Yesterday, NewsBusters, of the Media Research Center, featured none other than local hometown rag, the Houston Chronicle, for its exemplary performance as a major American news publication with its head in a very dark place. One would think the editorial board of such an organization would make, at the least, a small effort to avoid looking completely clueless to its readers, but it appears those expectations are simply too much.
P.J. Gladnick turns the klieg lights on to the Houston Chronicle and their outspoken, often funny, occasionally witty readers commenting on an editorial published Sunday that contained the following:
One of the authors of the study, Professor Corinne Le Quere of the University of East Anglia, says the conclusions raise the stakes for delegates to the Copenhagen gathering, who will try to hammer out a successor to the Kyoto Accords that committed signatory governments to emission reduction goals. The United States did not sign on to that agreement.
Four days previous, an unknown person released 1,000 e-mails and 3,000 documents from the internal files of this same organization. Worldwide uproar is probably too timid a description for the scientific and political fallout occurring because of these revelations. It is simply astounding the Houston Chronicle editorial board would choose to publish this opinion in view of these events and defies all reason and logic to cite the very influential academic research facility whose credibility is collapsing on the world stage. Gladnick has a lot of fun with this:
An hilariously bizarre situation is happening in the wake of the growing Climategate scandal. Many of the mainstream media stories about global warming are simply pretending it doesn’t exist. Perhaps they feel that by ignoring Climategate entirely that it will just go away. Unfortunately for them, the readers of these global warming stories keep bringing up the inconvenient truth of Climategate by mentioning the scandal in the comments section over and over and over again.
He quotes quite a few local readers and their comments in yesterday’s online edition.
Since I am very busy at the moment, but would live to cover this subject in much more depth, I include links below to help inform our readers on this continually breaking story:
CFACT’s Climate Depot site, huge collection of sources, continually updated with new links
Declan McCullagh at CBS News blog is very knowledgeable and is on top of the story
Charlie Martin at Pajamas Media writing on the manipulated computer modeling codes
Rand Simberg on the media treatment
Chris Horner at Pajamas Media writing on lawsuits to be filed by Competitive Enterprise Institute against NASA & GISS
UPDATE:
Powerline has several excellent posts on the story
More later, but I have a horde to feed tomorrow.
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But hey, they cover important stuff. There was a front page link to a story with some minor league celebrity complaining about a stolen sex video. The story has a link to the porn site with the video. It is not on the front page now but is still on their site.
#1 They’ve got something more important on the front page now. Hugo’s Squash Soup.
It’s funny.. The guy there at the barnicle says if I want to debate, I need to read Eric’s blog citing the same bogus data..
Look! It’s a circle, not a square.. It’s a circle because that other guy cites it as a circle!
Hilarious.. Not that this will change the minds of the True Believers.
L. Ron Hubbard created a religion so he could filter money through it tax free. Even though those who believe Xenu nuking souls transported by a DC-10 at the base of a volcano may never change their minds.. it seems rather silly.
Looking forward to texpat’s continuation of this report on the hoax.
One more reason not to read editorials.
The CBS coverage cited is well written as are the Powerline snippets, The SO2 story is a particularly fascinating topic in itself. I know Rand from a previous project we were worked together on, he has to make a living also.
I’m not sure if the revelation that scientists are catty, territorial and given to concerns over funding is exactly news, the Salk/Sabin controversy settled that ( I guess I’m dating myself).
Not even the deniers cherry picking stories about which they have not a clue is news. In three months there will be a New Yorker story that exposes the true goings on.
Yessur, so much soffisticatin’ goin’ on right there, no way the knuckle dragger deniers can desiffer the contexuals these smart people are porntificatin’.
#5 Shamaal
No doubt compiled by Sy Hersh with his hyperactive, loosely restrained imagination.
There are, in fact, many people who know exactly what they are talking about regarding the CRU scandal and its implications. Your attempt to discredit the fraud wholesale because some people who are not scientifically sophisticated are raising the issues merely illuminates the weakness of your argument.
They deciples of AGW cannot turn back. They would have to admit what a bunch of ignorant dupes they have been. They jumped on their bandwagon and it is too crowded for them to get off. We’un’s will just have to work on that wagon wheel.
It will break under the load. Then we can all have our good laugh at the critters that fall out. Too many are educated beyond their intelligence. That is my argument against universal college….
Seymour Hersh writes well and except for the poison gas in Viet Nam story I don’t recall to many clunkers, but there are other writers.
And those who know what they are talking about, some in the stories cited, aren’t using the word fraud. Unethical and self-serving maybe, but the perception and promulgation that global warming is a hoax is the real fraud.
But I suspect you know that.
Nobody home at the O white House either
I vote we make Texpat our embedded..equalizer in NY……….
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