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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (25962)	11/30/2009 2:20:37 PM
From: Brumar89	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 36917

Nope, looks like the alarmist position is just scream the lies louder. I was amused by your agreeing with koan that we faced the danger of all life on earth going extinct and the earth boiling.

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (25962)	11/30/2009 2:21:50 PM
From: Peter Dierks	1 Recommendation Respond to of 36917

Climate-gate e-mails released by whistleblower, not hacker By: Chris Horner OpEd Contributor November 30, 2009 After reams of information were posted on a Russian server detailing the inner workings at the highest -- and highest-compensated -- levels of what's called "climate science," many of us in the "skeptic" community were reminded of one phrase: "Told you so." The information included e-mails, computer codes, annotations to code and the like. They were all of a part, not rife with "How's the wife?"-type correspondence but apparently the documents responding to a long-frustrated series of requests under the United Kingdom's freedom of information law. This is only one of numerous factors indicating that the disclosures were not the work of a "hacker," as the media parrot without evidence, but a whistleblower on the inside. The e-mails detail organized efforts to subvert and violate transparency laws -- as well, it would seem, as document retention, ethics and other policies --- in order to keep the public misinformed about the state of climate science, ... Message 26138046