Guess which newspaper wrote this...

"‘Climategate’ is not an ordinary case of falsifying data by a few rogue scientists. The fraudulent theory of Global Warming has provided the basis for an international political movement which has the stated goal of completely restructuring the entire global economy based on that fraudulent theory. ‘Global Warming’ is a con game perpetrated by dishonest scientists and the government and corporate leaders who provide the corrupt scientists with opportunities for advancement.

If we fail to stop the further politicization and institutionalization of the fraudulent theory of Global Warming, we will most certainly experience a future of ‘science’ controlled by government decree and of a world government that facilitates the operations of corporate industries while imposing severe restrictions and arbitrary taxes on the general public.

That is a future which would fully justify resistance and rebellion among the international populations who will be the victims of this massive global fraud. If we fail to stop this fraudulent enterprise by legal means, we will certainly have a future of global oppression based on fraud, with its attendant institutionalized crimes, and whatever popular backlash might eventually result. "

Any idea?

Try Pravda - yup that well known advocate of free speech.
What on Earth is going on at the BBC?

This is so....

Plato is a cynical old goat - but this is :-(

 If you didn't get as far as this bit of the tv programme I posted earlier - no worries... this is quite appalling - and Plato isn't joking, she's shocked.

Climategate - Who's Who

Okay, now if you know nothing at all about this subject - and I mean you've not heard anything about it - then stop here unless you're really keen.

The following is a good summary - if sometimes a bit quick - of all the main issues that have become known as Climategate.

Plato has been truly stunned and appalled at the double-dealing, fabrication of data, deception and bullying of collegues that has been hidden under the religion of man-made global warming.

For the avoidance of doubt - there are a number of ways to describe their strategy:

- Anthropogenic Global Warming [AGW] - this is usually shown like this

- Climate Change [when the data started to look iffy] now looks like this, but they'd rather you didn't know that

-  Polar Bears Are Drowning/Falling From The Skies [like 911 victims]

- and of course We're All Going To Die - not

*simples*

WARNING - AGW virus alert

WARNING


The AGW Virus

The AGW Anthropogenic Global Warming or Human Induced Climate Change virus was first isolated in a lab at the Climate Research Unit of the University of East Anglia.

Virus Signature:
The AGW virus can be recognized by the following signature
——
valadj=[0.,0.,0.,0.,0.,-0.1,-0.25,-0.3,0.,-0.1,0.3,0.8,1.2,1.7,2.5,2.6,2.6,2.6,2.6,2.6]*0.75 ; fudge factor
yearlyadj=interpol(valadj,yrloc,x)
densall=densall+yearlyadj
——
Detection:
The external effect of the virus is visible as a tendency of graphed data to ‘dip’ in the middle and then rise sharply at then end for no other apparent reason.

Pathology:
The AGW virus and been found to infect both IPL computer programs and research papers. All attempts to mitigate the spread of the virus using the current procedures of peer review and analysis have been unable to contain the spread of the infection. In sever cases the virus has been seen to affect the central nervous system in humans although no direct link to the rabies virus has been demonstrated

Patient Zero:
It currently appears that patient zero was an IPL program known to as “FOI2009/FOIA/documents/harris/tree/briffa_sep98_e.pro”. It is not known at this time what other artifacts may have been contaminated by the virus.

Preventing the spread if AGW:
If you detect that the virus has infected one of your papers you should place the paper in a suitable quarantined environment. The peat bogs of northern England and Scotland will provide sufficient protection to the environment if the hole is at least 1.47 meters deep.

If you know of any software that is infected with the AGW virus the proper procedure for disposal is to maintain an alternating 100 Gauss field in the immediate vicinity of the infection for not less then 2 hours, 4 hours is recommended.

Please help prevent the spread of the AGW virus, please model responsibly.

[As I'm not the author [anyone know who is? We do now!] of this little joke - please add your technical expertise in the comments!]

Great Climate Hoax video

Plato did like this. She is still scratching her head that it was covered on Russian cable TV before it was mentioned on the BBC...

America's Paxo

This is one of the most unintentionally funny interviews about Climategate so far...stick with it to the end, hilarious.

And this is the best spokesperson they could come up with?

ClimateGate Swindel

Russian TV gives ClimateGate more weight than BBC

Yup, you think Plato is having a fit of the vapours - she wishes.

US Senator calls for AWG inquiry

Read the transcript here

Global warming debate goes TV mainstream

Plato knows it feels like it's been forever, but at last things are gathering pace.

What started out on the blogs, caught fire over the weekend with more pioneering or maverick journalists such as James Delingpole and Andew Bolt getting on board.  The first mainstream TV news channel to carry an interview with two serious players is below - where is the BBC?  It's not like the University of East Anglia is in Outer Mongolia FFS




Today has seen the MSM getting some balls with stuff in all the big circulation more serious press from the DT/Times/DMail to WSJ/WP/DeSp/Aus.

Plato suspects it will take another week of disclosures before UEA starts to cull the main players - even if it takes months, it's a dead cert.

I wonder if Jones et al will still be going to Copenhagen??

PS The BBC and Guardian are still pretending that this scandal is a 'move along now, nothing to see' story.

When the realignment of the world's economy is central to the argument of a scandal of this nature - and the world's biggest publicly funded broadcaster is doing a LALALALLALLA, Plato's heart sinks.

What is it with greenies and offensive ads?

Dear Honorary Platonians,

It isn't often that your Supreme Queen's flesh crawls.

She thought that PlaneStupid's 9/11 polar bears falling from the skies and squelching onto cars and pavements was a low point.



She was wrong.  WWF managed something even more warped, repelling and frankly in the worst possible taste as Cupid Stunt would say.

How any organisation let alone a charity can use 9/11 as an emotional hook to encourage organ donation is frankly creepy.

Ignoring facts

Hmm, whilst Plato has never been a big 'climate change denier' [my what a loaded phrase that is], she has been intrigued by the blogowar that has erupted since last night re the CRU and its Prf Phil Jones.

I 'distance-diagnose' from my PC that he'll be having a *crap weekend*.

For those who have no idea what I'm wibbling about - here is a graph about global warming or not as the case may be [click to enlarge the image and read text]

Hmm, see how it goes up when data suits their argument?  And doesn't when it well, doesn't?

I'll keep readers updated over the weekend.  If you are as sad as me, Google terms like: hack CRU, Hadley, Phil Jones, AGW, Mann ... you get the drift....

Gordon is glued to his seat

Gordon the Gopher

Plato LOL when she read this glorious piece in the Telegraph

"Gordon, the puppet gopher that appeared on Children's BBC programmes with Phillip Schofield Paul Smith, who is now the BBC’s Head of Editorial Standards, in Audio and music, operated the puppet between 1985 and 1987 on the children’s slot The Broom Cupboard.

Mr Smith, was promoted to the role following the infamous Russell Brand broadcast to Andrew Sachs, is paid a salary of £110,000 according to information released by the BBC under Freedom of Information laws.

The presenter Philip Schofield, who presents This Morning, made the revelation on Twitter, the microblogging site.

He wrote: “Funniest news of the afternoon, the lovely bloke that used to be Gordon The Gopher now heads up a huge BBC dept .... compliance!

He later sent a tweet saying: “heads up BBC compliance! I'm still laughing”.

A BBC source said: “He’s operating a different set of strings now”.

Do you have a cat?

Belle takes no prisoners

If like Plato, you have been amazed that Belle de Jour has turned out to be a PhD brain with chuzpah, here's her post about discovering some very amusing and pathetic photos from her supposedly loyal boyfriend [you know, the one who blabbed to the Daily Mail today and forced her outing].

"vendredi, novembre 14 [2008 I think]

You know those 'I'm a PC... and I'm a Mac' adverts? Well, here is a variation on the theme for you:

My ex, the one known here as the Boy, is a PC user. I am a Mac user. This week, in a misguided attempt to win me back, he posted a birthday gift - a 320 gig external hard drive stuffed with the entire digital record of our time together. Photos, videos, the lot.

Only the Boy, he is not what we would call super tech-savvy. Because on plugging the drive into my Mac - fully intending to reformat the disk and erase over all of that shite for I am, if nothing else, disinclined to look gift horses in the mouth - I scanned through the folders to see first if there were any mementoes worth saving.

What do you think I found, alongside all the soppily renamed, weren't-we-great-together rest? Only the Recycle Bin folder, of course. Which he had neglected to empty.

Oh, PC. You really aren't very clever, are you?

And there were the real photos. The ones of him and that other woman, the one whose saggy, hippo-like form I'd found on my phone all those months ago. [Do read this - its even more embarrassing for The Boy]. Here they were at his works do, him struggling to hold her aloft. Here she was in his bedroom, lounging in what might euphemistically be called a Rubenesque attitude. Here she was in an improvised toga at a fancy dress party, the mechanics of which garment seemed to rely entirely on the folds of fat under her arms to protect her dignity. Here was the rest of his holiday in New York, the week he spent there after I left, with... well, I don't believe you need to be told. Yes, here, in excruciating detail - as if the other photos weren't nearly enough - was the record of his other relationship with the potato-faced frump he judged superior to me.

So, how do you think I felt? Angry? Detached? Deflated? None of the above actually. What I felt was gratitude. Gratitude and happiness. It was as if a shadow falling over my life had suddenly retreated, showing me the beautiful day it was hiding all along.

In point of fact it is one of the best and most timely gifts I have ever received. This proves, as if proof were needed, what sort of a man he is and how much better my life is now. While I will probably always be appalled to have wasted so much of my life and love on him, at least I got three books' worth of content out of the fucker. She can have the rest of him and good riddance. This is exactly what I needed, the final piece in the puzzle of letting go.

Not lost in translation

Plato was most intrigued when she read this headline in the Guardian

" Pierre Lellouche's views on the Tories and the EU were not lost in translation

French minister's spokesman blamed my poor grasp of French. But interview was conducted in English"

Hmm, how interesting.

Read the whole article here

He's not that into you

Oh dear. Ha. Obama was washing his hair when Gordon called...

"We are told that President Obama didn’t watch election night coverage last night of the bad results from Virginia, New Jersey and elsewhere.

Instead he was apparently tuned to a two hour long HBO documentary about how he stormed to electoral triumph this time last year.

I was watching it too – so was everyone else in the C4 Washington bureau.

We were all enjoying reminiscing about the campaign and our small part in it. Even if we didn’t learn much that we didn’t know at the time. There were very few revealing moments.

We never saw the Obama facade crack.

Either this was the most disciplined, best run and resolutely self confident political campaign in history or this was the best controlled behind the scenes access in history.

But there was one glimmer of revelation – right at the end.

Soon after Obama was declared the winner but before he’d made his acceptance speech in Grant Park in Chicago a junior aide took a call on his cell phone.

We heard him brushing off the caller saying “The President Elect is keen to talk to the Prime Minister too – but he’s a bit busy right now”.

We can only assume it was Gordon Brown on the phone. Getting his first taste of how UK – Obama relations were to proceed."

Meadow

Lord Alan says FUCK, we are not in recession - WTF?

Well, there's nothing like ignoring HMG's own figures

The Sun Party

Plato cried with laughter when she read this excerpt from Our Glorious Leader's interview with Piers Morgan in GQ.

His delusion is hilarious and oh look - he even mentions meeting Obama *every day*.

What a sad arse - hoping that the pixie dust will rub off on him...

"In an interview with GQ magazine to be published later this week, the prime minister claimed he had known "for some time" that the Sun was planning to switch allegiances but said he still respected the paper's proprietor, Rupert Murdoch.

The News International paper's decision to endorse David Cameron hours after Brown's speech to the Labour party conference in late September overshadowed the prime minister's address and was a hugely symbolic moment. The Sun had backed Labour for more than a decade.

"I have a lot of admiration for Rupert Murdoch personally," Brown told GQ's interviewer, Piers Morgan. "His family come from not far from mine in Scotland, and his attitudes to hard work and getting on with things you can only admire. But the Sun has tried to become a political party.

"It's not personal about Rupert, he's always been very friendly to me. I think the Sun's made a mistake but that's up to them."

Asked by Morgan which executive at News International made the decision to back the Tories, Brown said: "I don't know, but it doesn't matter because the people will decide what happens at the next election, not the Sun.

"I think the Sun tried to become a political party that day and that was a terrible mistake. And I suspect over time that their readers will think that, too."

Brown also said that media coverage has become increasingly personal: "I think that's a mistake, too. Take my recent trip to America. I had meetings every day with Obama, about Iraq, Iran, the economy, global warming, Afghanistan, nuclear power..."

Read the whole thing here

UPDATE Roy Greenslade sticks the boot in as well - hohoho

"...It may be upset prime ministers, especially when a paper pledges allegiance and then goes wildly off message. But the "terrible mistake" was surely Tony Blair's and Brown's for cosying up to The Sun in the first place.

Most owners and editors revel in their independence. So Brown shows even more naivete by asserting in his GQ magazine interview that The Sun's decision to switch to the Tories "is not personal" in terms of his friendly relationship with its proprietor, Rupert Murdoch.

Don't be daft, Gordon, of course it's personal. The Sun didn't kick you in the balls without Rupert's say-so. He is on record as saying he calls the political tune at the paper (despite a later denial by Rebekah Wade).

Clearly, his interviewer - and former Murdoch employee - Piers Morgan knows the reality. He cheekily asked Brown which News International executive he thought had made the decision to back the Tories.

Brown, poor Brown, is obviously in denial. He replied: "I don't know, but it doesn't matter because the people will decide what happens at the next election, not The Sun."

It was Rupert wot done it, Gordon. Rupert ditched you. Get it straight."

Do you care about EU arguments?

Mike Smithson over at www.politicalbetting.com has sourced a very interesting bit of voter reality.

Where would you place the EU compared to the other pressing issues we face? Tell me in the comments...

Still feeling clever?

Plato does love her geography [it must be something to do with being humiliated in class if she forgot her Philip's Modern School Atlas].

Anyway, if you are of a similar mind, here are three little quizzes that will test your grey matter on the subject.

Name all the countries in:

Europe [Plato got all of them [eventually] except one she couldn't spell]

Africa [She got 42/53]

and Asia [and 40/48]

Have fun!