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-'''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#Climategate_scandal|Climategate scandal]], Climatic Research Unit (CRU) 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>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><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> In a profoundly bizarre situation, the [[Mainstream media]] attempted to bury the story; at the same time, [[Wikipedia]] quickly [[Censorship|censored]] Climategate and referred to it as an illegal "incident," as the work of computer hackers stealing data — despite [[Freedom of Information Act]] requests.
-Coverage of Climategate showed just how [[bias]] the [[liberal media]] has become in order to advance an environmental agenda. Despite the cover-up, Climategate has received news coverage from notable sources in the media. The information from this page outlines important takeaways from which commentators and others in the media have covered on Climategate.
-==Environmental agenda==
-From a June 11, 2008 press release at the University of East Anglia, the CRU stated that they set the agenda on [[climate change]], "The University of East Anglia, particularly its Climate Research Unit, is the only university to be included in a list of the key bodies that have set the environmental agenda in the UK over the past 30 years."<ref>http://www.uea.ac.uk/mac/comm/media/press/2008/june/CRU+key+to+setting+environmental+agenda</ref>
-James Randerson wrote in ''[[The Guardian]]'' on this environmental agenda and headlined, ''Western Lifestyle Unsustainable, Says Climate Expert Rajendra Pachauri''. The author was writing to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for the [[United Nations]]. Randerson referenced comments about [[global warming]] made by Mr. [[Rajendra Pachauri]], the head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change at the United Nations who was also awarded a [[Nobel Prize]] along with [[Al Gore]] for his work. Randerson quoted Pachauri and argued, "Hotel guests should have their electricity monitored; hefty aviation taxes should be introduced to deter people from flying; and iced water in restaurants should be curtailed, the world's leading climate scientist has told the ''Observer''."<ref>James Randerson. [http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/nov/29/rajendra-pachauri-climate-warning-copenhagen Western lifestyle unsustainable, says climate expert Rajendra Pachauri], [[The Guardian|guardian.co.uk]], November 29, 2009.</ref> Because the University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit set the environmental agenda on climate science, while at the same time the CRU scientists were fraudulently manipulating code and subverting the scientific [[peer review]] process to silence dissent, the scandal went unnoticed regardless of real data showing an eight year temperature decline since after 2001.
-Rush Limbaugh pointed out who is most responsible for the environmental agenda:
-{{cquote|One man, Phil Jones — and his 150-year temperature record, which is a hoax and a fraud — is largely responsible for all of this.  'Western lifestyles unsustainable.'  It is an attack on capitalism, it is an attack on freedom, and it is ongoing — and it's not just happening in the global warming movement. It's happening in the [[ObamaCare|Obama health care]] movement.  It's happening in the [[Cap and trade|cap-and-trade]] movement. It's happening in the card check movement. It's happening in the amnesty-for-illegals movement.  Everything the [[Leftist|left]] does should be seen as an attack on [[freedom]].  That's how it should be understood.<ref name=cabalconsensus>[[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>}}
-===Climategate emails===
-On the climate science environmental agenda and the scandal that Climategate revealed all together, [[Glenn Beck]] commented on the [[e-mail|emails]]:
-{{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>}}
-According to [[Rush Limbaugh]], another theme of the e-mails that have been released is how people at the Climate 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:
-{{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 name=cabalconsensus/>}}
-===U.N. greening effort===
-On December 03, 2009, ''[[Fox News]]'' reported on the [[United Nations]] latest activity following [[Climategate]]. The U.N., which has been telling the world that it must cut back dramatically on its [[greenhouse gas]] emissions, according to ''Fox News'', "Has finally decided to practice what it preaches."<ref name=UN>George Russell. [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,579108,00.html U.N. Deletes Documents, Won't Come Clean on Costs of Greening World Offices], ''[[Fox News]]'', December 03, 2009.</ref> But the world body isn't coming clean on the full costs of its self-greening effort with the member states who foot the bill, including [[United States|U.S.]] taxpayers. After ''Fox News'' began asking questions about a pilot project that aims to start that process, the documentation concerning the greening effort abruptly disappeared from the U.N. [[Web site]] where it had been stored. Fortunately, ''Fox News'' saved PDF image copies of United Nations Development Goup Web site before the documents were removed, and then saved another PDF image copy from the same site after they were removed.<ref name=UN/>
-[[File:GlobalWarmingFraud Newsbusters.jpg|right|200px]]
-==Copenhagen==
-In spite of [[Sarah Palin|Sarah Palin's]] call for [[President Obama]] to be a leader by sending a strong message that the [[United States]] [[government]] will not take part in the scandal that [[Climategate]] exposed — to skip [[Climategate#Copenhagen|Copenhagen]] (the climate summit in [[Denmark]]) — the President made it clear that he will invest more energy and taxpayer dollars to help advance the [[global warming]] environmental agenda. 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>
-===Global Warming hoax===
-On December 08, the second day of [[Copenhagen]], news from the ''UK Telegraph'' headlined, "Starving Polar Bears Turn to Cannibalism."
-{{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>}}
-[[Rush Limbaugh]] blasted the Global Warming hoax and commented, "None of this is true."<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.
-{{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 cover-up==
-Fourteen days after the story broke worldwide, the [[Climategate#Climategate_scandal|Climategate scandal]] had been mentioned by [[ABC]], [[CBS]] and [[NBC]] a total of '''''zero''''' times. Because the story affects [[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> From ''NewsBusters'', it was reported that [[Glenn Beck]] used the news source 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>
-===Unreported and censored===
-[[File:Leftist News.gif | right]]
-The liberal [[Wikipedia]] has cited various references to contend against the facts uncovered with Climategate and has claimed that the e-mail files were illegally stolen by computer hackers, despite repeated requests for the data files under the [[FOIA]]. Though unreported by the [[MSM]] and at the same time [[censorship|censored]] by liberal Wikipedia, there is strong evidence to suggest the data was released by a fellow employee, a "whistle blower" within the Climatic Research Unit.<ref>[http://www.junkscience.com Those <s>"hacked"</s> released CRU files], JunkScience.com, December 03, 2009.</ref>
-* There was no "security breach" at CRU that "stole" these files
-* The files appear genuine and to have been prepared by CRU staff, not edited by malicious hackers
-* The information was accidentally or deliberately released by CRU staff
-* Selection criteria appears to be compliance with an or several FOIA request(s)
-The [[U.K.]] ''Daily Mail'' pointed out the following:
-{{cquote|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>[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1231763/BBC-weatherman-ignored-leaked-climate-row-emails.html BBC weatherman ‘ignored’ leaked climate row emails], dailymail.co.uk, November 28, 2009.</ref>}}
-===Liberal media missed the mark===
-The first [[Liberal media|liberal media]] source to openly discuss Climategate on American television was during a segment on 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 evening news finally reported on the scandal. However, CBS missed the mark and called the scandal by its [[Google]] created name: "Climate Gate" — and then CBS provided a weird subtitle in their news article that said, "Leaked E-Mails Provide Climate Change Deniers Ammunition Near Beginning of Global Summit."<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> ''[[CBS News]]'' also aired a short video of an interview with Kevin Trenberth. Dr. Trenberth in the past has said this in one of the CRU 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>}}
-==Googlegate==
-It was reported that, despite Climategate related pages being the most-read articles of the UK's ''Telegraph'' entire online operation, mysteriously when attempting to search using [[Google]] – it didn't feature links related to Climategate.<ref>Anthony Watts. [http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/11/28/climategate-surpasses-global-warming-on-google-autosuggest-still-blocked/ “Climategate” surpasses “Global Warming” on Google], ''Watts Up With That?'', November 28, 2009.</ref> James Delingpole from the ''Telegraph'' noted, "Instead, the top-featured item is a blogger pushing Al Gore’s AGW agenda. Perhaps there’s nothing sinister in this. Perhaps some Google-savvy reader can enlighten me."<ref>James Delingpole. [http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100018263/climategate-googlegate/ Climategate: Googlegate?], ''Telegraph Blogs'', November 29th, 2009.</ref> Google.com has been accused before of interfering with its own search [[algorithm|algorithms]] in order to interfere with searches for material deemed "[[Politically correct|not politically correct]]."<ref>[http://www.examiner.com/x-28973-Essex-County-Conservative-Examiner~y2009m11d29-Google-blocking-climategate-autosuggestion Google blocking 'climategate' autosuggestion], examiner.com, November 29, 2009.</ref><ref>Danny Sullivan. [http://searchengineland.com/of-climategate-googlegate-when-stories-get-too-long-30755 Of Climategate, Googlegate & When Stories Get Too Long], ''search engine land'', December 01, 2009.</ref> Through December 3rd, despite the rising search popularity for the query "Climategate," or "Climategate scandal," and attempted "Climate-Gate" keywords from about 26,400,000 articles on the [[World Wide Web|Web]], Google’s "autosuggestion" function in the search box was not suggesting "climategate." But rather, instead, Google and other search engines also began to suggest to Web searchers if they meant to search for "Climate Gate" rather than the intended query, "Climategate" or otherwise "Climategate scandal."  However, by December 7th, Google was correctly displaying "climate-gate" in the autosuggest list, which led to a full list of search results about this scandal.
-Al Gore's position on Google's senior advisory board is likely bearing responsibility; in Gore's bio 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>}}
-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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