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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Paul Vaughan (00:09:43) :
No Vaughan, they held their breath and hoped it would all go away. I’m sure I wan’t the only one to write a letter to the CBC. It got to the point that “man in the street” held up a placard behind a live CBC news broadcast telling the CBC to rportthe story.
Rhys Jaggar (01:06:16) :
For some reason YouTube won’t work on Macs.
Any way of summarising this in words?
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Here’s the direct CBC link that should be running sometime this morning:
http://www.cbc.ca/thenational/indepthanalysis/rexmurphy/story/2009/12/03/thenational-rexmurphy-091203.html
Inhofe needs help
http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.Blogs&ContentRecord_id=570e6fbc-802a-23ad-4fe9-2dc2fcac8475&Issue_id=
It is turning and accelerating. DId anyone just see Morning Joe on CNBC? Joe Scarborough just said it looks like AGW is a “religion”. The dumb guest said all the scientists can’t be wrong, but yet it is right for that the head guy stepped down. I was screaming, for VICTORY of TRUTH, so loud in joy I woke my poor wife up!!!! What a telling interview.
Some good recommended links on his site as well (right side):
http://www.cbc.ca/thenational/indepthanalysis/rexmurphy/story/2009/12/03/thenational-rexmurphy-091203.html
I honestly think a lot of journalists have thought of the skeptical viewpoint to be somewhat akin to intelligent design stuff, and have therefore never actually looked at it. As more people look, the story grows.
I’ve been waiting with anticipation for Rex to comment on this issue ever since it broke. Unfortunately Rex usually only does a piece on The National once a week and the prior week’s was regretably wasted on the Afghan detainee non-issue here in Canada. However, in retrospect the timing was perfect. It gave Rex a chance to digest the enormity of what Climate-Gate means and articulate that to the Canadian masses just before Nopenhagen. Rex did not disappoint!
Rex has also done other good work on this file in the past. Do a search on YouTube for Rex Murphy climate and you’ll get several past pieces on the climate he’s done.
Rex also does the occasional opinion piece for the Globe and Mail which has yet to cover this issue from a new perspective (they’ve had one opionion piece). I hope to see Rex’s written comment on the matter there as well!
(from same link)
READ MORE ABOUT TWO OF REX’S FAVOURITE SOURCES ON CLIMATE CHANGE
I’ve been following the great Climategate controversy, and it presents an opportunity to salute the leadership of two Canadians in this tempestuous arena.
Steve McIntyre and Ross McKitrick may turn out to be something of reluctant heroes in the global warming story. They’ve been doing the backstop work amid the hurricane of scare stories and over-hyped speculation that marks this whole debate.
McIntyre, in particular, through his blog Climate Audit, has been tireless in doing what all good, inquiring minds should do when investigating new terrain; asking for the data, checking others’ results, keeping up the intellectual standards of the quest.
For this, in the main, they have been scorned and put off by the global warming establishment, had their credentials questions, and their work mainly ignored.
There is no reason Steve McIntyre should not be at least as well known on the subject of global warming as David Suzuki, but it is one of the oddities of the global warming debate that only the leaders of the orthodoxy are household names. The tough questioners are outside the spotlight.
It was also this duo who unmasked the great hockey stick graph as being the product of inadequate or twisted data and removed it as the great logo of the global warming stampede.
You can find a sample of McKitrick’s work here, and for McIntyre, go to climateaudit.org, one of the most honest sites on global warming and its statistical basis on the whole internet.
A few years back, McKitrick also published a (now) prescient book with Christopher Essex entitled Taken by Storm: The Troubled Science, Policy and Politics of Global Warming.
BBC Radio 2 Phone-in on Climategate UPDATE Correction Telephone number is : 0500 288 291
There was a report on climategate on SKY TV News today in the UK. However, it was followed by a story about Nepal, and how the government had definite proof that Global Warming was happening (as they would).
SKY have really been going hard on the AGW propoganda this week. You still need to cancel your subscriptions.
This makes me proud; to be able to say that I am a Canadian. Rex Murphy is a very intelligent man. He was a Rhodes Scholar. I am really starting to believe that when it comes to Copenhagen, the reports from the CBC are going to be much more honest than we have been used to. Maybe its too much to expect a bias towards us skeptics, but we can always hope.
A fellow Newfoundlander, I had the opportunity to introduce myself to Rex after a speaking event at Memorial University.
An awe-inspiring intelect.
Rex does not represent the CBC. He doesn’t call up any science reporter in the CBC to get his info. This is totally his work. Rex is becoming iconic in Canada for his perspectives and people would pursue Rex if he ever left.
Google “Rex Murphy Climate” to find the other things he has said on environmental issues. It is all worth listening to.
Rhys Jaggar (01:06:16) : said
“For some reason YouTube won’t work on Macs.”
Works perfectly on all our macs!
On the BBC 4 radio this morning a very good analogy was made regarding the IPCC.
The IPCC is an aggregator of scientific research, and stands at the bottom of an inverted pyramid. If the credibility of the aggregator is destroyed then the whole edifice comes crashing down. Prof Philip Stott of London Uni.
Listen to
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00p1hl0/Today_04_12_2009/
2 hrs 10 mins into the program.
See more about Philip Stott here:
http://parliamentofthings.info/
On second thoughts, having persevered with the first ten minutes, even this looks like being a whitewash, with little opportunity for true, knowledgeable sceptics to get their oar in. With Mark Linus (?) a climate “expert” (?) (who won’t shut up) in the studio, and Vine really not strong enough I doubt if we’ll get anywhere. They’re putting too much emphasis on the one controversial Phil Jones E mail, and disregarding the rest. Oh dear…
That was easily the best editorial on this subject in the video media to date.
And on CBC!
The turning point has arrived…I’ve never been more hopeful for my field than I am today.
All Canadians should take a moment out of their day to thanks that scant majority of Newfoundlanders who, in 1949, voted by the slimmest of margins to shed their British imperial yoke to join the Canadian confederation!!!
And we got Rex as OUR National Treasure.
Lard tunderin’ jaysus, Rex, you tells em now!
My favourite Newfie joke:
While out picking blueberries, the one lad says to the other,
“Don’t pick the red’uns; they’s green!”
“Climate science has been shown to be, in part, a sub-branch of climate politics”
This right on the nail and has got huge exposure worldwide. Fantastic.
Is it really two weeks since this all came out? On one hand it seems like ages on the other like it was just a few days ago. I feel as if Christmas came early for skeptics.
Rode trip? To Copenhaggen?
Ask Canadian Environment Minister Prentice:
“If you are a government official heading to Copenhagen soon for the climate summit, you are probably wondering what the hell you’re supposed to think now.”
“Climategate fallout”
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/12/03/climategate-fallout.aspx
Meanwhile, here in Australia the TV news programmes are still running alarmist stories of how tropical diseases are certain to spread into temperate zones, the tundras are melting, the Himalayas are melting, and the warming seas are guaranteed to turn ordinarily even-tempered sharks into vexed-beyond-reason, angry, menacing monsters; yet interviewers on Lateline, the leading serious current affairs programme of the ABC (or, as I have taken to calling it, Sacra Congregatio de Propaganda Fide) have the hide to ask government representatives whether the failure of the Government’s Emissions Trading Scheme might not give the Opposition the opportunity to run a [cue scary music] scare campaign!
I tell you, there is not a single TV news show tonight across all commercial and publicly-funded channels which had not featured the phrase, “proof of global warming!”
That was pretty potent stuff. Is there another topic that Rex Murphy has taken a stand on that has led to serious consequences?
I too was surprise, but pleased, to hear the BBC report on this on this mornings Today programme with a degree of impartiality they don’t usually show on this subject. Here’s hoping it continues.
Very good Mr Murphy. Anyone can see that all of science is at stake if these agenda driven,post-normalists are allowed to continue.
An update on the melting of the Himalayas: a British report on Australian news tonight reveals that last spring there was melting ice, and this week, climbers on the Himalayas were beset, astonishingly, by unpleasant, inclement weather which forced them to climb back down the mountain! (They had to decline.)
The beautiful thing about speaking the truth is that it can be done so clearly and concisely. It is only when we attempt to spread half truths and lies that we must do so with obfuscation and ‘wordsmithing’. My hat’s off to Mr. Murphy.
@Rhys Jaggar Just make sure you have the correct version of the flash player to play in real time. There is also a add-on to Firefox that will download the flv file. VLC (freeware) can play these after you have saved them
As Cold Englishman reports above, you just have to read this http://go2.wordpress.com/?id=725X1342&site=wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lewispugh.com%2F to see what the definition of a complete idiot is!