Comments on: Climate Change Deniers Quote Hacked University Data

By: R M Brown

R M Brown — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:13:32 +0000

Surely it is almost irrelevant whether or not there is climate change either partially or entirely as a result of Human activity. It is in everybody’s interest to reduce energy consumption, both to save money and to reduce our reliance on our limited fossil fuel resources. As a nation we should trying to reduce our reliance on imported fossil fuels particularly when we have little or no influence over the security of supply.

By: Peter Judge

Peter Judge — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:32:16 +0000

Unless you want to change the meaning of the language, someone who denies something is a “denier”, whether they are right or wrong.

The word fits the people – and the space in the headline.

Our story reports the facts that we have at this stage, and if you want to interpret balance as bias, that is your call.

The critics appear to have seized on narrow slices of data from the hacked source, and not responded to rebuttals from the CRU.

We are reporting what is there, and so far we don’t see a smoking gun with any real evidence of for the sort of global conspiracy that is alleged.

Peter Judge

UK Editor, eWEEK Europe

By: edrowland

edrowland — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:44:38 +0000

The material is highly filtered and targetted to respond to a number of well-known outstanding FOIA requests against CRU. Clearly this is the result of an internal whistleblower, not the result of an outside hacker.

By: Charlie

Charlie — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:21:01 +0000

This article is just another exercise in damage limitation.

The hacked data is now being decoded and it seems that it shows further manipulation. Add this to the attempts to control the peer reviewed journals and you have a really damning set of evidence.

As for this ‘journalist’ (propagandist) using the word deniers as in holocaust deniers (the more usual use) that is meant to stiffle opposition. This alone is enough to make most people smell a rat.

Given that this huge scandal has come hot on the heels of the hockey stick fraud to eliminate the medevil warming period then its obvious that your global warming religion has been exposed as ahoax and is at an end.

By: P. Wilson

P. Wilson — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:46:55 +0000

If you have to call people ‘deniers’, obviously to associate it with ‘holocaust denial’ , it shows how bankrupt the debate is, if there ever was one.