Canada’s public television commentary says Climategate spells doom for Copenhagen

December 5, 2009 by Infowars Ireland

“Let there be no more talk that the science is settled.”

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s news and public affairs operations may not quite have caught up with Climategate, but the CBC’s Rex Murphy has. Most CBC listeners and viewers might be wondering what he’s talking about. Since the story broke two weeks ago with the release of emails from the world’s leading climate institute, there has only been one news report on the network and the only analysis item was on Anna Maria Tremonti’s The Current — a pooh-poohing academic from the United States who said there was nothing in the emails worth talking about.

Where has Quirks and Quarks been?

The radio network’s vaunted science show, Quirks and Quarks, has yet to even acknowledge the existence of scientific debate over temperature records, let alone the email scandal. As far as I can tell, not once in the history of the show has Quirks and Quarks‘ host, Bob McDonald, sought to explore the work of Steve McIntyre and Ross McKitrick–the two Canadians whose hockey stick deconstruction is now at the centre of a global science meltdown.

While Quirks and Quarks did nothing, the world’s leading climate scientists spent a decade in behind the scenes debate over temperature data, squelching dissent and keeping mainstream scientists and media marching to the global warming official tune. Don’t you think that would be of interest? And how come Bob McDonald missed a decade of debate?

Instead of tackling the real science issues, this week’s edition of Quirks and Quarks–according to on air promotions–is going to focus on a side issue, the even shakier science of rising sea levels.

Source: network.nationalpost.com