Episode 7 of Red Pilled America: Why did Trump say a lot of global warming was a hoax? We follow the biggest science heist in history to find the answer.
It’s is about the Climategate Gang of Four. Steve McIntyre, Anthony Watts, Steven Mosher, and yours truly.
Patrick Courrielche has done a brilliant job of tying the story together.~ctm
Be warned, some of you may change your mind about Mr Mosher.
Charles: I really enjoyed listening to this interview. It brought back those glorious days when there were new and shocking revelations at Climateaudit every week, if not every day. Unfortunately, IMO scientific integrity is an even more foreign concept to Trump than it is to Gore or the Hockey Team. Mr. Trump calls global warming a hoax because it is politically – no personally – convenient, not because of any real understanding of Climategate or what parts of CAGW are dubious. When this position is no longer convenient, he will say that investigations cleared those scientists of wrongdoing.
Frank, Climate Science itself is dubious.
Andrew
It was indeed an enjoyable listen. A story well told.
I hadn’t previously read that Trump was much informed about the Climategate events.
Regarding Trump’s views about it being a “hoax”, I thought he was more specifically charged with saying that it was a “Chinese Hoax”. I merely took this as another case of Trump talking from the hip. Supporters tend to listen to what he means, while his opponents like to focus on what he says. He is rather careless, it seems, about the latter.
I took his reported statement to mean that the global-warming malarkey is so configured that it could easily appear as a hoax engineered by China because it works to their great advantage, not that it actually was engineered by China. I find this more believable because Trump is undoubtedly more focused on the trade and economic consequences, not the scientific aspects.
Also, don’t forget others such as Roger “Tallbloke” Tattershall. As I recall, his association with people and events earned him an unexpected home visit from ~13 or so of Her Majesty’s garçons-dans-bleu, who took away his computers under one of the prevention-of-terrorism-acts. At the time they were enacted, I’m sure we were told not to worry about the misuse of such powers granted to the police. That they might be used against global-warming skeptics was certainly not discussed in public.
Fortunately the police involved were clearly not much interested in misusing such powers, but it seems that someone higher up was. I guess the finger probably pointed at the green-bat-shit-crazy Chris Huhne, Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change. Luckily for us, he later got to spend time at Her majesty’s pleasure in HM Prison Wandsworth and HM Prison Leyhill for perverting the course of justice over a speeding offence. Like other green hypocrites, he clearly should have been riding a bicycle.