Climate change hoax becomes news 22/11/2009
The Wall Street Journal has published the most critical mainstream media report on what’s shaping up to be climategate.
The picture that emerges of prominent climate-change scientists from the more than 3000 documents and emails accessed by hackers and put on the Internet this week is one of professional backbiting and questionable scientific practices. It could undermine the idea that the science of man-made global warming is entirely settled just weeks before a crucial climate-change summit.
A smart adviser to the Coalition would grasp this as a very handy getout for Malcolm Turnbull. All he has to do is call off all bets while asking how could a responsible government or opposition commit to any measure while such a cloud of serious doubt now hangs over the findings of these so-called scientists.
In fact, it would go completely against the national interest to do so while this scandal is unresolved.
Your point about this being a free pass for Turnbull is very well made.
If he refuses to take it (as I expect), I think it leaves little doubt about his real motives for supporting an ETS – and they are not very attractive.
This evening both Macfarlane and Wong were rabbiting on as if nothing new had happened – one would not expect much more from Macfarlane, who no doubt fantasises he is some sort of latter day Kissinger, but Wong is smarter and will be very eager to finalise an ETS before the masses get wind of this fraud.
Rudd, Wong, Turnbull, and his lackey are on the verge of harming Australia’s national interest to an enormous extent.
A couple of things concern me about the leaked emails. 1. The Aussie connection, eg, Head of BMRC, BoM, does not tolerate non-AGW opinion (see 1182255717.txt) which we have known for a long time, and 2. When do you think our media including ABC will find the story newsworthy?
When the BBC does