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		<title>How to comment on ClimateGate: a handy reference guide</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you have just learned that global warming was all a massive fraud being perpetuated by Commie scientists in East Angular, your blood is all angried up and you can’t wait to just jump right in and start SHOUTING about it -  but don’t quite know where to start &#8211; then this post is for [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you have just learned that global warming was all a massive fraud being  perpetuated by Commie scientists in East Angular, your blood is all angried up and you can’t wait to just  jump right in and start <strong>SHOUTING </strong>about  it -  but don’t quite know where to start &#8211; then this post is for you!</p>
<p>Just copy and paste the following texts, <strong>remembering to delete the  words you don’t want</strong>. Otherwise people might think you are a bot and  your post won’t get past the spam filter! Don’t let that happen: the world needs  to hear your opinion!! The internet has given ordinary people a way to fight  back against the received wisdom of the so-called “wise elites”. You can force  the Climategate scientist’s media enablers to start covering this story that  they would rather ignore!!!</p>
<p>First, choose your personality type. You are:</p>
<p><strong>…all rogue n’ mavericky:</strong></p>
<blockquote><p>Global warming is nothing but a [<span style="color: #993300;">plot</span>/<span style="color: #993300;">conspiracy</span>/<span style="color: #993300;">giant lie</span>] by [<span style="color: #993300;">Big  Government, Big Green and Big Business</span> / <span style="color: #993300;">the trillion dollar wind power industry</span> / <span style="color: #993300;">Big Energy</span> / <span style="color: #993300;">Al Gore</span>] to [<span style="color: #993300;">give all power to the UN Climatocrats </span>/ <span style="color: #993300;">create a one world  government</span> / <span style="color: #993300;">tax the US into bankruptcy</span> / <span style="color: #993300;">force you to bow down to its agenda of  enforced austerity <span style="color: #000000;">/</span> enrich Al Gore</span>].</p>
<p>These emails just go to show what a [<span style="color: #993300;">scam</span> / <span style="color: #993300;">con</span> / <span style="color: #993300;">fraud</span> / <span style="color: #993300;">giant Ponzi scheme</span>]  global warming really is.</p>
<p>We need to stop [<span style="color: #993300;">the “cap and kill” law</span> / <span style="color: #993300;">mortgaging our children’s futures  on pseudoscience</span> / <span style="color: #993300;">the Socialist Agenda</span>] before the [<span style="color: #993300;">eco-fascists</span> / <span style="color: #993300;">warlarmists</span> / <span style="color: #993300;">greentards</span>] [<span style="color: #993300;">tax us into the stone age</span> / <span style="color: #993300;">exploit us like the third world  peasants they want us to become</span> / <span style="color: #993300;">destroy our liberty</span> / <span style="color: #993300;">force us into solar  powered death camps</span>].</p>
<p>[<span style="color: #993300;">AGW is a myth</span> / <span style="color: #993300;">There is no Mann-made global warming</span> / <span style="color: #993300;">the Greenhouse Effect  is just a theory, not a fact</span>]. Get over it.</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>…some twit that went to a posh school and now writes a blog {*}: </strong></p>
<blockquote><p>This is the end of the [<span style="color: #993300;">IPCC-endorsed AGW scam</span> / <span style="color: #993300;">Al Gore’s great big AGW  conspiracy</span>].</p>
<p>Climategate is [<span style="color: #993300;">the game changer that will make people listen</span> /<span style="color: #993300;"> the end of  the Al Gore-approved AGW narrative</span>].</p>
<p>AGW is [<span style="color: #993300;">about raising taxes<span style="color: #000000;"> / </span>increasing state control <span style="color: #993300;"><span style="color: #000000;"> / </span></span>about a few canny  hucksters who’ve leapt on the bandwagon fleecing us rotten with their taxpayer  subsidised windfarms and their cabon-trading <span style="color: #993300;"><span style="color: #000000;"> / </span></span> about the sour, anti-capitalist  impulses of sandal-wearing vegans and lapsed Communists who loathe the idea of  freedom and a functioning market economy <span style="color: #993300;"><span style="color: #000000;"> / </span></span> little more than a scheme by bullying  ecofascists to deprive us of our liberty</span>].</p>
<p>We know it’s all a crock and we’re not going to take it.</p>
<p>But the vested interests behind AGW are going to make darned sure that [<span style="color: #993300;">the  AGW bandwagon keeps roll roll rollin’ along</span> / <span style="color: #993300;">we push this utterly disastrous,  economy-destroying measure through</span> / <span style="color: #993300;">spend vast amounts of public money on a  problem that doesn’t exist</span>].</p>
<p>This is our Berlin Wall moment! They can’t stop us now!</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>…just terribly concerned about what it all means for  science:</strong></p>
<blockquote><p>I’m a [<span style="color: #993300;">scientist<span style="color: #993300;"><span style="color: #000000;"> / </span></span> engineer<span style="color: #993300;"><span style="color: #000000;"> / </span></span> fully qualified blogger</span>] and I have never seen  [<span style="color: #993300;">naughtiness<span style="color: #993300;"><span style="color: #000000;"> / </span></span>misconduct<span style="color: #993300;"><span style="color: #000000;"> / </span></span>outright lying and fraud</span>] like this in all my years  of [<span style="color: #993300;">science<span style="color: #993300;"><span style="color: #000000;"> / </span></span>professional experience<span style="color: #993300;"><span style="color: #000000;"> / </span></span> blogging</span>].</p>
<p>These so-called scientists&#8217; exclusion of alternative views and opinions is  nothing less than [<span style="color: #993300;">Marxist state censorship<span style="color: #993300;"><span style="color: #000000;"> / </span></span>suppression of dissent<span style="color: #993300;"><span style="color: #000000;"> / </span></span>Lysenkoism</span>]  and is not what science is all about.</p>
<p>These [<span style="color: #993300;">frauds<span style="color: #993300;"><span style="color: #000000;"> / </span></span>white-coated Eichmanns<span style="color: #993300;"><span style="color: #000000;"> / </span></span> con-men who hijacked science to  predict a looming Armageddon unless we do exactly what they say</span>] should [<span style="color: #993300;">be  censored / resign / be fired and stripped of their titles so they never get  employment again /be <a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=rochambeau">Rochambeau’d</a></span>].</p>
<p>We should throw out [<span style="color: #993300;">the hockey stick<span style="color: #993300;"><span style="color: #000000;"> / </span></span>all of their research<span style="color: #993300;"><span style="color: #000000;"> / </span></span>all ground  based temperature data<span style="color: #993300;"><span style="color: #000000;"> / </span></span>all the Paleoclimate reconstructions <span style="color: #993300;"><span style="color: #000000;"> / </span></span>the IPCC  reports</span>] and just start over on climate science from a clean slate.</p>
<p>Science should be open and transparent. They need to release all of their  [<span style="color: #993300;">code<span style="color: #993300;"><span style="color: #000000;"> / </span></span> emails<span style="color: #993300;"><span style="color: #000000;"> / </span></span>raw data<span style="color: #993300;"><span style="color: #000000;"> / </span></span>home address and teenage daughters' cellphone  number</span>] so we can see for ourselves before we [<span style="color: #993300;">destroy our economy<span style="color: #993300;"><span style="color: #000000;"> / </span></span>give trillions of dollars directly to Al Gore</span>] based on a lie.</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>…absolutely convinced of media bias everywhere: </strong></p>
<blockquote><p>ClimateGate proves that global warming is: [<span style="color: #993300;">dead<span style="color: #993300;"><span style="color: #000000;"> / </span></span> a fraud<span style="color: #993300;"><span style="color: #000000;"> / </span></span>the greatest lie  ever perpetuated on the American people</span>], but the [<span style="color: #993300;">liberal<span style="color: #993300;"><span style="color: #000000;"> / </span></span> left wing<span style="color: #993300;"><span style="color: #000000;"> / </span></span>eco-shill<span style="color: #993300;"><span style="color: #000000;"> / </span></span>Libtard-MSM</span>] media are [<span style="color: #993300;">covering it up<span style="color: #993300;"><span style="color: #000000;"> / </span></span>hiding the truth<span style="color: #993300;"><span style="color: #000000;"> / </span></span>in  full panic stricken media blackout mode</span>].</p>
<p>Only [<span style="color: #993300;">Fox News<span style="color: #993300;"><span style="color: #000000;"> / </span></span>The Daily Mail<span style="color: #993300;"><span style="color: #000000;"> / </span></span>The {insert your own courageous national  media outlet here}</span>] are covering this story. Hmm.</p>
<p>Global warming [<span style="color: #993300;">alarmism<span style="color: #993300;"><span style="color: #000000;"> / </span></span> hysteria</span>] is all about [<span style="color: #993300;">money<span style="color: #993300;"><span style="color: #000000;"> / </span></span> power<span style="color: #993300;"><span style="color: #000000;"> / </span></span>a massive  UN sponsored tax grab</span>]. Just Google [<span style="color: #993300;">Michael Crichton</span> / {<span style="color: #993300;">insert name of some blogger you like here<span style="color: #000000;">}</span></span>].</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>…suffering from liberal guilt, probably wearing sandals right now, and have  about as much backbone as roadkill weasel after a visit to a chiropractor: </strong></p>
<blockquote><p>It’s no use pretending this isn’t a major blow. The emails extracted by a  hacker from the climatic research unit at the University of East Anglia could  scarcely be more damaging. I am now convinced that they are genuine, and I’m  dismayed and deeply shaken by them.</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>…President of The Maldives:</strong></p>
<blockquote><p>I know you are all really busy right now with some emails or whatever, but we  are a tad concerned that we might be losing some height. As in, above sea level.</p></blockquote>
<p><em><strong>Internet Talking Points Recycling Program Seal of Approval:</strong></em></p>
<p><em>This post constructed from 97% Recycled Internet.</em></p>
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<p><em>{*}: <a href="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/author/jamesdelingpole/">100%</a> Recycled Internet!</em></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Resources:</span></p>
<p><a href="http://rationalwiki.com/wiki/Poe's_Law">Poe&#8217;s Law</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2009/11/the-cru-hack/">A more productive approach</a> to <a href="http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2009/11/the-cru-hack-context/">discussing the CRU email thefts</a></p>
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		<title>Newtongate: the final nail in the coffin of Renaissance and Enlightenment &#8216;thinking&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:28:30 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Climate change]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you own any shares in companies that produce reflecting telescopes, use differential and integral calculus, or rely on the laws of motion, I should start dumping them NOW. The conspiracy behind the calculus myth has been suddenly, brutally and quite deliciously exposed after volumes of Newton’s private correspondence were compiled and published. When you [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you own any shares in companies that produce reflecting telescopes, use differential and integral calculus, or rely on the laws of motion, I should start dumping them NOW. The conspiracy behind the calculus myth has been suddenly, brutally and quite deliciously exposed after volumes of Newton’s private correspondence were compiled and published.</p>
<p>When you read some of these letters, you realise just why Newton and his collaborators might have preferred to keep them confidential. This scandal could well be the biggest in Renaissance science. These alleged letters – supposedly exchanged by some of the most prominent scientists behind really hard math lessons – suggest:</p>
<p>Conspiracy, collusion in covering up the truth, manipulation of data, private admissions of flaws in their public claims and much more.</p>
<p>But perhaps the most damaging revelations are those concerning the way these math nerd scientists may variously have manipulated or suppressed evidence to support their cause.</p>
<p>Here are a few tasters. They suggest dubious practices such as:</p>
<p><strong>Conspiring to avoid public scrutiny: </strong></p>
<blockquote><p>There is nothing which I desire to avoid in matters of philosophy more then contentions, nor any kind of contention more then one in print: &amp; therefore <strong>I gladly embrace your proposal of a private correspondence</strong>. What’s done before many witnesses is seldom without some further concern <strong>then that for truth</strong>: but <strong>what passes between friends in private </strong>usually deserve ye name of <strong>consultation rather then contest</strong>, &amp; so I hope it will prove between you &amp; me.</p>
<p>Newton to Hooke, 5 February 1676</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>Insulting dissenting scientists and equating them with holocaust deniers:</strong></p>
<blockquote><p>[Hooks Considerations] consist in ascribing an hypothesis to me which is not mine; in asserting an hypothesis which as to ye principal parts of it is not against me; in granting the greatest part of my discourse if explicated by that hypothesis; &amp; <strong>in denying some things</strong> the truth of which would have appeared by an experimental examination.</p>
<p>Newton to Oldenburg, 11 June 1672</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>Manipulation of evidence:</strong></p>
<blockquote><p>I wrote to you on Tuesday that the last leafe of the papers you sent me <strong>should be altered</strong> because it refers to a manuscript in my private custody &amp; not yet upon record.</p>
<p>Newton to Keill, May 15 1674</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>Knowingly publishing scientific fraud:</strong></p>
<blockquote><p>You need not give yourself the trouble of examining all the calculations of the Scholium. <strong>Such errors as do not depend upon wrong reasoning can be of no great consequence</strong> &amp; may be corrected by the reader.</p>
<p>Newton to Cotes June 15 1710</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>Suppression of evidence:</strong></p>
<blockquote><p>Mr. Raphson has printed off four or five sheets of his History of Fluxions, but being shew’d <strong>Sr. Is. Newton</strong> (who, it seems, would rather have them write against him, than have a piece done in that manner in his favour), he <strong>got a Stop put to it,</strong> for some time at least.</p>
<p>Jones to Cotes, 17 September 1711</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>Abusing the peer review system: </strong></p>
<blockquote><p>…only the Germans and French have in a violent manner attack’d the Philosophy of Sr. Is. Newton, and seem resolved to stand by Cartes; Mr. Keil, as a person concerned, <strong>has undertaken to answer and defend some things, as Dr. Friend, and Dr. Mead, does</strong> (in their way) the rest: I would have sent you ye whole controversy, was not I sure that you know, those only are most capable of objecting against his writings, that least understand them; <strong>however, in a little time, you’ll see some of these in ye Philos. Transact</strong>.</p>
<p>Jones to Cotes, October 25 1711</p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia; color: #565358; font-size: x-small;"> </span></p>
<p><strong>Insulting their critics: </strong></p>
<blockquote><p>The controversy concerning Sr. Isaac’s Philosophy is a piece of news that I had not heard of unless Muys’s late book be meant. I think that Philosophy needs no defence, especially when tis attack’t by Cartesians. One Mr Green a Fellow of Clare Hall in our University seems to have nearly the same design with those German &amp; French objectors whom you mention. His book is now in our press &amp; is almost finished. <strong>I am told he will add an appendix in which he undertakes also to square the circle. I need not recommend his performance any further to you</strong>.</p>
<p>Cotes to Jones, November 11 1711</p></blockquote>
<p>Gravity <em>does not </em>extend so far from Earth that it can be the force holding the moon to its orbit; school students are increasingly reluctant to practice differential equations, that will only lead to the practice of more oppressive forms of higher math; the tide is turning against over-regulation, like Newton’s “laws” of motion and Universal Gravitation. The so called ‘Cartesian’, ‘skeptical’ view is now also the majority view.</p>
<p>Unfortunately we’ve a long way to go before the public mood (and scientific truth) is reflected by our policy makers. There are too many vested interests in classical mechanics, with far too much to lose either in terms of reputation or money, for this to end without a bitter fight.</p>
<p>But if the Newton / Royal Society mail scandal is true, it is a blow to the Renaissance lobby’s credibility which is never likely to recover.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Resources:</span></p>
<p><a href="http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2009/11/the-cru-hack/">Real Climate on the CRU hack</a></p>
<p><a href="http://greenfyre.wordpress.com/2009/11/21/climate-deniers-hoax-themselves-again/#more-7024">Greenfyre’s overview</a> of Climategate</p>
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