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[[File:Gorelying.jpg|right|300px|thumb|[[Al Gore]] on CNN's ''American Morning'', December 9, 2009, in which he stated that snow is melting from the polar icecaps and glaciers at a rapid rate, and that the "global warming deniers" manipulated the emails from CRU out of context.

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[~~http~~://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtdoPeYdNRA Al Gore Weighs In On Climate Gate], ''CNN'' interview pt.1 [~~http~~://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3IRdkPkatE Al Gore Weighs In On Climate Gate], ''CNN'' interview pt.2]]

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[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtdoPeYdNRA Al Gore Weighs In On Climate Gate], ''CNN'' interview pt.1 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3IRdkPkatE Al Gore Weighs In On Climate Gate], ''CNN'' interview pt.2]]

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The '''Climategate''' scandal erupted on November 19, 2009, when a collection of [[email]] messages, data files and data processing programs were leaked from the University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit (CRU) located in the [[United Kingdom|UK]], revealing [[scientific fraud]] and data [[manipulation]] by scientists concerning the [[Global Warming Theory]].<ref>[http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/11/19/breaking-news-story-hadley-cru-has-apparently-been-hacked-hundreds-of-files-released/ Breaking News Story: CRU has apparently been hacked – hundreds of files released], ''Watts Up With That?'', November 19, 2009.</ref> The [[scandal]] that the suffix –'''gate''' implies is the state of [[climate science]] over the past decade, revealed by more than a thousand emails, documents, and computer code sets between various prominent scientists.<ref name=3things>Iain Murray. [http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/three-things-you-absolutely-must-know-about-climategate/ Three Things You Absolutely Must Know About Climategate], ''[[Pajamas Media]]'', November 24, 2009.</ref> The released information is evidence of [[deceit]] by climate scientists, which was kept a secret or hidden from the public until the data was leaked from the CRU. The CRU's apparent obstruction of [[freedom-of-information]] requests, as revealed by the ~~leaks~~, was only the tip of the [[iceberg]].<ref>The global-warming scandal is bigger than one email leak. [http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704342404574576683216723794.html The Tip of the Climategate Iceberg], ''[[Wall Street Journal]]'', December 08, 2009.</ref> Climategate is said to have revealed the biggest scientific [[hoax]] in world history as the worst scandal of this [[generation]].<ref>Christopher Booker. [~~http~~://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/6679082/Climate-change-this-is-the-worst-scientific-scandal-of-our-generation.html Climate change: this is the worst scientific scandal of our generation], Telegraph.co.uk, November 28, 2009.</ref><ref>[[Glenn Beck]]. [http://www.glennbeck.com/content/videos/?uri=channels/338017/667734 The Biggest Scam In History (Video)], ''The Glenn Beck Program'', December 01, 2009.</ref>

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The '''Climategate''' scandal erupted on November 19, 2009, when a collection of [[email]] messages, data files and data processing programs were leaked from the University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit (CRU) located in the [[United Kingdom|UK]], revealing [[scientific fraud]] and data [[manipulation]] by scientists concerning the [[Global Warming Theory]].<ref>[http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/11/19/breaking-news-story-hadley-cru-has-apparently-been-hacked-hundreds-of-files-released/ Breaking News Story: CRU has apparently been hacked – hundreds of files released], ''Watts Up With That?'', November 19, 2009.</ref> The [[scandal]] that the suffix –'''gate''' implies is the state of [[climate science]] over the past decade, revealed by more than a thousand emails, documents, and computer code sets between various prominent scientists.<ref name=3things>Iain Murray. [http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/three-things-you-absolutely-must-know-about-climategate/ Three Things You Absolutely Must Know About Climategate], ''[[Pajamas Media]]'', November 24, 2009.</ref> The released information is evidence of [[deceit]] by climate scientists, which was kept a secret or hidden from the public until the data was leaked from the CRU. The CRU's apparent obstruction of [[freedom-of-information]] requests, as revealed by the [[leak]]s, was only the tip of the [[iceberg]].<ref>The global-warming scandal is bigger than one email leak. [http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704342404574576683216723794.html The Tip of the Climategate Iceberg], ''[[Wall Street Journal]]'', December 08, 2009.</ref> Climategate is said to have revealed the biggest scientific [[hoax]] in world history as the worst scandal of this [[generation]].<ref>Christopher Booker. [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/6679082/Climate-change-this-is-the-worst-scientific-scandal-of-our-generation.html Climate change: this is the worst scientific scandal of our generation], Telegraph.co.uk, November 28, 2009.</ref><ref>[[Glenn Beck]]. [http://www.glennbeck.com/content/videos/?uri=channels/338017/667734 The Biggest Scam In History (Video)], ''The Glenn Beck Program'', December 01, 2009.</ref>

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The Climategate emails and climate data became the subject of intense debate, calling to question assumptions on [[Anthropogenic global warming theory|anthropogenic (man-made) global warming]]. The legitimacy of climate [[science]], and the charges leveled by the CRU and the [[Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change]] (IPCC) which claim humans cause [[climate change]], was severely shaken by Climategate. Evidence revealed told the truth about man-made [[global warming]]: it's a [[fraud]].<ref>James Delingpole. [http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100017393/climategate-the-final-nail-in-the-coffin-of-anthropogenic-global-warming/ Climategate: the final nail in the coffin of 'Anthropogenic Global Warming'?], Telegraph.co.uk, November 20, 2009.</ref><ref>[[Rush Limbaugh]]. [http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_113009/content/01125109.guest.html Universe of Lies: Big Warmers Try to Whitewash ClimateGate Fraud], RushLimbaugh.com, November 30, 2009.</ref><ref>Marc Sheppard. [~~http~~://www.americanthinker.com/2009/11/crus_source_code_climategate_r.html CRU's Source Code: Climategate Uncovered], ''American Thinker'', November 25, 2009.</ref><ref>Steve McIntyre. [http://www.climateaudit.org/?p=7168 Yamal: A "Divergence" Problem], climateaudit.org, September 27, 2009.</ref><ref>Andrew Orlowski. [http://sweetness-light.com/archive/one-of-the-frauds-behind-the-cru One Of The Scandals In The CRU Emails], ''Sweetness & Light'', September 29, 2009.</ref>

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The Climategate emails and climate data became the subject of intense debate, calling to question assumptions on [[Anthropogenic global warming theory|anthropogenic (man-made) global warming]]. The legitimacy of climate [[science]], and the charges leveled by the CRU and the [[Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change]] (IPCC) which claim humans cause [[climate change]], was severely shaken by Climategate. Evidence revealed told the truth about man-made [[global warming]]: it's a [[fraud]].<ref>James Delingpole. [http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100017393/climategate-the-final-nail-in-the-coffin-of-anthropogenic-global-warming/ Climategate: the final nail in the coffin of 'Anthropogenic Global Warming'?], Telegraph.co.uk, November 20, 2009.</ref><ref>[[Rush Limbaugh]]. [http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_113009/content/01125109.guest.html Universe of Lies: Big Warmers Try to Whitewash ClimateGate Fraud], RushLimbaugh.com, November 30, 2009.</ref><ref>Marc Sheppard. [https://www.americanthinker.com/2009/11/crus_source_code_climategate_r.html CRU's Source Code: Climategate Uncovered], ''American Thinker'', November 25, 2009.</ref><ref>Steve McIntyre. [http://www.climateaudit.org/?p=7168 Yamal: A "Divergence" Problem], climateaudit.org, September 27, 2009.</ref><ref>Andrew Orlowski. [http://sweetness-light.com/archive/one-of-the-frauds-behind-the-cru One Of The Scandals In The CRU Emails], ''Sweetness & Light'', September 29, 2009.</ref>

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Despite the significance of the scandal and its impact on the theory suggesting humans cause climate change, in a profoundly bizarre situation the [[Mainstream media]] attempted to bury the Climategate story.<ref name=accuracyinmedia>Allie Duzett. [http://www.aim.org/aim-column/media-ignore-climate-science-scandal/ Media Ignore Climate Science Scandal], [[Accuracy In Media]], November 23, 2009.</ref> At the same time, liberal [[Wikipedia]] quickly [[Censorship|censored]] Climategate and referred to it as an illegal "incident," as the work of computer hackers stealing data — contrary to [[Freedom of Information Act]] requests. In spite of the [[Liberal media|liberal media's]] [[bias]] attempt to hide the scandal, news of Climategate quickly spread because many other more notable sources of [[media]] covered the story. Commentators and others in the media covered news on Climategate, many of which outlined important takeaways about specific information valuable to the public.<ref>Larrey Anderson. [~~http~~://www.americanthinker.com/2009/12/revenge_of_the_computer_nerds_1.html Revenge of the Computer Nerds], ''American Thinker'', December 09, 2009.</ref>

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Despite the significance of the scandal and its impact on the theory suggesting humans cause climate change, in a profoundly bizarre situation the [[Mainstream media]] attempted to bury the Climategate story.<ref name=accuracyinmedia>Allie Duzett. [http://www.aim.org/aim-column/media-ignore-climate-science-scandal/ Media Ignore Climate Science Scandal], [[Accuracy In Media]], November 23, 2009.</ref> At the same time, liberal [[Wikipedia]] quickly [[Censorship|censored]] Climategate and referred to it as an illegal "incident," as the work of computer hackers stealing data — contrary to [[Freedom of Information Act]] requests. In spite of the [[Liberal media|liberal media's]] [[bias]] attempt to hide the scandal, news of Climategate quickly spread because many other more notable sources of [[media]] covered the story. Commentators and others in the media covered news on Climategate, many of which outlined important takeaways about specific information valuable to the public.<ref>Larrey Anderson. [https://www.americanthinker.com/2009/12/revenge_of_the_computer_nerds_1.html Revenge of the Computer Nerds], ''American Thinker'', December 09, 2009.</ref>

==Climategate Scandal==

[[File:DetroitLakes 212142 North 01.JPG|right|200px|thumb|An example of a poorly-placed, poorly-maintained satellite temperature sensor and MMTS unit, placed next to a private home's air conditioning unit, Detroit Lakes, Minnesota. The placement of thousands of these units near man-made heat sources had the effect of skewing temperature readings.]]

[[File:Hansen50.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Example of an MMTS unit, placed directly above road pavement at the University of Arizona, Tucson. A desert environment, summer temperatures in Tucson are in excess of 100o; the sun can and does heat the pavement at considerably higher temperatures.]]

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Climate science was troubled after news reports of the Climategate scandal went public, after the release of a thousand email messages and a collection of data and data processing programs from the University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit.<ref>Christopher C. Horner. [http://biggovernment.com/2009/11/23/media-missing-the-plot-on-climate-gate-its-the-fraud-stupid/#more-35302 Media Missing the Plot on ‘Climate Gate’: It’s the Fraud, Stupid!], BigGovernment.com, November 23, 2009.</ref> The trustworthiness of the scientific community's global warming data pool was called into question. On November 29, with the publication of a report by ''The Sunday Times'' of [[London]], it was reported that scientists at the University of East ~~Anglia’s~~ Climatic Research Unit in the United Kingdom confessed to throwing out most of the raw temperature data on which the theory of global warming is founded.<ref>Gene J. Koprowski. [~~http~~://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,578368,00.html Global Warming Scandal Makes Scientific Progress More Difficult, Experts Say], ''[[Fox News]]'', December 01, 2009.</ref> The admittance occurred following requests for the data under Freedom of Information legislation. [[Michelle Malkin]] detailed one of the many problems that will occur as a result of such data loss at the University of East Anglia, the research institution at the center of Climategate. She reported, "It means that other academics are not able to check basic calculations said to show a long-term rise in temperature over the past 150 years."<ref>[[Michelle Malkin]]. [http://michellemalkin.com/2009/11/30/document-dump-a-palooza/ Document-dump-a-palooza], ''Michelle Malkin'', November 30, 2009.</ref>

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Climate science was troubled after news reports of the Climategate scandal went public, after the release of a thousand email messages and a collection of data and data processing programs from the University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit.<ref>Christopher C. Horner. [http://biggovernment.com/2009/11/23/media-missing-the-plot-on-climate-gate-its-the-fraud-stupid/#more-35302 Media Missing the Plot on ‘Climate Gate’: It’s the Fraud, Stupid!], BigGovernment.com, November 23, 2009.</ref> The trustworthiness of the scientific community's global warming data pool was called into question. On November 29, with the publication of a report by ''The Sunday Times'' of [[London]], it was reported that scientists at the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit in the United Kingdom confessed to throwing out most of the raw temperature data on which the theory of global warming is founded.<ref>Gene J. Koprowski. [https://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,578368,00.html Global Warming Scandal Makes Scientific Progress More Difficult, Experts Say], ''[[Fox News]]'', December 01, 2009.</ref> The admittance occurred following requests for the data under Freedom of Information legislation. [[Michelle Malkin]] detailed one of the many problems that will occur as a result of such data loss at the University of East Anglia, the research institution at the center of Climategate. She reported, "It means that other academics are not able to check basic calculations said to show a long-term rise in temperature over the past 150 years."<ref>[[Michelle Malkin]]. [http://michellemalkin.com/2009/11/30/document-dump-a-palooza/ Document-dump-a-palooza], ''Michelle Malkin'', November 30, 2009.</ref>

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The Climategate scandal revealed that corruption of climate science is a worldwide problem and is not confined to just ~~Britain’s~~ CRU climate research centre. For instance, it was discovered that the reported [[warming trend]] in [[New Zealand]] over the past 156 years (from 1853 to 2008) was created by man-made adjustments of the temperature data.<ref>P.J. Gladnick. [http://newsbusters.org/blogs/p-j-gladnick/2009/11/26/climategate-scandal-spreads-new-zealand-msm-continues-ostrich-act Climategate Scandal Spreads to New Zealand as MSM Continues Ostrich Act], ''[[NewsBusters]]'', November 26, 2009.</ref> The centerpiece of New Zealand's ''National Institute of Water & Atmospheric'' research temperature claims were proven false.<ref>The revelations were published on November 25, 2009, from ''The Climate Science Coalition'' of NZ: [http://www.climatescience.org.nz/images/PDFs/global_warming_nz2.pdf PDF] A paper collated by Richard Treadgold, of the ''Climate Conversation Group'', from a combined research project undertaken by members of the ''Climate Conversation Group'' and the [[New Zealand]] ''Climate Science Coalition''.</ref> This data contributes to global temperature statistics and the climate science reports by the [[IPCC]]. The false data was used by the [[Obama administration]] as a reason for remaining insistently stubborn on participating in the climate conference in [[Copenhagen]] in 2009-10.

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The Climategate scandal revealed that corruption of climate science is a worldwide problem and is not confined to just Britain's CRU climate research centre. For instance, it was discovered that the reported [[warming trend]] in [[New Zealand]] over the past 156 years (from 1853 to 2008) was created by man-made adjustments of the temperature data.<ref>P.J. Gladnick. [http://newsbusters.org/blogs/p-j-gladnick/2009/11/26/climategate-scandal-spreads-new-zealand-msm-continues-ostrich-act Climategate Scandal Spreads to New Zealand as MSM Continues Ostrich Act], ''[[NewsBusters]]'', November 26, 2009.</ref> The centerpiece of New Zealand's ''National Institute of Water & Atmospheric'' research temperature claims were proven false.<ref>The revelations were published on November 25, 2009, from ''The Climate Science Coalition'' of NZ: [http://www.climatescience.org.nz/images/PDFs/global_warming_nz2.pdf PDF] A paper collated by Richard Treadgold, of the ''Climate Conversation Group'', from a combined research project undertaken by members of the ''Climate Conversation Group'' and the [[New Zealand]] ''Climate Science Coalition''.</ref> This data contributes to global temperature statistics and the climate science reports by the [[IPCC]]. The false data was used by the [[Obama administration]] as a reason for remaining insistently stubborn on participating in the climate conference in [[Copenhagen]] in 2009-10.

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The CRU scientists deliberately falsified data, and then used the results of the falsification to obtain additional research funding. This is [[criminal]] [[fraud]] under [[English]] [[Law]]. Because of the worldwide fraud revealed from Climategate and the burden it caused to the global scientific community, on December 1, 2009, [[Phil Jones]], the director of the embattled Climatic Research Unit in the [[United Kingdom]] stepped down pending investigations into allegations that he overstated the case for man-made climate change.<ref>[~~http~~://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,578486,00.html Facing Scandal, Head of Climate Research Lab to Temporarily Step Down], ''[[Fox News]]'', December 02, 2009.</ref> On January 28, 2010, from the ''London Times'', inquiry over the Climategate emails found Phil Jones broke the law by refusing to hand over its raw data for public scrutiny.<ref>Ben Webster, Environment Editor, and Jonathan Leake. [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article7004936.ece Scientists in stolen e-mail scandal hid climate data], ''The London Times'', January 28, 2010.</ref> [[Michael Mann]] was investigated by [[Pennsylvania State University]].<ref>[~~http~~://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/02/03/penn-st-investigating-scientist-research-misconduct/ Penn St. Investigating Scientist Over Research Misconduct], FOXNews.com, Updated: February 03, 2010.</ref>

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The CRU scientists deliberately falsified data, and then used the results of the falsification to obtain additional research funding. This is [[criminal]] [[fraud]] under [[English]] [[Law]]. Because of the worldwide fraud revealed from Climategate and the burden it caused to the global scientific community, on December 1, 2009, [[Phil Jones]], the director of the embattled Climatic Research Unit in the [[United Kingdom]] stepped down pending investigations into allegations that he overstated the case for man-made climate change.<ref>[https://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,578486,00.html Facing Scandal, Head of Climate Research Lab to Temporarily Step Down], ''[[Fox News]]'', December 02, 2009.</ref> On January 28, 2010, from the ''London Times'', inquiry over the Climategate emails found Phil Jones broke the law by refusing to hand over its raw data for public scrutiny.<ref>Ben Webster, Environment Editor, and Jonathan Leake. [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article7004936.ece Scientists in stolen e-mail scandal hid climate data], ''The London Times'', January 28, 2010.</ref> [[Michael Mann]] was investigated by [[Pennsylvania State University]].<ref>[https://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/02/03/penn-st-investigating-scientist-research-misconduct/ Penn St. Investigating Scientist Over Research Misconduct], FOXNews.com, Updated: February 03, 2010.</ref>

Climategate fraud also extended to the [[United States]], and the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) had their attorneys file three Notices of Intent to File Suit against [[NASA]]. Chris Horner, representing CEI, said the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies failed to comply with the Freedom of Information Act for over three years.<ref>Tony Pann. [http://www.examiner.com/x-11224-Baltimore-Weather-Examiner~y2009m11d25-Climategate-CEI-to-sue-NASA-Goddard-for-Climate-Change-fraud Climategate: CEI to sue NASA Goddard for Climate Change fraud], ''Baltimore Weather Examiner'', November 25, 2009.</ref> The Climategate emails, originating from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, showed how all the data centers worldwide, including NOAA and NASA, conspired in the manipulation of global temperature records to suggest that temperatures in the 20th century rose faster than they actually did.<ref>Joseph D'Aleo. [http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/climategate-noaa-and-nasa-complicit-in-data-manipulation/ Climategate: NOAA and NASA Complicit in Data Manipulation], ''[[Pajamas Media]]'', January 29, 2010.</ref> NASA's two primary climate centers, the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) in Asheville, [[North Carolina|N.C.]], and the Goddard Institute for Space Studies at [[Columbia University]] in [[New York City]], "systematically eliminated 75% of the world's stations with a clear bias toward removing higher-latitude, high-altitude and rural locations."<ref>[http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=518890 A U.S. ClimateGate?], Investors.com, January 22, 2010.</ref>

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===Data Manipulation===

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[[Image:Orange sun large.jpg|thumb|right|300px|On December 10, 2009, [[Roy W. Spencer]], Ph. D., showed the potential effects of sunspot activity on climate, detailing [http://www.drroyspencer.com/2009/12/geomagnetic-forcing-of-earth%E2%80%99s-cloud-cover-during-2000-2008/ solar geomagnetic to earth climate connections]. On the subject of solar activity affecting climate variations, the geomagnetic modulation of cloudiness has about 10 times the effect on the amount of sunlight absorbed by the Earth as does the solar ~~cycle’s~~ direct modulation of the ~~sun’s~~ output. It also rivals the level of forcing due to [[Anthropogenic global warming theory|anthropogenic]] [[Greenhouse effect|greenhouse gas emissions]], but with way more variability from year to year and decade to decade. (Can anyone say, “natural climate variability”?)]]

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[[Image:Orange sun large.jpg|thumb|right|300px|On December 10, 2009, [[Roy W. Spencer]], Ph. D., showed the potential effects of sunspot activity on climate, detailing [http://www.drroyspencer.com/2009/12/geomagnetic-forcing-of-earth%E2%80%99s-cloud-cover-during-2000-2008/ solar geomagnetic to earth climate connections]. On the subject of solar activity affecting climate variations, the geomagnetic modulation of cloudiness has about 10 times the effect on the amount of sunlight absorbed by the Earth as does the solar cycle's direct modulation of the sun's output. It also rivals the level of forcing due to [[Anthropogenic global warming theory|anthropogenic]] [[Greenhouse effect|greenhouse gas emissions]], but with way more variability from year to year and decade to decade. (Can anyone say, “natural climate variability”?)]]

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The primary issue from Climategate is the data manipulation. [[Science]] requires data, and inadequacy of the climate record was always a problem even before Climategate became known to the public. Dr. [[Tim Ball]] wrote in the ''Canada Free Press'' on the primary issue from Climategate:

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The primary issue from Climategate is the data manipulation. [[Science]] requires data, and inadequacy of the climate record was always a problem even before Climategate became known to the public. Dr. [[Tim Ball]] wrote in the ''[[Canada Free Press]]'' on the primary issue from Climategate:

{{cquote|Climatology recognizes three distinct periods: The very recent instrumental period; the historical period to 3000 years, and the geologic [and] biologic for the rest. The [Climatic Research Unit scientists] manipulated data in all three but the first is critical because it is the source of material for the computer models, the vehicle of their deception. [...] They claim [the emails] are taken out of context. In context the fullness of their criminality is exposed. They claim there’s nothing of consequence in the emails, but [the emails show] a litany of [[manipulation]] of, the data, the process, publications, [[peer review]], and [[personal attack]]s.<ref name=datamanipulation>Dr. Tim Ball. [http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/17916 The New Big Lie: Climategate Emails Are Not Significant], ''Canada Free Press'', December 14, 2009.</ref>}}

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Climategate shows strong evidence of fraud, and may show smoking-gun proof of a cover-up by CRU scientists to exaggerate the existence, causation, and threat of global warming.<ref>[~~http~~://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,576009,00.html Climate Skeptics See 'Smoking Gun' in Researchers' Leaked E-Mails], FOXNews.com, November 21, 2009.</ref><ref>Marc Sheppard. [~~http~~://www.americanthinker.com/2009/11/the_evidence_of_climate_fraud.html The Evidence of Climate Fraud], ''American Thinker'', November 21, 2009.</ref><ref>Noel Sheppard. [http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2009/11/25/climategate-smoking-gun-american-thinker-does-medias-job ClimateGate Smoking Gun Found, American Thinker Does Media's Job], ''[[NewsBusters]]'', November 25, 2009.</ref> From ''Cube Antics'', by Robert Greiner, who is a scientist and engineer "with an agnostic stand on global warming," he offered a statement about the research methods of the CRU scientists, attempting to show proof that they had the means and intent to falsify data. Greiner pointed out that the Climategate emails alone do not provide sufficient proof that the CRU was deliberately tampering with their data. What the Climategate emails do show is that climate scientists may have committed a [[felony]] using government funded money; moreover, within the collection of data and data processing programs revealed from Climategate, code from the CRU shows proof that valid [[temperature station]] readings were taken and skewed to fabricate the results the "scientists" wanted to believe, not what actually occurred.<ref name=codeproof>Robert Greiner. [http://cubeantics.com/2009/12/the-proof-behind-the-cru-climategate-debacle-because-computers-do-lie-when-humans-tell-them-to/ The Proof Behind the CRU Climategate Debacle], ''Cube Antics'', December 03, 2009.</ref> Analysis of the CRU's code revealed the foundation for the manipulated temperature readings. Greiner reiterated his findings:

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Climategate shows strong evidence of fraud, and may show smoking-gun proof of a cover-up by CRU scientists to exaggerate the existence, causation, and threat of global warming.<ref>[https://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,576009,00.html Climate Skeptics See 'Smoking Gun' in Researchers' Leaked E-Mails], FOXNews.com, November 21, 2009.</ref><ref>Marc Sheppard. [https://www.americanthinker.com/2009/11/the_evidence_of_climate_fraud.html The Evidence of Climate Fraud], ''American Thinker'', November 21, 2009.</ref><ref>Noel Sheppard. [http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2009/11/25/climategate-smoking-gun-american-thinker-does-medias-job ClimateGate Smoking Gun Found, American Thinker Does Media's Job], ''[[NewsBusters]]'', November 25, 2009.</ref> From ''Cube Antics'', by Robert Greiner, who is a scientist and engineer "with an agnostic stand on global warming," he offered a statement about the research methods of the CRU scientists, attempting to show proof that they had the means and intent to falsify data. Greiner pointed out that the Climategate emails alone do not provide sufficient proof that the CRU was deliberately tampering with their data. What the Climategate emails do show is that climate scientists may have committed a [[felony]] using government funded money; moreover, within the collection of data and data processing programs revealed from Climategate, code from the CRU shows proof that valid [[temperature station]] readings were taken and skewed to fabricate the results the "scientists" wanted to believe, not what actually occurred.<ref name=codeproof>Robert Greiner. [http://cubeantics.com/2009/12/the-proof-behind-the-cru-climategate-debacle-because-computers-do-lie-when-humans-tell-them-to/ The Proof Behind the CRU Climategate Debacle], ''Cube Antics'', December 03, 2009.</ref> Analysis of the CRU's code revealed the foundation for the manipulated temperature readings. Greiner reiterated his findings:

{{cquote|First and foremost, this doesn’t necessarily prove anything about global warming as science. It just shows that all of the data that was the chief result of most of the environmental legislation created over the last decade was a farce. This means that all of those billions of dollars we spent as a global community to combat global warming may have been for nothing. If news station anchors and politicians were trained as engineers, they would be able to find real proof and not just speculate about the meaning of emails that only made it appear as if something illegal happened.<ref name=codeproof/>}}

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On December 5, 2009, Robert Greiner pointed out the four most frequent concerns dealing with the ~~CRU’s~~ source code uncovered from Climategate:<ref name=codepart2>Robert Greiner. [http://cubeantics.com/2009/12/climategate-code-analysis-part-2/ Climategate Code Analysis Part 2], ''Cube Antics'', December 05, 2009.</ref>

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On December 5, 2009, Robert Greiner pointed out the four most frequent concerns dealing with the CRU's source code uncovered from Climategate:<ref name=codepart2>Robert Greiner. [http://cubeantics.com/2009/12/climategate-code-analysis-part-2/ Climategate Code Analysis Part 2], ''Cube Antics'', December 05, 2009.</ref>

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====Hockey Stick Graph====

In one Climategate [[e-mail]] dated November 1999, CRU chief P.D. Jones wrote to [[Michael Mann]], Raymond Bradley, and Malcolm Hughes:

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{{cquote|I've just completed Mike's Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) amd from 1961 for Keith's to '''hide the decline'''.<ref>Marc Sheppard. [~~http~~://www.americanthinker.com/2009/10/un_climate_reports_they_lie.html UN Climate Reports: They Lie], ''American Thinker'', October 05, 2009.</ref>}}

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{{cquote|I've just completed Mike's Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) amd from 1961 for Keith's to '''hide the decline'''.<ref>Marc Sheppard. [https://www.americanthinker.com/2009/10/un_climate_reports_they_lie.html UN Climate Reports: They Lie], ''American Thinker'', October 05, 2009.</ref>}}

Michael Mann's [[hockey stick graph]] hid the real declining temperatures and instead showed a [[warming trend]].<ref>[http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/12/12/historical-video-perspective-our-current-unprecedented-global-warming-in-the-context-of-scale/ Historical video perspective: global warming in the context of scale], ''WUWT'', December 12, 2009.</ref> Mann's graph portrayed temperatures as steadily declining since [[Medieval Warm Period|medieval times]] and then sharply rising in the last century and a half. Notably, his reconstruction fueled claims that 1998 and following years had the highest temperatures in 1,000 years. Once it became publicly known that man-made global warming is a hoax, as a direct result of the e-mail discussing a "trick" for adding data to each temperature series for the last 20 years, Climategate motivated the making of a video called, "Hide The Decline."<ref>Derek Erwin. [http://derekerwin.blogspot.com/2009/11/climategate-video-hide-decline.html Video of the Year: 'Hide The Decline' - Climategate], ''A 1-In-100 Blogger'', November 27, 2009.</ref>

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* [~~http~~://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFbUVBYIPlI The Hockey Stick vs. Ice Core Data], the “unprecedented” temperatures of the present day when put in perspective of geologic time.

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* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFbUVBYIPlI The Hockey Stick vs. Ice Core Data], the “unprecedented” temperatures of the present day when put in perspective of geologic time.

* ''Hi-Definition'': [http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/noaa_gisp2_icecore_anim_hi-def3.gif Historical perspective slide show (.GIF)], “unprecedented” global warming in the context of scale.

* ''Low-res'': [http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/noaa_gisp2_icecore_anim3.gif Historical perspective slide show (.GIF)], “unprecedented” global warming in the context of scale.

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Al Gore's "[[schlockumentary]]," ''[[An Inconvenient Truth]]'', is perhaps the earliest known Climategate fraud and most widely known global warming hoax. The film was designed to promote fear of global warming with false claims, [[junk science]] and digitally enhanced lies, proclaiming the end of the world. During Al Gore's promotional efforts for his film and to raise alarm on the effects of global warming, he boldly predicted we have ten years to doom.<ref>[[Rush Limbaugh]]. [http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/free_estack_pages/algore10yearstodoom.guest.html Algore: We Have Ten Years Left Before Earth Cooks], RushLimbaugh.com, January 27, 2006.</ref> At the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, [[Larry David]] commented on Gore's promotional efforts to raise awareness about his schlockumentary and said, "You know, Al is a funny guy, but he's also a very serious guy who believes humans may have only 10 years left to save the planet from turning into a total frying pan."

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''An Inconvenient Truth'' inspired fear using junk science; Gore spread [[alarmist]] [[propaganda]] and claimed burning fossil fuels such as [[coal]], [[gas]] and [[oil]] have dramatically increased the Earth's temperatures. Scientific inaccuracies in the film were enhanced with [[Hollywood]] special effects, as a deceptive tactic, to spread fear of doom on his one-sided account of the anthropogenic global warming theory. Most notably, Al Gore created a scene in his movie that shows the [[Antarctic]] ice shelf breaking up and virtually disintegrating, supposedly providing visual evidence to back up his claim that glaciers are melting. The problem is that it wasn't real ice melting. It was styrofoam.<ref>[http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2005744/posts Al Gore Fakes It], ''Free Republic'', April 23, 2008.</ref> ''[[ABC News]]'' reported Al Gore also took footage of digitally enhanced melting ice from the fictional movie, ''The Day After Tomorrow'', and then used it in his schlockumentary. The real truth behind this hoax is ideology, motivated by money and power.<ref>Steve Rowitt, Th.M., Ph.D. [http://www.creationstudies.org/operationsalt/global_warming_hoax.html Global Warming: The Biggest Hoax of the 21st Century], creationstudies.org, (2010).</ref><ref>Cliff Mason. [~~http~~://www.cnbc.com/id/28317874 War On Climate Change Over—And It Won], ''[[CNBC]]'', December 19, 2008.</ref>

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''An Inconvenient Truth'' inspired fear using junk science; Gore spread [[alarmist]] [[propaganda]] and claimed burning fossil fuels such as [[coal]], [[gas]] and [[oil]] have dramatically increased the Earth's temperatures. Scientific inaccuracies in the film were enhanced with [[Hollywood]] special effects, as a deceptive tactic, to spread fear of doom on his one-sided account of the anthropogenic global warming theory. Most notably, Al Gore created a scene in his movie that shows the [[Antarctic]] ice shelf breaking up and virtually disintegrating, supposedly providing visual evidence to back up his claim that glaciers are melting. The problem is that it wasn't real ice melting. It was styrofoam.<ref>[http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2005744/posts Al Gore Fakes It], ''Free Republic'', April 23, 2008.</ref> ''[[ABC News]]'' reported Al Gore also took footage of digitally enhanced melting ice from the fictional movie, ''The Day After Tomorrow'', and then used it in his schlockumentary. The real truth behind this hoax is ideology, motivated by money and power.<ref>Steve Rowitt, Th.M., Ph.D. [http://www.creationstudies.org/operationsalt/global_warming_hoax.html Global Warming: The Biggest Hoax of the 21st Century], creationstudies.org, (2010).</ref><ref>Cliff Mason. [https://www.cnbc.com/id/28317874 War On Climate Change Over—And It Won], ''[[CNBC]]'', December 19, 2008.</ref>

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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said in its 2007 benchmark report that even a slight change in rainfall could see swathes of the rain forest rapidly replaced by savanna grassland. However, the aftermath of Climategate forced the United Nations climate watchdog to admit to intentionally publishing false claims; the IPCC claims about melting ice in the [[Alps]], the [[Andes]], and in [[Africa]] did not come from [[peer review]]ed scientific literature—but from ''Climbing Magazine'', and from a student dissertation—written by a [[climate change]] [[activist]] who was studying for a degree in [[Geography]].<ref>[[Glenn Beck]]. [http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/35784/ Exclusive: Yet another climategate?], ''The Glenn Beck Program'', February 1, 2010.</ref> The IPCC claims that global warming might wipe out 40% of the [[Amazon River|Amazon]] [[Forest|rainforest]] was based on an unsubstantiated claim by green campaigners who had little scientific expertise.<ref>Jonathan Leake. [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article7009705.ece UN climate panel shamed by bogus rainforest claim], ''[[The Sunday Times]]'', January 31, 2010.</ref><ref>Richard Gray. [~~http~~://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/7111525/UN-climate-change-panel-based-claims-on-student-dissertation-and-magazine-article.html UN climate change panel based claims on student dissertation and magazine article], Telegraph.co.uk, January 30, 2010.</ref>

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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said in its 2007 benchmark report that even a slight change in rainfall could see swathes of the rain forest rapidly replaced by savanna grassland. However, the aftermath of Climategate forced the United Nations climate watchdog to admit to intentionally publishing false claims; the IPCC claims about melting ice in the [[Alps]], the [[Andes]], and in [[Africa]] did not come from [[peer review]]ed scientific literature—but from ''Climbing Magazine'', and from a student dissertation—written by a [[climate change]] [[activist]] who was studying for a degree in [[Geography]].<ref>[[Glenn Beck]]. [http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/35784/ Exclusive: Yet another climategate?], ''The Glenn Beck Program'', February 1, 2010.</ref> The IPCC claims that global warming might wipe out 40% of the [[Amazon River|Amazon]] [[Forest|rainforest]] was based on an unsubstantiated claim by green campaigners who had little scientific expertise.<ref>Jonathan Leake. [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article7009705.ece UN climate panel shamed by bogus rainforest claim], ''[[The Sunday Times]]'', January 31, 2010.</ref><ref>Richard Gray. [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/7111525/UN-climate-change-panel-based-claims-on-student-dissertation-and-magazine-article.html UN climate change panel based claims on student dissertation and magazine article], Telegraph.co.uk, January 30, 2010.</ref>

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[[Greenpeace]] leader [[Gerd Leipold]] admitted that his organization issued misleading statements about man-made global warming, and he said the organization exaggerated information when it claimed that [[Arctic]] [[ice]] would disappear completely by 2030.<ref>Paul Joseph Watson. [http://www.infowars.com/greenpeace-leader-admits-organization-put-out-fake-global-warming-data/ Greenpeace Leader Admits Organization Put Out Fake Global Warming Data], ''Info Wars'', August 20, 2009.</ref> Despite the admission that a panel report warning [[Himalayan]] [[glaciers]] could be gone by 2035 was hundreds of years off, and regardless of the fraud, deceit and lies the Greenpeace organization spread about global warming, Gerd Leipold said he would not resign.<ref>[~~http~~://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,583711,00.html U.N. Climate Change Expert Cites More Errors in Report], ''[[Fox News]]'', January 25, 2010.</ref>

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[[Greenpeace]] leader [[Gerd Leipold]] admitted that his organization issued misleading statements about man-made global warming, and he said the organization exaggerated information when it claimed that [[Arctic]] [[ice]] would disappear completely by 2030.<ref>[[Paul Joseph Watson]]. [http://www.infowars.com/greenpeace-leader-admits-organization-put-out-fake-global-warming-data/ Greenpeace Leader Admits Organization Put Out Fake Global Warming Data], ''Info Wars'', August 20, 2009.</ref> Despite the admission that a panel report warning [[Himalayan]] [[glaciers]] could be gone by 2035 was hundreds of years off, and regardless of the fraud, deceit and lies the Greenpeace organization spread about global warming, Gerd Leipold said he would not resign.<ref>[https://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,583711,00.html U.N. Climate Change Expert Cites More Errors in Report], ''[[Fox News]]'', January 25, 2010.</ref>

In 2010, as the East Coast of the United States was hammered by strong winter storms of snow and ice, [[President Obama]] claimed this as further evidence of global warming. The president of the United States ignored facts to push a political agenda. Obama lied about global warming when he said it will cause some places to "end up being a little bit cooler," due to man-made climate change.

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Professor Phil Jones admitted during an interview with the ''[[BBC]]'' his record keeping is "not as good as it should be," and that he "did not do a thorough job" of keeping track of his own records. Colleagues say that the reason Phil Jones refused [[FOIA|Freedom of Information]] requests is that he may have actually lost the relevant papers. The data is crucial to the famous [[hockey stick graph]] used by [[climate change]] advocates to support the [[theory]].<ref>Jonathan Petre. [~~http~~://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1250872/Climategate-U-turn-Astonishment-scientist-centre-global-warming-email-row-admits-data-organised.html Climategate U-turn as scientist at centre of row admits: There has been no global warming since 1995], ''[[Daily Mail]]'', February 14, 2010.</ref><ref>[~~http~~://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1250813/MAIL-ON-SUNDAY-COMMENT-The-professors-amazing-climate-change-retreat.html MAIL ON SUNDAY COMMENT: The professor’s amazing climate change retreat], [[Daily Mail|dailymail.co.uk]], February 13, 2010.</ref> Professor Jones also said that there is little difference between global warming rates in the ~~1990's~~ and in two previous periods since 1860, leaving open the possibility that the world was warmer in medieval times than now – that the [[Medieval Warm Period]] from 800 to 1300 AD was warmer than the present period, and it could have encompassed the entire globe. Phil Jones also accepted a fact that from 1995 to 2010, for the past 15 years, there has been no statistically significant warming. He conceded the possibility suggesting [[global warming]] may not be a man-made phenomenon.

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Professor Phil Jones admitted during an interview with the ''[[BBC]]'' his record keeping is "not as good as it should be," and that he "did not do a thorough job" of keeping track of his own records. Colleagues say that the reason Phil Jones refused [[FOIA|Freedom of Information]] requests is that he may have actually lost the relevant papers. The data is crucial to the famous [[hockey stick graph]] used by [[climate change]] advocates to support the [[theory]].<ref>Jonathan Petre. [https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1250872/Climategate-U-turn-Astonishment-scientist-centre-global-warming-email-row-admits-data-organised.html Climategate U-turn as scientist at centre of row admits: There has been no global warming since 1995], ''[[Daily Mail]]'', February 14, 2010.</ref><ref>[https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1250813/MAIL-ON-SUNDAY-COMMENT-The-professors-amazing-climate-change-retreat.html MAIL ON SUNDAY COMMENT: The professor’s amazing climate change retreat], [[Daily Mail|dailymail.co.uk]], February 13, 2010.</ref> Professor Jones also said that there is little difference between global warming rates in the 1990s and in two previous periods since 1860, leaving open the possibility that the world was warmer in medieval times than now – that the [[Medieval Warm Period]] from 800 to 1300 AD was warmer than the present period, and it could have encompassed the entire globe. Phil Jones also accepted a fact that from 1995 to 2010, for the past 15 years, there has been no statistically significant warming. He conceded the possibility suggesting [[global warming]] may not be a man-made phenomenon.

==Climategate Emails==

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After a second file search was executed to double check how many of the Climategate emails contained some permutation of the letters "t r i c k," it revealed 29 emails out of the 1079 emails in the [http://junkscience.com/FOIA/ FOIA2009.zip] file. Only one instance was found where Dr. Jones used the word "trick" in reference to a procedure on data. There are other uses and variations of the word "trick" in other emails, but only one instance attributed to Jones where he refers to this data issue. As Dr. Jones put it: The word ‘trick’ was used in the lone instance colloquially as in a clever thing to do (eg. "that’ll do the trick"). But it was questioned that one would expect to see it in general use by Dr. Jones in other emails if it was indeed a colloquialism. In the thousand plus Climategate emails, ~~there’s~~ no other use of the word "trick" by Dr. Jones related to data truncation or otherwise, though there are other colloquial uses of the word by other authors.<ref name=trickcount/>

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After a second file search was executed to double check how many of the Climategate emails contained some permutation of the letters "t r i c k," it revealed 29 emails out of the 1079 emails in the [http://junkscience.com/FOIA/ FOIA2009.zip] file. Only one instance was found where Dr. Jones used the word "trick" in reference to a procedure on data. There are other uses and variations of the word "trick" in other emails, but only one instance attributed to Jones where he refers to this data issue. As Dr. Jones put it: The word ‘trick’ was used in the lone instance colloquially as in a clever thing to do (e.g. "that’ll do the trick"). But it was questioned that one would expect to see it in general use by Dr. Jones in other emails if it was indeed a colloquialism. In the thousand plus Climategate emails, there's no other use of the word "trick" by Dr. Jones related to data truncation or otherwise, though there are other colloquial uses of the word by other authors.<ref name=trickcount/>

===Themes===

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{{cquote|[The scientists] were asking each other to delete messages to avoid Freedom of Information Act requests. That doesn't sound legal. Scientists are working together to try and change the definition of [[peer review]] journals so that anybody who said global warming wasn't real couldn't get their papers published. ... [And then with] these thousands of E-mails ... Shouldn't this be - oh, I don't know - everywhere now? All of them are, to varying degrees, important. But how much could any of those actually cost you? This scandal will literally cost you trillions of dollars. That's what's at stake worldwide. It's on how we deal with the climate.<ref name=nbstaff>[http://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb-staff/2009/11/24/glenn-beck-cites-newsbusters-bash-tvs-climategate-boycott Glenn Beck Cites NewsBusters to Bash TV's ClimateGate Boycott], ''[[NewsBusters]]'', November 24, 2009.</ref>}}

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According to [[Rush Limbaugh]], another theme of the e-mails that have been released is how people at the Climatic Research Unit were constantly trying to "shake down" the oil companies (ie. Exxon, Shell) for [[money]] and for partnerships.<ref>[http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/12/04/climategate-cru-looks-to-big-oil-for-support/ Climategate: CRU looks to “big oil” for support], ''WUWT'', December 04, 2009.</ref> On this reoccurring theme, Limbaugh mentioned the following:

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According to [[Rush Limbaugh]], another theme of the e-mails that have been released is how people at the Climatic Research Unit were constantly trying to "shake down" the oil companies (i.e. Exxon, Shell) for [[money]] and for partnerships.<ref>[http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/12/04/climategate-cru-looks-to-big-oil-for-support/ Climategate: CRU looks to “big oil” for support], ''WUWT'', December 04, 2009.</ref> On this reoccurring theme, Limbaugh mentioned the following:

{{cquote|They talk about it openly, how they're constantly trying to shake down the oil companies. The only thing man-made about global warming is the theory behind it. What you are going to do with people who are even willing to lie about the weather?<ref>[[Rush Limbaugh]]. [http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_113009/content/01125111.guest.html It's Not a Consensus, It's a Cabal], RushLimbaugh.com, November 30, 2009.</ref>}}

===Wikipedia===

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Lawrence Solomon from the ''[[National Post]]'' discovered from the Climategate emails how a small band of [[climatologist]]s plotted to rewrite history as well as science, particularly by eliminating the [[Medieval Warm Period]].<ref>[http://www.climate-gate.org/search.php?keyword=Wikipedia&submit=Search Search - Wikipedia], climate-gate.org, Climategate Document Database.</ref> The Climategate emails revealed the enlistment of [[Wikipedia]] in their attempt at rewriting history. It was revealed how ~~Wikipedia’s~~ "green doctor," a U.K. scientist and [[Green Party]] activist, rewrote 5,428 climate articles. The recruited [[Wikipedia]] administrator, [[William M. Connolley|William Connolley]], literally rewrote history and then abused his administrative privileges to stifle criticism of the global warming orthodoxy.<ref>[http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/12/19/wikibullies-at-work-the-national-post-exposes-broad-trust-issues-over-wikipedia-climate-information/ Wikibullies at work. The National Post exposes Wikipedia climate information], ''WUWT'', December 19, 2009.</ref> Lawrence Solomon wrote on this revelation and on Wikipedia's loss of [[integrity]] as a source of factual information, and on the clear abuse of power from administrative authorities within Wikipedia:

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Lawrence Solomon from the ''[[National Post]]'' discovered from the Climategate emails how a small band of [[climatologist]]s plotted to rewrite history as well as science, particularly by eliminating the [[Medieval Warm Period]].<ref>[http://www.climate-gate.org/search.php?keyword=Wikipedia&submit=Search Search - Wikipedia], climate-gate.org, Climategate Document Database.</ref> The Climategate emails revealed the enlistment of [[Wikipedia]] in their attempt at rewriting history. It was revealed how Wikipedia's "green doctor," a U.K. scientist and [[Green Party]] activist, rewrote 5,428 climate articles. The recruited [[Wikipedia]] administrator, [[William M. Connolley|William Connolley]], literally rewrote history and then abused his administrative privileges to stifle criticism of the global warming orthodoxy.<ref>[http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/12/19/wikibullies-at-work-the-national-post-exposes-broad-trust-issues-over-wikipedia-climate-information/ Wikibullies at work. The National Post exposes Wikipedia climate information], ''WUWT'', December 19, 2009.</ref> Lawrence Solomon wrote on this revelation and on Wikipedia's loss of [[integrity]] as a source of factual information, and on the clear abuse of power from administrative authorities within Wikipedia:

{{cquote|Starting in February 2003, Connolley set to work on the Wikipedia site. He rewrote Wikipedia’s articles on global warming, on the greenhouse effect, on the instrumental temperature record, on the urban heat island, on climate models, on global cooling. On Feb. 14, he began to erase the Little Ice Age; on Aug.11, the Medieval Warm Period. In October, he turned his attention to the hockey stick graph. He rewrote articles on the politics of global warming and on the scientists who were skeptical of the band. Richard Lindzen and Fred Singer, two of the world’s most distinguished climate scientists, were among his early targets, followed by others that the band especially hated, such as Willie Soon and Sallie Baliunas of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, authorities on the Medieval Warm Period. All told, Connolley created or rewrote 5,428 unique Wikipedia articles. His control over Wikipedia was greater still, however, through the role he obtained at Wikipedia as a website administrator, which allowed him to act with virtual impunity. When Connolley didn’t like the subject of a certain article, he removed it — more than 500 articles of various descriptions disappeared at his hand. When he disapproved of the arguments that others were making, he often had them barred — over 2,000 Wikipedia contributors who ran afoul of him found themselves blocked from making further contributions.<ref>Lawrence Solomon. [http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2009/12/19/lawrence-solomon-wikipedia-s-climate-doctor.aspx Lawrence Solomon: Wikipedia’s climate doctor], ''[[National Post]]'', December 19, 2009.</ref>}}

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| [[File:50 star flag.png|50px]]||[[Pennsylvania State University|Penn State]] [~~http~~://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/02/03/penn-st-investigating-scientist-research-misconduct/ investigated] [[Michael Mann]] for his role in Climategate. [[Barack Obama]] is "doubling down" on his commitment to combat anthropogenic global warming; the [[Obama administration]] dumped [http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/2009/12/17/2009-12-17_us_will_contribute_to_100b_climate_fund_for_developing_countries_hillary_clinton.html more U.S. taxpayer dollars] into a global $100 billion [[European Union]] climate change fund.

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| [[File:50 star flag.png|50px]]||[[Pennsylvania State University|Penn State]] [https://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/02/03/penn-st-investigating-scientist-research-misconduct/ investigated] [[Michael Mann]] for his role in Climategate. [[Barack Obama]] is "doubling down" on his commitment to combat anthropogenic global warming; the [[Obama administration]] dumped [http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/2009/12/17/2009-12-17_us_will_contribute_to_100b_climate_fund_for_developing_countries_hillary_clinton.html more U.S. taxpayer dollars] into a global $100 billion [[European Union]] climate change fund.

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| [[File:Flag of Australia.png|50px]]||Liberal Party members within [[Australia|Australia's]] parliament resigned their portfolios rather than voted for a cap and trade scheme based on flawed science.

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[[Sarah Palin]] called for President Obama to skip [[Copenhagen]], the climate summit in [[Denmark]], because of the information Climategate exposed. She commented on [[Facebook]] that the president should reconsider his trip until the e-mails can be investigated, "Boycotting Copenhagen while this scandal is thoroughly investigated would send a strong message that the [[United States]] government will not be a party to fraudulent scientific practices."<ref name=obamacopenhagen>Wendell Goler. [~~http~~://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/12/05/obama-s-shift-copenhagen-visit-defies-climate-gate-controversy/ Obama Ignores 'Climate-Gate' in Revising Copenhagen Plans], FOXNews.com, December 5, 2009.</ref> Instead, the [[The White House|White House]] attempted to downplay the controversial leaked e-mails of climate scientists. [[President Obama]] announced that he was "doubling down" on his commitment to the worldwide environmental agenda, pushing forward with a [[cap and trade]] scheme that is based on flawed science, and hoping to secure a "meaningful" agreement. The President made it clear that he will invest more energy and taxpayer dollars to help advance the global warming hoax.

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[[Sarah Palin]] called for President Obama to skip [[Copenhagen]], the climate summit in [[Denmark]], because of the information Climategate exposed. She commented on [[Facebook]] that the president should reconsider his trip until the e-mails can be investigated, "Boycotting Copenhagen while this scandal is thoroughly investigated would send a strong message that the [[United States]] government will not be a party to fraudulent scientific practices."<ref name=obamacopenhagen>Wendell Goler. [https://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/12/05/obama-s-shift-copenhagen-visit-defies-climate-gate-controversy/ Obama Ignores 'Climate-Gate' in Revising Copenhagen Plans], FOXNews.com, December 5, 2009.</ref> Instead, the [[The White House|White House]] attempted to downplay the controversial leaked e-mails of climate scientists. [[President Obama]] announced that he was "doubling down" on his commitment to the worldwide environmental agenda, pushing forward with a [[cap and trade]] scheme that is based on flawed science, and hoping to secure a "meaningful" agreement. The President made it clear that he will invest more energy and taxpayer dollars to help advance the global warming hoax.

Originally, the [[President of the United States of America|President]] was supposed to attend the U.N. Climate Conference in Copenhagen for the beginning of the conference, "bless the occasion and leave," said Roger Simon of ''[[Pajamas Media]]''. After Climategate became known, ''Pajamas Media'' reported that President Obama, "[S]witched his itinerary to be there at the end of the two weeks in order to give his blessing and impetus to the decision itself."<ref>Roger L. Simon. [http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2009/12/06/climategate-why-obama-switched-his-copenhagen-itinerary/ Climategate: Why Obama switched his Copenhagen itinerary], ''[[Pajamas Media]]'', December 06, 2009.</ref>

The ranking [[Republican]] on the House Select Committee for Energy Independence and Global Warming, Congressman [[James Sensenbrenner]], attended the Copenhagen conference on [[climate change]] to inform world leaders that despite any promises made by President Obama, no new laws will be passed in the United States until the "[[scientific fascism]]" ends. Sensenbrenner demanded that researchers who authored the Climategate e-mails and documents that demonstrate climate change data were manipulated should not be allowed to participate in the [[U.N.]] panel on climate change. Sensenbrenner spoke during a press conference after learning of the Climategate scandal.

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{{cquote|I call it 'scientific fascism.' The U.N. should throw a red flag. [...] They relied on these scientists unjustifiably in my opinion. Their behavior has caused grave damage to the public trust in climate science in general, and to the IPCC, in particular. They should not be allowed to do so in the future. I therefore request that you and the co-chairs of each of the three IPCC working groups ensure that none of the individuals involved in these nefarious e-mail exchanges participate as contributors, reviewers, or in any other capacity in the preparation of the next IPCC report.<ref>[~~http~~://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/12/09/sensenbrenner-climate-fascism/ Sensenbrenner to Tell Copenhagen: No Climate Laws Until 'Scientific Fascism' Ends], FOXNews.com, December 09, 2009.</ref>}}

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{{cquote|I call it 'scientific fascism.' The U.N. should throw a red flag. [...] They relied on these scientists unjustifiably in my opinion. Their behavior has caused grave damage to the public trust in climate science in general, and to the IPCC, in particular. They should not be allowed to do so in the future. I therefore request that you and the co-chairs of each of the three IPCC working groups ensure that none of the individuals involved in these nefarious e-mail exchanges participate as contributors, reviewers, or in any other capacity in the preparation of the next IPCC report.<ref>[https://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/12/09/sensenbrenner-climate-fascism/ Sensenbrenner to Tell Copenhagen: No Climate Laws Until 'Scientific Fascism' Ends], FOXNews.com, December 09, 2009.</ref>}}

===Obama Administration===

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In a case of see nothing, hear nothing, say nothing, the Obama administration showed commitment to [[climate change]] legislation and at the same time dismissive of Climategate. Though evidence revealed from the e-mail messages from the CRU shows that researchers manipulated data, suppressed data and stifled dissent, [[John Holdren]], Obama's science czar who is directly involved in the Climategate scandal stated boldly, "The science is proper and this is about a small fraction of research on the issue."<ref>Dr. Tim Ball, Judi McLeod. [http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/17183 Obama’s Science Czar John Holdren involved in unwinding “Climategate” scandal], ''Canada Free Press'', November 24, 2009.</ref><ref>[[Michelle Malkin]]. [http://michellemalkin.com/2009/11/24/science-czar-john-holdren-and-climategate-perfect-together/ Science czar John Holdren and ClimateGate: Perfect together], ''Michelle Malkin'', November 24, 2009.</ref><ref>[~~http~~://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/12/02/white-house-science-officials-defend-climate-change-data-amid-e-mail-scandal/ White House Science Officials Defend Climate Change Data Amid E-Mail Scandal], ''[[Fox News]]'', December 02, 2009.</ref> The [[reality]] is that this small 'fraction of research' — the theory which is the foundation of [[Anthropogenic global warming theory|anthropogenic global warming]] — the data used by CRU scientists, it is proven fraudulent. The [[theory]] which used to hold human beings responsible: it is nothing more than a Global warming scam, according to Jim O'Neill from the ''Canada Free Press''.<ref>Jim O'Neill. [http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/17361 Attention Lawyers! Make Millions Off Of Climategate Crooks!], ''Canada Free Press'', November 30, 2009 .</ref> The scientists at the CRU, from the evidence found in their e-mails and documents, show a criminal intent to defraud the public of massive amounts of money, and at the same time advance an ideological [[Leftist]] agenda.<ref>Christopher Monckton. [http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/viscount-monckton-on-global-warminggate-they-are-criminals-pjm-exclusive/ Viscount Monckton on Climategate: ‘They Are Criminals’ (PJM Exclusive)], ''[[Pajamas Media]]'', November 23, 2009.</ref>

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In a case of see nothing, hear nothing, say nothing, the Obama administration showed commitment to [[climate change]] legislation and at the same time dismissive of Climategate. Though evidence revealed from the e-mail messages from the CRU shows that researchers manipulated data, suppressed data and stifled dissent, [[John Holdren]], Obama's science czar who is directly involved in the Climategate scandal stated boldly, "The science is proper and this is about a small fraction of research on the issue."<ref>Dr. Tim Ball, Judi McLeod. [http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/17183 Obama’s Science Czar John Holdren involved in unwinding “Climategate” scandal], ''Canada Free Press'', November 24, 2009.</ref><ref>[[Michelle Malkin]]. [http://michellemalkin.com/2009/11/24/science-czar-john-holdren-and-climategate-perfect-together/ Science czar John Holdren and ClimateGate: Perfect together], ''Michelle Malkin'', November 24, 2009.</ref><ref>[https://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/12/02/white-house-science-officials-defend-climate-change-data-amid-e-mail-scandal/ White House Science Officials Defend Climate Change Data Amid E-Mail Scandal], ''[[Fox News]]'', December 02, 2009.</ref> The [[reality]] is that this small 'fraction of research' — the theory which is the foundation of [[Anthropogenic global warming theory|anthropogenic global warming]] — the data used by CRU scientists, it is proven fraudulent. The [[theory]] which used to hold human beings responsible: it is nothing more than a Global warming scam, according to Jim O'Neill from the ''Canada Free Press''.<ref>Jim O'Neill. [http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/17361 Attention Lawyers! Make Millions Off Of Climategate Crooks!], ''Canada Free Press'', November 30, 2009 .</ref> The scientists at the CRU, from the evidence found in their e-mails and documents, show a criminal intent to defraud the public of massive amounts of money, and at the same time advance an ideological [[Leftist]] agenda.<ref>Christopher Monckton. [http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/viscount-monckton-on-global-warminggate-they-are-criminals-pjm-exclusive/ Viscount Monckton on Climategate: ‘They Are Criminals’ (PJM Exclusive)], ''[[Pajamas Media]]'', November 23, 2009.</ref>

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While U.S. [[Democrats|Democratic]] politicians downplayed the Climategate controversy, and despite the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change scoffing at Climategate by suggesting it provided no basis for questioning the science behind global warming, global reactions from other countries around the world took notice of the scandal. [[Saudi Arabia]] called for an independent investigation into Climategate, warning that the scandal over stolen e-mails threatened to undermine the global-warming negotiations. "The level of confidence is certainty shaken," said the Saudi Arabian negotiator. "We believe this scandal — or what has been referred to as the ‘Climategate’ scandal — we think this is definitely going to affect the nature of what could be trusted in our deliberations."<ref>Lisa Lerer. [~~http~~://www.politico.com/news/stories/1209/30291.html Saudi Arabia calls for 'climategate' investigation], ''[[Politico]]'', December 07, 2009.</ref>

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While U.S. [[Democrats|Democratic]] politicians downplayed the Climategate controversy, and despite the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change scoffing at Climategate by suggesting it provided no basis for questioning the science behind global warming, global reactions from other countries around the world took notice of the scandal. [[Saudi Arabia]] called for an independent investigation into Climategate, warning that the scandal over stolen e-mails threatened to undermine the global-warming negotiations. "The level of [[confidence]] is certainty shaken," said the Saudi Arabian negotiator. "We believe this scandal — or what has been referred to as the ‘Climategate’ scandal — we think this is definitely going to affect the nature of what could be trusted in our deliberations."<ref>Lisa Lerer. [https://www.politico.com/news/stories/1209/30291.html Saudi Arabia calls for 'climategate' investigation], ''[[Politico]]'', December 07, 2009.</ref>

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[[Australia]] had planned on setting an example to lead in the fight on climate change, to become one of the first countries to install a [[cap and trade]] system. However, [[Liberal Party]] members within Australia’s parliament realized that cap and trade is based on flawed science, and resigned their portfolios rather than voting for an "emissions trading scheme".<ref>Emma Rodgers. [http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/11/26/2754654.htm Senior Liberals Desert Turnbull], ''[[ABC News]]'', November 26, 2009.</ref> According to a report from the ''Hindustan Times'', Environment Minister [[Jairam Ramesh]] believes his country cannot depend solely on reports from the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). [[India]] plans to create its own panel to do an independent analysis of climate change science.<ref>[~~http~~://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/02/04/india-pull-ipcc-create-independent-climate-panel/ India to Pull Back From IPCC, Create Independent Climate Panel], FOXNews.com, February 04, 2010.</ref>

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[[Australia]] had planned on setting an example to lead in the fight on climate change, to become one of the first countries to install a [[cap and trade]] system. However, [[Liberal Party]] members within Australia’s parliament realized that cap and trade is based on flawed science, and resigned their portfolios rather than voting for an "emissions trading scheme".<ref>Emma Rodgers. [http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/11/26/2754654.htm Senior Liberals Desert Turnbull], ''[[ABC News]]'', November 26, 2009.</ref> According to a report from the ''Hindustan Times'', Environment Minister [[Jairam Ramesh]] believes his country cannot depend solely on reports from the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). [[India]] plans to create its own panel to do an independent analysis of climate change science.<ref>[https://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/02/04/india-pull-ipcc-create-independent-climate-panel/ India to Pull Back From IPCC, Create Independent Climate Panel], FOXNews.com, February 04, 2010.</ref>

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==Climategate Media Coverage==

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The Climategate media coverage refers to the journalistic methods used by ~~the~~ the Mainstream media to deceive the public from learning more specific details about the fraudulent climate data. Climategate media coverage of the scandal is a [[media]]-focused overview from the most notable discussions covering Climategate: the revealed data, e-mails and manipulated code sets. As details emerged from the Climategate scandal, Climatic Research Unit scientists at the University of East Anglia were exposed. Despite the significance of the scandal and its impact on climate science, the leftist media ignored it, and then focused on pushing forward with the [[global warming]] [[hoax]].<ref name=climatehoax>[[Rush Limbaugh]]. [http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_120809/content/01125110.guest.html Hoax: Climate Change Makes Polar Bears Turn to Cannibalism], RushLimbaugh.com, December 8, 2009.</ref> Coverage of Climategate showed just how [[bias]] the [[liberal media]] has become in order to advance an environmental agenda.

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The Climategate media coverage refers to the journalistic methods used by the Mainstream media to deceive the public from learning more specific details about the fraudulent climate data. Climategate media coverage of the scandal is a [[media]]-focused overview from the most notable discussions covering Climategate: the revealed data, e-mails and manipulated code sets. As details emerged from the Climategate scandal, Climatic Research Unit scientists at the University of East Anglia were exposed. Despite the significance of the scandal and its impact on climate science, the leftist media ignored it, and then focused on pushing forward with the [[global warming]] [[hoax]].<ref name=climatehoax>[[Rush Limbaugh]]. [http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_120809/content/01125110.guest.html Hoax: Climate Change Makes Polar Bears Turn to Cannibalism], RushLimbaugh.com, December 8, 2009.</ref> Coverage of Climategate showed just how [[bias]] the [[liberal media]] has become in order to advance an environmental agenda.

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In the wake of the Climategate scandal, a truly bizarre situation happened; the [[mainstream media]] stories about global warming pretended the uncovered documents never happened. This worldwide Climategate cover-up also occurred before the public had learned about Climategate, too. The [[U.K.]] ''[[Daily Mail]]'' pointed out that, a month prior to November 19, 2009, "The BBC received copies of some of the CRU emails more than a month ago, but did nothing about them, sitting on explosive evidence of fraud."<ref name=bbclie>[~~http~~://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1231763/BBC-weatherman-ignored-leaked-climate-row-emails.html BBC weatherman ‘ignored’ leaked climate row emails], [[Daily Mail|dailymail.co.uk]], November 28, 2009.</ref> It was later revealed that the BBC had previously invested a lot of money in carbon offset programs, so the media organization was dependent on the global warming hoax being perceived as truth.<ref>Rush Limbaugh. [http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_031110/content/01125111.guest.html ChiComs Order Journalists to Undergo Marxist Theory Training (American Media Already Trained)], RushLimbaugh.com, March 11, 2010.</ref> Ongoing coverage of the Climategate scandal also verified NASA and the state-run media knew about temperature data issues nearly three years ago; for example, ''[[USA Today]]'' received information about these issues but refused to report on it. ''USA Today'' and ''[[BBC News]]'' shirked their journalistic duties to push global warming in spite of evidence that the earth has not been significantly warming since 1995.

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In the wake of the Climategate scandal, a truly bizarre situation happened; the [[mainstream media]] stories about global warming pretended the uncovered documents never happened. This worldwide Climategate cover-up also occurred before the public had learned about Climategate, too. The [[U.K.]] ''[[Daily Mail]]'' pointed out that, a month prior to November 19, 2009, "The BBC received copies of some of the CRU emails more than a month ago, but did nothing about them, sitting on explosive evidence of fraud."<ref name=bbclie>[https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1231763/BBC-weatherman-ignored-leaked-climate-row-emails.html BBC weatherman ‘ignored’ leaked climate row emails], [[Daily Mail|dailymail.co.uk]], November 28, 2009.</ref> It was later revealed that the BBC had previously invested a lot of money in carbon offset programs, so the media organization was dependent on the global warming hoax being perceived as truth.<ref>Rush Limbaugh. [http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_031110/content/01125111.guest.html ChiComs Order Journalists to Undergo Marxist Theory Training (American Media Already Trained)], RushLimbaugh.com, March 11, 2010.</ref> Ongoing coverage of the Climategate scandal also verified NASA and the state-run media knew about temperature data issues nearly three years ago; for example, ''[[USA Today]]'' received information about these issues but refused to report on it. ''USA Today'' and ''[[BBC News]]'' shirked their journalistic duties to push global warming in spite of evidence that the earth has not been significantly warming since 1995.

{{cquote|Email messages obtained by the Competitive Enterprise Institute via a Freedom of Information Act request reveal that the climate dataset of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) was considered — by the top climate scientists within NASA itself — to be inferior to the data maintained by the University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit (CRU). The NASA scientists also felt that NASA GISS data was inferior to the National Climate Data Center Global Historical Climate Network (NCDC GHCN) database. These emails, obtained by Christopher Horner, also show that the NASA GISS dataset was not independent of CRU data. Further, all of this information regarding the accuracy and independence of NASA GISS data was directly communicated to a reporter from USA Today in August 2007. The reporter never published it.<ref>Jim Hoft. [http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2010/03/junk-science-bombshell-nasa-media-knew-about-bogus-climate-data-3-years-ago/ Junk Science Bombshell: NASA & Media Knew About Bogus Climate Data 3 Years Ago], ''Gateway Pundit'', March 11, 2010.</ref>}}

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As Climategate was totally ignored by most TV news outlets, ''[[Fox News]]'' appeared to be the only national news media in [[United States|America]] interested in the growing scandal.<ref name=accuracyinmedia/><ref>John Lott. [~~http~~://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2009/11/24/john-lott-climate-change-emails-copenhagen/ Why You Should Be Hot and Bothered About 'Climate-gate'], FOXNews.com, November 24, 2009.</ref> Perhaps the [[MSM]] felt that by ignoring Climategate entirely that it would have just gone away. However, just as the case was during the [[Tea Party Movement]], notably during the 2009 [[Tax Day Tea Party]], [[blog]]gers and the readers of the global warming stories kept bringing up the inconvenient truth of Climategate by mentioning the scandal "over and over and over again."<ref>P.J. Gladnick. [http://newsbusters.org/blogs/p-j-gladnick/2009/11/24/climategate-msm-writers-try-ignore-scandal-global-warming-stories-read Climategate: MSM Writers Try to Ignore Scandal in Global Warming Stories But Readers Bring Them Back to Reality], ''[[NewsBusters]]'', November 24, 2009.</ref>

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As Climategate was totally ignored by most TV news outlets, ''[[Fox News]]'' appeared to be the only national news media in [[United States|America]] interested in the growing scandal.<ref name=accuracyinmedia/><ref>John Lott. [https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2009/11/24/john-lott-climate-change-emails-copenhagen/ Why You Should Be Hot and Bothered About 'Climate-gate'], FOXNews.com, November 24, 2009.</ref> Perhaps the [[MSM]] felt that by ignoring Climategate entirely that it would have just gone away. However, just as the case was during the [[Tea Party Movement]], notably during the 2009 [[Tax Day Tea Party]], [[blog]]gers and the readers of the global warming stories kept bringing up the inconvenient truth of Climategate by mentioning the scandal "over and over and over again."<ref>P.J. Gladnick. [http://newsbusters.org/blogs/p-j-gladnick/2009/11/24/climategate-msm-writers-try-ignore-scandal-global-warming-stories-read Climategate: MSM Writers Try to Ignore Scandal in Global Warming Stories But Readers Bring Them Back to Reality], ''[[NewsBusters]]'', November 24, 2009.</ref>

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Ten years after the scandal, the media continued to downplay it.<ref>Delingpole, James (November 16, 2019). [https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/11/16/climategate-10-years-on-the-bbc-whitewash/ Delingpole: Climategate – Ten Years On. ‘Move Along Nothing to See Here’, Says BBC and MSM]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved November 16, 2019. See also:

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*Delingpole, James (November 17, 2019). [https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/11/17/delingpole-climategate-10-years-on-the-bastards-have-got-away-with-it/ Delingpole: Climategate 10 Years On – The Bastards Have Got Away With It!] ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved November 17, 2019.</ref>

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On December 8, 2009, the second day of [[Copenhagen]], news from the ''UK Telegraph'' headlined a Global warming hoax, "Starving Polar Bears Turn to Cannibalism."

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{{cquote|New pictures show that polar bears are beginning to cannibalize each other as global warming destroys its hunting grounds. The images, taken in Hudson Bay, Canada, around 200 miles north of the town of Churchill, Manitoba, show a male polar bear carrying the bloodied head of a polar bear cub it has killed for food. Polar bears usually subsist on seals, which they hunt from a platform of sea ice. But the melting of sea ice as a result of rising global temperatures has made it more difficult for polar bears to hunt seals at sea.<ref>Jonathan Liew. [~~http~~://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/6760103/Starving-polar-bears-turn-to-cannibalism.html Starving polar bears turn to cannibalism], Telegraph.co.uk, December 08, 2009.</ref>}}

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{{cquote|New pictures show that polar bears are beginning to cannibalize each other as global warming destroys its hunting grounds. The images, taken in Hudson Bay, Canada, around 200 miles north of the town of Churchill, Manitoba, show a male polar bear carrying the bloodied head of a polar bear cub it has killed for food. Polar bears usually subsist on seals, which they hunt from a platform of sea ice. But the melting of sea ice as a result of rising global temperatures has made it more difficult for polar bears to hunt seals at sea.<ref>Jonathan Liew. [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/6760103/Starving-polar-bears-turn-to-cannibalism.html Starving polar bears turn to cannibalism], Telegraph.co.uk, December 08, 2009.</ref>}}

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[[Rush Limbaugh]] blasted the Global Warming hoax and commented, "None of this is true" (Dyck, M.G., 2007).<ref>Dyck, M.G. et al., Polar bears of western Hudson Bay and climate change: Are warming spring air temperatures the ‘‘ultimate’’ survival control factor?, Ecol. Complex. (2007), doi:[~~http~~://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecocom.2007.03.002 10.1016/j.ecocom.2007.03.002]</ref> He rebuked the false claims about [[polar bears]] and at the same time pointed out the continuation of fraudulent stories from the media despite Climategate; Limbaugh revealed another hoax blaming a natural event on global warming.

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[[Rush Limbaugh]] blasted the Global Warming hoax and commented, "None of this is true" (Dyck, M.G., 2007).<ref>Dyck, M.G. et al., Polar bears of western Hudson Bay and climate change: Are warming spring air temperatures the ‘‘ultimate’’ survival control factor?, Ecol. Complex. (2007), doi:[https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecocom.2007.03.002 10.1016/j.ecocom.2007.03.002]</ref> He rebuked the false claims about [[polar bears]] and at the same time pointed out the continuation of fraudulent stories from the media despite Climategate; Limbaugh revealed another hoax blaming a natural event on global warming.

{{cquote|If you know anything about polar bears, you know that there are any number of reasons why polar bears attack each other. But did you know that polar bear males are well known for eating their young if given half a chance? They do. The mother, the female polar bear has to protect the cubs from the father and other males. Polar bears are a vicious species. They're not this cuddly little old English sheepdog type thing. People go out on ice floes to study these things, and if they attack they have to shoot them. They're not at all in any way tame, and they're huge. They can rip you to shreds inside of five seconds, they wouldn't care, and Reuters would run a picture and blame it all on global warming, not the fact that a polar bear is a polar bear. Polar bears eat their young, if given half the chance, males do. So another hoax, 100% total fraud on the second day of Copenhagen.<ref name=climatehoax/>}}

===Climategate Unreported and Censored===

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Fourteen days after the story broke worldwide, the Climategate scandal had been mentioned by [[ABC]], [[CBS]] and [[NBC]] a total of '''''zero''''' times. Because the story affected [[Cap and trade]] legislation, the [[White House]], in their daily collusion with [[liberal media]] sources, may have told news channels to bury the story.<ref>Diane Macedo. [~~http~~://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,578990,00.html Comedy Central Scoops Network News on Climate-Gate Scandal], ''[[Fox News]]'', December 02, 2009.</ref> The Mainstream media began to show consistency in their censorship practices, so much so that [[Glenn Beck]] cited ''NewsBusters'' to "Demonstrate that much as in [the mainstream media's] boycott of the [[ACORN]] scandal and green jobs czar [[Van Jones|Van Jones's]] peculiar associations, the television press are once again hiding important information from the public hoping it will all just go away."<ref name=nbstaff>[http://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb-staff/2009/11/24/glenn-beck-cites-newsbusters-bash-tvs-climategate-boycott Glenn Beck Cites NewsBusters to Bash TV's ClimateGate Boycott], ''[[NewsBusters]]'', November 24, 2009.</ref>

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Fourteen days after the story broke worldwide, the Climategate scandal had been mentioned by [[ABC]], [[CBS]] and [[NBC]] a total of '''''zero''''' times. Because the story affected [[Cap and trade]] legislation, the [[White House]], in their daily [[collusion]] with [[liberal media]] sources, may have told news channels to bury the story.<ref>Diane Macedo. [https://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,578990,00.html Comedy Central Scoops Network News on Climate-Gate Scandal], ''[[Fox News]]'', December 02, 2009.</ref> The Mainstream media began to show consistency in their censorship practices, so much so that [[Glenn Beck]] cited ''NewsBusters'' to "Demonstrate that much as in [the mainstream media's] boycott of the [[ACORN]] scandal and green jobs czar [[Van Jones|Van Jones's]] peculiar associations, the television press are once again hiding important information from the public hoping it will all just go away."<ref name=nbstaff>[http://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb-staff/2009/11/24/glenn-beck-cites-newsbusters-bash-tvs-climategate-boycott Glenn Beck Cites NewsBusters to Bash TV's ClimateGate Boycott], ''[[NewsBusters]]'', November 24, 2009.</ref>

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* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upkO0j3fN9A ClimateGate], Glenn Beck on ClimateGate scandal.

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The first liberal media source to openly discuss Climategate on [[United States|American]] [[television]] was during a segment on [[Comedy Central|Comedy Central's]] ''[[The Daily Show]]'' with [[Jon Stewart]], a slapstick entertainment news program. After more than two weeks had passed since Climategate went public, ''[[CBS News]]'' eventually reported on the scandal.<ref>Kimberly Dozier. [~~http~~://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/12/05/eveningnews/main5908487.shtml "Climate Gate" Casts Cloud on Change Meet], ''[[CBS News]]'', December 5, 2009.</ref><ref>Declan McCullagh. [~~http~~://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/12/02/taking_liberties/entry5860171.shtml Fallout Over "ClimateGate" Data Leak Grows], ''[[CBS News]]'', December 2, 2009.</ref> ''CBS News'' aired a short video of an interview with Kevin Trenberth. Dr. Trenberth in the past has said this in one of the Climategate e-mails:

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The first liberal media source to openly discuss Climategate on [[United States|American]] [[television]] was during a segment on [[Comedy Central|Comedy Central's]] ''[[The Daily Show]]'' with [[Jon Stewart]], a slapstick entertainment news program. After more than two weeks had passed since Climategate went public, ''[[CBS News]]'' eventually reported on the scandal.<ref>Kimberly Dozier. [https://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/12/05/eveningnews/main5908487.shtml "Climate Gate" Casts Cloud on Change Meet], ''[[CBS News]]'', December 5, 2009.</ref><ref>Declan McCullagh. [https://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/12/02/taking_liberties/entry5860171.shtml Fallout Over "ClimateGate" Data Leak Grows], ''[[CBS News]]'', December 2, 2009.</ref> ''CBS News'' aired a short video of an interview with Kevin Trenberth. Dr. Trenberth in the past has said this in one of the Climategate e-mails:

{{cquote|The fact is that we can’t account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can’t.<ref>[http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/12/06/cbs-finally-reports-on-climategate-dr-trenberth-interviewed/ CBS finally reports on Climategate: Dr. Trenberth interviewed], ''WUWT'', December 06, 2009.</ref>}}

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[[Al Gore]] is on the Google advisory board; Gore's position on Google's senior advisory board is likely bearing responsibility. On Al Gore's [[Web page]] in his biography he says:

{{cquote|A member of the Board of Directors of Apple Computer, Inc. and a Senior Advisor to Google, Inc. Gore is also Visiting Professor at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.<ref>http://www.algore.com/about.html</ref>}}

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According to ''[[NewsBusters]]'', Al Gore has done some "advising" of ~~Google’s~~ search quality in the past.<ref>Noel Sheppard. [http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2009/10/15/al-gore-advised-google-about-its-search-quality Al Gore Advised Google About 'Search Quality'], ''[[NewsBusters]]'', October 15, 2009.</ref> There is some history between Google and Al Gore that has some bearing on the current situation.<ref>[http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/12/02/google-trends-on-climategate-show-public-interest-increasing-but-troubling-questions-loom/ Google trends on “climategate” show public interest increasing – but troubling questions loom], ''Watts Up With That?'', December 02, 2009.</ref> In the case of "Climategate," Mr. Gore's ability to continue his current speaking engagements might be hampered. Thus, there could well be a motive for him doing some "advising" in this case. A phone call might be all it took.

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According to ''[[NewsBusters]]'', Al Gore has done some "advising" of Google's search quality in the past.<ref>Noel Sheppard. [http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2009/10/15/al-gore-advised-google-about-its-search-quality Al Gore Advised Google About 'Search Quality'], ''[[NewsBusters]]'', October 15, 2009.</ref> There is some history between Google and Al Gore that has some bearing on the current situation.<ref>[http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/12/02/google-trends-on-climategate-show-public-interest-increasing-but-troubling-questions-loom/ Google trends on “climategate” show public interest increasing – but troubling questions loom], ''Watts Up With That?'', December 02, 2009.</ref> In the case of "Climategate," Mr. Gore's ability to continue his current speaking engagements might be hampered. Thus, there could well be a motive for him doing some "advising" in this case. A phone call might be all it took.

== Climategate 2.0 ==

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{{cquote|A new batch of 5,000 emails among scientists central to the assertion that humans are causing a global warming crisis were anonymously released to the public yesterday, igniting a new firestorm of controversy nearly two years to the day after similar emails ignited the Climategate scandal.

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Three themes are emerging from the newly released emails: (1) prominent scientists central to the global warming debate are taking measures to conceal rather than disseminate underlying data and discussions; (2) these scientists view global warming as a political “cause” rather than a balanced scientific inquiry and (3) many of these scientists frankly admit to each other that much of the science is weak and dependent on deliberate manipulation of facts and data.<ref>[~~http~~://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2011/11/23/climategate-2-0-new-e-mails-rock-the-global-warming-debate/ ''Climategate 2.0: New E-Mails Rock The Global Warming Debate''], Forbes, 2011</ref>}}

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Three themes are emerging from the newly released emails: (1) prominent scientists central to the global warming debate are taking measures to conceal rather than disseminate underlying data and discussions; (2) these scientists view global warming as a political “cause” rather than a balanced scientific inquiry and (3) many of these scientists frankly admit to each other that much of the science is weak and dependent on deliberate manipulation of facts and data.<ref>[https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2011/11/23/climategate-2-0-new-e-mails-rock-the-global-warming-debate/ ''Climategate 2.0: New E-Mails Rock The Global Warming Debate''], Forbes, 2011</ref>}}

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== Tidalgate ==

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[[Alarmist]] scientists were caught tampering with raw (unadjusted) data to fake a rise in sea level, according to two [[Australian]] [[scientists]].<ref>James Delingpole. [https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/12/06/tidalgate-climate-alarmists-caught-faking-sea-level-rise/ Tidalgate: Climate Alarmists Caught Faking Sea Level Rise], ''Breitbart'', December 6, 2017.</ref> The scientists exposed how record gatekeepers at the global databank [[Permanent Service for Mean Sea Level]] (PSMSL), at the [[National Oceanography Centre]] in [[Liverpool]], [[England]], "adjusted" the sea level records from three gauges in the [[Indian Ocean]] to fabricate a nonexistent "sharp and dramatic" rise.<ref name=tidalgate>Parker, A. & Ollier, C.D. Earth Syst Environ (2017) 1: 18. [https://doi.org/10.1007/s41748-017-0020-z Is the Sea Level Stable at Aden, Yemen?], ''Earth Systems and Environment'' (Journal no. 41748), December, 2017 (first online: November 6, 2017).</ref> The authors described the measurements from three gauges in the Indian Ocean as "highly questionable" and "suspicious."<ref name=tidalgate/> They revealed how, according to ''No Tricks Zone'', "PSMSL data-adjusters make it appear that stable sea levels [...] look like they are nonetheless rising at an accelerated pace."<ref>Kenneth Richard. [http://notrickszone.com/2017/12/04/whistleblower-scientists-psmsl-data-adjusters-are-manufacturing-sea-level-rise-where-none-exists/#sthash.36S66JGp.qR6KQEqK.dpbs Adjusters Are Manufacturing Sea Level Rise Where None Exists], ‘’NoTricksZone’, December 4, 2017.</ref>

==Videos==

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* [~~http~~://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAlMomLvu_4&feature=player_embedded Hide The Decline], ''Censoring The Decrease in Global Temperatures''.

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* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAlMomLvu_4&feature=player_embedded Hide The Decline], ''Censoring The Decrease in Global Temperatures''.

* [http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2010/04/21/youtube-pulls-all-versions-hide-decline-climategate-videos "Hide the Decline II"], the ''No Cap and Trade Coalition'' posted a new version because Michael Mann threatened to sue ''Minnesotans For Global Warming'' for creating the YouTube video 'Hide the Decline'.

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* [~~http~~://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEZszGJHbK4 The Stroke Of A Pen], Lord [[Christopher Monckton]] closing statement at the Minnesota Free Market Institute.

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* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEZszGJHbK4 The Stroke Of A Pen], Lord [[Christopher Monckton]] closing statement at the Minnesota Free Market Institute.

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* [~~http~~://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmPSUMBrJoI 'The Twelve Days of Global Warming'], satire starring Al Gore.

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* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmPSUMBrJoI 'The Twelve Days of Global Warming'], satire starring Al Gore.

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* [~~http~~://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpQXY4tWaoI It's A Climategate Christmas], satire on Global warming post-ClimateGate.

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* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpQXY4tWaoI It's A Climategate Christmas], satire on Global warming post-ClimateGate.

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* [~~http~~://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TF5F6eYho8U Imagine There's No Global Warming], satire of John Lennon's song "Imagine" turned politically incorrect.

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* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TF5F6eYho8U Imagine There's No Global Warming], satire of John Lennon's song "Imagine" turned politically incorrect.

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* Global Warming, Or A Lot of Hot Air? ''Fox News'' reporting: [~~http~~://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqi7fxERiqk Part 1] - [~~http~~://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnCLQIYNYgo Part 2] - [~~http~~://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UisVhZHouq4 Part 3] - [~~http~~://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1Pj6uWTgXM Part 4] - [~~http~~://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWYuZs6Idb8 Part 5] - [~~http~~://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BTS3K9DFy0 Part 6]

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* Global Warming, Or A Lot of Hot Air? ''Fox News'' reporting: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqi7fxERiqk Part 1] - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnCLQIYNYgo Part 2] - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UisVhZHouq4 Part 3] - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1Pj6uWTgXM Part 4] - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWYuZs6Idb8 Part 5] - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BTS3K9DFy0 Part 6]

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