Tuesday, December 08, 2009

The First Climategate

The Revelle-Gore Story Attempted
Political Suppression of Science

 
Curmudgeonly & Skeptical

Another media cover up

Wouldn't you think that if the Vice President of the United States was at the center of a libel lawsuit in which a global warming skeptic scientist, whose work was a huge embarrassment to the VP, was being defamed by another scientists closely associated with the VP, and the result of the lawsuit was a complete and unequivocal apology and admission that every libelous utterance was untrue - wouldn't you think that this would be news?

Well, it wasn't. I sure never heard about it, and I have been paying very close attention to this issue for a long time. -
Rob Kremer

I was led to this piece by Oregon Guy, as were some of you who follow comment links (often worth more that the post being commented on).  This really resonates with me for these reasons:
  1. Curmudgeonly & Skeptical
    Like Mr. Kremer, I too "have been paying very close attention to this issue for a long time." I will include below some links to L. Fred Singer's work,  going back to 1997, at which time I started the Topic  " Environmentalist Wackos" on Free Republic.  So, while not quite a policy wonk, I do qualify as a more than causal observer of the man-caused global warming (and cooling) scams. Dr. Singer was central to many of those stories, and yet I had no knowledge that he sued Al Gore -  through his proxy Dr. Justin Lancaster.  Wow.
  2. Since Al Gore was a student of Harvard Professor Dr. Roger Revelle, maybe we can call that the "Big Bang" moment when the Goreacle was created?
  3. Documenting Al Gore's disreputable, and despicable behavior as a United States Senator would, in normal times, destroy his advocacy for - anything, really. Except maybe for  better prison food. 
The nutshell: [From Chapter 11, The Revelle-Gore Story Attempted Political Suppression of Science]
  • Curmudgeonly & Skeptical
    Dr. Roger Revelle was one of the outstanding oceanographers of the twentieth-century.  His studies caused him to conclude that not all carbon dioxide emitted from the burning of fossil fuels would be quickly transferred into the ocean and some might accumulate in the atmosphere.
  • Gore was a dope smoking student of Revelle's at the time.
  • Gore becomes an eco-freak.
  • Dr. Revelle by now realizes that carbon dioxide science is not all that it should be, and with Dr. Singer publishes the warning: “What to Do About Greenhouse Warming: Look Before You Leap,” in April 1991.  The main conclusion was a simple message: “The scientific base for a greenhouse warming is too uncertain to justify drastic action at this time.”
  • Algore fails to heed the warning, and publishes "Earth in the Lurch Balance,"where he wrongly cites Revelle's science.
  • Somebody finds this obscure Revelle-Singer paper during the 1992 campaign, and pretty soon George Will is writing about discrepancies in Gore's book.  Sen. Algore is deeply embarrassed.
  • The Goreacle enlists proxies,  like Harvard's Dr. Justin Lancaster, a "scientist" who knows on which side his grant requests are buttered, to destroy Singer.
  • Singer is pissed that his reputation is being besmirched, and sues.
  • Discovery yields info about how close many warmist scientists are with Al Gore, and volumes of other damaging facts, but a real turning point is when Al Gore attempts to get Nightline's Ted Koppel to expose Singer as an incompetent fraud , liar, and dupe of  Big Energy.
  • Koppel didn’t do the vice president’s bidding and chastised Gore on the air.
There is some irony in the fact that Vice President Gore—— one of the most scientifically literate men to sit in the White House in this century (objection your honor, hearsay)——[is] resorting to political means to achieve what should ultimately be resolved on a purely scientific basis. The measure of good science is neither the politics of the scientist nor the people with whom the scientist associates. It is the immersion of hypotheses into the acid of truth. That’s the hard way to do it, but it’s the only way that works.

Of course Gore paid little attention.  By then, all of his time was being spent strong arming campaign money from his White House office telephone (unlawful), and meeting with, and taking money from Buddhist nuns (unlawful). 

These files are from 1997-2002, and will be of interest to wonkers (I said wOnkers).  Amazing how the same arguments are being fought; the same charges leveled. All because Al Gore got away with Climategate I, unscathed.
  Is 'global warming' hot air.html
How Bush Conceded Global Warming.html
Not Scientific Consensus.html
The Sky Isn't Falling.html


3 comments:

JMcD said...

Gore and his cohorts attempts to manipulate the CO2 controversy go back further than I thought.
His use of political power to further his false case for Global Warming should be a criminal offence.
News of the libel lawsuit and the resulting apology was handled in typical fashion by the media.
When these left wing propagandists in the MSM aren't commiting the Gobellesque, 'sin of commission', then it's the Michael Moore, 'sin of omission'.

Quoting Dr. Kelton Rhoads:

Ommissions

"One of the most commonly employed propaganda techniques is the omission of relevant or truthful information that works against the propagandist's thesis".

JMcD said...

Message to Algore:
Al, the truth is never "inconvenient"....Try using it often. You'll find it's "curiously refreshing", like a Schweppes Tonic Water.

JMcD said...

So much for Global Warming what with this big storm that just hit the Midwest and left 15 foot snowdrifts in places.

I read that "Even the military Humvees were having trouble, and large truck drivers were also getting stuck in the snow."

Had to be really rough on the small truck drivers then.
Wonder what the height and weight requirements are?

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