Mark Steyn is the business of making sensible observations -- often in hilarious fashion -- on the strange turnings of the world.
This weekend he goes even farther, doing investigative reporting that the "lamestream" media fails or refuses to do about the fraudulent global warming scam being perpetrated by Al Gore-type profiteers and governmental organizations eager to expand their reach and control for the riches that are sure to follow.
In this case, Steyn "connects the dots" linking two of the leading global warming "scientist" fraudsters exposed in the internet posting of the damning Unversity of East Anglia emails to a leading "science" reporter for the New York Times Andrew Revkin. The Times leads the chorus in intoning the climate warming dirges of impending world disaster.
The tight little circle of academic "peer-reviewers" who peer-review their "peer-reviewed" colleagues are at the heart of the scam. "Science reporters such as Revkin bestow legitimacy. They support those who create the fraud and benefit those eager to cash in on the fraud for money and power.
Where will it all lead?
As the UN conferees gather in Copenhagen, Steyn quotes the new president of the European Union "an eager proponent of the ecopalypse," who confidently calls 2009 "the first year of global governance."
Global government, huh? I wonder where you go to vote them out of office.
November 28, 2009
CRU's Tree-Ring Circus
Who peer-reviews the peer-reviewers?By Mark Steyn at National Review Online
My favorite moment in the Climategate/Climaquiddick scandal currently roiling the "climate change" racket was Stuart Varney's interview on Fox News with the actor Ed Begley Jr. -- star of the 1980s medical drama St. Elsewhere but latterly better known, as is the fashion with members of the thespian community, as an "activist." He's currently in a competition with Bill Nye ("the Science Guy") to see who can have the lowest "carbon footprint." Pistols at dawn would seem the quickest way of resolving that one, but presumably you couldn't get a reality series out of it. Anyway, Ed was relaxed about the mountain of documents recently leaked from Britain's Climate Research Unit in which the world's leading climate-change warm-mongers e-mail each other back and forth on how to "hide the decline" and other interesting matters.
Nothing to worry about, folks. "We'll go down the path and see what happens in peer-reviewed studies," said Ed airily. "Those are the key words here, Stuart. 'Peer-reviewed studies.'"
Hang on. Could you say that again more slowly so I can write it down? Not to worry. Ed said it every 12 seconds, as if it were the magic charm that could make all the bad publicity go away. He wore an open-necked shirt, and, although I don't have a 76" inch HDTV, I wouldn't have been surprised to find a talismanic peer-reviewed amulet nestling in his chest hair for additional protection. "If these scientists have done something wrong, it will be found out and their peers will determine it," insisted Ed. "Don't get your information from me, folks, or any newscaster. Get it from people with Ph.D. after their names. 'Peer-reviewed studies is the key words. And if it comes out in peer-reviewed studies . . . "
Got it: Pier-reviewed studies. You stand on the pier and you notice the tide seems to be coming in a little higher than it used to and you wonder if it's something to do with incandescent light bulbs killing the polar bears? Is that how it works?No, no, peer-reviewed studies. "Peer-reviewed studies. Go to Science magazine, folks. Go to Nature," babbled Ed. "Read peer-reviewed studies. That's all you need to do. Don't get it from you or me."
Look for the peer-reviewed label! And then just believe whatever it is they tell you!
Read on. . .
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