A journalist asked an inconvenient question about Climategate to a hoity-toity global warming expert from Stanford. He didn’t like it at all, and the UN staff apparently intervened to stop the apostasy. Watch, and then note my further comment below.
Unlike some, I don’t think the guard was a goon. He was told to prevent any questions being asked after the event ended, which he did.
But back to the professor: We are not about to accept the “science” being pitched by people whose values we don’t trust, either. The use of that term by the professor was very telling, vividly illustrating how overtly political that global warming hysterics are, which is why the warmers so hate heterodox thinkers.
December 11th, 2009 | 10:39 pm
Will be interesting when they start asking these guys about Peak Oil as well. They seem very freaked out by that concept.
December 11th, 2009 | 10:40 pm
This pretty much confirms the idea that a good many of these scientists have replaced objectivity with a sort of communal Archie Bunker attitude. How is this little episode a whole lot different than ” Edith, stifle yourself ” ?
December 11th, 2009 | 10:52 pm
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December 12th, 2009 | 3:02 am
[...] MUST-SEE: Armed guard prevents questions on Climategate at UN conference Must see it to believe it. (H/T Secondhand Smoke) [...]
December 12th, 2009 | 6:21 am
They can not hide the medieval warming period.
It was much, much warmer during the medieval warming period than it is today.
There are Vikings that were buried (interred) in the permafrost in Greenland.
The permafrost was not disturbed since it froze.
It was not frozen when they were buried.
I would call that warmer then today, a lot warmer.
They were interred hundreds of years before the Industrial Revolution. The CRU tried to hide this.
The ironic thing is that this evidence of the medieval warming period is in a museum in Copenhagen.
Note for realclimate/CRU people that say the medieval warming period is based on anecdotal evidence. An artifact is something you can hold in you hand, like say, a skeleton that you chipped out of the permafrost. An anecdote is some kind of hearsay that only exists in the minds of people, like say, human induced global warming.
Note for realclimate/CRU people that say the medieval warming period was a local event. Do you know how absurd that sounds, Greenland alone really hot for 300 years, all on it’s own. Did they ban the jet stream or the gulfstream or did space aliens use a really big magnifying glass on Greenland. 300 years, seriously, a local event?
Google: “The Fate of Greenland’s Vikings”
February 28, 2000 by Dale Mackenzie Brown
Also, the medieval warming period was global.
Google: “Fraudulent hockey sticks and hidden data”
For a satirical look at the climategate programming (hiding the decline):
Google: “Anthropogenic Global Warming Virus Alert”
December 12th, 2009 | 12:46 pm
[...] Must see it to believe it. (H/T Secondhand Smoke) [...]
December 14th, 2009 | 6:48 pm
What’s most obvious to me, and I agree, forget what the guard does, is the level of distain in the professors voice in the short answer. There’s a certain “who dares to question us!?!” tone in his voice.
Additionally, if this is truly science, the moral views of anyone is irrelevant. It’s either good data or false data. It’s either a valid hypothesis or it is not. What the individuals values are, are frankly irrelevant.
But it’s not science, it’s as you say Wesley, it’s politics.
January 1st, 2010 | 3:30 pm
I suspect the more appropriate word he was looking for was “motives.” But, as the old joke goes, a Freudian slip is when you say one thing and mean your mother.
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