The Atlantic rips Penn State and Muir-Russell a new one - Wow! #Climategate

Gee, this does show how much of a game changer Climategate really was.

No matter how much the climate hysterics and their allies in the media have tried to make it go away, it just wont.

Now all this no doubt comes in the form of disturbing surprise for those environmentally concerned who have tagged along with the whole 'global warming, oh my God we are all doomed, doomed I tell you' bangwagon, and who have naively swallowed the excuses to ignore the huge raft of problems this hypothesis has, such as the sceptics are just oil company shills one, but not to people who have actually bothered to look at the evidence.

Watts Up With That? comments on Clive Crooks' article in The Atlantic:

He believes in the issue and likes the carbon tax:

I think climate science points to a risk that the world needs to take seriously. I think energy policy should be intelligently directed towards mitigating this risk. I am for a carbon tax.

But he hates corruption:

I also believe that the Climategate emails revealed, to an extent that surprised even me (and I am difficult to surprise), an ethos of suffocating groupthink and intellectual corruption.

He gets it, scientists behaving badly help nobody, least of all their cause. Penn State and the Muir-Russell fiascos only compound the damage:

In sum, the scientists concerned brought their own discipline into disrepute, and set back the prospects for a better energy policy. I had hoped, not very confidently, that the various Climategate inquiries would be severe. This would have been a first step towards restoring confidence in the scientific consensus. But no, the reports make things worse. At best they are mealy-mouthed apologies; at worst they are patently incompetent and even wilfully wrong. The climate-science establishment, of which these inquiries have chosen to make themselves a part, seems entirely incapable of understanding, let alone repairing, the harm it has done to its own cause.

At least somebody in MSM is starting to see that whitewash affects climate science, and we aren’t just talking paint.

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/07/14/uh-oh-really-inconvenient-press/

Article URL: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2010/07/climategate-and-the-big-green-lie/59709

Increasingly the story is now breaking out of the confines of sceptical blogs, where it had been restricted to by the media's effective willingness to be the propaganda arm of the various special interests pushing the alarmist case, while virtually ignoring (when not actively ridiculing) the sceptical one, into that self-same mainstream media.

Interesting times.

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