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'Climate-Gate' Scandal Should Be Wake-Up Call For Press, Politicians
Joseph BastLast week, someone (probably a whistle-blower at the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, England) released e-mails and other documents written by Phil Jones, Michael Mann and other leading scientists who edit and control the content of the reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The e-mails ...
Bast: Understanding the Global Warming Delusion (PJM Exclusive)
Joseph Bast... Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Climategate has caused the scientific case for... are controlled by the now-notorious Climategate gang. Thirty-five percent responded very... Agency, and other organizations they trust. Climategate revealed that trust was misplaced. The institutions formed to bring... ...
Climategate: An Opportunity to Stop and Think
Joseph BastLast week, someone (probably a whistle-blower at the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, England) released emails and other documents written by Phil Jones, Michael Mann, and other leading scientists who edit and control the content of the reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The ...
The Skunk at the Rent-Seekers’ Party
Joseph Bast... of foreign carbon trading markets, the Climategate 3.0 and Fakegate scandals, the rise of “energy poverty” as a major political issue in Europe, and growing skepticism about the ability of scientists to predict future climate conditions all have damaged the standing of the useful idiots at the conference, causing rent... ...
You Call This Consensus?
Joseph L. Bast... but it preceded the disclosures of Climategate, IPCC-gate, and five years of... alarmist and central figure in the Climategate scandal, doesn t believe there is a scientific consensus or that recent temperature trends are unusual. In an interview published by BBC News , Phil Jones was asked, When scientists say... ...
Heartland Replies to 'Nature'
Joseph Bast... of East Anglia (home of the Climategate scandal). Even he admits that his position is based on belief rather than scientific understanding and is inseparable from his partisan political beliefs. Roger Pielke Jr., the fifth and final critic quoted by Tollefson, is admirable for his ability to stay suspended in mid... ...
Heartland Replies to Media Matters for America on Climate Change
Joseph L. Bast... Telegraph, where he helped break the Climategate story. But this leaves a dozen genuine physical scientists on the program. I regret that this is fewer than we ve featured at past events our fourth conference in Chicago had 73 speakers from 23 countries but we thought a short program and this line-up of speakers... ...
Bast: There’s Nothing Mainstream About Old Media
Joseph L. Bast... reporter and bloggers who broke the Climategate story; 80 state elected officials; and many more. More than two dozen warmists were invited, though only two attended. We had disagreements and debates beginning from the first keynote speakers and ending with the last question from the floor two-and-a-half days later. It... ...
Bast: Unwinding the Great Global Warming Delusion
Joseph Bast... saying this for years. Thanks to Climategate, we now know this to be a fact. Calling global warming a hoax might fit the likes of Jones and Mann, but the label is unfair to the many scientists whose trust in the IPCC was simply misplaced. A better label would be popular delusion. Global Warming Alarmism as Popular... ...