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Worth reading the whole post, and the Science article cited, since the freeway lobby will be using this to say that we can go on burning more and more dirty tar sands fuel on wider and wider freeways.

There is also an action against the Gateway to Global Warming planned on Monday - see http://gatewaysucks.org for more info.

12.05.09 | Fight back against the hacked email hatchet job

On the eve of the most important climate summit ever hacked emails from a research center in England are being promoted as a “game changer” by people who don’t want to see climate action. These people say that the emails prove that global warming is a hoax - a conspiracy that is either socialist or corporatist or, most terrifying of all, Al Gorist.

Why?

Out of the thousands of emails there is no evidence of a massive worldwide conspiracy of thousands of scientists to impose socialism or corporatism or Al Gorism.

Instead, there is evidence of scientists reacting badly to the enormous pressure they are under from a small, motivated and well funded group of people and institutions who have made it their mission to confuse the public about climate science, and have the backing of big dollars from big oil. This is the Manufactured Doubt Industry. It started decades ago to protect tobacco company profits by confusing the public about cancer research, it consists of a network of researchers with dubious credentials and right-wing think tanks designed to grab media attention, and its very happy with itself right now.

The scientists whose emails were hacked adopted a “bunker mentality” about their data because they are under constant attack from the Manufactured Doubt Industry who question their motives, their competence and will distort the scientists’ data and analysis to further an ideological agenda (government is bad!) and protect fossil fuel company profits (oil money is good).

full text at http://go-beyond.ca/blog/2009/12/05/fight-back-against-the-hacked-email-hatchet-job/