Climategate Stonewallers: As Exposed as Tiger Woods, but Without Any Show of Repentance
Dec. 14, 2009
Climategate exposed some widely respected academic defenders of global warming as intellectual imposters and data-fakers. Their peers, who have relied on their faked data, are now trapped. They don't know what to do. If they admit that the data really were faked and that opposing views have been shut out of peer-reviewed journals, they inescapably also admit that theit case is weak and that they were taken in by charlatans. On the other hand, if they defend these people, they look either like charlatans or easily deceived intellectual lightweights. What's a global warmer to do? Here are two fine examples. John McQuaid John McQuaid is a little-known columnist for the Washington Post. He is a standard liberal. Shake 50 of them in a bag and pour them out. You couldn't tell one from another. He will soon be unemployed. So will the other 49. They are embedded in print journalism, and print journalism is dying. Recently, McQuaid wrote a piece on how much conservatives will regret the fact that the Climategate emails have given global warming "deniers" a new lease on life. He's wrong. We will not regret it. Not one teeny-weenie bit. Do the words "out of touch with reality" ring a bell? He called his article "Back to the Bunker." That is where he says conservatives have headed. I loved it. Here is a guy in a lower deck of the occupational Titanic, and he thinks we conservatives are in a bunker. He should be so safe. The Web is killing newspapers that are not subscription-based and on-line, meaning the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, and nobody else. One of these walking cadavers is the New York Times. Another (close to death) is the Los Angeles Times. The third member of the liberal triumvirate is the Washington Post. We conservatives are, of course, overjoyed. Digital technology is sinking these liberal dinosaurs. When the New York Times management was so stupid as to allow one of the Daily Show's comedians interview senior editors, it was clear that they do not have a clue. That segment is a riot -- all the more so because the audience is liberal. I have never enjoyed a comedy video more than this one. It is perfectly titled: End Times. My comments follow. Let us return to McQuaid's article on Climategate. Climategate is the first time in a decade that the global warming crowd has gone on the defensive. At long last, we deniers got what we dreamed of: a scandal that reveals the hidden agenda of the warmers, which is power. It reveals their chief tactic: the suppression of rival opinions in the name of peer review. I have written about this. This is a major blow to the myth of peer review. That myth has prevailed in liberal academia for at least 60 years. My piece is here I have waited for something this juicy for four decades. Now it is here. Savor it, my friends. The warmers are twisting in the wind. They are screaming, "Unfair!" "Out of context!" "Cherry-picking!" It will do them no good. Their academic spokesmen got caught with their hands in the cookie jar. They are the equivalent of Tiger Woods, but without a trace of repentance. And they don't know it. That is the incredible thing. They are in the media, yet they do not perceive what has happened to them. Stephen Schneider One academic who has been caught on camera with his fly down is Dr. Stephen "Ice Age" Schneider, a Stanford professor who advises Al Gore. He was an ice-ager back in 1975. I was a denier. No one gives us deniers any credit, then or now. On his web page, he has a photo of himself out of the seventies. You will enjoy this video of Prof. Schneider, which records his refusal to allow his interview to be broadcast after it was shot. He had previously granted permission, but then threatened legal action. The video of this is here: But, as Joe Lewis said, he can run, but he can't hide. He got caught on camera at a recent lecture. His outrage at the questioner is palpable. The questioner raised an academic question: What did he think of Professor Jones, one of the suppressors? Schneider sounded like a fool. He refused to answer. He said he had no idea what the emails said. They were "redacted." Right. Redacted. That means "tampered with" in the language of the academy. He is unable to communicate in English. This is not good in a YouTube video. The reporter was not fooled. He reminded Schneider that the university in question has admitted the emails were accurate, i.e., not redacted. Schneider was still unwilling to give a straight answer. Bad form for a YouTube video. Having spent his career lecturing to classrooms full of docile students whom he could flunk, he was not used to a straightforward question that forced him to choose between admitting that his peers had played dirty pool vs. openly defending them. Faced with this dilemma, he could only sputter. Next, this public relations disaster was followed by an armed guard demanding that the camera be shut off. Schneider is nowhere to be seen. Didn't he know that that the reporter had a crew and a camcorder? He forgot about YouTube. He was not front and center, volunteering to answer any and all questions. Why not? Because he is still thinking "print media." He is a dinosaur caught in the tar pit. This short video will delight us from now on. About 60,000 viewers have see it -- more people than had ever heard about him in his entire career. He will be remembered, if at all, for this. A YouTube video is forever. Exit Whining John McQuaid trusted these media dolts to carry his ideological water. Now the dolts have had holes shot in their bucket. McQuaid can whine. He can say it's just not fair. He can say we conservatives will regret this. Ha, ha, ha. And, I might ad, ho, ho, ho. Sometime between now and his hoped-for retirement, he will empty his desk's contents into boxes and carry them to his car. In the old days, the Left took care of its fallen wounded. But that was before the Web began its decimation of print media. There are too many wounded, and McQuaid is an Indian, not a chief. What will he do for a living in five years? My bet: public relations. He will morph into the PR guy in Thank You for Smoking. I can see it now. "Flash! Arctic glaciers are melting as never before!" (A report published in 1922) Click here.
This is a childish view of science, politics, and the world. And in fact, bad as "Climategate" is for the cause of mitigating climate change, it's a far bigger disaster for the American conservative movement -- worse, in its own way, than last year's loss to Barack Obama.
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