In mid-November, thousands of emails from the University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit webmail server – a top climate research center in the United Kingdom – were hacked and dumped on a Russian web server. Polluter-funded climate skeptics, along with their allies in conservative media and the Republican Party, sifted through the e-mails, and quickly cherry picked quotes to falsely accuse climate scientists of concocting climate change science out of whole cloth. The skeptics also propelled the story, dubbed ‘Climategate,
Saturday, March 5th, 2011
A Case Of Classic SwiftBoating: How The Right-Wing Noise Machine Manufactured ‘Climategate’
Author: LEE FANG
Source: Think Progress
Publication Date: Dec 9th, 2009 at 4:10 pm
Link: A Case Of Classic SwiftBoating: How The Right-Wing Noise Machine Manufactured ‘Climategate’
Source: Think Progress
Publication Date: Dec 9th, 2009 at 4:10 pm
Link: A Case Of Classic SwiftBoating: How The Right-Wing Noise Machine Manufactured ‘Climategate’
Stephan: Please recall that Climategate has been proven to be completely without substance, as attested by multiple assessments. (See the SR archive) I was doing some research today about how Climategate was created by a Koch brothers campaign, and came across this. It is the best single account I can find. Note how very specific it is. I can find no fact-based rebuttal contradicting this exegesis.
As you read this, think of it as a form of warfare against the foundations of the State, for the benefit of the few.
