To: Brumar89 who wrote (9962 ) 2/21/2012 12:53:13 PM From: Brumar89 Respond to Sceptic Blogosphere Devours Gleick I have to believe the Michael Mann's, James Hansen's, Kevin Trenberth's, the whole crew of unethical climate conmen are scared sh*tless over this. Gleick is a prominent figure in climate science activism and he's being dropped like a hot potato by the institutions he's affiliated with. His career is gone. I just hope he becomes the first climate conman to visit the graybar hotel. Are universities and other institutions going to start looking at the activities of their climate warriors? ] It would have carried a bit more weight had he not already been fingered as the most likely candidate by Steven Mosher, Roger Pielke and innumerable sceptic bloggers. Now that he's confessed, he'll be wanting to clear his name of the forgery charge by allowing some IT forensic analysis to be done on his computers and servers. It should be fairly straightforward to establish that the forged document arrived unbidden and wasn't just rustled up on his machine... The whole affair casts an interesting light on the whole climate wars front, particularly on the assymtery of forces. what they revealed instead was the petty cash available to the sceptic side. to the millions of dollars available to the climate orthodox from governments, transnational bodies (the UN and the EU, for example), from chairtable foundations and big-dollar environmentalists (Greenpeace, WWF etc), the money available to sceptics is tiny. I mean really, really, really tiny. The climate orthodox have at their disposal most of the world's mass media - from the bastions of climate alarmism at the BBC and the Guardian, to well-funded web sites such as RealClimate, DeSmogBlog and others. despite the money and the media, the climate alarmists know they are losing support. Despite everything that they have done to subvert peer review - and the Climategate emails showed us what was going on, warts and all, without the need to resort to forgeries - more and more papers are being published which cast doubt on the alarmism. The public perceives the lack of warming and the message that there is still so much doubt about what we do know is getting across. The only way for the alarmists to explain this process, despite the clear disparity of forces, is by an appeal to conspiracy theory. As the Guradian puts it, in its story about Gleick's confession, there is... a network of fossil fuel interests, rightwing think tanks and politicians have been working to block action on climate change driven to look for the evidence to bolster this paranoid fantasy. And, even after breaking the law and just about every code of scientific integrity ever written, he finds nothing to match his fantasy, so we must assume that he manufactured the forged document. It's of a pattern of unethical behaviour that we saw in Climategate. It's the 'any means necessary' mindset that sees climate scientists conspiring to remove troublesome journal editors, to malign opponents, to 'redefine peer review' . Hell, we even saw a small example of it when Gleick 'reviewed' Donna Laframboise's book on the IPCC at Amazon without having taking the trouble to read the book. sceptics have some obvious strengths. The first and most obvious is an eye to detail and meticulous picking apart of data among a sizeable camp of sceptics. They are used to poring over data, of looking behind the obvious and of teasing things out of the most unlikely sources. These skills are highly prized in sceptic circles - just as they used to be prized in scientific circles. We see this at work not just in the deconstruction of the hockey stick , but in the way that the IPCC reports were dissected and the references checked (and often found to be from non-peer reviewed literature), or the BEST temperature record found to be at odds with what Richard Muller was claiming it said or... Again and again the sceptic camp shows itself to be worthy of the name . Nothing is taken on trust, everything is challenged and the data checked. In Gleick's case this process happened very quickly. The allegedly forged document was checked and found to have come from a different source and different time zone. The writing style was shown to be different to the other documents. And, taking things a step further, a number of voices suggested it was Peter Gleick very early on. It's just ironic that Gleick fell victim to the very thing that his paranoid fantasy ignores. http://progcontra.blogspot.com/2012/02/sceptic-blogosphere-devours-gleick.html
