Climategate and the true colours of the mainstream media.

I won't rehash in excruciating detail the leaked data from the East Anglia University Climate Research Unit, but the short version is that it gives convincing evidence of collusion and manipulation of data there to produce certain kinds of results. WUWT is the best source (though far from the only one) on this sort of thing so I'll direct you there for far more detail than I can process fully, let alone relate.

No, my real axe to grind here is with CTV and CBC. They are not alone, but they are local and the latter is supported by my tax dollars so I'll work them over first. It is only today (1 Dec 2009) that CBC is admitting that this information even exists and at that it is spinning like mad to discredit it. CTV has yet to touch it at all and they've heard from me about that already, much good may it do.

The basics of the whole thing are as follows: a couple of weeks ago persons unknown hacked into the CRU server and liberated a LOT of data. [Update: evidence is convincing that this was a leak, not a hack] Gobs of code from projects that have been run and most devastating, (as it's easier to understand by most people, myself included) hundreds of internal emails between the CRU researchers and affiliates showing them to be manipulating data and suppressing the truth about their sources.

They hid behind “freedom of information” laws (now THAT’s irony!), fabricated data and made models that didn’t fit the historical record, let alone accurately predict the present (then future). This article from the Telegraph says it all quite nicely:

There are three threads in particular in the leaked documents which have sent a shock wave through informed observers across the world. Perhaps the most obvious, as lucidly put together by Willis Eschenbach (see McIntyre's blog Climate Audit and Anthony Watt's blog Watts Up With That ), is the highly disturbing series of emails which show how Dr Jones and his colleagues have for years been discussing the devious tactics whereby they could avoid releasing their data to outsiders under freedom of information laws.

They have come up with every possible excuse for concealing the background data on which their findings and temperature records were based.

This in itself has become a major scandal, not least Dr Jones's refusal to release the basic data from which the CRU derives its hugely influential temperature record, which culminated last summer in his startling claim that much of the data from all over the world had simply got "lost". Most incriminating of all are the emails in which scientists are advised to delete large chunks of data, which, when this is done after receipt of a freedom of information request, is a criminal offence.

So back to my point. The UK media can't avoid it completely as it happened in their back yard, but the North American media are doing their damnedest to ignore or suppress it. One has to wonder why. I can see these researchers and hangers-on who are stakeholders in the AGW machine, but the media has what exactly to gain by sitting on this? With the Copenhagen meetings on how to fleece Western societies and de-industrialize us completely about to take place there is room for a BIG media storm. That's the kind of climate change I'd like to see.