ClimateGate, when a hacker broke into computers at the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit and released a myriad of confidential files, continues to cause controversy. The documents showed scientists had attempted to suppress and manipulate data that would hurt the case proving anthropogenic global warming. They also cast doubts about what sort of policy measures should be implemented to attack this alleged global problem.
However, according to Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, it's not ClimateGate - but the messenger who is at fault for growing hesitation to enact a cap-and-trade policy that would radically change the U.S. economy. Although traditional media went for weeks without reporting the matter, it was talk radio that busted the story wide open and the target of Kerry's frustration, which he revealed in an interview with the Boston Globe on March 8. (h/t Matt Dempsey, Senate Environment and Public Works Committee)
"What we have to do is go on the offensive," Kerry said. The science "has been maligned and misinterpreted, and we need to fight back . . . people [need to] stop being moved by these talk show [hosts] and start looking for the facts'' themselves."
And the public's trust in the scientific community's work on the issue is waning. The Globe explained an ABC/Washington Post poll released last month "found 56 percent of those surveyed don't trust the things scientists say about the environment - up from 49 percent a year and a half earlier."
This has put Kerry's efforts, as an influential voice in the U.S. Senate on the issue of climate change in question, as Beth Daley pointed out for the Globe.
"Environmental policy specialists say the controversies, along with the struggling economy, could hurt Kerry's effort to pass climate legislation," Daley wrote. "Kerry said recently that he is closing in on a bipartisan bill. He vowed to push forward, noting the issue is as much about jobs and national security as about the environment."
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why not just call it like it is:
Mon, 03/08/2010 - 20:50 ET by puredmashieit's a global liberal effort to enact a monumental tax on the western world, based on so-called science that has been exposed to be a sham.
swing hard in case you hit it.
Hey dimwit!!!
Tue, 03/09/2010 - 11:51 ET by Patriot IIgo back and stir mamas catsup vat......at least you will be doing SOMETHING worthwhile!!!!
Speaking of dimwits....
Tue, 03/09/2010 - 12:11 ET by BarkerTry using the "post a comment" feature instead of replying to the first post of EVERY SINGLE THREAD!!!
Really
Tue, 03/09/2010 - 12:12 ET by SickofLibsReally
SoL
Tue, 03/09/2010 - 12:25 ET by BarkerI have asked nicely, numerous times, to please stop doing that, but to no avail.
Well said...
Tue, 03/09/2010 - 12:13 ET by unkeeafMy guess is he wouldn't last a day on the line doing that. In a sick way, you've got to give these liberal idiots credit. They simply don't quit. They know they have the media in their pocket and they just keep coming, no matter what the odds. I think it will cost them dearly in November, but if they manage to get one of these signature pieces of legislation through, we are screwed.
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Best political yard sign ever:
http://bit.ly/a8MB6A
John the Gigolo-
Mon, 03/08/2010 - 21:01 ET by BO STINKSLate to the party as usual, Kerry. Just can't get a break, huh?
Geez, only a limo lib would expect the American people to swallow all of the lies about AGW and pay for it!
"Liberals have managed to eliminate the idea of manly honor. Instead, all they have is womanly indignation." ~Ann Coulter
C'mon John, why the long
Mon, 03/08/2010 - 23:28 ET by d1carterC'mon John, why the long face?
Only a moron.....
Tue, 03/09/2010 - 01:52 ET by pantryman...like this SOB kerry would have the American people believe all his exploits in 'Nam too.....
What an utter piece of human flotsam and jetsam you are kerry...
Looking forward to November...this year !
Why the long face????
Tue, 03/09/2010 - 09:48 ET by adamsmithWhy the long face? Because he's FrankenKerry, that's why....If all this is proved to be a farce(which it's unravelling as I type) anyone pushing for it knowing it to be farce and using it for political and/or monetary reasons should spend the rest of their life in a SuperMax facility alongside any Jihadists. Kerry would love it as he's an America hater like the Jihadists. Same agenda....Party over Country every time with this POS............
Lurch
Tue, 03/09/2010 - 16:22 ET by BeukeboomLurch
Always bet against John Kerry, and you'll never lose.
Tue, 03/09/2010 - 10:05 ET by JohnMcGrewJohn Kerry has been on the wrong side of history since the moment he first idolized the Kennedy's and decided that he wanted to enter politics. First wrong decision: Join the Navy and become a war hero, because since WWII that was a prerequisite for high office. Except after he muddled through that, he discovered that war heroes were no longer considered heroes. So then he became a war protester, which was the cool thing to do at the moment. Except who knew that aligning himself with a terrorist group would later prove embarrasing? At least dumping his first wife and marrying better money seemed like a good idea. At least he'd never have to worry about working for a living ever again. He was for disarmament in the face of the Soviet empire. Once again, wrong. He was for the Iraq War before he was against it. Again, behind the curve. So now after "settled science" of AGW has been exposed as the sham that it is, he's still for it. John Kerry has always been out-of-phase with reality. Want a safe bet? Always bet against whatever John Kerry supports. You'll be a winner every time.
Lurch.....
Tue, 03/09/2010 - 10:36 ET by Ozconservativeis a "kept man". That is, to quote Anne Coulter, "so creepy and pathetic". Remember the "spitballs" speech by Zell Miller at the '04 GOP convention?? That just showed how ridiculously wrong Lurch has been all his adult life.
Truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life - John Howard, Australian Prime Minister
Oh I don't know, maybe all
Mon, 03/08/2010 - 21:08 ET by Rusty ShacklefordOh I don't know, maybe all this skepticism has to do with America being slammed with a bitterly cold winter with excessive levels of snow. It kinda runs counter to the WARMING part of Global Warming and the droughts it was supposed to cause.
I think when Kerry's parents were beating him with the ugly stick it affected his brain too.
Hey Lurch!
Mon, 03/08/2010 - 21:16 ET by B-townGiantYour 15 minutes ended in '04.
Back to the bench with you, kept man. Gigolo. Man whore.
Think about this...Kerry's
Mon, 03/08/2010 - 23:23 ET by BeukeboomThink about this...Kerry's been getting more face time lately. Could he be testing the waters for a run at POTUS in 2012?
"Could he be testing the
Tue, 03/09/2010 - 01:21 ET by Bingo"Could he be testing the waters for a run at POTUS in 2012?"
There's no water to test. The Swiftvets blew him out of it.
One of the better shots---
Tue, 03/09/2010 - 01:25 ET by matthewdeanI've seen here.
Nice one, Bingo.
MD
I dunno...he's arrogant
Tue, 03/09/2010 - 16:23 ET by BeukeboomI dunno...he's arrogant enough that he may feel he can defeat the Swiftvets or demonize them. Of course, he can't but I think like with all liberal extremists, his arrogance supercedes what little common sense he has or had. Don't you think he just might be testing the waters anyway?
Let him test
Tue, 03/09/2010 - 03:06 ET by Indiana JoeIf he is, he's dumber than he looks (and that's saying something!). He better bring his water wings.
Hillary's the one. She got suckered, and she knows it (now). SecState? What was she thinking?
;^)
Out-source Congress... back to the People!
I believe he is dumber than
Tue, 03/09/2010 - 16:25 ET by BeukeboomI believe he is dumber than he looks...and that's saying something.
As Hairy Reid said...
Mon, 03/08/2010 - 21:15 ET by ChrisNHHairy Reid said it best: "Mr. Kerry is not entitled to his own set of facts."
Hardly Reid
Tue, 03/09/2010 - 10:35 ET by CO2MakerHe stole it, or in Biden-ese, he Kinnocked it.
You have to go all the way back to a genuinely respectable and thoughtful progressive-liberal, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, for that quote.
Whoa, Whoa, whoooa..... hold
Mon, 03/08/2010 - 21:16 ET by SnappyWhoa, Whoa, whoooa..... hold on there Kerry, think about what you just said.....do you REALLY want the american people looking into the facts themselves? Arnt we to stoopid for facts and freedom?
Yeah it wasn't the emails about missing facts and
Mon, 03/08/2010 - 21:16 ET by libfailHiding facts from people that made them doubt it was talk radio!!! Delusion it's so sad to see.
http://libfail.com
Let's get serious here,
Mon, 03/08/2010 - 22:12 ET by killa37Let's get serious here, folks............when is the last time that John F**king Kerry was EVER 'an influential voice in the US Senate'?? This humorless and dull clown has been delusional and wrong, as well as anti-American, about everything he has ever 'believed' in.
Well, at least he's consistant!!!!
Got that right killa
Mon, 03/08/2010 - 22:24 ET by MightyMouthKerry is the "male" version of Jane Fonda. Although the unrepentant" version. Still... neither deserve "repentance" once they cost US lives. Scum both.
"I'm madder than a midget with a yo-yo" -- Larry the cable guy.
Lurch
Mon, 03/08/2010 - 23:24 ET by BeukeboomLurch
John Kerry is a bitter,
Mon, 03/08/2010 - 22:17 ET by fitzfongJohn Kerry is a bitter, self-important, Marxist scumbag (not to mention a disgraceful, money sucking leech and a liability to this country). He would be little more than a running joke if we didn't have such intellectual lightweights like Lindsey Graham on "our" side. The more I am subjected to the whining of Hanoi John, the more I want to slap Grahamnesty around.
"I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered." -George Best
Warm Hard Cash
Mon, 03/08/2010 - 22:23 ET by BarkerMost likely, John Kerry is as financially invested in perpetrating and perpetuating the global-warming hoax as Al Gore is.
Open your books, you crooks.
John, John, John, John
Mon, 03/08/2010 - 22:23 ET by NorthCoasterDo the research yourself! I would suggest starting with the ICECAP site. There are articles and links about Climate by real scientists doing real science. There are articles by science hobbyists doing real science and scientists doing political policy as science too. One of the founders of The Weather Channel hosts the site and it has a wealth of good science that is reported.
Johnny. Oh Johnneeeeeeeeee. I got your facts. Got them ratcheer.
Mon, 03/08/2010 - 22:36 ET by JWF"What we have to do is go on the offensive," Kerry said.
You do that Johnny. 22 years and your AGW ship is on the shoals. 22 years you have been pounding, and yet you can't close the deal. Wussies.
Sincerely,
a Veteran of a 1000 psychic wars.
There was another Global Warming diatribe
Mon, 03/08/2010 - 22:56 ET by ahusserby the guest editorialist in my local McClatchy rag. You know how we better get cracking and totally destroy the economy before global warming does. The facts you cite mean nothing to these true believers they just keep coming at you from different directions. It is never ending. Kind of like a Monty Python skit "bring out your dead", "But I am not dead..." . It never dies just morphs into some other crap. Kind of like the anti-gun crowd here in Maryland every two minutes these legislative idiots try to back door some legislation against the 2nd amendment and it is never a frontal attack remember (wringing hands slightly hysterical voice) "it's for the children".
"Somehow, I told you so, just doesn't quite say it." Will Smith in 'I, Robot.'
It really is a religion
Mon, 03/08/2010 - 23:27 ET by Indiana Joe"The facts you cite mean nothing to these true believers... "
Yes, exactly. These folks are virtually married to the alarmism, the "caring," the being so much more "involved," and "sophisticated." The "Hybrid" episode of South Park just nails the mentality.
Might as well try to convert a fundamentalist. A fundamentalist anything.
Out-source Congress... back to the People!
Great job, JWF
Mon, 03/08/2010 - 23:29 ET by Indiana JoeThat is a keeper. Not that it will change any minds....
Out-source Congress... back to the People!
You can "gate" the liberals
Tue, 03/09/2010 - 01:03 ET by jdhawkYou can "gate" the liberals to death, but that makes little difference to them. This is not about climate change and/or global warming. It is about the additional taxes that the bill the House passed would bring and the control of each American that it would enforce.
Regarding the money, the 2011 federal budget has a shortfall of 42 cents. In other words, for every dollar spent as planned in the budget, no taxes support 42 cents of it. That is about between 700 billion and 1.2 trillion dollars depending on whether the other major source of funding, obamacare, passes or not.
Regarding the control of each and every American, there is nothing including your own exhalation that doesn't emit CO2. And, since it does, it can be taxed according to the House bill. To every American household, that means additional taxes of at least several thousand dollars a year. As time goes on, the bills sanctions for the use of anything that emits CO2 get harsher and harsher. That means an ever greater tax burden. Less discretionary money in your pocket means more goernment control. Since you will have no money to do anything but what the government asks of you.
Abused yet?
"Regarding the money, the
Tue, 03/09/2010 - 03:13 ET by Indiana Joe"Regarding the money, the 2011 federal budget has a shortfall of 42 cents."
IOW, you're saying that, as a percentage of the budget (never heard it expressed this way, but why not???), the deficit is 42%?
That is beyond spendthrift, beyond irresponsible, beyond lavish.
That enters into the realm of the insane.
Get the torches.
Out-source Congress... back to the People!
Sounds about right.
Tue, 03/09/2010 - 07:23 ET by JWFMr. Blumer has been covering this every month here at NewsBusters. Watch out for his next month post on the subject.
thanks Vet
Tue, 03/09/2010 - 01:13 ET by cajun2You saved me a lotta work. thanks.
I heart the Duke.
I hope you don’t mind me
Tue, 03/09/2010 - 09:37 ET by ninerdogI hope you don’t mind me steeling this. I want to pin it to my wall at work.
PS JWF
Tue, 03/09/2010 - 18:09 ET by ahusserVery good post. May I copy your post to use at a later time with the true believers I encounter everyday?
"Somehow, I told you so, just doesn't quite say it." Will Smith in 'I, Robot.'
Not so much mine sir.
Wed, 03/10/2010 - 00:40 ET by JWFJust copy from the original source.
JWF
Wed, 03/10/2010 - 11:09 ET by ahusserJust saw the "source" link at the end of the article. Thanks for sharing that article with us.
"Somehow, I told you so, just doesn't quite say it." Will Smith in 'I, Robot.'
Johnny!! Johnny!!
Mon, 03/08/2010 - 22:52 ET by jdripperIf you hosed down the glaciers with the botox you use every month that will protect them from that nasty old sun.
Jack
"If at age 20 you are a conservative then you have no heart. If at age 30 you are a liberal then you have no brains." Sir Winston Churchill
So, SFBrains - Kerry - is still on the Al Gore Express... ACA
Mon, 03/08/2010 - 22:54 ET by acaiguanaHey, Kerry - back in the 70's you accused me of being a baby killer.
Are you still on the same mode of honesty and integrity?
Global Warming - look outside.
Idiot (Latin root) _ one who is unto himself. Id Self, iot (one unto).
You should be 'browned'. Big time.
ACA
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Quoted from: 'Acaiguana notes from the Underground' (Soon to be at theaters near you)
Apparently........
Tue, 03/09/2010 - 02:33 ET by pantryman...not all of us have forgotten this horse-faced SOB's history...
C'mon kerry......show us all how you can suck a golf ball through a cheap garden hose....
Looking forward to November...this year....and perhaps some lovely roasted lame duck as well....
Just HAD to say
Tue, 03/09/2010 - 07:02 ET by ohiochiliReading these comments reminds me of why I love NB.
Bless NB and those who post on her(him?)
Kerry's right about one thing...
Mon, 03/08/2010 - 23:15 ET by Indiana Joe"He vowed to push forward, noting the issue is as much about jobs and national security as about the environment."
Any "cap-and-trade" environmental bill will be about jobs and national security. It will cause a major decrease in both.
Just more of the Dems "ram it down their throats" modern method of governance.
Is it November yet?
Out-source Congress... back to the People!
Someone needs to tell Lurch
Mon, 03/08/2010 - 23:35 ET by RowaneSomeone needs to tell Lurch that the data has been "misplaced".
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"That boy'll lie when the truth will do"
- Mrs. Johnson, 8th grade teacher (ca. 1970)
Just think about this...
Mon, 03/08/2010 - 23:39 ET by pbthinkerWhat is it with Democrats and Climate Change? Just think about the people that champion this issue, Al Gore, John Kerry, Henry Waxman, there can't be 3 sleezier people pushing an issue that I know of.
If, after all the revelations of the past few months, you go back and watch an Inconvenient Truth, you'll end up laughing yourself silly. Al Gore refuses to go out and defend the movie and defend the science. Why? Because he can't.
Election 2008-God's way of showing us that elections count.
John, you're a douche,
Mon, 03/08/2010 - 23:51 ET by UpNorththe "science" has not been maligned and misinterpreted, the "science" is made up, falsified, or just ignored, to the benefit of you, Algore and the frauds making their money "reporting" that the Himalayan glaciers are melting and the sky is falling.
I'll never forget how funny
Mon, 03/08/2010 - 23:59 ET by RogerCfromSDI'll never forget how funny it was when someone theoretically asked Lurch, "Why the long face?"
A nation cannot be free without a free, unbiased media. We are not free.
I'm pretty sure.....
Tue, 03/09/2010 - 02:06 ET by pantryman...Sarah Palin said it in a speech.....
She surely isn't some mortally wounded, unarmed, teenage soldier crawling into the underbrush to die, is she???...And our boy John, without any concern for himself, shot him in the back (after all, the boy was face down on the ground) and killed him....earning him a BIG medal.
John, you could suck the chrome off a trailer hitch...
Looking forward to November...this year !
They want a global taxto
Tue, 03/09/2010 - 02:38 ET by rbosqueThey want a global tax to fund a one world order to enslave us.
And this guy is a US senator.
In a manner....
Tue, 03/09/2010 - 07:27 ET by Chivalrous1_usReminiscent of Genghis Khan, I'd like to plant a foot up Kerry's patoot.
What a piece of work. Since his post Vietnam days, when he was testifying before Congress about his eye witness accounts, wearing a crappy unpressed set of OD greens with unkempt, unmilitary hair, he's simply part and parcel of the anti-American, anti-Capitalist, anti-God, leftist cabal curently running our country into the ground. Cap and Trade along with Universal Health Care are their 1-2 punch to knock America out.
Put up your dukes people.
Chivalry Is Not Dead
The climate issue must be dead.
Tue, 03/09/2010 - 09:02 ET by SemusYou know an issue is dead when the left sends this clown -Kerry- into battle. They don't want people with some credibilty looking ridiculous, so they send Kerry.
This attempted fraud should be prosecuted.
Science!
Tue, 03/09/2010 - 11:10 ET by JustAlWho better to comment on science than a guy who looks like a science project gone awry?
That's Fraunken steen!
IT'S ALIIIIIIVE!!!!!!!
Tue, 03/09/2010 - 16:26 ET by BeukeboomIT'S ALIIIIIIVE!!!!!!!
Tue, 03/09/2010 - 11:12 ET by jessieHSounds to me like Kerry is in on the scam. The fact that he's an idiot is obvious. I wonder where the inteligence goes when you become a liberal.
Kerry has been scamming
Tue, 03/09/2010 - 16:28 ET by BeukeboomKerry has been scamming people ever since Vietnam or when he convince the Heinz heir to marry him (whichever came first).
Kerry...
Tue, 03/09/2010 - 11:47 ET by okiehawk44John I know you graduated from Yale with a GPA lower than G.W. Bush, but did you know that it's widely believed that the Russians distributed the emails you and yours tried so hard to hide.
John there are way more folks looking at this "cat-out-of-the-bag" thing called ClimateGate than Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck.
John try going on the internet and looking up the ever growing number of studies about AGW. The Finns have a good one and now the Indian government (ironic isn't it that the UN's IPCC director is Indian) has weighed in.
John you really are a dull knife aren't you? Teresa is looney-tunes but you are just stupid.
Blames Talk Radio?
Tue, 03/09/2010 - 12:10 ET by DaMamaThe cry of the truly desperate! Blame talk radio for everything. Never mind that science has proven that global warming is a sham, that climate change like this has happened all throughout history.
Geez, these liberals really are dumb. They wouldn't know a fact or the truth if it came up and bit them in the rear.
Kerry..sunshine soldier and science-ignorant
Tue, 03/09/2010 - 12:12 ET by Dr. RonPerhaps, Kerry, whose undergrad GPA was a tad lower than Bush's; who has NO academic or other scientific credentials; whose career was built on bashing his brothers in arms before Congress and thus earning a plaque in the Hanoi war museum...who refuses, after all these years, to release his USN med records...perhaps John needs to talk to real scientists (there is a list of over 9,000 who say: global warming is not real/not a settled issue) or the 3 or 4 IPCC panel who resigned and leaked info about the IPCC sham reports. But, wait..he cares not for facts and reality, only ideology.
Ronald John Lofaro, PhD
Yes, and we have Kerry and those like him to blame...
Tue, 03/09/2010 - 12:24 ET by ThalpyYes, and we have Kerry and those like him to blame for the mess we're in today. "Environmental policy specialists say the controversies, along with the struggling economy, could hurt Kerry's effort to pass climate legislation," Daley wrote. We hope so.
LMAO John Carry, blew his wifes' money, on the carbon, ponzi !!
Tue, 03/09/2010 - 16:12 ET by upcountrywaterTO BAD SO SAD.Salacious Crumb