Wikipedia’s climate doctor rewrote 5,428 climate articles.

[Danno 1,228]

Lawrence Solomon: Wikipedia’s climate doctor rewrote 5,428 climate articles.

By Lawrence Solomon

The Climategate Emails describe how a small band of climatologists cooked the books to make the last century seem dangerously warm.

The emails also describe how the band plotted to rewrite history as well as science, particularly by eliminating the Medieval Warm Period, a 400 year period that began around 1000 AD.

The Climategate Emails reveal something else, too: the enlistment of the most widely read source of information in the world — Wikipedia — in the wholesale rewriting of this history.

The Medieval Warm Period, which followed the meanness and cold of the Dark Ages, was a great time in human history — it allowed humans around the world to bask in a glorious warmth that vastly improved agriculture, increased life spans and otherwise bettered the human condition.

But the Medieval Warm Period was not so great for some humans in our own time — the same small band that believes the planet has now entered an unprecedented and dangerous warm period. As we now know from the Climategate Emails, this band saw the Medieval Warm Period as an enormous obstacle in their mission of spreading the word about global warming. If temperatures were warmer 1,000 years ago than today, the Climategate Emails explain in detail, their message that we now live in the warmest of all possible times would be undermined. As put by one band member, a Briton named Folland at the Hadley Centre, a Medieval Warm Period “dilutes the message rather significantly.”

Even before the Climategate Emails came to light, the problem posed by the Medieval Warm Period to this band was known. “We have to get rid of the Medieval Warm Period” read a pre-Climategate email, circa 1995, as attested to at hearings of the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works. But the Climategate transcripts were more extensive and more illuminating — they provided an unvarnished look at the struggles that the climate practitioners underwent before settling on their scientific dogma.

The Climategate Emails showed, for example, that some members of the band were uncomfortable with aspects of their work, some even questioning the need to erase the existence of the Medieval Warm Period 1,000 years earlier.....<snip>.

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[Hilarious Clinton 452]

Is anyone (Obama voters excluded) surprised?

[Ban Hammer 13,657]

Is anyone (Obama voters excluded) surprised?

[웃 910]

Is anyone (Obama voters excluded) surprised?

Nope. Only the Obama voters!

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The Climategate Emails reveal something else, too: the enlistment of the most widely read source of information in the world — Wikipedia — in the wholesale rewriting of this history.[/size]

Gazooks! Wikipedia has done a remarkable job of removing every trace of the Mediaeval warm period.

What then is this?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediaeval_warm_period

Still there, I see.

[The_Dude 1,142]

I see the usual crowd has turned out to cheerlead danno's yellow journalism as usual.

[cdneh 3,112]

Is anyone (Obama voters excluded) surprised?

No one with a brain better than a fencepost.

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

Gazooks! Wikipedia has done a remarkable job of removing every trace of the Mediaeval warm period.

What then is this?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediaeval_warm_period

Still there, I see.

so what caused the mediaevel warm period? SUVs?

as usual the climate change hoaxers get hoist on their own petard. Either they try to cover it up, or cannot explainit. Either way, global warming is a hoax.

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so what caused the mediaevel warm period? SUVs?

as usual the climate change hoaxers get hoist on their own petard. Either they try to cover it up, or cannot explainit. Either way, global warming is a hoax.

SUVs and time machines.