Will distorted stolen CRU emails to argue against climate change legislation

[struggle4progress]

George Will falsely claimed that "one of the emails" reportedly stolen from the U.K.'s Climate Research Unit (CRU) said that a climate scientist "wished he could delete, get rid of, the medieval warming period <MWP>." In fact, the scientist wrote in the email that he wanted to " 'contain' the putative 'MWP' " and has stated that the email "reflected his desire to identify exactly when the Medieval Warm Period began"; moreover, Will falsely claimed that in another CRU email, a scientist wrote, "<I>t is a travesty that we cannot explain the fact that global warming has stopped" ...

http://mediamatters.org/research/200911300003

[tabatha]

1. George Will has always been a liar.

[Prometheuspan]

2. good catch... maybe we should have a thread for those?

I mean, so far, everything i have heard from the right is lies and blowing things out of proportion on this...

We could make a long list...