Cooper: Climategate 2.0 further clouds global warming findings
November 30, 2011 @ 9:14 am
The new batch shows that, for example, many so-called climate scientists were fully aware that proof of melting tropical glaciers was bunk, but treated such evidence as “dirty laundry.” Others complained of “nitpicky jerks” who found anomalous data. They grew fretful about anthropogenic global warming skeptics having “extreme religious views.” One such miscreant apparently “has links to the Vatican.” Who knew that conspiratorial Catholics were inspired global warming deniers?
It is not all so comical. Climate superstar Michael Mann of Penn State, the inventor of the hockey stick graph that wrongly showed unprecedented increases in mean global temperatures in recent decades, was particularly irate about critics of “the cause.” His reference was not to science, but to “the PR battle.”
His British counterpart, Phil Jones of the climatic research unit at the University of East Anglia, told how he searched in vain for a Japanese scientist who would state that increased numbers of tornadoes in that country resulted from global warming. Another climate research unit scientist wanted to claim that the Great Barrier Reef was disintegrating because of global warming, though he knew that fertilizers and starfish did the damage.