Uh oh, another “climategate” like moment is upon us as the law of unintended consequences kicks in. As Dr. Roger Pielke put it:
Appears that Bengtsson can play hardball too.
Plus there is an editorial by Dr. Matt Ridley saying “This bullying of climate sceptics must end“. Here is the front page of The Times for Friday May 16th, a link to the article follows.
Here is the full article:
Scientists in cover-up of ‘damaging’ climate view
Research which heaped doubt on the rate of global warming was deliberately suppressed by scientists because it was “less than helpful” to their cause, it was claimed last night.
In an echo of the infamous “Climategate” scandal at the University of East Anglia, one of the world’s top academic journals rejected the work of five experts after a reviewer privately denounced it as “harmful”.
Full article at: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/science/article4091344.ece
Ridley’s essay:
This bullying of climate-science sceptics must end
When did demonising your opponents become so acceptable?
Lennart Bengtsson is about as distinguished as climate scientists get. His decision two weeks ago to join the academic advisory board (on which I also sit, unremunerated) of Nigel Lawson’s Global Warming Policy Foundation was greeted with fury by many fellow climate scientists. Now in a McCarthyite move — his analogy — they have bullied him into resigning by refusing to collaborate with him unless he leaves.
Full article: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/thunderer/article4091200.ece
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CACAnuts have overplayed their hand.
A mixed metaphor if ever there were one, but you get my drift.
This is what happens when academic pseudo-scientists isolate themselves in an ivory tower echo chamber.
Welcome to the real world, vast CACA-wingnut conspirators!
Wow! The Team will not be happy.
Mann should sue The Times.
Frustrating for the moment anyway, as can’t read either the full essay or the full article. Don’t know much about The Times, but I know it’s a major newspaper in U.K. and I think not particularly conservative in outlook. If that’s true, this could turn out to be a spectacular own goal by the establishment climateers….
Interesting (to say the least) to see how this plays out….
First it was Delingpole. Then the Spectator. Then the Daily Mail. Then The TImes. The important aspect is that this stuff is now entering the journalistic narrative, otherwise dominated by planet-burning deathwishes.
When the floodgates will open, many journalists will suddenly do their coming out as climate skeptics. Just hang on, we aren’t too far from that date.
I don’t know if there is going to be a human induced climate catastrophe, but I know there has been a catastrophic failure of climate science.
Popcorn!
The Guardian hacks are probably working overnight on a rebuttal.
I guess the emergency response team of CAGW proponents is well oiled. This from Scientific American, the CAGW co-opted former grand scientific journal:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/climate-cyber-bullying/
No, they haven’t come to Bengsston’s rescue, they are talking about nasty emails received from den_iers by the likes of Gavin Schmidt, Trenberth and Australia’s Prof. Hamilton who, IIRC was the guy who said he had death threats and an investigation showed him to have invented them.
PS. They even had the cock to call it McCarthyite communication!!. The difference here is instead of emails from nutters, Bengsston is getting it from established CAGW climate scientists. They aren’t just being nasty in word, they are threatening career-ending action.
As expected, DrudgeReport.com now links, to the DailyMail.co.uk writeup, which means Fox News and conservative blogs will be all over this:
PAPER: Witch-hunt forces out climate scientist….
Worries about his safety…
Screenshot: http://s6.postimg.org/rn9imgir5/image.jpg
Disgusting. I have my popcorn ready though. Should be some great commentary tomorrow…
Pokerguy : “Don’t know much about The Times, but I know it’s a major newspaper in U.K. and I think not particularly conservative in outlook”
It is one of Rupert Murdoch’s. That is enough to define its policy.
@pokerguy
The Times used to be the definitive newspaper. It was nicknamed the “the thunderer”. All other newspapers with “Times” in their names are named after it. (Hence, it is totally wrong to call it “The London Times”, as some ignorant writers do.).
But, alas, it fell into the hands of Murdoch some years ago. The days when one’s butler announced “There are some reporters here, sir, and a gentleman from The Times” are long gone. One has to send the whole lot round to the tradesmen’s entrance now.
My footman refuses to iron the pages and my butler holds it between finger and thumb, so I don’t read it now. (And I’m back in Australia, anyway.). When I did, it was pretty conservative, but not fanatically so.
In the UK The Times is like the Washington Post or the New York Times. It goes national and is a conservative leaning newspaper. Many on the left regularly read it’s daily headlines though may not buy it. In the UK parliament it is one of the essential, daily reading requirements along with the other national newspapers.
These are the end times for the Warmist ideology/religion, and they know it. Now is when the Warmanista nastiness will be at its’ height. They will stop at nothing. But, their nasty behavior is there for all to see, and damages their “cause” even further, setting it upon a death spiral.
[snip – let’s not go there with that imagery -mod]
“The unnamed scientist concluded: “Actually it is harmful as it opens the door for oversimplified claims of ‘errors’ and worse from the climate sceptics media side.””
There are errors, to be sure, but finally, there is but one error.
To the right of the Times headline you can see the Duke of Edinburgh. He, like his big eared son, is a Warmist of extreme caliber. The Duke once wished to come back like a virus to tackle over-population, forgetting that he has 4 in-breeds, even in Mexico they only have 2.32 per woman in 2010. As for Charles he has a LOT OF LAND and many palaces and mansions with a staff of dozens, each with their own fossil fueled car and the co2 footprint of the latest Godzilla film version.
Never let these people get away with their anti-human hypocrisy.
Jimbo says:
May 15, 2014 at 5:13 pm
The WaPo & especially the NYT are not “conservative-leaning”. That would be the Wall Street Journal, but even that periodical has been infested by the Warmunista Rot in its reportage if not its editorial page slant.
Jimbo says:
May 15, 2014 at 5:25 pm
Which is why I’m a republican when it comes to your government, not that I have or ought to have a say in it.
Maybe Big Ears’ kids will redeem the monarchy, but I’m not holding my breath.
“Jimbo says:
May 15, 2014 at 5:16 pm”
Another case of two countries separated by a common language.
In the US, it’s is a contraction of “it is” (and part of the great dessert “IT’S IT”…)
In the UK, it’s is also a possesive pronoun…
One might say that that’s just the way it is… (sorry)
At least English doesn’t have gender to deal with, as French, German, and Spanish do…..
Reads like something out of Climategate, doesn’t it?
Frustrated right now.
At this moment in order to read either the Times article or the editorial it appears that I need to get a subscription. I ain’t gonna do that.
John
You will not find them in US papers. They are too dishonest.