10 Years Later, Where Are The Climategate "Scandal" Ringleaders Now?
Why, sucking up fossil and Russian money as usual, of course!!
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In the intervening years, Delingpole has continued to claim that there is “no convincing evidence” that the climate is warming “in ways which are dangerous or unprecedented”. He has also been a vocal opponent of wind energy in the UK and was involved in a plan in 2012 to push the issue up the political agenda by standing against the Conservative MP Chris Heaton-Harris — himself a prominent critic of renewable energy. Since 2014, Delingpole has been executive editor of the London branch of the alt-right website Breitbart and regularly writes for the Spectator magazine, where he recently described his reporting on Climategate as his “finest hour”.
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Christopher Booker
Christopher Booker passed away in July 2019. For decades he was one of the UK’s most prominent climate science deniers, writing regular columns for The Telegraph. Booker saw the emails as evidence of a great conspiracy among climate scientists, calling it the “greatest scientific scandal of our age”. He said the accused scientists were “trying to manipulate data through their tortuous computer programmes, always to point in only the one desired direction — to lower past temperatures and to ‘adjust’ recent temperatures upwards, in order to convey the impression of an accelerated warming”. Just a month before Climategate, Booker had published a book called The Great Global Warming Disaster, which has been dubbed a “definitive guide for sceptics”.
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Anthony Watts
Anthony Watts is a retired TV meteorologist who founded the popular sceptics’ blog Watts Up With That (WUWT), where he was among the first to publish extracts of the emails. He is also behind surfacestations.org, a website questioning the validity of the surface temperature record. Since the initial release of emails in November 2009, WUWT has published no less than 385 posts on Climategate, including coverage of the so-called “Climategate 2.0” where additional emails retained from the first hacking were later released. Watts was involved in a document leak of his own in 2012. His name cropped up in a leaked fundraising strategy from the fossil fuel–funded think tank the Heartland Institute, which outlined how it pledged to raise $88,000 for a new website for Watts. In 2019, Watts officially joined the Heartland Institute as a senior fellow.
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Myron Ebell
Myron Ebell is Director of the Center for Energy and Environment at the fossil fuel–funded Competitive Enterprise Institute and was one of the most prominent voices in the media discussing Climategate. In a statement on Climategate, Ebell said: “It is clear that some of the ‘world’s leading climate scientists,’ as they are always described, are more dedicated to promoting the alarmist political agenda than in scientific research. Some of the emails that I have read are blatant displays of personal pettiness, unethical conniving, and twisting the science to support their political position.“ He later appeared on Fox News to debate climate scientist Kevin Trenberth, whose emails were among those hacked.
In the interview, Ebell claimed the scientists were “cooking the data … And cooking is a technical term which means manipulating and falsifying the data.” “These people have already been revealed as not having any honor. Now they’re being revealed as not having a sense of shame,” he said.
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https://www.desmog.co.uk/2019/11/18/ring-leaders-manufactured-climategate-scandal
