The shockwave of Climategate just keeps reverberating. Now we know that scientists tried to take over Wikipedia as a key tool in climate change indoctrination. The Al Gore version of climate was put forward in more than 5,000 articles that were either authored or re-written. Heretics were barred from Wikipedia and so were their articles.

Lawrence Solomon, co-founder of anti-nuclear environmental group Energy Probe, exposes this politically-charged takeover of the website that was supposed to represnt the aggregate of knowledge in the entire world:

One person in the nine-member Realclimate.org team — U.K. scientist and Green Party activist William Connolley — would take on particularly crucial duties. . .

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.