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Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Global Warmers Changed History To Support Theory

Source: Politics Alabama

Here's one aspect of ClimateGate that you probably hadn't considered: Wikipedia. Don't worry, global warming activists did NOT forget about it.

APPARENTLY, there was one person dedicated to removing from Wikipedia anything that contradicted their pet theory... and he was a busy little man, blocking or removing thousands of such entries.
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=119745

Beginning in February 2003, [William] Connolley rewrote Wikipedia entries on global warming, the greenhouse effect, the instrumental temperature record, the urban heat island, on climate models and on global cooling, according to the report. In February, he began editing the Little Ice Age. By August, he began to rewrite history without the Medieval Warm Period. In October, he turned to the hockey-stick chart.

"He rewrote articles on the politics of global warming and on the scientists who were skeptical of the band," Solomon explains. "Richard Lindzen and Fred Singer, two of the world's most distinguished climate scientists, were among his early targets, followed by others that the band especially hated, such as Willie Soon and Sallie Baliunas of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, authorities on the Medieval Warm Period."

Through his role as a Wikipedia administrator, Connolley is said to have created or rewritten 5,428 unique Wikipedia entries.

"When Connolley didn't like the subject of a certain article, he removed it – more than 500 articles of various descriptions disappeared at his hand," Solomon wrote. "When he disapproved of the arguments that others were making, he often had them barred – over 2,000 Wikipedia contributors who ran afoul of him found themselves blocked from making further contributions."

Meanwhile, followers who adhered to Connolley's climate views "were rewarded with Wikipedia's blessings," Solomon contends.

Through his control of the Wikipedia pages, Connolley is said to have "turned Wikipedia into the missionary wing of the global warming movement."

Facts about the Medieval Warm Period and criticism of global warming doctrine were purportedly scrubbed from Wikipedia's pages.

For those who claim that ClimateGate "doesn't change the science," you might want to think again. Suppressing contradictory information does, in fact, change the science.

In my opinion, the fact that they felt they had to rewrite history and remove contradictory studies shows that their theory is false... and that they know it.