On Jan 22, 11:30*pm, Mike Jr wrote:

Emails among scientists connected to CRU made public last year
prompted allegations by climate skeptics -- including Barton and
several other Republicans -- *that the researchers squelched
inconvenient data. But many scientists and Obama administration
officials say the emails have done nothing to dent evidence of human-
induced global warming."

Well this is sure a balanced and fair piece...NOT! At least they used
the term "climate skeptics" rather than the stronger "AGW deniers".
The latter getting it's force by drawing a parallel with neo-Nazi
history revisionists who deny that anyone died in the concentration
camps which were really beautiful heath resorts. In other words the
implication is that anyone not singing the AGW party line is some evil
nut case.

So in any post here or elsewhere where you see the term "denier" with
respect to the climate change question. You can simply stop reading.
What ever it's saying, it's certainly not balanced and fair and most
likely a lie. But the real propaganda trick above is the "but phrase"
at the end of the article.

Journalists all know this trick. First is the fact that what people
carry away from an article tends to be the headlines and last
sentence. The headline is not slanted, but check that last sentence.
It works like this: But is a VERY powerful word. The effect of 'but"
in a sentence is for the average person to immediately ignore all that
went before it. "Joe is a good guy, BUT got caught stealing." I like
you, but you always smell bad! Hence the journalistic craft of stating
a balanced report and then ending it with a "but phrase" to make you
point. In this case the point clearly is that the Obama administration
rejects any evidence in the email expose and still asserts AGW is
totally true and believed by the majority of "scientists".

If you think about this for a minute, you'll see that the AGW crowd
are the true "deniers" as they use their "models" to deny the
existence of actual scientific data that does not support their
conclusions. Hint: The fact that Florida is not covered with seawater
is proof that the Obama administration are the deniers. And that
doesn't even begin to address evidence that a trace gas like CO2 can't
have the effects claimed for it.