The '96-to-present smear of skeptic scientists

Posted by Russell Cook

The '96-to-present smear of skeptic scientists - or at least what I've dredged up
The pile as of 8/18/11

My apologies for the length of the reading list here. I lash out at the mainstream media when I say, ... "or at least what I've dredged up". We all need to ask why the MSM didn't find the red flags I describe in all these pieces.

With the ClimateGateCC site owner's permission,  I use this page as a convenient web link at the end of my writings, for readers who want to see my related pieces. Notes about why I write these are at the bottom of this page.

My American Thinker pieces:

• "The Lack of Climate Skeptics on PBS's 'NewsHour' " The first piece I wrote when I began looking into this situation, online December 29, 2009
• "Smearing Global Warming Skeptics" July 6, 2010, my first detailing the myriad problems with the Gelbspan / Ozone Action accusation of skeptic scientists
• "The Left and Its Talking Points" July 29, 2010, about the 'JournoList' similarity of the accusation, and a quantification of the bias against skeptic scientists at the PBS NewsHour
• "The iceberg treatment" August 10, 2010, on Rep Ed Markey's "Deniersberg", and the lack of answers from the PBS NewsHour
• "Pelosi funding accusation about mosque the same tactic used against..." August 20, 2010, about how House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's call to investigate protesters of the Ground Zero NYC mosque is thought by some to be a good tactic
• "Silencing global warming critics" August 26, 2010, the Union of Concerned Scientists' new efforts to create an intimidation system against certain journalists, contrasted with their 1998 efforts to thwart the petition of skeptic scientists
• "Warmist Slander of Scientific Skeptics" September 15, 2010, where Jane Mayer's New Yorker article about the Koch Brothers isn't a new exposé, but is instead has elements tied to the same single accusation originating with Gelbspan / Ozone Action
• "The Curious History of 'Global Climate Disruption' " October 04, 2010, on John Holdren's and Jane Lubchenco's 1997 ties to Ozone Action
• "Supreme Court to Hear Global Warming Case" December 8, 2010, describing how a lawyer in one of the global warming nuisance cases tie into this entire skeptic smear situation
• "The Case of the Curious Climate Covenant" December 18, 2010, about how a member of Ozone Action is very likely responsible for the spread of the accusation against skeptic scientists into major church organizations.
• "Leftist media in full court press backing warmism" January 3, 2011, with a short narrative about the way a new 'complaint' against the media by an AGW believer is not really new at all
• "Two states bail out of global warming lawsuit" March 15, 2011, on three news items lost among other more spectacular news, that may end up having a much larger impact than most would guess
• "Google to fight global warming 'ignorance' "March 21, 2011, where I describe the irony in the Google organization's attempt to 'inform' the public about the issue, compared to how the public actually informs themselves
• "Warmist Mantra Wearing Out" May 9, 2011, concerning what looks like a former Minnesota TV anchorman adopting Gelbspan's 15-year old talking point as his own 'discovery', and how the repetition of it may lead to the collapse of AGW when more people start to ask if this whole mantra has evidence to support it
• "There is a Cancer Growing on the IPCC and Al Gore" June 19, 2011, reveals that two people involved with the IPCC were also direct participants in the smear of skeptic scientists
• "PBS and Global Warming Skeptics' Lockout"  August 18, 2011, where direct questions to the PBS NewsHour about skeptic scientists are met with evasive answers

My pieces at Andrew Breitbart's Big Journalism / Big Government web site:

• "How an Enviro-Advocacy Group Propped Up Global Warming in the MSM –..." November 2 2010, on one suggestion of what a soon-to-be GOP US House-chaired committee could investigate
• "Warming Nuisance Lawsuits Are Based on a Fatal Flaw" November 27 2010, about problems the three major global warming lawsuits have when they are associated with Ross Gelbspan
• "The Far-left 'Jumps the Shark' over Tucson Tragedy" January 12, 2011 - although the title might appear to be on a different topic, it pertains to the smear of skeptic scientists when the mainstream media's hypocritical treatment of the Giffords shooting showcases how wrongful characterization of opposing viewpoints is no less than an agenda to silence criticism
• "Will MSM Look into the Global Warming Abyss and Find Their Character?" June 7th 2011, illustrating how the reaction of a newspaper editor to my story tips on this specific topic is an indicator of the huge dilemma facing the mainstream media

My pieces at Red State:

• "Does a huge lapse in mainstream media reporting allow the global wa..." January 28, 2011, basically a summary for RedState.com readers unfamiliar about the smear, how concentrated its origins are, and why that unnoticed problem is a leadership opportunity for GOP politicians
• "Global Warming Alarmist ambushes Sen. Inhofe - can the alarmist wit..." February 16, 2011, detailing how Inhofe's 'ambusher' has ties to the smear going back to 1997
• "Forget the Science; Is Al Gore's Accusation of Skeptic Climate Scie..." June 15, 2011, where the Al Gore accusation contradiction becomes apparent in a chronology of his quotes, and how his initial clash with skeptic scientists may be a result of a 1992 article he didn't want the public to know about
• "Pt II: Is Gore's Accusation of Skeptic Climate Scientists Still a H..."June 22, 2011, in which we see Al Gore strangely contradicting his accusation for the second time in his June 22 Rolling Stone article
• "The Great Global Warming Ponzi Scheme" August 17, 2011,  describing how a magazine's review of a book on the perils of global warming instead reveals how endless the smear of skeptic scientists has been and how singular its source is

 My pieces here at ClimateGateCountryClub:

• "Al Gore's current marital breakdown & 'other' difficulties may ..." July 2, 2010, intended to be a companion piece to myAmerican Thinker "Smearing Global Warming Skeptics", but with information that was not in that article due to length limits
• "Unending Problems with Accusations Against Skeptic Scientists - Whe..." August 12, 2010, my initial effort to shed light on why Gelbspan's infamous "reposition" phrase is incorrectly attached to unrelated organizations
• "Editor Claims NewsHour Reports Fairly on Global Warming - Where's t..." August 9, 2011, a 'part 1' blog about the manner in which a top person at the NewsHour sidestepped my questions
• "Editor Claims NewsHour Reports Fairly... Pt II" August 10, 2011, same as above, but the editor's email is two years later. Both of these blogs are necessary support material to my August 18, 2011 American Thinker article

My GlobalWarming.org pieces:

• "Global Warming Promoters' Unsustainable Accusation Tactic" May 26, 2011, a primer on how anybody can look into this facet of the issue and ask their own tough questions
• "'Media Too Fair to Climate Skeptics', say reporters who've been unf..." June 2, 2011, adding on to two previous short blogs about why claims of 'unnecessary media balance' toward skeptic scientists has huge problems associated with it

Other web site pieces:

• "Turning the tables on the accusers of skeptic scientists" July 7, 2010, telling how I got started in this situation, concluding with the idea of turning the accusation back on the accusers
• "The con-senseless for global warming media coverage" August 4, 2010, why claims of too many skeptics in the media is riddled with problems
• "But wait, there's more: The Boykoff / Gelbspan circle in the con-se..." August 4, 2010, my discovery later the same day of a circular reference
• "Has the Mainstream Media Trusted Enviro-activists for Advice on Lis..."  August 23, 2010, is a chronology of the overall smear campaign, including its initial '91 to '95 unsuccessful period
• "Circuitous attempts to smear AGW skeptic scientists" August 29, 2010, about what happened when one of my articles was reproduced at a different web site, and how a critic inadvertently undermined his own cause
• "SplatterGate: When Greenpeace is given lemons, they make lemonade" October 5, 2010, how Greenpeace revealed their AGW agenda to seemingly be a one-trick pony
• "Is the ‘Columbo of climate change’ someone who would rather avoid C..." December 11, 2010, the irony of Ross Gelbspan being compared to a fictional TV investigator
• "Are Skeptic Scientists Corrupt? Or Does the Accusation Fall Apart U..." February 17, 2011, my multipage paper in PDF file form at the Science & Public Policy Institute on the smear.
• "Climate Depot Exclusive: Smearing Skeptic Scientists: What did Gore..." May 23, 2011, in which I explain how Gore's multi-year claim about Gelbspan is contradicted by what he wrote in his 1992 "Earth in the Balance" book
• "The End is Near for Faith in AGW" June 25, 2011, a guest post at one of the most popular science blogs on the web, where I describe what the barrier has been that's prevented the public from learning about skeptic scientists, and how fragile that barrier is

 Why do this? I'm no investigative journalist, and I'm not a scientist. I'm simply a guy who knows unresolved contradictions when I see them, and knows more often than not when someone gives evasive answers to direct questions. That is why I write these, with the goal being to show how the mainstream media inexplicably misses very obvious problems.

My insidious plot here is to exploit anybody's networking contacts I can find, in order to hand this whole thing over to realjournalists who understand the enormity of the story. I could offer continued consulting on this particular if such journalists need it, and maybe put out an entire book on this situation - origins, cast of characters, & ultimate fallout from a major news media investigation - but otherwise, I have no intention of becoming a journalist when I grow up. I want to get back to being a freelance graphic artist.

To me, this specific effort is no different than going the extra mile to return someone's lost possession; it's not much fun and I have other things I'd rather be doing. But it is the right thing to do.