Earth First!... or PETA... or...
Nope, I'm stumped. Hope the cops do better than I...
interesting article, but would have been nice to get a little background on ClimateGate for those who have not been following the story tooth-and-nail.
That wouldn't do at all.
The idea here is to attack the messenger in order to deflect attention from the message.
Both sides of this debate engage in charecter assassination and supression of information.
It's hilarious that so many people on the left are demanding prosecution for the leaks. Maybe they would have been in favor of prosecuting Ellsberg.
It's really a trait of bourgeoise liberals to demand police action whenever they are aggressively confronted. I've seen it time and again. They share this trait with their bourgeoisie counterparts on the right.
Why are these emails so "private" anyway. They deal with professional matters funded by government grants. Why should they be privileged.
It's interesting to note that hacked emails show that the researchers in East Anglia share a disdain for Freedom of Information and transparency.
No one outside of the true believers cares how the emails became public. They care about what the emails state.
All you folks screaming about espionage and criminal prosecution should do yourselves a favor, deal with the content of the emails and stop whining about how the information got out there.
Hope is dashed! The author begins to criticize the "ClimateGate" appellation, but then continues to use it. Alas, it is a measure of the cretinism of US political discourse that scandals, political and otherwise, are compulsively equipped with the suffix "gate." This is no minor linguistic shorthand, but serves to blunt comprehension of the various evils at work--like using "hawks" instead of "militarists." Perhaps if somebody started shouting "GateGate" the situation would improve . . . .
"President Nixon was exposed as having commissioned the [Watergate] break in, to uncover the state of the Democratic Party, as he had given into fears of electoral defeat and resorted to desperate and criminal measures."
Well, not exactly. "The state of the Democratic Party" at the time was pretty well known at the time, right out there bitterly squabbling away in the public domain, while the Republicans snickered and merrily sharpened their swords, savoring all the advantages of incumbency.
The individual burglars who were caught and criminally charged in the nighttime break in of the Washington DC headquarters of the Democratic National Committee maintained in federal court that they were engaged in a warrantless national security operation at the behest of E Howard Hunt, a murky, now-you-see-me, now-you-don't career employee of the Central Intelligence Agency. The ostensible, somewhat later acknowledged purpose of the break-in was to try to discover documentary evidence (or perhaps, to plant documentary evidence and/or surveillance devices) which might link the Democratic Party to radical elements of the anti-Vietnam War peace movement. It was that unpatriotic antiwar agitation, you see, which was the core threat to vital United States national security interests.
Eventually, Woodward and Bernstein of the Washington Post successfully traced the funding for the Watergate black bag job and the burglars' defense team back to campaign funds from CREEP, Nixon's re-election campaign. Then the fun and high profile theatrics really began. The Republican big wigs had been caught spying, literally, upon the Democratic big wigs. Just like the active duty Pentagon brass, our boys over at Langley are supposed to stay out of the two-party system political sandbox, you see. At that time at least, those were known to be the rules.
That was the real crux of the Watergate scandal: a bunch of yahoos, who very likely genuinely believed they were engaged in a highly classified, clandestine CIA-sponsored operation on American soil, got caught by an alert night watchman red handed in a weird act of partisan espionage. The attempted cover up (with the FBI essentially investigating the CIA's spooks, while the White House at the top struggled for much to keep the lid on) was always considered by the mainstream media to be worse somehow than the actual crime itself.
Today, of course, if a similar embarrassing nocturnal episode were ever to emerge into public view in the light of day, everything would be handled quickly, quietly and internally, in-house and very professionally no doubt by the Department of Homeland Security - an enduring institutional feature of the Bush/Cheney legacy, the USA Patriot Act, and the global war on terror. Indeed, same shit today and the Washington Post would dutifully bury the whole escapade, or vomit back the official cover story only.
Here's wishing you all a happy holiday season, and a very, very safe new year.
Bill from Saginaw
I COMPLETELY agree with this article. There is something going on here, and the CRU hack was a rare overt opportunity to see the other side (whoever they are) tipping their hand. You might even say that it was a miscalculation on their part.
Hackers, deniers, scientists, shills,.....who to believe?
I have an inkling but not an answer.
But I KNOW how capitalism works.
I would have no problem whatsoever with Carbon trading if that trade would not make the already obscenely rich even richer.
A new class of profiteer has emerged, either in it for pure profit (and a whole ‘industry’ is emerging) or for political benefit. At last, the banksters, bullshititians and cronies have found another very comfy commodity to exploit and freeload from and keep the rest of the population in struggling serfdom: Emission trading schemes are emission trading scams because they are based on DEBT. NOT Carbon Credits which will be traded, but Carbon Debits.
Remember that the core of our morose system is DEBT itself (see the first half of Zeitgeist Addendum http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7065205277695921912 ). Carbon Credits are Debt For The Masses.
Emission Trading will do little to better the planet but will be a feast for systemic parasites like banksters, polititians, corporates and polluters.
The planet dies but business must go on.
Wow hold on just a minute!! Some people here have gotten sucked into the notion that deliberate manipulation and/or suppression of data was going on - based upon cherry-picked sections - and that is far from proven.
Check out Swiftboating the Climate Scientists:
http://climatedenial.org/
And this article from Grist:
http://www.grist.org/article/2009-11-20-skeptics-claim-global-warming-fake-scientists-emails-CRU/
George Monbiot published a similar article today. I'm surprized it's not on CD. Here is the link:
http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2009/12/07/the-real-climate-scandal/?
utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email
These people mounting well-funded, sophisticated meme-replicating-spin-campaigns against the findings of climate research are willing to play games with the fate of the human race, all to satisfy their need, not only for money, but to try to keep their adolescent reality dominating the world.
Also, the situation need not be either/or. There could be natural cycles that can be catastrophically exacerbated by anthropogenic global warming. Why cant people see this? Why cant they see that we humans are playing with the global climate and the whole biosphere in incredibly reckless, stupid ways, boasting that we just know that there is no serious danger. Vehement deniers sound to me like spoiled, selfish childish brats who scream and have tantrums if they are asked to limit their consumption of the natural world, as if, "Nobody's telling ME what to do!!"
It is worth re-posting this one.
http://www.youtube.com/v/7nnVQ2fROOg
This video shows that this isn't even CLOSE to anything like an insert-your-favorite-word-gate.....
The cherry picked phrases were actually used by these scientists IN THEIR OWN PUBLIC WRITINGS! Further the usage of the word "trick" to mean a clever mathematical device is exposed as common usage as well.
EVERYTHING that the Deniers have been spreading about this particular incident is a lie.
What I think is more interesting is how they may have tipped their hand. The fact that this hack was so well timed prior to the climate summit alone is suspicious...the fact that break-in attempts have happened at nearly the same time in Canada as well is further evidence...the professional character of the hackers....the astonishing speed and uniformity of the 'news' that was generated, like when Republican 'talking points' appear verbatim on Rush Limbaugh within minutes of their announcement on the House floor.
I think the net result of real investigations might well point right back to some very rich and very corrupt people.
The Ancient Greeks considered the bridging of the Hellespont an act of such hubris that Xerxes had doomed himself to retribution from the gods.
God, what happened to us? We are afraid of nothing. We consider genetic modification and climate change a mere by product of our being.
We are like a five year old driving an eighteen wheeler at top speed. We think it's fun. Anybody trying to fuck with our fun is itching for a fight.
It is time for action. The scientific community should rise up enmasse and protest ClimateGate as a right-wing criminal scandal, the Danish Text as an attempt at global tyranny and then hold a press conference to re-iterate their valid Climate Change findings. They should do this after a walk out of their jobs as symbol of their disgust and to prompt awareness of the press conference which will call for international investigation into the ClimateGate scandal perpetrated by anti-COP 15 entities.