Climategate Inquiry Clearly Ignores Wrongdoing

Re:Climategate Inquiry Clearly Ignores Wrongdoing by yummyfajitas on Thursday July 08, 2010 @01:55PM (#1498161)

McIntyre and McKitrick, two of the more prominent people that data was hidden from, are both Canadians. What makes you believe they are politically right leaning Christians?

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Re:Climategate Inquiry Clearly Ignores Wrongdoing by abstractbill on Thursday July 08, 2010 @02:12PM (#1498226)

What makes you believe they are politically right leaning Christians?

Point to the place in my comment where I said that.

I specifically said "e.g". This means "for example". Nowhere in my comment did I make the claim that all people requesting data were American politically right leaning Christians. I simply observed that they had been involved for a long time.

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Re:Climategate Inquiry Clearly Ignores Wrongdoing by yummyfajitas on Thursday July 08, 2010 @02:30PM (#1498296)

You said that the CRU folks withholding data "...was quite clearly in reaction to activists who were already operating in the opposite direction (e.g. American politically-right-leaning Christians...". The hacked emails suggest it was quite clearly in reaction to McIntyre and McKitrick (MM, as the CRU folks called them).

Are you suggesting that the CRU folks withheld data from two Canadians because they were afraid that some right wing American Christians might, in the future, also request data? You didn't clarify in your previous post that the activists operating in the opposite direction were hypothetical.

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Re:Climategate Inquiry Clearly Ignores Wrongdoing by abstractbill on Thursday July 08, 2010 @02:36PM (#1498318)

You said that the CRU folks withheld data in reaction to activists.

No, I did not say that. I should have known better than to participate on this thread - I'm going to stop now. I really don't enjoy being called a bigot.

[Edit: You edited your comment after I replied - my original quoting is correct. Ok, I'm really stopping now].

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Re:Climategate Inquiry Clearly Ignores Wrongdoing by Calamitous on Friday July 09, 2010 @12:14AM (#1499756)

Frankly, if you don't enjoy being called one, you shouldn't talk like one.

If I started talking like a racist, I think I'd have to expect some people to make assumptions about me, regardless of my actual feelings on the matter.

[Edit: grammar goofball]

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Re:Climategate Inquiry Clearly Ignores Wrongdoing by yummyfajitas on Thursday July 08, 2010 @02:49PM (#1498361)

I did, but I don't think my edit changes the content of my post.

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Re:Climategate Inquiry Clearly Ignores Wrongdoing by Calamitous on Thursday July 08, 2010 @02:07PM (#1498205)

I think it's called "bigotry."

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Re:Climategate Inquiry Clearly Ignores Wrongdoing by abstractbill on Thursday July 08, 2010 @02:15PM (#1498245)

I'm a bigot, simply for observing that a large number of politically right leaning Christians have been very interested in climate change for a long time?

Wow.

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Re:Climategate Inquiry Clearly Ignores Wrongdoing by camiller on Thursday July 08, 2010 @02:34PM (#1498311)

I can neither confirm or deny that you are a bigot, I'm just surprised that the FOI request forms have a box for religion. Can you send along your dataset?

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