The Watergate Moment in the Global Warming Theory

Climategate

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters. -- Albert Einstein

Correspondence, Code, and Documents

Summary

It's Just How Scientist Speak. There is no story here. Move along little doggie, move along.

Uncontaminated Scientific Process

Hiding Secrets

The Claim that the Urban Heat Island Effect Was Trivial

Precise Climate Data

Unbiased Climatologist Hard at Work (Attacking Others)

The Team (Group Think or Conspiracy)

The Mainstream Media Cover-Up

Consequences

Damage Control

The Climategate Timeline

Source of Leak

Where did the Global Warming Go?

Climategate 2: Rewriting History on Wikipedia

Climategate 3: Weathergate

Climategate 4: Googlegate

Climategate 5: BBCgate

Fakegate

Comparison to Watergate

The source of the Watergate leaks remained hidden for 33 years. His name was Mark Felts.

In both Watergate and Climategate, the information was leaked to young inexperienced reporters. In Watergate the information was leaked to Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein of The Washington Post. From the beginning the press was all over this story. In Climategate, the information was first leaked to Paul Hudson of the BBC on October 12, 2009. But in the case of Climategate, the mainstream press did everything it could to kill and bury the story. Only a month of inactivity later on November 17, the whistleblower took another tact. The whistleblower placed the information on a website realclimate.org, proponents of the AGW theory. Within hours it was detected and removed from that website. Several hours later, however, it reappeared as if by magic on an obscure Russian server. Soon it had been copied to a host of other servers, first in Saudi Arabia and Turkey and then Europe and America. The internet proved to be the primary agent in uncovering this scandal.

The motives of the whistleblower in Watergate was highly personal. Mark Felt was deputy associate director of the FBI (No. 3 in bureau hierarchy) in May 1972, when longtime FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover died. He was passed over for promotion to the #1 slot, head of the FBI, by President Richard Nixon. It appears that Felt's was seeking revenge. One would hope that the motives of the whistleblower in Climategate were of a more noble and virtuous nature.

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