This short post by Bolt really says it all:
If the sceptics’ conspiracy was real, why fake the evidence?
The problem with the great international conspiracy of climate sceptics is that it’s so small and innocent that a disappointed warmist who steals documents from the Heartland Institute finds they must fake the main one to get media attention.
Sounds a bit like their tree-ring research.
Yes, says JoNova, let’s please look at who’s funding who in the climate zoo.
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From my perspective, it looks like an act of desperation on the part of DeSmog blog:
Source: Alexa analysis
Meet the man, assistant DeSmogger Brendan De Melle, who took a whole hour to get the documents online from the time received. Speed is more important than fact checking in journo-lism I suppose.
An entire hour. No rush to judgement by this guy.
yup if I was in charge of the investigation as to who did what to get that email I know where I would start.
http://rankexploits.com/musings/2012/tell-me-whats-horrible-about-this/#comments
Maybe DeSmog should try adding porn to their site to drive up traffic–their brand of “climate science” certainly isn’t working.
LOL
I do really appreciate the photograph of Mr. De Melle.
With a suitable degree of enlargement, I can’t think of anything better to line the floor of a birdcage, [snip OK a bit over the top]
That blue curve – That’s from a Livingston & Penn paper, I think. Showing there will be a disappearing act about the middle of 2013.
These guys can’t do anything right. They are up to their necks and going down fast.
It’s just pure desperation. They are flailing, they are losing, the numbers aren’t going their way, they have to do something, there are BILLIONS at stake and, besides, they still want to go to those fancy cocktail parties where people fawn all over them.
De Melle’s head is too.full of hair for him to be a proper climate scientist or journalist, although the goatee is on the right path.
I repeat:
You can save yourselves a lot of time, and generally be correct, by simply assuming that EVERY SCARY PREDICTION the global warming alarmists express is FALSE.
The warming alarmists have a near-perfect negative predictive track record – every one of their scary predictions has failed to materialize.
I wrote the following some weeks ago, not for the first time, and am doing pretty well so far.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/02/01/briggs-schools-the-bad-astronomer-on-statistics/#more-55764
Finally Kevin+37, you have demonstrated a near-perfect track record of negative predictive skill – not one of your scary predictions has materialized! Should we then, statistically, disbelieve everything you predict? It appears we should.
At 10:26 PM on 16 Feburary, Allan MacRae had recapitulated:
While it’s not an absolutely reliable surmise, I have to agree that it’s a generally useful basis upon which to approach the catastrophist caterwaulings of las warmistas.
As Reagan’s speechwriter quoted the old Russian proverb (“doveryai, no proveryai”) when the subject of strategic arms talks was before the public, with these charlatans’ perpetual duplicity and error, their persistently untrustworthy character is a phenomenon which should most assuredly be considered a default property, but their statements must always be subjected to verification instead of being dismissed out of hand.
They’re skilled liars, remember. Any such critter learns that one of the best ways to tell a lie is to retail just enough of the truth in precisely the right way to lead the listener to a blatantly false conclusion.
Allan MacRae says:
February 16, 2012 at 10:26 pm
“I repeat:
You can save yourselves a lot of time, and generally be correct, by simply assuming that EVERY SCARY PREDICTION the global warming alarmists express is FALSE.”
But it’s amusing to track their shenanigans. Every time I think Climate Politics is becoming boring something outrageous happens, as in, I couldn’t have imagined something that stupid (again).
Go to the Smoggers and you find comments like these right now… well, a few.
http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/jokes/bljoke-iraqinfominister.htm
http://progcontra.blogspot.com/2012/02/heartland-non-story.html
In a 27 September 2007 email leaked from the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) Richard Littlemore, a senior propagandist for Desmogblog, is looking for material to fend off challenges about global temperatures not increasing. He writes; “I am out of my depth (as I am sure you have noticed: we’re all about PR here, not much about science.”)
With this latest debacle it appears they are not much about PR either.
Desmogblog was set up by James Hoggan who is also Chair of the David Suzuki Foundation
http://www.davidsuzuki.org/
and owner of a large PR company. http://www.hoggan.com/
Journalists, and I am including Brendan De Melle in this, have a duty to protect their sources. This protection should only extend to a source who does not deliberately lie and forge documents. The moment Brendan’s source provided him with fake documents (s)he lost the right to have their identity protected. Brenden De Melle should now release all information he has regarding his source.
Why is it that tree huggers always look like they’ve just been molested by a hardy oak?
Tim;
“we’re all about PR, not about science” is the crux. But in this case, I’d suggest the ‘R’ stands for “Robbery”, not “Relations”!
Interesting point raised by one of Lucia’s commentators.
“TerryS (Comment #89910)
February 16th, 2012 at 9:21 am
Curiously, the XMP toolkit used to generate the fake pdf was:
“Adobe XMP Core 5.2-c001 63.139439, 2010/09/27-13:37:26 ”
The XMP toolkit used to create one of the elements of desmog-fracking-the-future.pdf was:
“Adobe XMP Core 5.2-c001 63.139439, 2010/09/27-13:37:26 ”
I am not drawing any conclusions about this, just pointing out the coincidence”
http://rankexploits.com/musings/2012/tell-me-whats-horrible-about-this/#comment-89910
If the Heartland Institute do not initiate legal action against the BBC and Guardian in the UK, then … well they have to. It was such a blatant smearing using patently false evidence.
Junk sources = junk journalism = junk propaganda.
There will always be idiots who will dream up the next junk source, so the week link in the chain is the junk journalists who print from these junk sources.
Doesn’t WWF stand for
“Waiting for the Wheels to Fall off”?
Brendan…another smoking the dijereedooooo type hippy who thinks the world runs on disaster movie physics
http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg42/scaled.php?server=42&filename=statsvt.jpg
It seems to have worked out well for DeSmog
With the Leveson Inquiry into UK Press Standards currently in full swing, could someone get them to consider this shoddy “journalism”? Haven’t been following it too closely myself.
As the Grauniad are trying to set themselves up as being whiter than white in terms of their own standards, the words “petard”, “own”, and “hoist” come to mind….
“DirkH says:
February 16, 2012 at 11:18 pm
http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/jokes/bljoke-iraqinfominister.htm‘”
There is, among the hilarious lies, one nugget of truth:-
“I think the British nation has never been faced with a tragedy like this fellow [Blair].” – Baghdad Bob
“Tim Ball says:
February 16, 2012 at 11:54 pm
In a 27 September 2007 email leaked from the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) Richard Littlemore, a senior propagandist for Desmogblog, is looking for material to fend off challenges about global temperatures not increasing. He writes; “I am out of my depth (as I am sure you have noticed: we’re all about PR here, not much about science.”)”
They. Have. NO. Shame……………
Less like Fakegate, more like Failgate.
This turned into one of those moments where, when the robber open the case with the million dollars, he’s covered with exploding red dye. Gotcha!
Or even better, where the good ordinary citizens arrange for the same thing and help out:
Covered with red dye this time round:
Bloggers who were so entranced by the prospect of dirt on the sceptics that they didn’t check a single thing: DeSmogBlog, Romm, etc.
MSM journos who parroted it without checking a single thing: NYT, Guardian, BBC, etc.
I lodged an official complaint with the BBC re Black. Meh, knowing the BBC.
Next time they try anything like this, it’ll be more like the terrorist who threw the grenade, only to have it hit something, bounce back, and blow his legs off. 🙂