Over the past four weeks, we at Rhodes News have covered the story of ClimateGate with caution and prudence, trying to stay as objective as possible. (Full Story)
Unfortunately, this scandal has tainted the credibility of decades of climatology science which proves beyond a doubt the Earth is warming. The editors and staff at Rhodes News have done diligent research to bring you the raw unbiased facts regarding this story. This has been a steep challenge, since almost all news sources today report their news from an unabashedly biased viewpoint, and very few outlets now even claim to be unbiased.
The daily events of the Climate Change Summit at Copenhagen this week unfolded simultaneously as each new fragment of an unsubstantiated scientific claim came unravelled. While we are still not in a position to declare the world-wide scientific community of Atmospheric Global Warming (AGW) to be a global cabal, it is safe to say at this time that a substantial number of scientists, especially those most closely associated with the Climate Research Unit of East Anglia University in the UK, have at the very least, been dishonest and have approached their research from a biased position, have tainted their raw data, have sullied their peer review process with an incestuously small pool of peer scientists who agree only with their position on AGW, and attempted to cover up their corrupt practices by deleting evidence of their email communications, and even their raw research data, normally sacrosanct to any serious scientist.
This is no small finding, and it may turn out to be the most monumental scientific error of our lifetimes. Such an error in science is no less significant than the debunking of the Ptolemic Universe from the Middle Ages. Further, this corrupted research has resulted in billions of dollars in taxpayer-funded grants, and billions have been spent in research and development on green industries for a global crisis that might not even exist. Before any global treaty has yet to be signed, billions of dollars have already been traded in carbon credits. And while we know that much of those funds were pocketed by wealthy traders, industrial conglomerates cloaked under a green veil of innocence and other corrupt interests, so far the AGW advocates have nothing to show in tangible results for these expenditures.
On the other hand, some of the ignorant AGW nay-sayers have made outrageous claims to which there is no evidence whatsoever: That the protesters at Copenhagen were on the UN payroll, or that the entire science behind AGW is a complete "hoax," a "scam," or that global warming is somehow a global Islamic plot to take over the world. That last claim, by the way, is hard to swallow considering the number of influential muslim nations that are sitting on massive reserves of oil.
Rhodes News is not ready to go that far. But we are ready to declare that there is sufficient evidence at this time to name specific climatologists who have been unscrupulous with their procedures and their publishing, and that they deserve to have their careers ruined. Specifically, these climatologists are Phil Jones, former director of the East Anglia CRU, Keith Briffa, his assistant, Tom Wigley, Phil Jones' predecessor, both Raymond S. Bradley and Tim Osborn, also of the CRU, Malcolm Hughes, professor at University of Arizona, Caspar Ammann, of the National Center for Atmospheric Research of Boulder Colorado, Michael Mann from Penn State University, and the work of Hubert Lamb, now deceased.
Further, William Connolley rewrote thousands of articles for Wikipedia about global warming, some of them have since been discredited. Worse, Connolley had other scientists banned from submitting articles because they disagreed with him on AGW theory. Ultimately Wikipedia banned Connolley from further submissions.
Most climatologists' work is solid, but from our research thus far, only these scientists, whose work is now severely tainted, can we declare that with a fair degree of certainty. We cannot allow the malfeasance of a few corrupt scientists to taint the decades of global warming research by most other scientists.
And we would be remiss if not to mention Al Gore's name, whose utterances have been proven grossly incorrect, repeatedly disproven by scientists, by disinterested third parties, cinematographers, and even by the climatologists whom Gore himself cites.
Likewise, there is now enough doubt behind the integrity of the entire world-wide climatology community, that it is not imprudent at this time to take a step back and reevaluate all the findings of other climatologists not directly associated with the scandal. The proponents of AGW will have to show their work on the board in front of the class, once again. People whom we need to listen to are scientists who have long held a healthy skepticism of these climatologists' work, such as Tim Ball, formerly of the University of Winnipeg, and Hans von Storch from the University of Hamburg (who by the way, has long believed in man-made global warming, just not the brand Jones and his gang are hustling).
In today's world of micro-information, websites spring up like weeds. One such site has covered this story since the beginning on November 19th. They have covered the story thoroughly and responsibly, and we at Rhodes News are now prepared to endorse this site to our own audience. We feel so confident about this site that we are now listing the site in our resources section: globalclimatescam.com.
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