Dec
Biased reporting on Climategate? Say it ain’t so!
Thank you Washington Times, for your editorial today bashing the media’s “coverage” of climategate. Keep up the pressure.
With trillions of dollars at stake in the battle over global warming, now would be the time for the press to closely scrutinize the claims of those who would reorganize the world’s economy from farm to factory and laboratory to living room. And the Climategate scandal – where leaked e-mails and dodgy computer programs from the University of East Anglia raise powerful new questions about the role of politics in climate science – would be the perfect opportunity to explore what is going on behind the scenes.
That’s not happening. To judge by recent coverage from Associated Press, the Fourth Estate watchdog has acted like a third-rate pocket pet. Case in point is an 1,800-word AP missive that appeared in hundreds of publications, many carrying it on the front page of their Sunday, Dec. 13 issue with the headline, “Science not faked, but not pretty.” AP gave three scientists copies of the controversial e-mails and then asked them about their conclusions. The wire service portrayed the trio of scientists as dismissing or minimizing allegations of scientific fraud when, in fact, the scientists believe no such thing.
Read it all: Washington Times
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I think we need to set the record straight about the Associated Press. They can be proven to be complicit in the whitewash job being undertaken over the climategate scandal and we can show this as follows. For example, the Associated Press made this absurd statement shortly after the Climategate scandal began:
“E-mails stolen from climate scientists show they stonewalled skeptics and discussed hiding data — but the messages don’t support claims that the science of global warming was faked, according to an exhaustive review by The Associated Press.”
By Seth Borenstein, Raphael Satter and Malcolm Ritter, Dec 12, 2009
But thanks to the keen eyes at Internet climate blog, WUWT we see all is not as it seems….
(http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/12/12/ap...
This is because Seth Borenstein, the guy in charge of the AP investigation, is none other than the same Seth Borenstein who is good mates with the dodgy hockey team of climatologists at the University of East Anglia’s CRU who have been implicated in defrauding publicly-paid for climate data.
Here is how what Seth Borenstein had to say to his crooked buddies in one of the leaked emails:
On Jul 23, 2009, at 11:54 AM, Borenstein, Seth wrote:
Kevin, Gavin, Mike,
It’s Seth again. Attached is a paper in JGR today that
Marc Morano is hyping wildly. It’s in a legit journal. Whatchya think?
Seth
Seth Borenstein
Associated Press Science Writer
[7]sborenstein@xxxxxxxxx.xxx
The Associated Press, 1100 13th St. NW, Suite 700,
Washington, DC
20005-4076
202-641-9454
Seth makes no bones about his zealous loyalty to the green cause. Other journalists say he is well known for it. As such AP is clearly allowing itself to become a propaganda mouthpiece for Ecofascism, or more pertinently, cronies for their paymasters, the financial elite at the core of the Bilderberg Group/Trilateral Commission/Club of Rome. Look no further than Maurice Strong. Strong, has been the silent partner, a man whose name often draws a blank on the Washington cocktail circuit. Strong was a former Secretary General of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (the much hyped Rio Earth Summit) and Under-Secretary General of the United Nations in the days of an Oil-for-Food beleaguered Kofi Annan, the Canadian born Strong is little known in the United States. That’s because he spends most of his time in China where he he has been working to make the communist country the world’s next superpower and pulling the strings of paid shills and perverters of public funds. The core group of climate scientists on the IPCC ‘Team’ are on such a take. Non less than Professor Phil Jones who makes this stark admission in one of the leaked emails entitled, 1120676865.txt where he says:
“Neville,
Mike’s response could do with a little work, but as you say he’s got the tone almost dead on. I hope I don’t get a call from congress ! I’m hoping that no-one there realizes I have a US DoE grant and have had this (with Tom W.) for the last 25 years. I’ll send on one other email received for interest.
Cheers
Phil”
This is nothing short of a public scandal and it’s time for pressure to be put on the government to end this outright conspiracy perpetrated on every tax-paying member of the public. Borenstein has clearly breached the code of conduct for journalists. How can the public trust such an “exhaustive inquiry” when he is part of the whole cover up?
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