Canada's for turning

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[Sean Inglis]

At last someone uses the term "whistleblower" with reference to the email / code / data, rather than insisting it was the work of a "hacker".

[Sven Hanssen]

Rex Murphy summarizes the situation very well. His words to "use climate gate as a reset button" are well put. We must remember that there are many many serious scientists in different areas that have been banned as sceptics in an attempt to marginalize them. A reset gives the opportunity for real scientist to continue their important job related to earth climat while hopefully removing most of the political activists like Hansen, Jones, Kallen (the swedish Phil Jones) etc.

[McBugbear]

Rex is generally pretty even-handed in his pieces, compared to the rest of the CBC (Communist Broadcasting Corporation) he's pretty right-wing but by any other measure you'd consider him middle of the road.

[Fred]

Canadian bloggers have been hammering the CBC (Canadian Broadcorping Castration) over their news embargo.

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[Steve2]

Channel 4 news just reported about a complaint about the egregious DEFRA CO2 bedtime story ad with the drowning dog, *before* it was broadcast. They have a letter from Bob Watson (ex cru) writing indignantly that the science was "was being brought into question" by the pre-approval body Clearcast.
Watsons letter quotes lots of scary pronouncements but noticeably omits to mention the IPCC projection of of a mere 17inch rise over the next 100 years.

There was a good appearance from Nigel Lawson also:

http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/science_technology/government+forced+to+defend+climate+change+advert/3450237

[Jack Hughes]

ClimateGate has been a catalyst for skeptics and non-believers. All kinds of people are now stepping forward and speaking freely about concerns they just kept to themselves before.

For me the only new aspect has been just how evil the CRU and IPCC people are. Before this I kind of thought they suffered from group-think, from confirmation bias. That they had got stuck on their own theories and had blanked out problems with their own ideas. Well-meaning but confused.

Now I have discovered that they knew all along that their ideas were wrong - so they cooked the data, destroyed data that disagreed - and destroyed the careers of people who disagreed. Evil. Evil and wrong. The film had the wrong name.

I would like to thank Bishop Hill - and commenters on this blog. You can hold your heads high - like the germans tearing down the Berlin Wall 20 years ago.

[Keith]

When I read Iben Browning's Climate and the Affairs of Men, first printed in 1975, and updated in 1980, I learned about the subject of global warming. It saved me a great amount of grief, because I did not fall for the political agenda mustered by those interested in inserting themselves into the debate regarding so called global warming. It is refreshing to read the arguments refuting the presumptions set forth by those who believe in global warming as a disaster about to happen.

Iben offered some facts that are wonderful. Can you believe that historic climate data is somewhat scarce. One source he found helpful was at the cites of commercial vineyards in France. Those records go back a very long way and can offer facts in the distant past (keeping in mind we are young compared to world-wide weather facts).

Thanks for the Rex Murphy video.