We now know, thanks to a whistle-blower, that all the data and any­thing based on the CRU data is manip­u­lated, mas­saged and tick­led to present a lie. We also NIWA has done the same thing by using only nine sites two of which are remote islands thou­sands of kilo­me­tres from main­land New Zealand.

Now we find out that one of the Climat-nati, one who fea­tures exten­sively in the CRU emails, U.K. sci­en­tist and Green Party activist William Con­nol­ley under­took to hijack the Cli­mate Change argu­ment on Wikipedia.

Con­nol­ley took con­trol of all things cli­mate in the most used infor­ma­tion source the world has ever known – Wikipedia. Start­ing in Feb­ru­ary 2003, just when oppo­si­tion to the claims of the band mem­bers were begin­ning to gel, Con­nol­ley set to work on the Wikipedia site. He rewrote Wikipedia’s arti­cles on global warm­ing, on the green­house effect, on the instru­men­tal tem­per­a­ture record, on the urban heat island, on cli­mate mod­els, on global cool­ing. On Feb. 14, he began to erase the Lit­tle Ice Age; on Aug.11, the Medieval Warm Period. In Octo­ber, he turned his atten­tion to the hockey stick graph. He rewrote arti­cles on the pol­i­tics of global warm­ing and on the sci­en­tists who were skep­ti­cal of the band. Richard Lindzen and Fred Singer, two of the world’s most dis­tin­guished cli­mate sci­en­tists, were among his early tar­gets, fol­lowed by oth­ers that the band espe­cially hated, such as Willie Soon and Sal­lie Bal­i­u­nas of the Harvard-Smithsonian Cen­ter for Astro­physics, author­i­ties on the Medieval Warm Period.

All told, Con­nol­ley cre­ated or rewrote 5,428 unique Wikipedia arti­cles. His con­trol over Wikipedia was greater still, how­ever, through the role he obtained at Wikipedia as a web­site admin­is­tra­tor, which allowed him to act with vir­tual impunity. When Con­nol­ley didn’t like the sub­ject of a cer­tain arti­cle, he removed it — more than 500 arti­cles of var­i­ous descrip­tions dis­ap­peared at his hand. When he dis­ap­proved of the argu­ments that oth­ers were mak­ing, he often had them barred — over 2,000 Wikipedia con­trib­u­tors who ran afoul of him found them­selves blocked from mak­ing fur­ther con­tri­bu­tions. Acolytes whose writ­ing con­formed to Connolley’s global warm­ing views, in con­trast, were rewarded with Wikipedia’s bless­ings. In these ways, Con­nol­ley turned Wikipedia into the mis­sion­ary wing of the global warm­ing movement.

The Medieval Warm Period dis­ap­peared, as did crit­i­cism of the global warm­ing ortho­doxy. With the release of the Cli­mate­gate Emails, the dis­ap­pear­ing trick has been exposed. The glo­ri­ous Medieval Warm Period will remain in the his­tory books, per­haps with an aster­isk to describe how a band of zealots once tried to make it disappear.

That is an aston­ish­ing num­ber of edits and his actions to get peo­ple banned is appalling. He should now be ostra­cized and per­ma­nently banned from Wikipedia edits. The cleans­ing dis­in­fec­tant of bright sun­shine is now bring­ing the utter cor­rup­tion of the IPCC, the sci­ence behind their lies and the cor­rup­tion of the sci­en­tists to the fore.

Now they have given Wikipedia as bad a name as them and cov­ered Wikipedia with the stench of their cor­rup­tion. I am still a big fan of Wikipedia and agree with Anthony Watts. The whole idea behind Wikipedia is sum­marised by the founder:

I believe in us. I believe that Wikipedia keeps get­ting bet­ter. That’s the whole idea. One per­son writes some­thing, some­body improves it a lit­tle, and it keeps get­ting bet­ter, over time. If you find it use­ful today, imag­ine how much we can achieve together in 5, 10, 20 years.

This is where I agree with Anthony Watts:

In a per­fect world, maybe. In a per­fect world uni­corns frolic in the park, free money falls from the sky, and peo­ple are hon­est and with­out bias 100% of the time. But when you have Wik­ibul­lies, such as Con­nol­ley and Peter­son, your honor sys­tem goes up in smoke. Fact is Jimmy, your honor sys­tem is as cor­rupted as the peer review process is for cli­mate sci­ence these days. In my view, don’t give Wikipedia another dime until they make some changes to pro­vide for a more respon­si­ble infor­ma­tion environment.

Mak­ing free ref­er­ence infor­ma­tion avail­able to the pub­lic shouldn’t be a bat­tle of wills between Wik­ibul­lies with an agenda and the rest of society.

Here’s where to write to com­plain to Wikipedia:

Wiki­me­dia Foundation

Postal address

Wiki­me­dia Foun­da­tion Inc.
149 New Mont­gomery Street, 3rd Floor
San Fran­cisco, CA 94105
USA
Phone: +1–415-839‑6885
Email: info(at)wikimedia.org
Fax: +1–415-882‑0495
(note: we get a large num­ber of calls; email or fax is always a bet­ter first option)

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