Kerry Blames Talk Radio for Lagging Global Warming Concerns Spurred by ClimateGate

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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."

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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:

it'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!!!

go back and stir mamas catsup vat......at least you will be doing SOMETHING worthwhile!!!!

Speaking of dimwits....

Try using the "post a comment" feature instead of replying to the first post of EVERY SINGLE THREAD!!!

Really

Really

SoL

I have asked nicely, numerous times, to please stop doing that, but to no avail.

Well said...

My 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-

Late 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

C'mon John, why the long face?

Only a moron.....

...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????

Why 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

Lurch

Always bet against John Kerry, and you'll never lose.

John 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.....

is 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

Oh 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!

Your 15 minutes ended in '04.

Back to the bench with you, kept man. Gigolo. Man whore. 

Think about this...Kerry's

Think 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

"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---

I've seen here.

Nice one, Bingo.

MD

I dunno...he's arrogant

I 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

If 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

I believe he is dumber than he looks...and that's saying something.

As Hairy Reid said...

Hairy Reid said it best: "Mr. Kerry is not entitled to his own set of facts."

Hardly Reid

He 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

Whoa, 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

Hiding 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,

Let'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

Kerry 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

Lurch

John Kerry is a bitter,

John 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

Most 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

Do 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.

"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.

 

Mark Landsbaum: What to say to a global warming alarmist 

ClimateGate – This scandal began the latest round of revelations when thousands of leaked documents from Britain's East Anglia Climate Research Unit showed systematic suppression and discrediting of climate skeptics' views and discarding of temperature data, suggesting a bias for making the case for warming. Why do such a thing if, as global warming defenders contend, the "science is settled?"

FOIGate – The British government has since determined someone at East Anglia committed a crime by refusing to release global warming documents sought in 95 Freedom of Information Act requests. The CRU is one of three international agencies compiling global temperature data. If their stuff's so solid, why the secrecy?

ChinaGate – An investigation by the U.K.'s left-leaning Guardian newspaper found evidence that Chinese weather station measurements not only were seriously flawed, but couldn't be located. "Where exactly are 42 weather monitoring stations in remote parts of rural China?" the paper asked. The paper's investigation also couldn't find corroboration of what Chinese scientists turned over to American scientists, leaving unanswered, "how much of the warming seen in recent decades is due to the local effects of spreading cities, rather than global warming?" The Guardian contends that researchers covered up the missing data for years.

HimalayaGate – An Indian climate official admitted in January that, as lead author of the IPCC's Asian report, he intentionally exaggerated when claiming Himalayan glaciers would melt away by 2035 in order to prod governments into action. This fraudulent claim was not based on scientific research or peer-reviewed. Instead it was originally advanced by a researcher, since hired by a global warming research organization, who later admitted it was "speculation" lifted from a popular magazine. This political, not scientific, motivation at least got some researcher funded.

PachauriGate – Rajendra Pachauri, the IPCC chairman who accepted with Al Gore the Nobel Prize for scaring people witless, at first defended the Himalaya melting scenario. Critics, he said, practiced "voodoo science." After the melting-scam perpetrator 'fessed up, Pachauri admitted to making a mistake. But, he insisted, we still should trust him.

PachauriGate II – Pachauri also claimed he didn't know before the 192-nation climate summit meeting in Copenhagen in December that the bogus Himalayan glacier claim was sheer speculation. But the London Times reported that a prominent science journalist said he had pointed out those errors in several e-mails and discussions to Pachauri, who "decided to overlook it." Stonewalling? Cover up? Pachauri says he was "preoccupied." Well, no sense spoiling the Copenhagen party, where countries like Pachauri's India hoped to wrench billions from countries like the United States to combat global warming's melting glaciers. Now there are calls for Pachauri's resignation.

SternGate – One excuse for imposing worldwide climate crackdown has been the U.K.'s 2006 Stern Report, an economic doomsday prediction commissioned by the government. Now the U.K. Telegraph reports that quietly after publication "some of these predictions had been watered down because the scientific evidence on which they were based could not be verified." Among original claims now deleted were that northwest Australia has had stronger typhoons in recent decades, and that southern Australia lost rainfall because of rising ocean temperatures. Exaggerated claims get headlines. Later, news reporters disclose the truth. Why is that?

SternGate II – A researcher now claims the Stern Report misquoted his work to suggest a firm link between global warming and more-frequent and severe floods and hurricanes. Robert Muir-Wood said his original research showed no such link. He accused Stern of "going far beyond what was an acceptable extrapolation of the evidence." We're shocked.

AmazonGate – The London Times exposed another shocker: the IPCC claim that global warming will wipe out rain forests was fraudulent, yet advanced as "peer-reveiwed" science. The Times said the assertion actually "was based on an unsubstantiated claim by green campaigners who had little scientific expertise," "authored by two green activists" and lifted from a report from the World Wildlife Fund, an environmental pressure group. The "research" was based on a popular science magazine report that didn't bother to assess rainfall. Instead, it looked at the impact of logging and burning. The original report suggested "up to 40 percent" of Brazilian rain forest was extremely sensitive to small reductions in the amount of rainfall, but the IPCC expanded that to cover the entire Amazon, the Times reported.

PeerReviewGate – The U.K. Sunday Telegraph has documented at least 16 nonpeer-reviewed reports (so far) from the advocacy group World Wildlife Fund that were used in the IPCC's climate change bible, which calls for capping manmade greenhouse gases.

RussiaGate – Even when global warming alarmists base claims on scientific measurements, they've often had their finger on the scale. Russian think tank investigators evaluated thousands of documents and e-mails leaked from the East Anglia research center and concluded readings from the coldest regions of their nation had been omitted, driving average temperatures up about half a degree.

Russia-Gate II – Speaking of Russia, a presentation last October to the Geological Society of America showed how tree-ring data from Russia indicated cooling after 1961, but was deceptively truncated and only artfully discussed in IPCC publications. Well, at least the tree-ring data made it into the IPCC report, albeit disguised and misrepresented.

U.S.Gate – If Brits can't be trusted, are Yanks more reliable? The U.S. National Climate Data Center has been manipulating weather data too, say computer expert E. Michael Smith and meteorologist Joesph D'Aleo. Forty years ago there were 6,000 surface-temperature measuring stations, but only 1,500 by 1990, which coincides with what global warming alarmists say was a record temperature increase. Most of the deleted stations were in colder regions, just as in the Russian case, resulting in misleading higher average temperatures.

IceGate – Hardly a continent has escaped global warming skewing. The IPCC based its findings of reductions in mountain ice in the Andes, Alps and in Africa on a feature story of climbers' anecdotes in a popular mountaineering magazine, and a dissertation by a Switzerland university student, quoting mountain guides. Peer-reviewed? Hype? Worse?

ResearchGate – The global warming camp is reeling so much lately it must have seemed like a major victory when a Penn State University inquiry into climate scientist Michael Mann found no misconduct regarding three accusations of climate research impropriety. But the university did find "further investigation is warranted" to determine whether Mann engaged in actions that "seriously deviated from accepted practices for proposing, conducting or reporting research or other scholarly activities." Being investigated for only one fraud is a global warming victory these days.

ReefGate – Let's not forget the alleged link between climate change and coral reef degradation. The IPCC cited not peer-reviewed literature, but advocacy articles by Greenpeace, the publicity-hungry advocacy group, as its sole source for this claim.

AfricaGate – The IPCC claim that rising temperatures could cut in half agricultural yields in African countries turns out to have come from a 2003 paper published by a Canadian environmental think tank – not a peer-reviewed scientific journal.

DutchGate – The IPCC also claimed rising sea levels endanger the 55 percent of the Netherlands it says is below sea level. The portion of the Netherlands below sea level actually is 20 percent. The Dutch environment minister said she will no longer tolerate climate researchers' errors.

AlaskaGate – Geologists for Space Studies in Geophysics and Oceanography and their U.S. and Canadian colleagues say previous studies largely overestimated by 40 percent Alaskan glacier loss for 40 years. This flawed data are fed into those computers to predict future warming. - source

 

Sincerely,

a Veteran of a 1000 psychic wars.

There was another Global Warming diatribe

by 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

"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

That is a keeper. Not that it will change any minds....

 

Out-source Congress... back to the People!

You can "gate" the liberals

You 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

"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.

  Mr. Blumer has been covering this every month here at NewsBusters. Watch out for his next month post on the subject. 

thanks Vet

You saved me a lotta work. thanks.

I heart the Duke.

I hope you don’t mind me

I hope you don’t mind me steeling this. I want to pin it to my wall at work.

PS JWF

Very 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.

  Just copy from the original source.

JWF

Just 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!!

If 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

Hey, 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 

...

Quoted from: 'Acaiguana notes from the Underground' (Soon to be at theaters near you)

Apparently........

...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

Reading these comments reminds me of why I love NB.

Bless NB and those who post on her(him?)

 

 

 

 

 

Kerry's right about one thing...

"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

Someone needs to tell Lurch that the data has been "misplaced".

*******************************
"That boy'll lie when the truth will do"

- Mrs. Johnson, 8th grade teacher (ca. 1970)

Just think about this...

What 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,

the "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

I'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.....

...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

They want a global tax to fund a one world order to enslave us.

And this guy is a US senator.

In a manner....

Reminiscent 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.

You 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!

Who better to comment on science than a guy who looks like a science project gone awry?

That's Fraunken steen!

IT'S ALIIIIIIVE!!!!!!!

IT'S ALIIIIIIVE!!!!!!!

              

               Sounds 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

Kerry has been scamming people ever since Vietnam or when he convince the Heinz heir to marry him (whichever came first).

Kerry...

John 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?

The 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

Perhaps, 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...

Yes, 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.

 

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