Wow, just wow. What an editorial. The CBC’s Rex Murphy on Climategate.
h/t to WUWT reader David Davidovics
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Wow, just wow. What an editorial. The CBC’s Rex Murphy on Climategate.
h/t to WUWT reader David Davidovics
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Rex at his best, he simply nailed it.
Maybe he can continue this during ‘Cross Country Checkup’ call-in show this weekend?
The CBC is in general very left, but Rex Murphy is not house trained like most there. Still I don’t think he could have done that without some internal support.
He is mostly ‘editorial content’ or talking to ‘phone in’ people on the radio. He has one of the best ‘pulses’ of English Canada, but then again, he is one of the few that speaks openly so that’s hard to be sure of. He is often able to present things in a way that cuts through the left/right smokescreen BS and get to the heart of the matter — no small feat.
Sir Muir Russell to head the Independent Review into the allegations against the Climatic Research Unit (CRU)
http://www.uea.ac.uk/mac/comm/media/press/2009/dec/homepagenews/CRUreview
A lie has to be repeated many times before it becomes “truth”. A truth needs to be exposed only once.
A few more reports like that on MSM, and the issue is is over! That is it’ll be back to square one and the debate begins.
tipping point?
there are so many ways this whole thing can go wrong, i dont know where to start… ;[ ’cause it wouldnt be the first time, an obvious lie ‘turns’ into truth.
A trusted voice of sanity for many CBC viewers. Let’s hope people take his advice and start actually investigating as opposed to gate keeping and spouting irrelevant figures that have been pressed upon them by those with a vested interest. Science, transparency, and objectivity above all.
Very impressive !
Well Done Rex! Now if the other so called journalists will take a hint and follow suit and actually do their job and make similar even handed reports in the other major media outlets. If not they will be co-conspirators and willful accomplishes in fraud, and accessories after the fact.
Edward R. Murrow went down in history as the man that stood up to the abuses of McCarthyism and won the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Rex Murphy I think Edward R. Murrow would be proud of you.
I tip my hat to you for a job well done!
Larry
This was a very nice report. To bad that overhere (Netherlands) it is still very much a non-issue. I think that the media is still waiting how it plays in the rest of the world.
The most funny thing i thought was that http://www.rt.com was one of the first stations that actually did some reports where you had a pro-warming and a sceptic discussing the problems, and i thought that it was strange that i had to depend on russian media for coverage 🙂
For some reason YouTube won’t work on Macs.
Any way of summarising this in words?
Nail, meet Mr Hammer.
I won’t hold my breath for something like this on the BBC
“The networks’ silence on ClimateGate is deafening. Scandal, cover-ups and conspiracy are the bread and butter of the media. Yet they have selectively and deliberately decided not to report this bombshell – or any of the incriminating details surrounding the scandal – because it goes against their left-wing agenda.
“To pretend this story simply doesn’t exist is damning to journalism. The so-called ‘news’ media are protecting scientists because it exposes their underbelly. That’s not journalism. That’s a cover-up. And we will continue to call them out for ignoring these allegations and the mounting, inconvenient evidence against them.”
http://mrc.org/press/releases/2009/20091202123647.aspx
media research centre
Whoa,
Perfect
We need a couple of those, Stateside.
Listen guys,
the biggest economical decision of the humankind was supposed to be made partly on the basis of the CRU data.
If you really believe, that the the evidence is incriminating, somebody should file a criminal charge, before the whole thing is whitewashed.
This is also necessary for the sake of your own credibility. Web posts are nice, but RL actions are needed.
This Rex Murphy editorial would have been great anywhere.
But to have the CBC put it on the air must surely amount to a major breech of what has effectively been an embargo on ClimateGate by the non-print MSM (or close to it, if count George S. on This Week and few other meager instances that very gingerly touched the subject).
The thing that makes me guardedly hopeful that the ClimateGate dam could break even in a large swath of the video MSM:
Probably even more important to most of the MSM than being politically correct, is the desperate fear of being (and being seen by the viewing public) as having been seriously ”left behind” on a major story. If the BASIC countries DO end up walking out in NoHopenhagen, that could break the dam; at least for any media organization that is not directly an arm of George Soros Inc, etc.
> That will be an interesting investigation. I wonder who will be
> appointed to provide an “impartial” report.
Probably Pachauri himself. After all, he’s the expert ….
Well spoken!
Excellent editorial form CBC. I woke up to news of the IPCC investigation on Radio Scotland this morning. The BBC have been complicit in trying to underplay Climategate for the past two weeks, presumably because they can’t get a refund on their flights to Copenhagen.
The world is changing. You would think that the warmers would be delighted that AGW seems less likely now than it was last month. But they would rather the world remained in imminent danger of “Thermageddon” than admit they might have got it all wrong.
An interesting segment in Newsnight from the BBC, uses a programmer to look at the source code.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00p92n6/Newsnight_03_12_2009/?t=11m47s
11:45 mins into the vid.
WOW
Just speechless 😀
DaveE
WOW!
No wrath like a journalist (or politician) discovering they have been hoodwinked… and he’s right about the humor index of shows like Stewart. When the late night talk shows and the Comedy Channel political humor shows start making fun of you, it’s all over.
John Peter (00:33:00) : That will be an interesting investigation. I wonder who will be appointed to provide an “impartial” report.
The last rat off the ship? But seriously… remember that the IPCC is first and foremost a political body. Politicians often have a keen nose for when the cheese is over ripe and it’s time to start biting the hand that brought it to the cocktail party… Promise a politician anything, but never never lay a scandal near (or for the IPCC at) their door… The result of a scandal among politicians makes Roman Imperial family relations look positively cosy in comparison. (Nepotism is the insiders sharing booty with family members, is there a term for insiders killing off family members? A heck of a lot of “Emperor Wanabees” died at the hands of family and “friends”…)
So this could be the start of a coverup (or self posterior cover); or it could be a start of a lynching of the guys who showed up at the back room party with a narc … only time will tell. And it will be an interesting time.
FWIW, I’ve seen Rex a few times (he shows up on some of the satellite news programs, though frankly I’ve lost track of which one… I don’t think CBC in on the little dish so I think it’s other folks quoting snippets, but I surf so many news shows looking for an edge, it’s possible one of them is a CBC extract.) At any rate, he tends to get his facts straight and covers things with truth. As you may have noticed, he likes to give it to you straight too… A little old style… Did I mention I really really like my news a little old style? I’m going to have to see if I can find Rex on a more regular schedule somewhere…
At about 2:57 he has a marvelous scowl… I love it when a hard news guy is scowling at someone’s deceit. I always get the feeling that, after months of reporting “movie star has pet dog” they feel like they finally have a bit of what attracted them to reporting so many years before. One can only hope the rest of the reporters are feeling just a bit “left out of the fun”.
Wow. And powerfully presented.
Just wow.
Compare Rex Murphy with yesterday’s item on the BBC’s “Newsnight” program.
The Newsnight item
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00p92n6/Newsnight_03_12_2009/
Starts 11 minutes 47 seconds into the program.
Ends at 21 minutes 23 seconds into the program.
Two weeks ago, I had never heard of Robert Watson, but the CRU data fraud disaster has smoked him out as Jone’s chief supporter at the UEA, and now he is all over the media and seems to be living in the Newsnight studio. Last night, the CRU’s climate program was condemned by a software engineer as something that “I don’t know what it’s doing, or why it’s doing it”. This was followed about two minutes later (I kid you not) by Robert Watson declaring that in spite of all that we have just heard about this joke of a computer program, the underlying message from the CRU is correct, the glaciers are melting, the sea levels are rising and the climate is warming, etc.
Watch, and wonder who are the deniers now?
Rhys Jaggar (01:06:16) :
Worked just fine on my Mac. My dilema is to either support Bill Gate’s company or a company with AlGore on board.
No Doug, it’s as left-wing as ever. However, Rex has always had a way of cutting through the political BS from both sides, and is probably the only non-biased journalist at the CBC, which is odd considering that he largely focuses on editorial content.
However, just to be clear for those that are unfamiliar with this organization, the Canadian Broadcasting Company (and its sister French language Radio Canada) are Canadian Crown Corporations that are largely funded by tax dollars. With the exception of Rex (and Don Cherry of Hockey Night in Canada fame), the CBC is a very left wing organization. Just as this aired tonight, one of the CBC News cable news channels is scheduled to show ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ for about the 30th time over the weekend.