Here is the video of global warming crusader Ed Begley Jr. ranting on FoxNews. He has no defense for the Climate-Gate emails that have stunned the scientific community, so after some awkward moments he just gets mad. Priceless.
For three years on Right Pundits we have brought you the truth about global warming. We are global warming realists. I tend not to call the subject a “scam” myself because many well-meaning people actually believe in the anthropogenic global warming myth. Scams are willful conspiracies against the truth.
If there is a scam, it is by some scientists and many crusaders like Al Gore. They have cooked the books, so to speak, in the form of unscrupulous manipulation of scientific data and making wild assumptions that feed useless data models.
They have used that data to scare people. And in so doing they have appealed insidiously to the best instincts in human nature, our innate desire to help others. Many people ignorant of the true global warming science have been thus tricked into giving money to the charlatans and buying into the global warming myth.
What is fitting about Ed Begley Jr. is that he is an actor, literally rather than figuratively like most global warming alarmists. His acting credits include game shows and reality television.
The Climate-Gate emails have exposed what legitimate science has known for a while. The earth has been cooling in the past decade. The data models do not work. Scholarly articles, scientists and scientific journals are getting blackballed by global warming alarmists. The global warming myth is a crusade masked as science.
Which brings us to Ed Begley Jr.’s video below. Watch a global warming alarmist exposed over the ClimateGate scandal on network television and tell us what you think.
Ed Begley, Jr Video
Photo credit: Chrisa Hickey
November 29th, 2009 at 9:08 am
An easy explanation of what ClimateGate means,
ClimateGate emails and computer programs were taken from a main server at the Climate Research Unit of the University of East Anglia. It is not known if this was a theft or the actions of a whistleblower, disgusted with what the lead scientists at CRU were doing.
ClimateGate exposed the cabal of 20 – 30 scientists (not just at CRU) that peer reviewed each others papers, strong-armed scientific journals to only print their views, and then sat on the IPCC panels as authors judging which published studies go into the IPCC final reports. This is why they always keep shouting “peer reviewed studies, peer reviewed studies, peer reviewed studies”. They owned the peer review process.
ClimateGate exposed that this small group has been adding positive corrections to the raw global temperature data, inflating the amount of published temperature rise over the last 50 years. Both CRU in the UK and NASA-GISS in the US add these biases. At CRU, the programmers did not even know what and why some corrections were added every month. Only since satellite monitoring for comparison have the amounts of biasing leveled off.
ClimateGate exposed the leaders of this cabal instructing each other to delete emails, data files, and data analysis programs ahead of already filed Freedom Of Information Act requests for raw data and computer codes, clearly a crime.
ClimateGate exposed the “trick” about the Hockey stick figure and other studies that performed proxy construction of past temperatures. After all, reconstruction of the last 1,000 years of climate is the first step in predicting the future with super computer programs as explained below:
Everything about all 21 super computer programs used by the IPCC to determine future global warming rely on best-determined past sensitivities to solar and volcanic effects (climate forcings) from the proxy temperature record.
1. The elimination of the Medieval Warm Period and the Little Ice Age (the handle of the hockey stick) was necessary so that past solar effects could be minimized, thereby allowing almost all of the warming in the last 75 years to be blamed on Greenhouse Gasses. Raw data (like tree-ring thickness, radioisotope of mud layers in a lake bottom, ice core analyses, etc.) are used as a proxy for reconstruction of the temperature record for 1000 AD to 1960 AD. To ensure desired results, statistical manipulation of the raw data and selecting only supporting data, cherry-picking, was suspected and later proved.
2. The slope of long-term 10-year running average global temperature using thermometers from 1900 to present (the blade of the hockey stick) was maximized with the sloppy gridding code, Urban Heat Island effects, hiding the declines, and even fabricating data (documented in the leaked source code comments revealed with ClimateGate). This ensured that the Greenhouse Gas effect coefficient in all 21 of the super computers was maximized, and that maximizes the temperature result at year 2100 based on Greenhouse Gas increases. This thermometer data was used to replace the tree ring-divergence after 1960 and plot this over the climate history data of (1) above giving the false impression that the reconstructed 1000 AD to 1960 AD results are more accurate than they are.
3. Because tuning of the super computer programs uses back casting, the computer outputs could always replicate the 20th Century (by design); therefore it was assumed that the models had almost everything in them. Because of (1) and (2) above, nearly all climate change predicted by the models was due to CO2 and positive feedbacks and hardly any of the climate change was for other reasons like solar, understood or not.
4. Over the years, when better numbers for volcanic effects, black carbon, aerosols, land use, ocean and atmospheric multi-decadal cycles, etc. became available, it appears that CRU made revisions to refit the back cast, but could hardly understand what the code was doing due to previous correction factor fudging and outright fabricating, as documented in the released code as part of ClimateGate.
5. After the IPCC averages the 21 super computer outputs of future projected warming (anywhere from 2-degrees to 7-degrees, not very precise), that output is used to predict all manner of catastrophes. (Fires, floods, droughts, blizzards, hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, insects, extinctions, diseases, civil wars, cats & dogs sleeping together, etc.)
So shut-up or be called a denier,
live the way we tell you to live,
pay more for everything, and
just send money for my research on the effects of global climate change on horseshoe crabs (which have been around for about 440 million years through all possible temperature ranges).
I hope that this makes the ClimateGate controversy easier to understand.
November 29th, 2009 at 9:10 am
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Cheers
November 29th, 2009 at 9:33 am
I think Ed holds up well here in the face of Fox’s agenda (and apparently this website’s as well). He is very passionate about global warming. And sorry, doubters, three emails does not prove it’s not real.
November 29th, 2009 at 9:40 am
wow… This is the first I’ve heard of “Climate-Gate”. I’m a skeptic, but, clearly Ed did NOT lose control and “rant”, the commentator WAS making unsupported statements and accusations in the form of leading questions and Ed, fairly successfully, kept the topic on point: peer-reviewed articles are the only source that should be used as reference, AND, if there has been a conspiracy and the integrity of the peer-review system for those articles has been compromised, then by all means we NEED to fix it, but that is not justification for falling prey to alarmism on either side of the issue.
I always assumed Ed was a left-wing nut until I saw this video. I gained a little respect, but, I’m not falling for ANYBODY’s alarmism.
November 29th, 2009 at 9:41 am
“Climategate”?
The “gate” thing was original… once. Might’ve been cute… once. The overwhelmingly tiresome practice of adding the “gate” suffix to a situation indicates a serious lack of original thought on the part of the author, and the expectation (by the author) of a similar mindset in the reader.
Go ahead and take this slam personally, but only to the extent that you are personally responsible for perpetuating this industry-wide slothful practice; leave some of the blame for the others.
Shut the “gate” already. Give us a break.
November 29th, 2009 at 9:42 am
As a research assistant doing regression analysis on population data, trying to remove sporadic, known statistical anomalies was necessary to set accurate and meaningful data. You have to eliminate the effect of solar events to isolate the role of carbon dioxide.
That’s why you are pundits and not scientists.
November 29th, 2009 at 9:42 am
So, the FOX hypothesis is that pollution is a good thing and that anyone that opposes the pollution of the air and water and our food is a communist who is against freedom and the American way. Wow! sign me up for that. Sounds like patriotism according to FOX is the corporate world must prosper uberall. To hell with the Earth and its people. Did I get it right?
November 29th, 2009 at 9:43 am
David,
I’m sorry your wring, it was not 3 emails, but a couple thousand that were made public. I’ve personally read some of them. They are pretty damning.
November 29th, 2009 at 9:45 am
I liked when Ed Begley repeated several times to get the scientific information from peer reviewed journals such as Nature, Science, and National Geographic and not from people in the media. Also he made a good point that cities in America now have improved air quality due to government regulation. Begley was passionate but controlled and was a good debater.
November 29th, 2009 at 9:45 am
I suppose a few emails accounts for the permafrost thawing. We all know the FOX agenda. By the way, there is no instinct to help others, Helping others requires thought and empathy. That is something not present on FOX or “The Right.”
November 29th, 2009 at 9:45 am
http://www.eastangliaemails.com/
November 29th, 2009 at 9:47 am
Hey NucEngineer,
Let me state up front that I am not too close to the scietific community for an opinion on the climate change data. Anyone who forges data to make a political point should and must be called out.
Having said this, you do not need a stack of computer data to explain the condition the earth is in currently. There are pictures before and after of the polar ice cap eroding or dissapearing. There are pictures and reports of recent severe flooding in the low lying reions in Asia, especially in The Phillipines lately. There are pictures before and after in the carribean low lying areas that are now under water. There are vast regions in Africa that are now dust because of drought. In parts of China, you need a mask to go out in the street. In this country there are severe unusual weather patterns where places that are ususally cold and now hot and those that are hot are now cold.
Maybe we can explain all of these away to regular weather pattern swings, but they are all happening too ferquently these days for comfort. So just because some scientist with political motivation cooks the data, that should not prevent us the US to tkae the lead and urge the rest of the world to come together to find common solutions for climate change. If it turns out that there is no climate change, then so be it, but if it turns out that we are wrong, then our children and grand children will be grateful that we took the measure today to address climate change. In my view this should not be political…You and i and the rest of humans on this earth have a stake to preserve it.
November 29th, 2009 at 9:47 am
The whole email story is a non-story. It will change absolutely nothing, and now the rightwing skeptics are not only crackpots but criminal hackers.
November 29th, 2009 at 9:49 am
Issues like this were the number one reason I didn’t go into science. I was extremely good at science in school, but decided to stay away from the profession when I realized that independent thought was punished, not rewarded.
I began to think, after some research into the profession, of modern science as re-entering the Dark Ages, since you were told what to research and develop. Money was withheld from anyone with an ‘unpopular’ or ‘differing’ opinion, instead of fostering debate, financing was used to suppress dissenters of the ‘consensus’ and shun original thinkers, until it was a big sick herd of people completely unwilling to even interact with someone who had original ideas.
Grants and donations fueled all research and so a minority was able to control all scientific research to fit ‘their’ agenda. Outside of medicine, which is ‘owned’ by large Pharma, science is the ’sickest’ profession in the United States right now.
November 29th, 2009 at 9:49 am
So what about the actual measured and visual evidence? All measurements, from Nasa to High School weather projects show that the climate is warming. The leaked emails do not change that basic fact. Do the deniers promote that we should do nothing at all?
November 29th, 2009 at 9:50 am
People are just mad about the amount of money they have put in to this entire scam. These “Green” people are starting to act like PETA activists (wackjobs). I bet these lunatics will start cutting down trees just so they rot and we can’t use them for other purposes. Much like the PETA clan releases animals in to the wild where they die within days. Just so we can’t use them. Seems these days everyone needs to have a cause whether it’s true or false. I think I’ll go turn on all the lights in my house and let my car idle in the driveway. WAAAHHHHHHH
November 29th, 2009 at 9:50 am
“I think Ed holds up well here in the face of Fox’s agenda (and apparently this website’s as well). He is very passionate about global warming. And sorry, doubters, three emails does not prove it’s not real.”
That is just like most alarmists. They demand absolute proof for evertything except for Global Warming itself, which seems to be a presuppossed absoulte to them.
November 29th, 2009 at 9:53 am
Ed Bagle Jr. came unglued. End of story. He’s a kook.
November 29th, 2009 at 9:53 am
Ed is not cowered here at all, he is right and simply refuses to be talked down by the Fox clown. Go Ed!
November 29th, 2009 at 9:57 am
this video is a pretty graphic illustration of why fox news is not news.
November 29th, 2009 at 9:57 am
A while back I put together an analysis of some of the key diagrams used in “An Inconvenient Truth”…
http://www.chrisoleary.com/projects/NeitherThisNorThat/AnInconvenientTruthAnalysis.html
Turns out the problems I pointed out were related to the ClimateGate scandal.
November 29th, 2009 at 10:03 am
Wow, excellent. The interviewer Stuart was a bit more prepared, but of course he asked and Begley had to react and reply.
Keep in mind Begley is not a science guy, but he knows that. But he means very well, he’s just brain-washed a bit. He’s doing what he can, as the cliche goes—think globally but act locally. He’s a liberal, but he’s NOT a leftist socialist. Have you seen the movie, “Who Killed the Electric Car.” Do it.
Global warming has been based on nonsensical computer models all along. We’re cooling at this point, but of course it varies with solar cycles, volcanic junk, etc.
The problem is “global warming” (we had the cooling scare in the ’70’s) is a trick to make certain people like Al Gore’s backers very rich. Look at how flaming Brit monkey Gordon Brown (the boner who just traded Libyan terrorists for oil) openly wants to tax US to pay for crap over there and all over. BECAUSE the USA was FREE to invent and develop, we got richer, so everyone else wants to come here and tax us and steal from us and destroy us. The Brits SHOULD be beating Brown with a cricket bat.
Begley does not want to destroy us; he’s trying to help. The interviewer was a bit rude, but not bad. Really they had a good shouting match (but then I like watching the McLaughlin Group shout it out, too). This is the USA, OMG thank you for a place we can shout it out.
This site showing the interview is clearly biased against Begley, as well as Global Warming activists. I think they are missing the point. We’ve had AT LEAST 21 years of criminal anti-American presidents, Congress, you name it. Our Grossest National Product has become Global Lying.
The robber-baron bankers who last years voted themselves & Wall Street comrades the treasury are the vilest we’ve seen. Do WE HAVE any cricket bats? Those folks should all be unelected, prosecute, and if guilty (but where would we find an honest court?), hung by the neck until sane.
November 29th, 2009 at 10:04 am
Republicans own all of the factories.
Factories cause all of the global warming.
Republicans are brainwashed by the party into hating global warming because it will cost the factories money to stop global warming.
Republicans would rather kill the planet than lose any money.
The entire issue is as simple as that.
November 29th, 2009 at 10:13 am
The headline is exrtremely misleading on the story albeit almost fraudulent. Forget the issue I don’t see where Ed Bagley Jr ( who’s alittle goofy and geeky) loses control here. He gets into a heated debate with the interviewer over questions but that’s hardly “losing control”.
The clip is bull.
November 29th, 2009 at 10:13 am
Actually I thought Ed held up pretty well. Fox is all about innuendo and emotion.