2009-12-06 Climate of Uncertainty Heats Up

2009-12-06 L. Gordon Crovitz Wall Street Journal \climategate\global warming denial\blogosphere\global warming is a religion http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424052748704342404574578012533089846-lMyQjAxMDA5MDAwNzEwNDcyWj.html Climate of Uncertainty Heats Up Climate of Uncertainty Heats Up "This article will be available to non-subscribers of the Online Journal for up to seven days after it is e-mailed." (emailed 2009-12-08) Climategate began with the disclosure of emails and other documents showing how leading global-warming scientists had evaded peer review and refused to disclose data. Over the past week, there have been resignations and investigations of top scientists in England and the U.S.

The British government is recalculating its historic weather findings in light of the now-suspect data from the Climate Research Unit in East Anglia. Even the United Nations, which had claimed "unequivocal" evidence for man-made global warming, pledges that it will review the evidence.

More details will come out as the leaked documents get fully parsed, but already one certainty is the end of certainty. The one-sidedness of the views of the most influential scientists had led many to believe in the gospel of global warming.

Unlike Watergate, Climategate didn't come to light because investigative journalists ferreted out the truth. Instead, this story so far has played itself out largely on blogs, often run by the same scientists who had a hard time getting printed in the scientific journals. Climategate has provided a voice to the scientists who had been frozen out of the debate.

Crovitz fails to address (or even mention) any of the many refutations of "climategate", so this article meets the definition of denialism.

Interesting how the establishment loves the blogosphere when it supports their position... and interesting how they don't mention the overwhelming majority of blogs which do not.

&ldquo;Unlike Watergate, Climategate didn't come to light because investigative journalists ferreted out the truth. Instead, this story so far has played itself out largely on blogs, often run by the same scientists who had a hard time getting printed in the scientific journals. Climategate has provided a voice to the scientists who had been frozen out of the debate.&rdquo;   