Nature Magazine Covers Video Controversy

By Elmer Beauregard

This weeks issue of Nature Magazine features an article on the Climategate controversy. Although they didn't mention M4GW, they did mention our video "Hide the Decline" and the threatened lawsuit from Michael Mann.

Mann has grown weary of dealing with the various groups that are criticizing him. "In reality, these groups are guilty over and over again of defamation, slander and libel, but that is far more difficult to fight legally," Mann says. "Even if you were to prevail, you would have invested potentially several years of your career, and frankly those of us who love doing science are not willing to do that."

We weren't quoted but they did include an image from our second video "Hide the Decline II". The thing that I found interesting from this article is now "Global Warming" Scientists seem to be more interested in the polls about what people believe than what the temperature is doing.

Instead of graphs tracking global temperature these charts are tracking if people "believe" in Global Warming or not and what kind of support there is for carbon taxes.

The article says nothing about what the scientist were caught saying in their emails and if they were fraudulent or not, but rather about how to do damage control. They want to "humanize climate scientists" to regain the public's trust. Here's an idea stop lying to us!

I had to chuckle upon reading this paragraph:

Jon Krosnick, a social psychologist who studies public perceptions of climate change at Stanford University in California, has also seen a slight erosion in public belief in global warming over recent years, although he stresses that overall support remains high. He thinks that the cool weather of 2008 helps to explain why the population changed its opinion. "The way they decide whether climate change is happening is by sticking their finger out the window," he says. "If we get another hot year, those numbers will go up again."

He's saying the unwashed masses are stupid for not believing in global warming because its cold, basically repeating the same old mantra "weather is not the climate". But then he goes on to say that a hot year would make people believe in Global Warming again and that is a good thing.

So let's see, if we have a cold year that doesn't disprove global warming but if we have a hot year that proves global warming? And they wonder why people don't trust them.

Oh and that Hockey Stick Chart that Michael Mann was going to sue over, he himself is starting to downplay it.