Ripples of Climategate? Liberal MP's desert Turnbull in Australia over emissions trading scheme

Any Aussies here should send links to the rest of the Liberal MPs in case climategate hasn’t crossed their desks.

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I compared Googl and Bling search engines. Only looked at the first page of each but it seemed that they were returning similar results and had decent coverage.
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Of interest
http://www.warwickhughes.com/blog/?p=317

I am planning to send the following letter to the prime minister of Canada and the leader of the opposition. I thought I would run it by WUWT readers to see if I have it essentially correct.
Dear Prime Minister Harper,
I am a historian of science who has long been concerned about the propaganda being used to advance an agenda that will cripple the economies of the developed nations based on so-called climate science. The recent revelations of the abuse of due scientific process revealed by the leaked correspondence of the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit shows a persistent and deliberate to derail legitimate scientific scrutiny and criticism of the findings of CRU, NOAA’s GISS, and other climate research centres. Although the main-stream media and politicians have not given this story the attention it deserves, the scandal will not go away. That is because these e-mails reveal the following:
1) refusal to share data so that other scientists can verify the results being propounded by the advocates of the theory of anthropogenic global warming – a violation of scientific protocol
2) perverting the editorial boards of scientific journals through intimidating editors to not allow dissenting articles to be published; or even having editors sympathetic to other theories dismissed
3) deliberate alteration of findings through superimposing different types of data sets from totally different studies (i.e. dendochronology as temperature proxies + actual temperature from surface stations) because using one continuous series did not give the results aimed at by the climatologists
4) slagging the reputations of scientists who were critical of their work, or who held differing theories, not only privately but publicly; or claiming that specialists in other fields that are clearly pertinent to the data analysis were not competent to do this work because not “real” climate scientists, to mislead mainstream media outlets
5) analysis of their computer codes shows the use of imaginary data due to the incompetence in computer coding by the scientists and their subsequent need to invent data to fill in gaps
6) promotion of wildly exaggerated computer models based on this shoddy and incompetent use of flawed data
7) rather than being dispassionate seekers of scientific truth, these “scientists” have perverted the course of science though acting as activists in such a way as to alarm the public and also to benefit their own research budgets and reputations
If you think that this scandal is going to disappear, you do not understand how science works. Scientists in all fields have been intimidated (as have I, a university academic) from widely disseminating their scepticism about the so-called findings, models, and predictions by the bullying methods of political correctness – being seen as anti-environmental, flat-earthers in denial of scientific truth, or being seen as supporting the “wrong” kind of politics. However, now that the extent of the corruption of science has been revealed, more and more scientists are going to speak out, since science itself will suffer if this situation is not corrected.
It is essential that you realize that most of the IPCC statements are based on the findings of Hadley-CRU data and models, together with the work of scientists at the also heavily implicated NOAA-GISS . Indeed, as one who has been following this story for nearly a decade, out of professional interest, I am aware that most of the scientists who collaborated on the IPCC reports who were not part of the self-styled “Hockey Team” (the inner scientists at Hadley, CRU, and GISS) – or their hangers on – had strong reservations about the final versions of the reports: most of their caveats, which indicated that the predictions being made were flawed, incorrect or exaggerated, were dropped from the final version. It would be criminal to endorse political policies that will threaten the well-being of ordinary people and especially (and inevitably) the poorest in society at the upcoming meeting in Copenhagen based on the threatening findings of these organizations, which have turned out to be mere, threatening, fairy-tales.
I plead with you to do the right thing and not commit Canada to international agreements based on a fantasy: please wait for real science to be done. While there is indeed a need to take action to reduce real pollution, the measures that are proposed at Copenhagen will do little to address this, and will in effect be worse than doing nothing.
Sincerely,

Well put vigilantfish: I have done likewise. Spent three hours yesterday contacting every MP with a similar email.

Breaking news: Canada’s CBC follows the BBC in a massive COVER UP.
There was an article released on Wednesday 25th attacking Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper plan to NOT ATTEND Copenhoken.
There were over 465 comments relating to this article this morning (Thursdsay 26th), almost ALL 465 of the comments were cheering for Stephen Harper and condemning the Media and Western Politicians for perpetrating the now exposed (CRU Scandal) man-made Climate Change Fraud.
Well guess what – in one single wave of the magic ‘COVER-UP WAND’ – there are NO COMMENTS today – the slate has been wiped clean – none of the comments existed.
Here is a link http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/obama-headed-to-copenhagen/article1376880/#comments
….SHRED SHRED SHRED …..465 Comments GONE – eradictaed by disciples of David Suzuki, Anne Tremonti and the CBC THOUGHT POLICE
This was (until this morning) the MOST popular read article on CBC website – THAT TOO HAS BEEN FIXED!!!!!
History being re-written by CBC “pravda”.

You may find this article heartening:
Malcolm Turnbull felled by grassroots revolt
Dennis Shanahan, Political editor
The Australian
November 27, 2009 12:00AM
MALCOLM Turnbull’s leadership has been destroyed in a spectacular and unprecedented fashion.
For the first time, a grassroots revolt by local Liberal branches and members has brought down the leader of the parliamentary Liberal Party…
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/malcolm-felled-by-grassroots-revolt/story-e6frg6zo-1225804383345
The battle is not over yet, but it appears that the ETS will be delayed until February, after the failure at Copenhagen. This gives the Opposition time to campaign on issues like Climategate, the divergence problem, YAD061, the latest NZ data “adjustment” fraud and the expense and economic carnage of a pointless ETS tax.
The fact that a Liberal leader, as high profile as Malcolm Turnbull, has been rolled on this, forces a public re-examination the “science” of Climate Change that had previously been accepted as received wisdom, to discover why the Liberal party has gone into revolt. Copenhagen will keep it in the news over summer, and its failure will remind people to the cynical reality of the politics long after the popular hagiography of Kyoto.
This is an incredible opening to turn back almost 20 years of watermelon agitprop, fraudulent “science” and myth making alarmism with a real debate on the merits of the “science” and the economics and politics of an ETS tax. This is a summer that Australia must win.

The comments are there right now at 8.34 AM PT.. 521 of them.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/obama-headed-to-copenhagen/article1376880/#comments
Still waiting for main article.

And the story continues to grow — typed in climategate at Google and got 7 million returns; at Bing it’s even bigger, at 48 million returns. And of course the fluff and puff lamestream media remains clueless; is it any wonder that the perky one anchors at CBS — she’s the poster child for the state of the lamestream media journalism.