Many in Media Still Working to Defend Climate Change Fraud

The hacked emails from the British agency promoting global warming has created massive heartburn for the mainstream media which has been pushing globaloney for years. Normally the scent of a major fraud would send the media scrambling to be the ones to break the story, but this time they're all too interesting in defending the climate con men:

Scientific progress depends on accurate and complete data. It also relies on replication. The past couple of days have uncovered some shocking revelations about the baloney practices that pass as sound science about climate change.

It was announced Thursday afternoon that computer hackers had obtained 160 megabytes of e-mails from the Climate Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia (UEA) in England. Those e-mails involved communication among many scientific researchers and policy advocates with similar ideological positions all across the world. Those purported authorities were brazenly discussing the destruction and hiding of data that did not support global-warming claims.

Professor Phil Jones, the head of the Climate Research Unit, and professor Michael E. Mann at Pennsylvania State University, who has been an important scientist in the climate debate, have come under particular scrutiny. Among his e-mails, Mr. Jones talked to Mr. Mann about the "trick of adding in the real temps to each series ... to hide the decline [in temperature]."

Mr. Mann admitted that he was party to this conversation and lamely explained to the New York Times that "scientists often used the word 'trick' to refer to a good way to solve a problem 'and not something secret.' " Though the liberal New York newspaper apparently buys this explanation, we have seen no benign explanation that justifies efforts by researchers to skew data on so-called global-warming "to hide the decline." Given the controversies over the accuracy of Mr. Mann's past research, it is surprising his current explanations are accepted so readily.

There's more at the link.

Ace points out this piece of media complicity with the climate con men:

Networks, Media Blacking Out ClimateGate Story; ABCNews Instead Runs Headline, "Worse Than the Worst: Climate Report Says Even Most Dire Predictions Too Tame"

Shameful.

Apparently climate change is one of those stories that's "too good to check", and when the "deniers" turn out to be the ones telling the truth, media heads explode.

This Newsbuster item is pretty funny. Major newspapers are still pushing globaloney is their articles and ignoring the Climategate scandal but their readers won't let them get away with it.