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Climate Gate – All the manipulations and lies revealed 18

sophiaalbertina — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:50:57 +0000

The greatest scientific and political scandal in modern times continues to unravel. And media is starting to cover it more and more as the consequences is starting to sink in. It’s about time.

“The climate-gate revelations have exposed an unprecedented coordinated attempt by academics to distort research for political ends. Anyone interested in accurate science should be appalled at the manipulation of data “to hide the decline [in temperature]” and deletion of e-mail exchanges and data so as not to reveal information that would support global-warming skeptics. These hacks are not just guilty of bad science. In the United Kingdom, deleting e-mail messages to prevent their disclosure from a Freedom of Information Act request is a crime.”

“We read and reread these CRU documents in stunned amazement. But rather than investigating all the evidence of so much academic fraud and intellectual wrongdoing, the University of East Anglia is denying there is a problem.”

“Unlike these global-warming propagandists, we expect research to be done in the open. Scientists who refuse to share their data, who plot to destroy information and fail to tell other scientists how their results were calculated should be severely punished. “

Exactly so!

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/nov/27/the-global-cooling-cover-up/

Friday, November 27, 2009

EDITORIAL: The global-cooling cover-up

THE WASHINGTON TIMES

The climate-gate revelations have exposed an unprecedented coordinated attempt by academics to distort research for political ends. Anyone interested in accurate science should be appalled at the manipulation of data “to hide the decline [in temperature]” and deletion of e-mail exchanges and data so as not to reveal information that would support global-warming skeptics. These hacks are not just guilty of bad science. In the United Kingdom, deleting e-mail messages to prevent their disclosure from a Freedom of Information Act request is a crime.

The story has gotten worse since the global-cooling cover-up was exposed through a treasure trove of leaked e-mails a week ago. The Climatic Research Unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia has been incredibly influential in the global-warming debate. The CRU claims the world’s largest temperature data set, and its research and mathematical models form the basis of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) 2007 report.

Professor Phil Jones, head of the CRU and contributing author to the United Nation’s IPCC report chapter titled “Detection of Climate Change and Attribution of Causes,” says he “accidentally” deleted some raw temperature data used to construct the aggregate temperature data CRU distributed. If you believe that, you’re probably watching too many Al Gore videos.

Mr. Jones is the same professor who warned that global-warming skeptics “have been after the CRU station data for years. If they ever hear there is a Freedom of Information Act now in the UK, I think I’ll delete the file rather than send to anyone.”

Other revelations hit at the very core of the global-warming debate. The leaked e-mails indicate that the people at the CRU can’t even figure out how their aggregate data was put together. CRU activists claimed that they took individual temperature readings at individual stations and averaged the information out to produce temperature readings over larger areas. One of the leaked documents states that their aggregation procedure “renders the station counts totally meaningless.” The benefit: “So, we can have a proper result, but only by including a load of garbage!”

Academics around the world who have spent years working on papers using this data must be in full panic mode. By the admission of the global-warming theocracy’s own self-appointed experts, the data they have been using is simply “garbage.”

For global-warming advocates, there is an additional problem: The aggregated data appear to have been constructed to show an increase in temperatures. CBS’ Declan McCullagh finds that the computer code contains programmer-written notes addressed to themselves or future people who will be working with the program. The notes include these revealing instructions: “Apply a VERY ARTIFICIAL correction for decline!!” and “Low pass filtering at century and longer time scales never gets rid of the trend – so eventually I start to scale down the 120-yr low pass time series to mimic the effect of removing/adding longer time scales!”

The programmers apparently had to try at least a couple of adjustments before they could get their aggregated data to show an increase in temperatures.

Other global-warming advocates privately acknowledge what they won’t concede publicly, that temperature changes haven’t been consistent with their models. Kevin E. Trenberth, head of the Climate Analysis Section at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and a prominent man-made-global-warming advocate, wrote in one of the discovered e-mails: “The fact is we can’t account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can’t.”

Still other e-mails document how global-warming advocates tried to silence academic journals and professors who questioned whether there is significant man-made global warming.

We read and reread these CRU documents in stunned amazement. But rather than investigating all the evidence of so much academic fraud and intellectual wrongdoing, the University of East Anglia is denying there is a problem. Professor Trevor Davies, the school’s pro vice chancellor for research, issued a defensive statement on Tuesday claiming: “The publication of a selection of the emails and data stolen from the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) has led to some questioning of the climate science research published by CRU and others. There is nothing in the stolen material which indicates that peer-reviewed publications by CRU, and others, on the nature of global warming and related climate change are not of the highest-quality of scientific investigation and interpretation.”

Unlike these global-warming propagandists, we expect research to be done in the open. Scientists who refuse to share their data, who plot to destroy information and fail to tell other scientists how their results were calculated should be severely punished.

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Stell dir vor es ist Fussball und niemand geht ins Stadion

Paolo D'Avino — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:42:57 +0000

Gelähmt und geschockt zugleich las man sich durch die Schlagzeilen des Wettskandals, der immer groteskere Ausmasse annahm. Zuerst waren es nur einzelne Spieler, die offenbar geschmiert worden sind, nun sind es bereits Funktionäre, Trainer und auch die Männer in Schwarz machen fleissig Kohle. Solche Schlagzeilen ärgern, nicht weil sie öffentlich gemacht werden, sondern weil sie den Glauben an den fairen Sport zu tiefst erschüttern.

Soll man überrascht sein über diese Entwicklung? Auf den ersten Blick vielleicht, aber auf den zweiten deutet vieles darauf hin, dass es so kommen musste. Der Fussball ist zu wichtig geworden. National und International. Mittlerweile kann man auf alles wetten, was das Herz begehrt. Sogar auf ein unbedeutendes Spiel in der Chinesischen Liga oder darauf, wer den ersten Eckball während einem stinknormalen Ligaspiel schiesst. Das Internet und die Globalisierung machen es möglich.Betrügen was das Zeugs hält. Ja, so einfach ist es geworden. Zum Vorteil von ein paar wenigen, zum Nachteil von allen Fans, für die der Fussball ebenso wichtig ist.

So richtig mag man nicht mehr an den fairen Sport glauben. Der Fussball ist zum Big Business verkommen. Einzelinteressen stehen dann immer über den allgemeinen. So nimmt man den Fans den Glauben, auf das was der Sport sein könnte. Ein Spiel, bei dem man manchmal gewinnt, aber bei dem man manchmal auch verliert. Nicht mehr, und nicht weniger. So gesehen ist dieser Wettskandal vielleicht nur die Spitze des Eisbergs. Weitere Skandale sind vorprogrammiert. Die bescheidene Kampfansage der Fans könnte lauten: Nehmt ihr uns den Glauben, dann kommen wir einfach nicht mehr zu den Spielen ins Stadion. Sollen die doch Wetten und Betrügen wie sie wollen – einfach vor leeren Rängen.

Climate Gate – All the manipulations and lies revealed 17

sophiaalbertina — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:14:10 +0000

The greatest scientific and political scandal in modern times continues to unravel and starting to have political consequences. It’s about time.

http://online.wsj.com/article/

SB20001424052748703499404574558070997168360.html

‘Cap and Trade Is Dead’

NOVEMBER 26, 2009, 11:41 P.M. ET.

The recently disclosed emails and documents from University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit compromise the integrity of the United Nations’ global warming reports.

By KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL..

So declares Oklahoma Sen. Jim Inhofe, taking a few minutes away from a Thanksgiving retreat with his family. “Ninety-five percent of the nails were in the coffin prior to this week. Now they are all in.”

If any politician might be qualified to offer last rites, it would be Mr. Inhofe. The top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee has spent the past decade in the thick of Washington’s climate fight. He’s seen the back of three cap-and-trade bills, rode herd on an overweening Environmental Protection Agency, and steadfastly insisted that global researchers were “cooking” the science behind man-made global warming.

This week he’s looking prescient. The more than 3,000 emails and documents from the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit (CRU) that have found their way to the Internet have blown the lid off the “science” of manmade global warming. CRU is a nerve center for many of those researchers who have authored the United Nations’ global warming reports and fueled the political movement to regulate carbon.

Their correspondence show a claque of scientists massaging data to make it fit their theories, squelching scientists who disagreed, punishing academic journals that didn’t toe the apocalyptic line, and hiding their work from public view. “It’s no use pretending that this isn’t a major blow,” glumly wrote George Monbiot, a U.K. writer who has been among the fiercest warming alarmists. The documents “could scarcely be more damaging.” And that’s from a believer.

This scandal has real implications. Mr. Inhofe notes that international and U.S. efforts to regulate carbon were already on the ropes. The growing fear of Democrats and environmentalists is that the CRU uproar will prove a tipping point, and mark a permanent end to those ambitions.

Internationally, world leaders finally acknowledged that the recession has sapped them of their political power to impose devastating new carbon-restrictions. China and India are clear they won’t join the West in an economic suicide pact. Next month’s summit in Copenhagen is a bust. Instead of producing legally binding agreements, it will be dogged by queries about the legitimacy of the scientists who wrote the reports that form its basis.

The next opportunity to get international agreement is in Mexico City, 2010—a U.S. election year. Democrats were already publicly acknowledging there will be no domestic climate legislation in 2009 and privately acknowledging their great unease at passing a huge energy tax on Americans headed for a midterm vote.

Add to that the CRU scandal, which pivots the focus to potential fraud. Republicans are launching investigations, and the pressure is building on Democrats to hold hearings, since climate scientists were funded with U.S. taxpayer dollars. Mr. Inhofe’s office this week sent letters to federal agencies and outside scientists warning them not to delete their own CRU-related emails and documents, which may also be subject to Freedom of Information requests.

Polls show a public already losing belief in the theory of man-made global warming, and skeptics are now on the offense. The Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Myron Ebell argues this scandal gives added cover to Blue Dogs and other Democrats who were already reluctant to buck the public’s will and vote for climate legislation. And with Republicans set to pick up seats, Mr. Ebell adds, “By 2011 there will hopefully be even fewer members who support this. We may be close to having it permanently stymied.” Continued U.S. failure to act makes an international agreement to replace Kyoto (which expires in 2012) a harder sell.

There’s still the EPA, which is preparing an “endangerment finding” that would allow it to regulate carbon on the grounds it is a danger to public health. It is here the emails might have the most direct effect. The agency has said repeatedly that it based its finding on the U.N. science—which is now at issue. The scandal puts new pressure on the EPA to accede to growing demands to make public the scientific basis of its actions.

Mr. Inhofe goes so far as to suggest that the agency might not now issue the finding. “The president knows how punitive this will be; he’s never wanted to do it through [the EPA] because that’s all on him.” The EPA was already out on a legal limb with its finding, and Mr. Inhofe argues that if it does go ahead, the CRU disclosure guarantees court limbo. “The way the far left used to stop us is to file lawsuits and stall and stall. We’ll do the same thing.”

Still, if this Democratic Washington has demonstrated anything, it’s that ideology often trumps common sense. Egged on by the left, dug in to their position, Democrats might plow ahead. They’d be better off acknowledging that the only “consensus” right now is that the world needs to start over on climate “science.”

Climate Gate – All the manipulations and lies revealed 16

sophiaalbertina — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 21:58:21 +0000

The greatest scientific and political scandal in modern times continues to unravel. Here some good points by Goldstein. Points which I have been saying in my post on this blog for over 2 years now.

“The moment they convinced politicians the way to avert the End of Days was to put a price on emitting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, the unholy alliance of Big Government, Big Business and Big Green was forged.

Big Government wants more of your taxes. Big Business wants more of your income. Big Green wants you and your children to bow down to its agenda of enforced austerity.

What about saving the planet, you ask? This was never about saving the planet. This is about money and power. Your money. Their power. “

True, very true.

Article here:

http://www.torontosun.com/comment/columnists/lorrie_goldstein/2009/11/26/

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Why ‘climategate’ won’t stop greens

By LORRIE GOLDSTEIN

Last Updated: 26th November 2009, 8:22am

If you’re wondering how the robot-like march of the world’s politicians towards Copenhagen can possibly continue in the face of the scientific scandal dubbed “climategate,” it’s because Big Government, Big Business and Big Green don’t give a s*** about “the science.”

They never have.

What “climategate” suggests is many of the world’s leading climate scientists didn’t either. Apparently they stifled their own doubts about recent global cooling not explained by their computer models, manipulated data, plotted ways to avoid releasing it under freedom of information laws and attacked fellow scientists and scientific journals for publishing even peer-reviewed literature of which they did not approve.

Now they and their media shills — who sneered that all who questioned their phony “consensus” were despicable “deniers,” the moral equivalent of those who deny the Holocaust – are the ones in denial about the enormity of the scandal enveloping them.

So they desperately try to portray it as the routine “messy” business of science, lamely insisting, “nothing to see here folks, move along.”

Before the Internet — which has given ordinary people a way to fight back against the received wisdom of so-called “wise elites” — they might have gotten away with it.

But not now, as knowledgeable climate bloggers are advancing the story and forcing the co-opted mainstream media to cover a scandal most would rather ignore.

The problem, however, is those who hijacked science to predict a looming Armageddon unless we do exactly as they say, have already done their damage.

The moment they convinced politicians the way to avert the End of Days was to put a price on emitting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, the unholy alliance of Big Government, Big Business and Big Green was forged.

Big Government wants more of your taxes. Big Business wants more of your income. Big Green wants you and your children to bow down to its agenda of enforced austerity.

What about saving the planet, you ask? This was never about saving the planet. This is about money and power. Your money. Their power.

If it was about saving the planet, “cap-and-trade” (a.k.a. cap-and-tax) — how Big Government, Big Business and Big Green ludicrously pretend we will “fight” global warming and “save the planet” — would have been consigned to the dust bin of history because it doesn’t work. We know it doesn’t work because Europe’s five-year-old cap-and-trade market — the Emissions Trading Scheme — has done nothing to make the world cooler.

All it’s done is make hedge fund managers, speculators and Big Energy giddy with windfall profits, while making everyone else poorer by driving up the cost of energy, and thus of most goods and services, which need energy to be lighted, heated, cooled, grown, constructed, manufactured, produced and transported.

Readers often ask how they can fight back. First, forget about asking when the warmists will see reason. They won’t.

Instead, send a message to Prime Minister Stephen Harper by e-mail (pm@pm.gc.ca), fax (1-613-941-6900) or call toll-free (1-866-599-4999) and ask to be put through to the Office of the Prime Minister.

Do the same for Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff by e-mail, (ignatm@parl.gc.ca). fax, (1-613-947-0310), or call-toll free (1-866-599-4999) and ask to be put through to the Liberal Leader’s Office.

Tell them you want no part of the madness in Copenhagen.

Blow their phones off the hook.

BRD: Bananen Republik Deutschland

124c41 — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 18:26:08 +0000

Natürlich weiß jeder Denkende in der BRD, wie es in Wirklichkeit mit der Verschleuderung von Staatsgeldern an gewisse Wirtschaftsunternehmen aussieht, während überall von strikter Sparpolitik gefaselt wird, damit jene Menschen, deren Arbeitskraft keiner mehr bezahlen will, auch so richtig verelenden.

Und dass die Verträge für diese automatische Maut-Erhebung praktisch geheim gehalten werden sollten, hat auf diesem Hintergrund einen guten Grund.

Eine der größten Geheimniskrämereien der neueren deutschen Politik beginnt sich zu lichten. Die deutsche LKW-Maut, trotz weltweit ausbleibender Aufträge von Politikern gern als “Exportschlager” gefeiert, offenbart sich im Detail als großes, gut funktionierendes Geldverschiebesystem, von dem Staat und Maut-Betreiber gleichermaßen profitieren.

Und wer glaubt, dass es bei anderen Projekten zur Geldverbrennung anders aussieht, hat sich geschnitten.

Long Time No Writing

Peder Gustafsson — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:28:46 +0000

Det är länge sedan jag hade tid att skriva men nu har jag några minuter över….

Först av allt så tänker jag återkomma med nya inlägg om vad som händer och har hänt i Laos den senaste tiden. Med tanke på att Laos snart ska stå som värd för ett av de största idrottsevenemang i Sydostasien så finns det en del underliga saker att berätta.

Men nu måste jag berätta vad som just nu pågår vid bordet bredvid mig på ett hotell i Jakarta, Indonesien där jag är just nu.

Tre herrar, två asiater och en västerlänning, troligen Holländare eller tysk sitter och talar om hur de ska kunna slutföra en affär om en eller två svensktillverkade U-båtar, Kokums har nämts flera gånger liksom Swedish Navy, som just nu finns i en hamn i Singapore. Inte helt klart till vilket land dessa U-båtar ska skeppas, men mycket tyder på att det är ett land som vapenexportkommittén skulle vara intresserade av. Mina öron har nu växt till ”Dumbo storlek” men jag lyckas inte exakt uppfatta vad dom säger mer än att det handlar om penningtransaktioner via olika banker i Europa via Schweiz och en bank i Sverige som jag uppfattade som SEB….
Är jag något stort på spåret eller är det bara en ”Groda”?

Climate Gate – All the manipulations and lies revealed 15

sophiaalbertina — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 10:22:02 +0000

As I wrote in my post Climate Gate – All the manipulations and lies revealed 9

“Slowly, VERY SLOWLY at least some of the Global Warming Hysterics are BEGINNING to understand the scope of Climate Gate. But of course they still vehemently denies that this changes anything. One example below from The Guardian, one of the High Priests of this hysteria.”

Well, my respect for George Monbiot is growing. I don’t agree one iota with him or his “science”. And his role as a high priest in this religion.

But he’s honest when it comes to the consequences of Climate Gate. Even calling for the resignation of Jones. And demandig and end to secrecy.

That has my respect, regardless of everything else.

But of course he has to revert to the old tune of “skeptics” being bought by the oil industry, calling all of us liars etc.

Which is double hypocritical and ironic. Se my post Climate Gate – All the manipulations and lies revealed 14

“But the REAL story as shown by these emails is that these guys REALY ARE IN BED WITH ALL THE BIG BUSNIESSES. Receiving BIG MONEY and ACTIVLY PURSUING IT.”

And if there where manipulations, lies etc these emails show very clearly from which side it come.

Here in Sweden the so called “science editors” of the “news” papers DN and SVD (BOTH big promoters of the Global Warming Hysteria), aptly fit Monboits description “Confronted with crisis, most of the environmentalists I know have gone into denial.”

“When it comes to his handling of Freedom of Information requests, Professor Jones might struggle even to use a technical defence. If you take the wording literally, in one case he appears to be suggesting that emails subject to a request be deleted, which means that he seems to be advocating potentially criminal activity. Even if no other message had been hacked, this would be sufficient to ensure his resignation as head of the unit.

I feel desperately sorry for him: he must be walking through hell. But there is no helping it; he has to go, and the longer he leaves it, the worse it will get. He has a few days left in which to make an honourable exit. Otherwise, like the former Speaker of the House of Commons, Michael Martin, he will linger on until his remaining credibility vanishes, inflicting continuing damage to climate science.”

“But the deniers’ campaign of lies, grotesque as it is, does not justify secrecy and suppression on the part of climate scientists. Far from it: it means that they must distinguish themselves from their opponents in every way. No one has been as badly let down by the revelations in these emails as those of us who have championed the science. We should be the first to demand that it is unimpeachable, not the last.”

Article here:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/georgemonbiot/2009/nov/25/monbiot-climate-leak-crisis-response

Pretending the climate email leak isn’t a crisis won’t make it go away.

Climate sceptics have lied, obscured and cheated for years. That’s why we climate rationalists must uphold the highest standards of science

Posted by George Monbiot Wednesday 25 November 2009 17.23 GMT

I have seldom felt so alone. Confronted with crisis, most of the environmentalists I know have gone into denial. The emails hacked from the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia, they say, are a storm in a tea cup, no big deal, exaggerated out of all recognition. It is true that climate change deniers have made wild claims which the material can’t possibly support (the end of global warming, the death of climate science). But it is also true that the emails are very damaging.

The response of the greens and most of the scientists I know is profoundly ironic, as we spend so much of our time confronting other people’s denial. Pretending that this isn’t a real crisis isn’t going to make it go away. Nor is an attempt to justify the emails with technicalities. We’ll be able to get past this only by grasping reality, apologising where appropriate and demonstrating that it cannot happen again.

It is true that much of what has been revealed could be explained as the usual cut and thrust of the peer review process, exacerbated by the extraordinary pressure the scientists were facing from a denial industry determined to crush them. One of the most damaging emails was sent by the head of the climatic research unit, Phil Jones. He wrote “I can’t see either of these papers being in the next IPCC report. Kevin and I will keep them out somehow – even if we have to redefine what the peer-review literature is!”

One of these papers which was published in the journal Climate Research turned out to be so badly flawed that the scandal resulted in the resignation of the editor-in-chief. Jones knew that any incorrect papers by sceptical scientists would be picked up and amplified by climate change deniers funded by the fossil fuel industry, who often – as I documented in my book Heat – use all sorts of dirty tricks to advance their cause.

Even so, his message looks awful. It gives the impression of confirming a potent meme circulated by those who campaign against taking action on climate change: that the IPCC process is biased. However good the detailed explanations may be, most people aren’t going to follow or understand them. Jones’s statement, on the other hand, is stark and easy to grasp.

In this case you could argue that technically he has done nothing wrong. But a fat lot of good that will do. Think of the MPs’ expenses scandal: complaints about stolen data, denials and huffy responses achieved nothing at all. Most of the MPs could demonstrate that technically they were innocent: their expenses had been approved by the Commons office. It didn’t change public perceptions one jot. The only responses that have helped to restore public trust in Parliament are humility, openness and promises of reform.

When it comes to his handling of Freedom of Information requests, Professor Jones might struggle even to use a technical defence. If you take the wording literally, in one case he appears to be suggesting that emails subject to a request be deleted, which means that he seems to be advocating potentially criminal activity. Even if no other message had been hacked, this would be sufficient to ensure his resignation as head of the unit.

Some people say that I am romanticising science, that it is never as open and honest as the Popperian ideal. Perhaps. But I know that opaqueness and secrecy are the enemies of science. There is a word for the apparent repeated attempts to prevent disclosure revealed in these emails: unscientific.

The crisis has been exacerbated by the university’s handling of it, which has been a total trainwreck: a textbook example of how not to respond. RealClimate reports that “We were made aware of the existence of this archive last Tuesday morning when the hackers attempted to upload it to RealClimate, and we notified CRU of their possible security breach later that day.” In other words, the university knew what was coming three days before the story broke. As far as I can tell, it sat like a rabbit in the headlights, waiting for disaster to strike.

When the emails hit the news on Friday morning, the university appeared completely unprepared. There was no statement, no position, no one to interview. Reporters kept being fobbed off while CRU’s opponents landed blow upon blow on it. When a journalist I know finally managed to track down Phil Jones, he snapped “no comment” and put down the phone. This response is generally taken by the media to mean “guilty as charged”. When I got hold of him on Saturday, his answer was to send me a pdf called “WMO statement on the status of the global climate in 1999″. Had I a couple of hours to spare I might have been able to work out what the heck this had to do with the current crisis, but he offered no explanation.

By then he should have been touring the TV studios for the past 36 hours, confronting his critics, making his case and apologising for his mistakes. Instead, he had disappeared off the face of the Earth. Now, far too late, he has given an interview to the Press Association, which has done nothing to change the story.

The handling of this crisis suggests that nothing has been learnt by climate scientists in this country from 20 years of assaults on their discipline. They appear to have no idea what they’re up against or how to confront it. Their opponents might be scumbags, but their media strategy is exemplary.

The greatest tragedy here is that despite many years of outright fabrication, fraud and deceit on the part of the climate change denial industry, documented in James Hoggan and Richard Littlemore’s brilliant new book Climate Cover-up, it is now the climate scientists who look bad. By comparison to his opponents, Phil Jones is pure as the driven snow. Hoggan and Littlemore have shown how fossil fuel industries have employed “experts” to lie, cheat and manipulate on their behalf. The revelations in their book (as well as in Heat and in Ross Gelbspan’s book The Heat Is On) are 100 times graver than anything contained in these emails.

But the deniers’ campaign of lies, grotesque as it is, does not justify secrecy and suppression on the part of climate scientists. Far from it: it means that they must distinguish themselves from their opponents in every way. No one has been as badly let down by the revelations in these emails as those of us who have championed the science. We should be the first to demand that it is unimpeachable, not the last.

Climate Gate – All the manipulations and lies revealed 14

sophiaalbertina — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 09:29:56 +0000

Interesting isn’t it. The Global warming Hysterics always accuse every one that question their “science” or “facts” that they are in bed with the oil industry (which in their world seems to be the incarnation of the devil).

Because someone somewhere in the distant past received a small funding from an oil company.

But the REAL story as shown by these emails is that these guys REALY ARE IN BED WITH ALL THE BIG BUSNIESSES. Receiving BIG MONEY and ACTIVLY PURSUING IT.

“I’m in the process of trying to persuade Siemens Corp. (a company with half a million employees in 190 countries!) to donate me a little cash to do some CO2 measur[e]ments here in the UK — looking promising,” wrote Andrew Manning, a climate-science research fellow at the University of East Anglia,”

And that somehow is COMPLETELY DIFFERENT!

“The note and others like it reveal the intriguing relationship between industry giants like Siemens and the scientists driving climate change fears. More importantly, though, Manning’s e-mail shows the incentives of climate scientists: Convince people there is a climate disaster coming, get more money.

Manning and the warming crowd benefit from a beautiful feedback loop: The more governments, businesses, and media outlets you can convince that man-made global warming is a serious threat, the more these institutions will invest in climate change studies, solutions, and policies. And the more they invest in combating global warming — whether it’s a newspaper hiring a climate reporter, a company buying emissions credits and alternative energy sources, or a government building a climate lab — the less willing they are to tolerate dissent on the issue.”

“But Manning’s e-mail cannot be ignored, because it is self-evidently true. If the catastrophic-man-made-climate-change hypothesis melted down, these scientists would lose their funding.”

“Governments have poured hundreds of billions of dollars into climate research. News organizations have staked their credibility on the claim that climate science is “settled.” With all this on the line for scientists, media, business, and government, are we really going to let some contrary data get in the way?

….but they do show that the industry built upon belief in man-made global warming has become too big to fail.”

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/Global-warming-industry-becomes-too-big-to-fail-8581165-72824992.html

Global warming industry becomes too big to fail

By: Timothy P. Carney, Examiner Columnist

November 25, 2009

Manning’s e-mail, written in October to a colleague at East Anglia University’s Climate Research Unit, was one of the thousands of private communiques exposed to public view by a whistleblower or a hacker. The note and others like it reveal the intriguing relationship between industry giants like Siemens and the scientists driving climate change fears. More importantly, though, Manning’s e-mail shows the incentives of climate scientists: Convince people there is a climate disaster coming, get more money.

So the warming crowd, these e-mails show us, suffers from the same conflicts of interest and profit motives that are frequently attributed to skeptics. When Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” came out, Gore charged that global warming deniers were trying to protect profits. Gore quoted fabled muckraker Upton Sinclair, “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon him not understanding it.”

Climate scientists derive both their sense of purpose and their paychecks from a perceived climate crisis. We shouldn’t be surprised, then, to see them putting their pet cause ahead of scientific standards. For instance, climate scientist Giorgio Filippo in a 2000 e-mail wrote about the drafting of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s assessment of climate research: “Essentially, I feel that at this point there are very little rules and almost anything goes. I think this will set a dangerous precedent, which might mine the IPCC credibility, and I am a bit uncomfortable that now nearly everybody seems to think that it is just ok to do this.”

These are the scientists who drive climate policy.

Some critics writing about the leaked e-mails say they expose a “fraud,” a “hoax,” and a conspiracy. The warming crowd claim that everything is being taken out of context.

But Manning’s e-mail cannot be ignored, because it is self-evidently true. If the catastrophic-man-made-climate-change hypothesis melted down, these scientists would lose their funding.

Atlantic blogger Megan McArdle probably put it best: “That doesn’t mean their paradigm is wrong; rather, it means we need to be less romantic about the practice of science. No scientific consensus is ever as powerful as its proponents claim, because no scientists are ever as perfect as we’d like to imagine.”

And scientists aren’t the only ones with skin in the game. Take manufacturing and transportation giant Siemens, for instance, whom Manning was wooing. In 2006, the company joined the U.S. Climate Action Partnership, which has been a key lobbyist for the sort of greenhouse gas cap-and-trade scheme at the heart of the climate bill currently before Congress. Siemens and other members of USCAP have invested billions in buying up greenhouse gas credits, alternative energy sources like wind and solar power, and carbon capture and sequestration (the attempt to trap CO2 underground). E-mails show CRU scientists pushing corporate donors to fund their climate science as a way of advancing carbon capture.

Governments have poured hundreds of billions of dollars into climate research. News organizations have staked their credibility on the claim that climate science is “settled.” With all this on the line for scientists, media, business, and government, are we really going to let some contrary data get in the way?

The leaked e-mails don’t necessarily show a conspiracy, but they do show that the industry built upon belief in man-made global warming has become too big to fail.

Timothy P. Carney, The Examiner’s lobbying editor

Climate Gate – All the manipulations and lies revealed 13

sophiaalbertina — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 08:50:49 +0000

The greatest scientific and political scandal in modern times continues to unravel. It’s about time.

“It is the warm-mongers who are spinning in the wrong direction. We win. You lose. Get a life.”

http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=513195

The Day Global Warming Stood Still

Posted 11/20/2009 07:46 PM ET

Climate Change: As scientists confirm the earth has not warmed at all in the past decade, others wonder how this could be and what it means for Copenhagen. Maybe Al Gore can Photoshop something before December.

It will be a very cold winter of discontent for the warm-mongers. The climate show-and-tell in Copenhagen next month will be nothing more than a meaningless carbon-emitting jaunt, unable to decide just whom to blame or how to divvy up the profitable spoils of climate change hysteria.

The collapse of the talks coupled with the decision by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to put off the Kerry-Boxer cap-and-trade bill, the Senate’s version of Waxman-Markey, until the spring thaw has led Oklahoma Sen. James Inhofe, the leading Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, to declare victory over Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., and the triumph of observable fact over junk science.

“I proudly declare 2009 as the ‘Year of the Skeptic,’ the year in which scientists who question the so-called global warming consensus are being heard,” Inhofe said to Boxer in a Senate speech. “Until this year, any scientist, reporter or politician who dared raise even the slightest suspicion about the science behind global warming was dismissed and repeatedly mocked.”

Inhofe added: “Today I have been vindicated.”

The Ada (Oklahoma) Evening News quotes Inhofe: “So when Barbara Boxer, John Kerry and all the left get up there and say, ‘Yes. We’re going to pass a global warming bill,’ I will be able to stand up and say, ‘No, it’s over. Get a life. You lost. I won,’” Inhofe said.

Now we have the German publication Der Spiegel, which is rapidly becoming the house organ for climate hysteria, weighing in again with the sad news that the earth does not have a fever so we really don’t have to throw out the baby with the rising bath water.

In an article titled, “Climatologists Baffled By Global Warming Time-Out,” author Gerald Traufetter leads off with the observation: “Climatologists are baffled as to why average global temperatures have stopped rising over the last 10 years.” They better figure it out, Der Spiegel warns, because “billions of euros are at stake in the negotiations.”

We are told in sad tones that “not much is happening with global warming at the moment” and that “it even looks as though global warming could come to a standstill this year.” But how can it be that the earth isn’t following all those computer models? Is the earth goddess Gaia herself a climate change “denier”?

The article gloomily notes that a few weeks ago Britain’s Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research pointed out that the earth had in fact only warmed 0.07 degree Celsius from 1999 to 2008 and not by the 0.2 degree Celsius predicted by the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

An even more inconvenient truth, according to the British experts, is that when their figures are adjusted for two naturally occurring climate phenomena, El Nino and La Nina, the resulting temperature trend is reduced to 0.0 degree Celsius. No, that’s not a typo.

As if that weren’t enough, it seems hackers broke into the computer network run by the Hadley Climate Research Unit, removing 61 megabytes of e-mails and data.

While we don’t condone theft, the hacked data and e-mails have spilled onto the Web and reveal something startling: The scientists at Hadley, one of the world’s leading climate change study centers, aren’t scientifically objective at all.

Indeed, in e-mails, they boast of twisting scientific data to suit their views and to “hide” the truth. At one point, a scientist actually gloats over the death of global warming skeptic John L. Daly, saying, “In an odd way, this is cheering news.”

If true, this is massive scientific fraud.

To add to the warm-mongers’ woes, patron saint Al Gore, the man who claimed to have invented the Internet, might also have claimed the discovery of Photoshop. Dr. Roy Spencer, of the University of Alabama at Huntsville, formerly with NASA, has taken a look at the pictures used to illustrate Gore’s new book, “Our Choice: A Plan To Solve the Climate Crisis.”

Gore Photoshopped NASA imagery of the earth for the fold-out cover photo, adding four hurricanes at once, including one spinning in the wrong direction next to Florida and, in a physical impossibility, one on the equator next to Peru. Somewhere in the process, the island of Cuba was deleted.

It is the warm-mongers who are spinning in the wrong direction. We win. You lose. Get a life.

Climate Gate – All the manipulations and lies revealed 12

sophiaalbertina — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 08:21:01 +0000

Here are some very interesting words of professor Demetris Koutsoyiannis of the consequences for science of the climate gate.

“..that what I’ve been reading in the recently hacked and released confidential files from the CRU (aka “Climategate” documents) is not a surprise to me. Rather, and sadly, it verifies what I had suspected about some in the climate establishment.”

“One interesting lesson from this story is that secrecy is corruptible—and corruptive. The CRU people and their collaborators who wrote all these documents felt, no doubt, safe behind their secrecy. They must have felt that this secrecy was their best weapon: to censor differing opinions, to develop “trick” procedures, to “balance” the needs of IPCC, and even to “redefine” peer review.”

(He is professor of the National Technical University of Athens in Hydrology and Analysis of Hydrosystems; also professor of Hydraulics in the Hellenic Army’s Postgraduate School of Technical Education of Officers Engineers; Editor of Hydrological Sciences Journal; and member of the editorial boards of Hydrology and Earth System Sciences and Water Resources Research.

He has been awarded the Henry Darcy Medal 2009 by the European Geosciences Union for his outstanding contributions to the study of hydrometeorological variability and to water resources management.

http://www.itia.ntua.gr/dk/)

http://pielkeclimatesci.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/beware-saviors-by-demetris-koutsoyiannis/

November 24, 2009…7:00 am

Beware Saviors! By Demetris Koutsoyiannis

Guest weblog by Demetris Koutsoyiannis (http://www.itia.ntua.gr/dk/)

Hydrological engineering is my scientific field and it is closely related to climate. In the last decade, I have been concerned about the state of research in climate and its detrimental influence on hydrology. Also, I should note up front that I try to be a skeptic; for a Greek, this is a positive quality (skeptic is etymologized from skepsis = thought). In recent years, I have tried to publish a few papers related to climate. Some of them were initially rejected, but eventually published elsewhere—usually in journals without a specific focus on climate. From the experience I gained through the review process of the rejected papers, I became more confident about the analyses I’d performed and the significance of the results I’d presented. I have not been surprised, therefore, to see that these once-rejected papers have become the most cited among my papers.

Due to my skeptical inclination, I’ve had the feeling that my colleagues had serious doubts about my perspective. The common dogma is that “climate change is real” and its consequences are catastrophic, so why oppose those ideas and the people who arduously work to save the planet, and us, from catastrophes? I found it difficult to explain my convictions in a compelling manner. However, the explanation is actually simple and was formulated by my co-authors Alberto Montanari, Harry Lins, Tim Cohn, and myself in a recent paper criticizing the IPCC position on freshwater:

“A common argument in favour of the political orientation of the IPCC is that its aims are good for humanity and the natural environment and that reducing emissions of greenhouse gases will be beneficial for the planet, regardless of the ultimate validity of the IPCC model predictions. However, we believe that science is a process for the pursuit of truth and that fidelity to this system should not be affected by other aims. History shows that such distractions can be detrimental to science.” (This paper can be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1623/hysj.54.2.394 and a comment about it, as well as the IPCC authors’ reply, has been published on this weblog at http://pielkeclimatesci.wordpress.com/2009/04/01/a-new-commentreply-on-the-subject-climate-hydrology-and-freshwater-towards-an-interactive-incorporation-of-hydrological-experience-into-climate-research/).

Having had several negative experiences in my (rather indirect) interaction with mainstream “scientists” involved in “climate change” and “climate change impacts” (I put all these quotation marks because I believe that the latter terms are not scientific), I must say that what I’ve been reading in the recently hacked and released confidential files from the CRU (aka “Climategate” documents) is not a surprise to me. Rather, and sadly, it verifies what I had suspected about some in the climate establishment. I wonder if they take pride in seeing their own words—now in a public forum:

“I tried hard to balance the needs of the science and the IPCC , which were not always the same.” (http://www.anelegantchaos.org/cru/emails.php?eid=794).

“I can’t see either of these papers being in the next IPCC report. Kevin and I will keep them out somehow – even if we have to redefine what the peer-review literature is !” (http://www.anelegantchaos.org/cru/emails.php?eid=419).

“I’ve just completed Mike’s Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) amd from 1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline.” (http://www.anelegantchaos.org/cru/emails.php?eid=154).

“The fact is that we can’t account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can’t. The CERES data published in the August BAMS 09 supplement on 2008 shows there should be even more warming: but the data are surely wrong.” (http://www.anelegantchaos.org/cru/emails.php?eid=1048).

“If anything, I would like to see the climate change happen, so the science could be proved right, regardless of the consequences.” (http://www.anelegantchaos.org/cru/emails.php?eid=544)

“The skeptics appear to have staged a ‘coup’ at ‘Climate Research’ … Perhaps we should encourage our colleagues in the climate
research community to no longer submit to, or cite papers in, this journal.” (http://www.anelegantchaos.org/cru/emails.php?eid=295).

“It’s one thing to lose ‘Climate Research’. We can’t afford to lose GRL [Geophysical Research Letters]” http://www.anelegantchaos.org/cru/emails.php?eid=484).

I do not know how the majority of research scientists feel when reading these and similar quotations from those few people who—objectively—they’d viewed as the leaders in the “climate change” enterprise, and whose results and directions they were consistently following. Will they continue to recognize them as saviors? Saviors who wish “the climate change happen… regardless of the consequences”? Moreover, how do the journal editors feel when they learn that the editorial process that they oversaw had been so effectively influenced by these few dominant people? I had my own experience with GRL: a paper co-authored by Alberto Montanari was rejected by the then (2006) editor (although it was eventually published in another AGU journal, Water Resources Research). This interesting story is described at http://www.itia.ntua.gr/en/docinfo/781/, where I have posted the entire prehistory. By the way, I continue to follow the same practice of posting the prehistory for all my initially rejected papers (http://www.itia.ntua.gr/en/documents/?tags=rejected). I very much like transparency.

This brings me to the last point I wish to make: secrecy versus transparency. One interesting lesson from this story is that secrecy is corruptible—and corruptive. The CRU people and their collaborators who wrote all these documents felt, no doubt, safe behind their secrecy. They must have felt that this secrecy was their best weapon: to censor differing opinions, to develop “trick” procedures, to “balance” the needs of IPCC, and even to “redefine” peer review.

Unfortunately, current scientific ethics are based largely on the assumption of secrecy—as in the anonymity of reviews. Apparently, as the CRU story highlights, secrecy is not safe. By analogy, how can one be sure that the archive containing the reviews of a journal (with reviewer names) will never be hacked and its contents released on the internet? Of course, there are also lots of other ways that secrecy gets (self-)destroyed. For example, it is often easy to find out who the anonymous reviewers of a paper are.

So, I hope that, as this story continues to unfold, it gives us pause to consider how secrecy and anonymity are non-productive and destructive practices in science. Indeed, through such consideration, we may come to realize that transparency forces us to be more productive and progressive in pursuing the truth—particularly in science.

Climate Gate – All the manipulations and lies revealed 11

sophiaalbertina — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:33:28 +0000

On this blog I have written extensively about press and mass media and their role in this the greatest scientific and political scandal of modern times.

The sad part about this Global Warming Hysteria is, besides the scientists how have betrayed everything that science should stand for, the press and mass medias role in this.

More and more people have had enough of the religious gospel that most of the mainstream media is spreading. And their willing participation in driving and promoting this hysteria.

AT THE SAME TIME AS THESE MEDIA HAVE TAKEN an ACTIVE PART in SUPPRESSING FACTS and IS CENSORING AND INTIMIDATING EVERYONE WHO HAS OPPOSED THIS HYSTERIA.

A truly “worthy” goal for the organizations and companies whose goals was supposed to protect and enhance freedom of speech and freedom of expression. Talking about the ultimate betrayal of all that good and independent journalism was supposed to be.

Below are two examples of this utter betrayal of journalism and the blatant hypocrisy from these “liberal” medias – TV news and New York Times. Who changes the “rules” as it suite their political needs.

And it’s no difference here in Sweden – the same “journalistic” shenanigan goes on. All in the name of spreading “the right” gospel.

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2009/11/24/climategate-totally-ignored-tv-news-outlets-except-fox

ClimateGate Totally Ignored By TV News Outlets Except Fox

By Noel Sheppard (Bio | Archive)

November 24, 2009 – 11:03 ET

The Obama administration has another reason to hate Fox: it appears to be the only national television news outlet in America interested in the growing ClimateGate scandal.

Despite last Friday morning’s bombshell that hacked e-mail messages from a British university suggested a conspiracy by some of the world’s leading global warming alarmists — many with direct ties to the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — to manipulate temperature data, ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, and NBC through Monday evening have completely ignored the subject.

LexisNexis searches indicate that NPR appears to also be part of this news boycott.

By contrast, here are some of the stories news organizations apparently favored by the Obama adminstration have covered since ClimateGate broke:

ABC’s “World News with Charles Gibson” Friday did a very lengthy piece about Oprah Winfrey ending her syndicated daytime talk show
ABC’s “World News with Charles Gibson” Monday did a lengthy piece on new revelations involving the marital affair of Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.)
CBS “Evening News” Saturday reported a ten-year-old pianist playing at Carnegie Hall
CBS “Evening News” Sunday did lengthy pieces on the website FreeCreditReport.com not being free and the movie “New Moon”
CBS “Evening News” Monday did lengthy pieces about defective drywall and a man who makes money wearing t-shirts
NBC “Nightly News” Friday reported on Switzerland’s supercollider being turned back on
NBC “Nightly News” Saturday did a somewhat lengthy report on food carts
NBC “Nightly News” Sunday reported the release of British singer Susan Boyle’s CD, and then followed it up with another report Monday on her promoting it.

It’s not that these aren’t valid news stories, but should they ALL be of greater importance than a scandal involving scientists from around the world including some employed by NASA and American colleges?

Also consider that the news divisions of ABC, CBS, and NBC broadcast many hours during the day besides their evening programs, and LexisNexis identified no ClimateGate reports in those either (through Monday).

As for CNN, it has been broadcasting for almost 100 straight hours since this story broke, and it appears the so-called “Most Respected Name In News” has yet to devote one second to this scandal.

By contrast, Fox News did at least four reports on this subject on Monday alone. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation has also done multiple stories on this matter, as has BBC.com.

Yet, despite the seriousness of this issue, as well as a prominent Senator calling for hearings to investigate it, America’s television news organizations appear to be actively boycotting this growing controversy.

Is this a replay of how they ignored September’s ACORN scandal for many days until they were basically forced to cover what had gone viral across the Internet, talk radio, and Fox News?

What is it going to take for these so-called news outlets to begin sharing this subject with their viewers?

On a humorous related note, ABC might not be interested in ClimateGate, but it still is devoted to spreading climate fear.

On Tuesday, ABCNews.com’s top story was, “Worse Than the Worst: Climate Report Says Even Most Dire Predictions Too Tame“

There’s even less time for humanity to try to curb global warming than recently thought, according to a new in-depth scientific assessment by 26 scientists from eight countries.

Sea level rise, ocean acidification and the rapid melting of massive ice sheets are among the significantly increased effects of human-induced global warming assessed in the survey, which also examines the emissions of heat-trapping gases that are causing the climate change.

“Many indicators are currently tracking near or above the worst-case projections” made three years ago by the world’s scientists, the new Copenhagen Diagnosis said.

Nor has manmade global warming slowed or paused, as some headlines have recently suggested, according to the report, which you can see here.

Well, at least ABC is consistent.

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brent-bozell/2009/11/24/bozell-column-when-press-favors-secrecy

Bozell Column: When the Press Favors Secrecy

By Brent Bozell November 24, 2009 – 23:33 ET

Here’s a dirty little secret about The New York Times. It likes to leak things. Important things. Things that change the course of the public conversation. From the Pentagon Papers to the ruined terrorist-surveillance programs of the Bush era, the Times has routinely found that secrecy is a danger and sunlight is a disinfectant.

Until now. A troublesome hacker recently released e-mails going to and from the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in Britain, e-mails that exposed how the “scientific experts” cited so often by the media on global warming display are guilty of crude political talk, attempts at censoring opponents, and twisting scientific data to support their policy agenda.

The e-mails prove just how dishonest this left-wing global warming agenda truly is. And now suddenly, the New York Times has found religion, and won’t publish these private e-mails. Environmental reporter Andrew Revkin, who’s more global warming lobbyist than reporter, quoted – sparsely – from the e-mails, but declared he would not post these texts on his “Dot Earth” blog on the Times website: “The documents appear to have been acquired illegally and contain all manner of private information and statements that were never intended for the public eye, so they won’t be posted here.”

That rule didn’t apply to things like the disclosure of the SWIFT global bank monitoring program against terrorists.

Unlike our secret terror-fighting efforts, there is no grave matter of national security to protect here. There is only a danger of shredding the undeserved reputation of some global-warming alarmists as nonpartisan, nonideological, just-the-facts scientists with no preconceived environmentalist or statist agenda.

The networks also have ignored this emerging scandal with all the ignorance they could muster. But in the seven days after the New York Times revealed the existence of an NSA program to monitor communications to terrorist cells abroad, the three networks ran a combined 23 stories about the program, more than one story, per network, per night.

Revkin’s story in the Times did have some truncated quotes with ridiculous details. In a 1999 e-mail exchange about charts showing apparent climate patterns over the last two millenniums, Phil Jones of the CRU said he had used a “trick” employed by another scientist, Michael Mann, to “hide the decline” in temperatures.

Dr. Mann confirmed the e-mail was real, but told the Times “the choice of words by his colleague was poor but noted that scientists often used the word ‘trick’ to refer to a good way to solve a problem,” and not as something secret.

Doesn’t a network correspondent just smell the fraud when scientists start offering lame excuses for the words they somehow didn’t mean? Don’t just listen to conservatives. Try Nate Silver, a statistician and liberal-media favorite, recently named one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People. He says the scientists in this exchange were unethical:

“Dr. Jones, talking candidly about sexing up a graph to make his conclusions more persuasive. This is not a good thing to do — I’d go so far as to call it unethical — and Jones deserves some of the loss of face that he will suffer.” But then he adds the typical liberal disclaimer: “Unfortunately, this is the sort of thing that happens all the time in both academia and the private sector — have you ever looked at the graphs in the annual report of a company which had a bad year? And it seems to happen all too often on both sides of the global warming debate.”

When conservatives are wrong, conservatives are wrong. When liberals are wrong, everyone does it, don’t you know?

It’s also important to note that these folks play a rough game of hardball. This isn’t about science. It’s politics – the brass-knuckles sort. In another e-mail from Jones to Mann, reported in The Washington Post, there’s talk of cutting skeptical scientists out of the official United Nations report: “I can’t see either of these papers being in the next IPCC report,” Jones writes. “Kevin and I will keep them out somehow — even if we have to redefine what the peer-review literature is!”

In another, Jones and Mann discuss how they can pressure an academic journal to reject the work of climate skeptics, perhaps with a boycott: “Perhaps we should encourage our colleagues in the climate research community to no longer submit to, or cite papers in, this journal,” Mann writes. “I will be emailing the journal to tell them I’m having nothing more to do with it until they rid themselves of this troublesome editor,” Jones replies.

This kind of censor-your-opponents activity ought to disgust a journalist who values openness and rigorous debate above all. Every day the networks avoid this story, they’re saying they don’t really care about either of those values. In fact, they become willing accomplices in a coverup of global proportions.

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/lachlan-markay/2009/11/24/tale-two-leaks-nyt-bashed-palin-wont-touch-climategate

A Tale of Two Leaks: NYT Bashed Palin, But Won’t Touch ClimateGate

By Lachlan Markay

November 24, 2009 – 12:41 ET

The ClimateGate email leak has demonstrated in full force a glaring double standard in the mainstream media’s coverage of leaked information. Too often, liberal media outlets jump at the chance to damage conservative figures by publishing sensitive information, but refuse to publish such information if it discredits or hinders the left’s efforts.

As Clay Waters reported yesterday, Andew Revkin, who writes for the New York Times’s Dot Earth blog, refused to publish emails from Britain’s East Anglia Climate Research Unit showing efforts to manipulate climate data and marginalize global warming skeptics.

Said Revkin, “The documents appear to have been acquired illegally and contain all manner of private information and statements that were never intended for the public eye, so they won’t be posted here.”

Revkin is correct that the emails were never intended for the public eye, contained private communications, and were released by hackers who violated the law in obtaining them. But apparently this standard for publication of such documents does not apply to information about Sarah Palin.

The Times’s Caucus Blog reported on September 17 of last year:

Computer hackers broke into the private Yahoo e-mail account of Gov. Sarah Palin, the Republican vice presidential candidate, and posted some of her messages and a long list of contacts on the Internet.

The Web site Wikileaks posted screen shots of Ms. Palin’s inbox displaying her username, gov.palin@yahoo.com, and messages that were reportedly obtained by a group of hackers on Tuesday night.

The e-mails include an exchange between Ms. Palin and Alaska’s lieutenant governor, Sean Parnell, as well as an associate, Amy McCorkell, who Ms. Palin appointed to a state drug and alcohol advisory board last year. Wired Magazine reported on its Internet privacy blog, Threat Level, that it obtained confirmation from Ms. McCorkell that she did, in fact, send the message to Governor Palin.

On Wednesday, the McCain campaign acknowledged the breach in a statement from campaign manager, Rick Davis: “This is a shocking invasion of the governor’s privacy and a violation of law. The matter has been turned over to the appropriate authorities and we hope that anyone in possession of these emails will destroy them. We will have no further comment.”

Governor Palin has faced criticism for reportedly using her private address to conduct government business.

When hackers posted screenshots of the then-Vice Presidential nominee on Wikileaks, the Times rushed to publish the information. It even included a link directly to a page displaying the screenshots, disclosing private communications and making available her personal email address and contact list. This is “private information” in every sense of the term.

Guy Benson at National Review extrapolates that at the Times, “it’s unacceptable to direct readers to hacked private emails that fundamentally disrupt a lefty meme-of-the-decade, but it’s totally cool to direct readers to hacked private emails of the lefty bete noire-of-the-year.”

Revkin’s statement displays a profound double standard in the Times’s reporting on leaked information. It managed, in the last sentence of the Caucus Blog post, to turn Palin’s email leak into an attack.

Yet in the case of the ClimateGate emails, which were obtained in a near-identical manner and contain similarly sensitive and personal communications, the Times suddenly finds ethical misgivings in publishing the information. The paper’s reservations appear to be a veiled attempt to shield the left’s global warming narrative from criticism.

Climate Gate – All the manipulations and lies revealed 10

sophiaalbertina — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:53:05 +0000

“These emails are very clear in several things. The scientists were deliberately changing, manipulating and deleting data. They were delivering data to computer modelers that were designed to give specific results, and were determined ahead of time.”

“The UN, the IPCC and all those who have been pushing this farce are borderline criminals bent upon robbing the American people along with the people of the world, all while lining their own pockets richly. Yes, that means you Al Gore and George Soros, both of whom have made hundreds of millions and an Academy Award off the scheme.”

Nothing more to say really.

http://www.examiner.com/x-7715-Portland-Civil-Rights-Examiner~y2009m11d24-Global-warming-corruption-and-unethical-scientists

Global warming, corruption, and unethical scientists

November 24, 11:11 AMPortland Civil Rights ExaminerDianna Cotter

In case you have not yet heard, the scientists behind the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) have been exposed through their own email conversations. At this time, it is not known who or how the emails were obtained, though much speculation has been done. From the servers at the University of East Anglica in the UK being illegally broken into and hacked, to a whistle blower protected by UK laws as well as US laws, to an insider job, a person with legitimate access to the emails have all been discussed. More will be revealed certainly. What is known for certain is that the University of East Anglica and the CRU department there do not deny the authenticity of the emails.

These emails are very clear in several things. The scientists were deliberately changing, manipulating and deleting data. They were delivering data to computer modelers that were designed to give specific results, and were determined ahead of time. They were colluding to delete emails that were under Freedom Of Information Act laws in the UK, and were deliberately adding and removing data to make it appear that Global Warming was continuing, despite blatantly obvious data, temperature measurements, as well as worldwide growing ice sheets in order to continue the myth.

Why would they want to continue the myth?

1) To continue to receive funding from various government and environmental lobby sources. They even sent out emails telling everyone when funding was coming in and where from so that they could line up at the trough. It’s all about the money, and the money right now is for making Global Warming real, even though it most clearly isn’t.

2) To continue to back up the IPCC’s false claims of Global Warming in order to pass such Global Treaties as the Copenhagen treaty. Fortunately for the people of the world, it will absolutely fail this December. It was marked for failure before these emails were made public. Now it’s just that much more certain.

3) Numerous governments across Europe have enacted Cap and Trade schemes that have cost billions in lost GDP to nations like France and Great Britain. The scope of what has been quite literally robbed from the people of those nations is staggering – in the range of hundreds of billions of dollars. The economy of Great Britain is in shambles, and the people of those nations are suffering, their cost of living has gone up so fast that the poverty level has risen past the ability of their governments to write the welfare checks.

Their governments told them this was the best for climate, when in reality they were following pied pipers from the UN the IPCC and the East Anglica University and others who were all quite literally lying through their scientific degrees. All to justify a system of taxation that is nearly as bad as anything instituted during the middle ages – taking money from the people to fund the government class.

4) The entire point of the Copenhagen treaty was to use global cap and trade schemes to take money from 1st and 2nd world countries and give it to 3rd world nations as some sort of recompense for using Carbon, a naturally occurring element, as well as the single most common element on earth.

The single most amazing thing about this whole hoax is the numbers of people that actually bought into it. The amount of money that has been poured into this black hole of corruption is nothing short of astounding. Many people have known this and upon speaking out have been derided as nuts, deniers, ect. Well today is the day for all those who have been telling the truth to stand tall and bask in the glow of “I told you so.” The Global Warming Deniers were right all along. The IPCC data was not only wrong, but deliberately wrong.

The UN, the IPCC and all those who have been pushing this farce are borderline criminals bent upon robbing the American people along with the people of the world, all while lining their own pockets richly. Yes, that means you Al Gore and George Soros, both of whom have made hundreds of millions and an Academy Award off the scheme.

Climate Gate – All the manipulations and lies revealed 9

sophiaalbertina — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:58:46 +0000

Slowly, VERY SLOWLY at least some of the Global Warming Hysterics are BEGINNING to understand the scope of Climate Gate. But of course they still vehemently denies that this changes anything. One example below from The Guardian, one of the High Priests of this hysteria.

See also my previous posts on medias role in this hysteria.

Climate scientist, Dr. Hans von StorchProfessor at the Meteorological Institute in the University of Hamburg, gets it.

http://coast.gkss.de/staff/storch/

24. November 2009 – The scandal around the stolen CRU-mails is rolling on; the interest, as documented by traffic on the internet is enormeous – and likely the damage done to the credibility of climate science by the unfortunate writing by Phil Jones and others as well. But inspite of this, one can interpret the whole affair also in positive way – namely that science was strong enough to overcome the various gatekeeping efforts, even it may take a few years. The self-correcting dynamics in science is robust and kicking. And the practice of allowing our adversaries to use our data (after a certain grace period) will become finally common.

We need to publically discuss the ethical norms, science is to operate under. Obviously, science can not define itself which these norms should be, but this is a task for society at large – who pays for the efforts and is looking for utility of science. The main guard to this respect is with the media - and it seems the media beginning to become serious, finally. An example is from Wall Street Journal – online. In Germany, journalists judge the affair more cavalier, e.g., in the Tagesspiegel.”

The Guardian article here:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cif-green/2009/nov/23/global-warming-leaked-email-climate-scientists

“It’s no use pretending this isn’t a major blow. The emails extracted by a hacker from the climatic research unit at the University of East Anglia could scarcely be more damaging. I am now convinced that they are genuine, and I’m dismayed and deeply shaken by them.

Yes, the messages were obtained illegally. Yes, all of us say things in emails that would be excruciating if made public. Yes, some of the comments have been taken out of context. But there are some messages that require no spin to make them look bad. There appears to be evidence here of attempts to prevent scientific data from being released, and even to destroy material that was subject to a freedom of information request.

Worse still, some of the emails suggest efforts to prevent the publication of work by climate sceptics, or to keep it out of a report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. I believe that the head of the unit, Phil Jones, should now resign. Some of the data discussed in the emails should be re-analysed.

But do these revelations justify the sceptics’ claims that this is “the final nail in the coffin” of global warming theory? Not at all. They damage the credibility of three or four scientists. They raise questions about the integrity of one or perhaps two out of several hundred lines of evidence. To bury man-made climate change, a far wider conspiracy would have to be revealed. Luckily for the sceptics, and to my intense disappointment, I have now been passed the damning email that confirms that the entire science of global warming is indeed a scam. Had I known that it was this easy to rig the evidence, I wouldn’t have wasted years of my life promoting a bogus discipline. In the interests of open discourse, I feel obliged to reproduce it here.”

Climate Gate - All the manipulations and lies revealed 8

sophiaalbertina — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:20:20 +0000

More from the media and some important questions as yet unanswered by the Global Warming Hysteric crowd.

Climate Gate – All the manipulations and lies revealed 7

sophiaalbertina — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:39:35 +0000

More from the media and some important questions as yet unanswered by the Global Warming Hysteric crowd.

“The content of these e-mails raises extremely serious questions that could end the academic careers of many prominent professors. Academics who have purposely hidden data, destroyed information and doctored their results have committed scientific fraud.”

“Most important, however, these revelations of fudged science should have a cooling effect on global-warming hysteria and the panicked policies that are being pushed forward to address the unproven theory.”

Article here:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/nov/24/hiding-evidence-of-global-cooling/comments/

EDITORIAL: Hiding evidence of global cooling

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Junk science exposed among climate-change believers

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Scientific progress depends on accurate and complete data. It also relies on replication. The past couple of days have uncovered some shocking revelations about the baloney practices that pass as sound science about climate change.

It was announced Thursday afternoon that computer hackers had obtained 160 megabytes of e-mails from the Climate Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia (UEA) in England. Those e-mails involved communication among many scientific researchers and policy advocates with similar ideological positions all across the world. Those purported authorities were brazenly discussing the destruction and hiding of data that did not support global-warming claims.

Professor Phil Jones, the head of the Climate Research Unit, and professor Michael E. Mann at Pennsylvania State University, who has been an important scientist in the climate debate, have come under particular scrutiny. Among his e-mails, Mr. Jones talked to Mr. Mann about the “trick of adding in the real temps to each series … to hide the decline [in temperature].”

Mr. Mann admitted that he was party to this conversation and lamely explained to the New York Times that “scientists often used the word ‘trick’ to refer to a good way to solve a problem ‘and not something secret.’ ” Though the liberal New York newspaper apparently buys this explanation, we have seen no benign explanation that justifies efforts by researchers to skew data on so-called global-warming “to hide the decline.” Given the controversies over the accuracy of Mr. Mann’s past research, it is surprising his current explanations are accepted so readily.

There is a lot of damning evidence about these researchers concealing information that counters their bias. In another exchange, Mr. Jones told Mr. Mann: “If they ever hear there is a Freedom of Information Act now in the UK, I think I’ll delete the file rather than send to anyone” and, “We also have a data protection act, which I will hide behind.” Mr. Jones further urged Mr. Mann to join him in deleting e-mail exchanges about the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) controversial assessment report (ARA): “Can you delete any emails you may have had with Keith re [the IPCC's Fourth Assessment Report]?”

In another e-mail, Mr. Jones told Mr. Mann, professor Malcolm K. Hughes of the University of Arizona and professor Raymond S. Bradley of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst: “I’m getting hassled by a couple of people to release the CRU station temperature data. Don’t any of you three tell anybody that the UK has a Freedom of Information Act!”

At one point, Mr. Jones complained to another academic, “I did get an email from the [Freedom of Information] person here early yesterday to tell me I shouldn’t be deleting emails.” He also offered up more dubious tricks of his trade, specifically that “IPCC is an international organization, so is above any national FOI. Even if UEA holds anything about IPCC, we are not obliged to pass it on.” Another professor at the Climate Research Unit, Tim Osborn, discussed in e-mails how truncating a data series can hide a cooling trend that otherwise would be seen in the results. Mr. Mann sent Mr. Osborn an e-mail saying that the results he was sending shouldn’t be shown to others because the data support critics of global warming.

Repeatedly throughout the e-mails that have been made public, proponents of global-warming theories refer to data that has been hidden or destroyed. Only e-mails from Mr. Jones’ institution have been made public, and with his obvious approach to deleting sensitive files, it’s difficult to determine exactly how much more information has been lost that could be damaging to the global-warming theocracy and its doomsday forecasts.

We don’t condone e-mail theft by hackers, though these e-mails were covered by Britain’s Freedom of Information Act and should have been released. The content of these e-mails raises extremely serious questions that could end the academic careers of many prominent professors. Academics who have purposely hidden data, destroyed information and doctored their results have committed scientific fraud. We can only hope respected academic institutions such as Pennsylvania State University, the University of Arizona and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst conduct proper investigative inquiries.

Most important, however, these revelations of fudged science should have a cooling effect on global-warming hysteria and the panicked policies that are being pushed forward to address the unproven theory.

Korruptionsbericht 2009 von Transparency International

Jazariel — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:38:52 +0000

Die Antikorruptionsorganisation Transparency International hat am 17.11.09 ihren Korruptionswahrnehmungsindex (CPI) veröffentlicht. Der CPI misst den Grad der bei Beamten und Politikern wahrgenommenen Korruption. Die Mehrzahl der 180 untersuchten Länder hat auf einer Skala von 0 (als sehr korrupt wahrgenommen) bis 10 Punkten (als wenig korrupt wahrgenommen) weniger als fünf Punkte erzielt. Es ist ein sogenannter zusammengesetzter Index, der sich auf verschiedene Experten- und Managerumfragen stützt.

Weltweit werden umfangreiche Konjunkturpakete verabschiedet. Nur bei einer transparenten Ausgabe öffentlicher Gelder wird Verantwortlichkeit gesichert und kann der zerstörerische Kreislauf der Korruption durchbrochen werden.

Schlusslichter des Index bilden hauptsächlich durch Kriege und dauerhafte Konflikte gebeutelte Länder. Dazu gehören Somalia (1,1 Punkte), Afghanistan (1,3), Myanmar (1,4) sowie der Sudan (1,5) und Irak (1,5). In den Ländern, deren staatliche Strukturen durch dauerhafte Konflikte zerrüttet worden sind, gerät Korruption außer Kontrolle und stärkt die Plünderung von öffentlichen Ressourcen sowie Unsicherheit und Rechtlosigkeit.

Die höchste Punktzahl im CPI 2009 haben Neuseeland (9,4 Punkte), Dänemark (9,3), Singapur (9,2), Schweden (9,2) und die Schweiz (9,0). Dies zeugt von politischer Stabilität, einer langen Tradition von Konfliktlösungsmechanismen und soliden politischen Institutionen. Doch die Industrieländer, insbesondere die Finanzzentren, in denen durch Korruption erlangte Gelder versteckt werden können (sog. Schattenfinanzzentren), dürfen sich nicht zurücklehnen. Gerade sie unterminieren die weltweiten Anstrengungen zur Korruptionsbekämpfung und Rückerlangung illegal erworbenen Vermögens.

Huguette Labelle, Vorsitzende von Transparency International: „Geld aus Korruptionsdelikten darf keinen sicheren Hafen finden. Es ist an der Zeit, den Ausreden ein Ende zu setzen. Wir begrüßen die Anstrengungen der OECD in diesem Bereich, aber wir fordern mehr bilaterale Verträge zum Informationsaustausch, um die Geheimhaltung vollständig zu beenden.”

Gerade in Industrieländern haben häufig die an korrupten Geschäften beteiligten Unternehmen ihren Sitz. Daher muss auch Deutschland seine Anstrengungen verstärken, Korruption konsequent und wirksam zu bekämpfen.

Deutschland unverändert auf Platz 14 – nationaler Handlungsbedarf besteht fort: Im Koalitionsvertrag Ansatzpunkte zur Korruptionsprävention, aber auch Lücken

Deutschland ist unverändert auf Platz 14 (8,0 Punkte; Vorjahr: Platz 14 – 7,9 Punkte) und befindet sich damit im Mittelfeld von vergleichbaren Staaten. Welche Hoffnungen für die Korruptionsprävention und –bekämpfung in Deutschland bestehen, kann ein Blick in den Koalitionsvertrag zwischen CDU, FDP und CSU zeigen. Während das Stichwort „Transparenz“ zwanzig Mal an den verschiedensten Stellen im Koalitionsvertrag auftaucht, ist von „Korruption“ kaum die Rede. Der Begriff taucht vor allem im Hinblick auf Afghanistan und die Entwicklungsländer auf.

Sylvia Schenk, Vorsitzende von Transparency Deutschland: „Wir begrüßen die Bedeutung, die der Transparenz inzwischen beigemessen wird, nachdem die Wirtschaftskrise ja auch auf einen Mangel an Transparenz zurückzuführen ist. Allerdings genügen Worte, insbesondere an andere Länder gerichtet, schon lange nicht mehr – es müssen Taten folgen. Deutschland trägt als führende Exportnation und politisches Schwergewicht eine besondere Verantwortung weltweit. Wir haben Handlungsbedarf im Strafrecht, beim Thema Anti-Korruptionsregister und dem Schutz von Hinweisgebern.“

Zu diesen Punkten findet sich nichts im Koalitionsvertrag. Damit bleibt auch offen, ob das Parlament endlich durch Verschärfung des Tatbestandes der Abgeordnetenbestechung (§ 108e StGB) die Voraussetzungen für die Ratifizierung der UN-Konvention gegen Korruption (UNCAC) schaffen wird.

Konkret finden sich Ansatzpunkte für eine wirksamere Korruptionsprävention im Koalitionsvertrag beim Arbeitnehmerdatenschutz, dem mehr Gewicht eingeräumt und zugleich den Arbeitgebern eine verlässliche Regelung für den Kampf gegen Korruption an die Hand gegeben werden soll. Außerdem soll die Transparenz der Entscheidungen kommunaler Gesellschaften erhöht und im Bereich Vergabe im sogenannten Unterschwellenbereich verstärkt werden.

Enttäuschend war für Transparency der Abschluss der 3. Konferenz der Vertragsstaaten der UN-Konferenz gegen Korruption (UNCAC) in Doha (Katar) am vergangenen Freitag. Der dort beschlossene Überwachungsmechanismus für die Umsetzung der Konvention überlässt es den geprüften Ländern selbst, inwieweit sie Länderbesuche der Prüfgruppen, Gespräche mit Organisationen der Zivilgesellschaft und die Veröffentlichung des Länderberichts zulassen.

Deutschland hatte an der Konferenz nur als Beobachter teilgenommen, da einer UNCAC-Ratifizierung durch Deutschland die unzureichende Regelung des Straftatbestandes der Abgeordnetenbestechung (§108e, StGB) entgegensteht. 141 Länder weltweit haben die Konvention bereits ratifiziert.

Climate Gate – All the manipulations and lies revealed 6

sophiaalbertina — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:46:35 +0000

The greatest scientific and political scandal in modern times continues to unravel. And some of the media is catching on. It’s about time.

But most still continues to play the role of his master’s voice! (see my post Climate Gate – All the manipulations and lies revealed 3) Betraying all that journalism is supposed to stand for!

”In the department of inconvenient truths, this one surely deserves a closer look by the media, the U.S. Congress and other investigative bodies.”

Couldn’t agree more!

http://online.wsj.com/article/

SB10001424052748704888404574547730924988354.html

NOVEMBER 24, 2009.

Global Warming With the Lid Off

The emails that reveal an effort to hide the truth about climate science.

‘The two MMs have been after the CRU station data for years. If they ever hear there is a Freedom of Information Act now in the U.K., I think I’ll delete the file rather than send to anyone. . . . We also have a data protection act, which I will hide behind.”

So apparently wrote Phil Jones, director of the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit (CRU) and one of the world’s leading climate scientists, in a 2005 email to “Mike.” Judging by the email thread, this refers to Michael Mann, director of the Pennsylvania State University’s Earth System Science Center. We found this nugget among the more than 3,000 emails and documents released last week after CRU’s servers were hacked and messages among some of the world’s most influential climatologists were published on the Internet.

The “two MMs” are almost certainly Stephen McIntyre and Ross McKitrick, two Canadians who have devoted years to seeking the raw data and codes used in climate graphs and models, then fact-checking the published conclusions—a painstaking task that strikes us as a public and scientific service. Mr. Jones did not return requests for comment and the university said it could not confirm that all the emails were authentic, though it acknowledged its servers were hacked.

Yet even a partial review of the emails is highly illuminating. In them, scientists appear to urge each other to present a “unified” view on the theory of man-made climate change while discussing the importance of the “common cause”; to advise each other on how to smooth over data so as not to compromise the favored hypothesis; to discuss ways to keep opposing views out of leading journals; and to give tips on how to “hide the decline” of temperature in certain inconvenient data.

Some of those mentioned in the emails have responded to our requests for comment by saying they must first chat with their lawyers. Others have offered legal threats and personal invective. Still others have said nothing at all. Those who have responded have insisted that the emails reveal nothing more than trivial data discrepancies and procedural debates.

Yet all of these nonresponses manage to underscore what may be the most revealing truth: That these scientists feel the public doesn’t have a right to know the basis for their climate-change predictions, even as their governments prepare staggeringly expensive legislation in response to them.

Consider the following note that appears to have been sent by Mr. Jones to Mr. Mann in May 2008: “Mike, Can you delete any emails you may have had with Keith re AR4? Keith will do likewise. . . . Can you also email Gene and get him to do the same?” AR4 is shorthand for the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change’s (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report, presented in 2007 as the consensus view on how bad man-made climate change has supposedly become.

In another email that seems to have been sent in September 2007 to Eugene Wahl of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Paleoclimatology Program and to Caspar Ammann of the National Center for Atmospheric Research’s Climate and Global Dynamics Division, Mr. Jones writes: “[T]ry and change the Received date! Don’t give those skeptics something to amuse themselves with.”

When deleting, doctoring or withholding information didn’t work, Mr. Jones suggested an alternative in an August 2008 email to Gavin Schmidt of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, copied to Mr. Mann. “The FOI [Freedom of Information] line we’re all using is this,” he wrote. “IPCC is exempt from any countries FOI—the skeptics have been told this. Even though we . . . possibly hold relevant info the IPCC is not part of our remit (mission statement, aims etc) therefore we don’t have an obligation to pass it on.”

It also seems Mr. Mann and his friends weren’t averse to blacklisting scientists who disputed some of their contentions, or journals that published their work. “I think we have to stop considering ‘Climate Research’ as a legitimate peer-reviewed journal,” goes one email, apparently written by Mr. Mann to several recipients in March 2003. “Perhaps we should encourage our colleagues in the climate research community to no longer submit to, or cite papers in, this journal.”

Mr. Mann’s main beef was that the journal had published several articles challenging aspects of the anthropogenic theory of global warming.

For the record, when we’ve asked Mr. Mann in the past about the charge that he and his colleagues suppress opposing views, he has said he “won’t dignify that question with a response.” Regarding our most recent queries about the hacked emails, he says he “did not manipulate any data in any conceivable way,” but he otherwise refuses to answer specific questions. For the record, too, our purpose isn’t to gainsay the probity of Mr. Mann’s work, much less his right to remain silent.

However, we do now have hundreds of emails that give every appearance of testifying to concerted and coordinated efforts by leading climatologists to fit the data to their conclusions while attempting to silence and discredit their critics. In the department of inconvenient truths, this one surely deserves a closer look by the media, the U.S. Congress and other investigative bodies.

Climate Gate – All the manipulations and lies revealed 5

sophiaalbertina — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:36:43 +0000

“And that procurement of data destruction, as they are about to find out to their cost, is a criminal offense. They are not merely bad scientists — they are crooks. And crooks who have perpetrated their crimes at the expense of British and U.S. taxpayers.

I am angry, and so should you be.”

“….with supine news media largely owned and controlled by the government, the establishment tends to look after its own.

At our expense, and at the expense of the truth.”

Well said about the biggest scientific and political scandal in modern time!

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/viscount-monckton-on-global-warminggate-they-are-criminals-pjm-exclusive/

Viscount Monckton on Climategate: ‘They Are Criminals’ (PJM Exclusive)

The man who challenged Al Gore to a debate is furious about the content of the leaked CRU emails — and says why you should be, too.

November 23, 2009 – by Christopher Monckton

This is what they did — these climate “scientists” on whose unsupported word the world’s classe politique proposes to set up an unelected global government this December in Copenhagen, with vast and unprecedented powers to control all formerly free markets, to tax wealthy nations and all of their financial transactions, to regulate the economic and environmental affairs of all nations, and to confiscate and extinguish all patent and intellectual property rights.

The tiny, close-knit clique of climate scientists who invented and now drive the “global warming” fraud — for fraud is what we now know it to be — tampered with temperature data so assiduously that, on the recent admission of one of them, land temperatures since 1980 have risen twice as fast as ocean temperatures. One of the thousands of emails recently circulated by a whistleblower at the University of East Anglia, where one of the world’s four global-temperature datasets is compiled, reveals that data were altered so as to prevent a recent decline in temperature from showing in the record. In fact, there has been no statistically significant “global warming” for 15 years — and there has been rapid and significant cooling for nine years.

Worse, these arrogant fraudsters — for fraudsters are what we now know them to be — have refused, for years and years and years, to reveal their data and their computer program listings. Now we know why: As a revealing 15,000-line document from the computer division at the Climate Research Unit shows, the programs and data are a hopeless, tangled mess. In effect, the global temperature trends have simply been made up. Unfortunately, the British researchers have been acting closely in league with their U.S. counterparts who compile the other terrestrial temperature dataset — the GISS/NCDC dataset. That dataset too contains numerous biases intended artificially to inflate the natural warming of the 20th century.

Finally, these huckstering snake-oil salesmen and “global warming” profiteers — for that is what they are — have written to each other encouraging the destruction of data that had been lawfully requested under the Freedom of Information Act in the UK by scientists who wanted to check whether their global temperature record had been properly compiled. And that procurement of data destruction, as they are about to find out to their cost, is a criminal offense. They are not merely bad scientists — they are crooks. And crooks who have perpetrated their crimes at the expense of British and U.S. taxpayers.

I am angry, and so should you be.

What have the mainstream news media said about the Climategate affair? Remarkably little. The few who have brought themselves to comment, through gritted teeth, have said that all of this is a storm in a teacup, and that their friends in the University of East Anglia and elsewhere in the climatological community are good people, really.

No, they’re not. They’re criminals. With Professor Fred Singer, who founded the U.S. Satellite Weather Service, I have reported them to the UK’s Information Commissioner, with a request that he investigate their offenses and, if thought fit, prosecute. But I won’t be holding my breath: In the police state that Britain has now sadly become, with supine news media largely owned and controlled by the government, the establishment tends to look after its own.

At our expense, and at the expense of the truth.

Kampf gegen die Korruption in Angola

arthurbuchholz — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:41:13 +0000

Präsident Dos Santos forderte in einer Rede zu Null Toleranz gegenüber der Korruption in seinem Land auf. Opposition und Menschenrechtler kritisieren mangelnde Tatkraft und rufen eigene Aktion ins Leben.

Präsident Jose Eduardo Dos Santos richtete die Rede an seine Partei, der Volksbewegung zur Befreiung Angolas (MLPA).

Dos Santos sagte, die mangelnde Überwachung führt zur Verschwendung von Steuergeldern. Er forderte mehr Transparenz und sagte, dass eine gute Regierung viel Arbeit bedeutet.

Angola wurde von Transparency International als eines der korruptesten Länder der Welt bezeichnet. Gegenüber dem Vorjahr kam es vom 22. auf den 18. Platz.

Die Regierung habe nicht ausreichend dafür gesorgt, dass sich Politiker vor Gerichten und Parlament verantworten müssen, so Dos Santos. “Unverantwortliche Menschen, Menschen schlechter Gesinnung haben die Umstände ausgenutzt, Ressourcen verschwendet und illegal, schädlich und betrügerisch gehandelt.”

“Es ist wichtig, sich nach dem sechsten Kongress auf Null Toleranz zu einigen.” Die MLPA hält im nächsten Monat ihre nationale Versammlung ab.

Isaias Samakuva, Führer der wichtigsten Oppositionspartei Unita, sagt der BBC: “Dies ist nicht das erste Mal, dass der Präsident eine solche Rede hält, aber in Wirklichkeit ändert sich nichts (…) Die Institutionen, die gegründet wurden, um die Korruption zu bekämpfen, sind schwach.”

“Die Korruption in Angola ist mehr als weit verbreitet. Dies betrifft alle Bereiche der angolanischen Gesellschaft”, sagt der aktive Bürgerrechtler und freie Journalist Rafael Marques der AFP, der wegen seiner Ansichten mehrfach im Gefängnis saß.
“Sie hat sich so tief verwurzelt in den Organisationen, dass man nicht mehr sagen kann, wie die staatlichen Institutionen ohne sie funktionieren”

Marques startete eine Webseite, die illegale Handlungen der Minister dokumentiert und das Bewusstsein für das Problem im Land stärkt. “Ich hoffe, ein Forum bieten zu können, um das Netz der Korruption zu entwirren, besonders auf den höchsten Ebenen der Politik.”

Nach Transparency International sind die Länder Afrikas besonders betroffen, welche reich an natürlichen Ressourcen sind. Korruption führt zu wirtschaftlicher Stagnation, Ungleichheit und Konflikten.

Nach Angaben der Weltbank leben zwei Drittel der Bevölkerung Angolas von weniger als 2 Dollar am Tag.

Fussball – For the Game. For the World.

Lukas Tonetto — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:18:49 +0000

Der WM-Spiegel: Die Teilnehmerländer

Was ist wichtiger, als die Römer Verträge von 1957, die das friedliche Zusammenwachsen von Europa besiegelten, und die UNO-Vollversammlung zusammen? Es sind die friedlichen und kostspieligen Zusammenkünfte der Potentaten des Weltfussballs in den Blofeld-Katakomben auf dem Züriberg (nur den Flügelschlag eines Schmetterlings entfernt vom grössten Zürcher Gefängnis, dem Wildtier-Zoo, ebenfalls unter der Ägide eines Mannes, der sich mit dem Geld von anderen für einen Wohltäter hält).

The Game. The World. Wir verstehen aller herbstlich-kulinarischen Genüsse zum Trotz nicht, wie Game und World so ganz universell in einem Slogan zusammenfinden können. World – die Welt. Game – das Wild (lesenswert in diesem Zusammenhang die Erzählung Green Hills of Africa von Hemingway, in der ein Mann seine Angst vor der Impotenz mit der Jagd nach Trophäen, sogenanntem big game hunting, in Afrika kompensiert). Vermutlich war es die Blatter’sche Vision, vermengt mit derart potenziellen Gründen, dass die WM 2010 in Afrika stattfinden wird, die den furchtbaren Slogan aus der Taufe hob (visionäre Männer wie Joseph S. Blatter wissen aus unerfindlichen – sprich visionären – Gründen jeweils schon im Voraus, wie Abstimmungen ausgehen. Insider vermuten, es hänge mit seiner basisdemokratischen Walliser Herkunft zusammen).

Bemerkenswerterweise verstummt das berechtigte und vornehmlich männliche Protestgeheul gegen die Fifa immer zwischen dem Abschluss der Qualifikation und der Übergabe des World Cup (in Blatters visionär bilingualen Ausprache «World Coupe» genannt). Stattdessen wird auf Nebenkriegsschauplätzen gescharmützelt.

Nebst dem Lamento über Le hand of God, das den vormaligen Saubermann des Weltfussballs Thierry Henri auf eine Stufe mit dem gefallenen Engel vom Rio de la Plata in der Gestalt eines Pyknikers stellt, ereifern sich auf einmal die Kommentatoren rund um den Globus über Nebensächlickeiten, die meist um Trainer- und Stürmerfragen oszillieren. Einer hingegen vermerkte, beim nicht qualifizierten Team von Israel handle es sich immerhin um Vertreter einer Krieg führenden Nation. Diesen Steilpass erlaufen wir mit stupender Leichtigkeit und durchleuchten in Kürze die Reinheit des Teilnehmerfeldes.

CAF – Afrika

Vom Afrikanischen Kontinent, wir erlauben uns die Pauschalisierung, fahren lauter Verbrecher nach Südafrika. Lauter Verbrecher! Algerische Wahlbetrüger (Verbot des Wahlsiegers Front Islamique du Salut), Nigeriansiche Menschenrechtsverletzer (ermordeter Ken Saro-Wiwa für ein paar shellige Petrodollars). Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana und Cameroun sind nicht nur Wiegen der Menschheit, sondern Trainingsgelände für den Gebrauch von Macheten und der Korruption (interne Vorbilder finden sich links oberhalb des Grand Hotel Dolder).

OFC – Ozenanien

Nicht viel besser sieht es im Raum Ozeanien aus: Australien, eine als Kontinent geschimpfte Lumpeninsel, die boat people absaufen und Aborignies sich voll saufen lässt.

AFC – Asien

Japan, ach Japan, dieser krude Mix aus shintoistischer Zurückhaltung und Leugnung von allen je begangenen Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit. Die Südkoreanischen Betrüger, die den Einzug in den Halbfinal 2002 nachweislich gekauft haben (mit dem Segen des Saint Joseph; immerhin wurde der ecuadorianische Schiedsrichter Byron Moreno auch in seinem Heimatland eindeutig der Schiebung überführt). Nordkorea, pfui Teufel, lässt sein Volk verhungern und serviert ihm einzig einen Atompilz zum Zvieri.

UEFA – Europa

Europa, insgesamt ein ins Sozimäntelchen gekleideter faschistoider Cocktail aus Katholizismus, Kapitalismus, Antisemitismus und Fremdenhass, exportiert, Frankreich und England an der Spitze, Waffen und Exploitation im Quadrat. Ein wunderbarer Kontinent. Die Schweiz ist, im doppelten Sinn des Wortes, ein gut geschmiertes Rädchen in dieser, nebst den USA, verlogensten Maschine auf dem Globus.

CONCACAF – Nordamerika

Womit wir schon bei der CONCACAF wären. Nebst den USA, übrigens einer Krieg führenden Nation wie Frankreich, Deutschland, England, Italien, Australien, finden wir das herrliche Mexiko mit der höchsten Mordrate (sowie der höchsten Rate an unaufgeklärten Verbrechen, eingeschlossen die Profiteure der Maispreiserhöhung, damit die Armen vor Hunger nach Mais verrecken während unsere meist linksliberalen Gutmenschen mit Biosprit ins Wochenende fahren können). Auch mit von der Partie das paradiesische Honduras, jeweils nur einen Genickschuss vom nächsten Militärputsch entfernt.

CONMEBOL – Südamerika

Von Honduras aus ist es dann jeweils nur noch ein kleiner Schritt bis in den ewigen Hinterhof dieser Welt, dem vom lieben Gott und Papst Johannes Paul II. persönlich gesegneten Südamerika. Mit den Teilnehmerländern Paraguay (General Alfredo Stroessner, vierzig Jahre blutiger Diktator, wurde anfangs der neunziger Jahre endlich abgelöst, notabene durch einen anderen Diktator), Brasilien (wer kann sich an all die Generalissmos wie da Silva und Medici noch erinnern, nachdem auch noch die paraguayansichen Diktatoren dort unbescholten ihren Lebensabend verbringen), Argentinien (der Begriff Junta ist die wohl zynischste Bezeichnung für das Regime Videlas, und der selige Juan Diaz, der sich für mein Zahnheil verpflichtet hatte, berichtete mit tränenfeuchten Augen vom WM-Titel von 1978 im eigenen Land – Buenas Dias Argentina, guten Tag Du schönes Land –, weil damals drei seiner Studienkollegen für immer in den Folterkellern verschwunden waren), und über Uruguay und Chile (übrigens beides Miltitärdikaturen wie heute zum Beispiel Venezuela), mögen wir keine Worte mehr verlieren. Ausser, dass all diese Länder von Europa und den USA immer sehr grosszügig unterstützt worden waren.

Nachdem nun also das Krieg führende Israel nicht an der WM teilnehmen wird, schauen wir getrost nach Südafrika, wo sich for the world and for the game all die wilden Hunde auf dem Platz und all die Schweinehunde von der Regierungsbank ein Stelldichein geben werden. Let the games begin!

P.S. Eine Mannschaft fehlt, die ein wenig Licht ins Dunkel gebracht hätte. Es ist das traurige Bosnien, das aus der Sniper Alley von 1995 auferstanden ist. Ein Land mit orthodoxen Zwiebeltürmen, katholischen Kirchtürmen und muslimischen Minaretten, das Land des traurigen Ivica Osim, der damals, 1992, mit seiner jugoslawischen Jahrhundert-Mannschaft nicht an die EM fahren durfte. Weil seine Heimat Jugoslawien eine Krieg führende Nation war. Bosnien, oh reiner Widerspruch, Lust, niemandes Wiege zu sein unter soviel Ländern. (L.T.)

Anruf von der Neuköllner Botschaft!

blogozentriker — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:53:15 +0000

Wir hatten, obwohl das ganze Botschaftsgebäude leer stand, uns für das Zimmer 212 entschieden. Einfach aus Nostalgie. Wir gingen immer ins Zimmer 212, allein schon, weil der Max sich damals in Wien im Zimmer 212 aufgehängt hat, im Bad, nach einer Riesensause mit Prostituierten aus aller Herren Länder. Gerade, als die Stimmung am besten war, haben sie ihn gefunden. Weiß der Himmel, was der Max sich damals dabei gedacht hat! Manchmal war er schon ein Schlawiner! Das ganze Wochenende hat er uns versaut, damals.

Und da waren dann eben diese zwei Mädels, im Zimmer 212, die sich gerade beim Singen und Tanzen mit ihrem Handy filmten. Ich dachte: “Das darf doch jetzt wohl nicht wahr sein!” Immerhin erwarteten wir noch die Gesandten der USA, Thailands und Tunesiens. Gerade so eine Mischung von Delegationen ist mitunter nicht ohne, auch wenn da persönliche Bekanntschaften vorhanden sind, ist das knifflig. Mit den meisten von denen hatten wir nämlich die Schulbank gedrückt, in Eton, in dieser Eliteanstalt. Wir hatten gemeinsam Latein gelernt und Griechisch, und nicht zu knapp. War nicht gerade eine schöne Zeit, eher eine harte; aber im Rückblick werden Härten ja immer zu eingebildeten Schönheiten, ist ja so. Was bleibt, sind die Härten. An die erinnert man sich wenigstens.

Unser Bodyguard hat natürlich sofort die Sicherung rausgerissen, als er der Mädels ansichtig wurde. So sind sie, die Bodyguards. Immer gleich das Schlimmste annehmen. Anstatt dass man denkt: “Okay, Neuköllner Botschaft, junge Dinger, die sind sicher besoffen, die Girls, und haben sich in der Tür geirrt”, geht man als schön durchgedrehter Bodyguard von einem Haufen geschickt getarnter Terroristen aus.

Das machen die Muskelpräparate, wenn Sie mich fragen.

Es fielen in der Folge auch ein paar Schüsse, das will ich nicht beschönigen. Man sollte aufpassen, dass man sich keine Bodyguards zulegt, die ein Alkoholproblem haben. Manchmal, im Getümmel, wenn es ans Eingemachte geht, dann sind betrunkene Personenschützer schon klasse, weil sie eben keine Furcht kennen, die werfen sich frontal in gezückte Messer; aber in einer 08/15-Situation, mein lieber Mann! Da geht einem schon mal der Hut hoch, da eskaliert gleich alles ins Unüberschaubare.

Kein Wunder, also, dass die Neuköllner Botschaft uns jetzt für diesen feurigen Abend eine Rechnung präsentieren will. (Wir sind damals natürlich alle gleich raus, weg, haben uns auf Französisch verabschiedet, über die Feuerleiter.) Ich meine, Berlin, klar, die sind eh alle pleite. Alles Schriftsteller ohne Buch und Schauspieler ohne Bühne und Regierende Bürgermeister ohne alles. Da fühle ich ja auch mit, meine Güte, ich bin doch kein Unmensch! Aber ich kann andererseits auch nicht für jedes Hotelzimmer, das von meinen Jungs auseinander gelegt wird, die Zeche zahlen! Da sollen die sich doch bitte an meine Regierung wenden. Wozu bin ich denn Regierungsangestellter? Um die Rechnung selber zu zahlen?

Hahaha.

Nee. Eben nicht.

Climate Gate – All the manipulations and lies revealed 4

sophiaalbertina — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:15:43 +0000

Give this the biggest scientific and political scandal a name. Andrew Bolt want us to agree on a name and give a few suggestions. I prefer Climate Gate. It’s short and to the point.

http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/

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A scandal too big for these words

Andrew Bolt

Sunday, November 22, 2009 at 07:09am

We’re all struggling. What do we call this scandal?

It’s in fact a conspiracy of many of the world’s leading global warming scientists that involves massaging data, dodging scrutiny, hounding out sceptical editors, fudging figures, the possibly criminal destruction of data under FOI request, tax avoidance, gloating over a sceptic’s death, character assassination of sceptics. admissions of using “tricks” to “hide” inconvenient trends, farming grants, private admissions of grave doubts in their own public warming warnings, close collusion with green groups, the joint concocting of the most alarmist announcements and much more.

Whew. So your nominations, please:

- Climategate

- The Weathermen Conspiracy

- The Great Global Warming Swindle

- The Global Warming Conspiracy

- The Climate Conspiracy

- The CRU Conspiracy

- The Global Warming Scandal.

Help! Your own suggestion is probably going to be better.

UPDATE

On one thing, however, all should agree. This is not a case of “hacking” or “data theft” as several news outlets of the Left insist. This is whistleblowing, almost certainly by an insider.

UPDATE 2

Of the suggestions below, “The Weather Fakers” tickles me most. No apologies to Tim Flannery.

Climate Gate – All the manipulations and lies revealed 3

sophiaalbertina — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:32:52 +0000

And the press and mass media who have supported the greatest scientific and political scandal of modern times. AND taken an ACTIVE PART in suppressing facts and people opposing this hysteria. Continues to play the role of his master’s voice!

Betraying all that journalism is supposed to stand for!

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100017451/climategate-how-the-msm-reported-the-greatest-scandal-in-modern-science/

Climategate: how the MSM reported the greatest scandal in modern science

By James Delingpole Politics Last updated: November 21st, 2009

Here’s what the Times has had to say on the subject:

E-mails allegedly written by some of the world’s leading climate scientists have been stolen by hackers and published on websites run by climate change sceptics.

The sceptics claim that the e-mails are evidence that scientists manipulated data in order to strengthen their argument that human activities were causing global warming.

(Yep – definitely an improvement on their earlier, non-existent coverage; but not exactly pointing up the scandalousness of this scandal).

And the Independent:

(Yep. Nada)

And here’s how The New York Times (aka Pravda) reported it:

Hundreds of private e-mail messages and documents hacked from a computer server at a British university are causing a stir among global warming skeptics, who say they show that climate scientists conspired to overstate the case for a human influence on climate change.

(Yep. That’s right. It has only apparently caused a stir among ’skeptics’. Everyone else can rest easy. Nothing to see here.)

And here’s how the Guardian has reported it:

Hundreds of private emails and documents allegedly exchanged between some of the world’s leading climate scientists during the past 13 years have been stolen by hackers and leaked online, it emerged today.

The computer files were apparently accessed earlier this week from servers at the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit, a world-renowned centre focused on the study of natural and anthropogenic climate change.

(Oh. I get it. It’s just a routine data-theft story, not a scandal. And a chance to remind us of the CRU’s integrity and respectability. And – see below – to get in a snarky, ‘let’s have a dig at the deniers’ quote from Greenpeace).

A spokesman for Greenpeace said: “If you looked through any organisation’s emails from the last 10 years you’d find something that would raise a few eyebrows. Contrary to what the sceptics claim, the Royal Society, the US National Academy of Sciences, Nasa and the world’s leading atmospheric scientists are not the agents of a clandestine global movement against the truth. This stuff might drive some web traffic, but so does David Icke.”

Here’s the Washington Post:

Hackers broke into the electronic files of one of the world’s foremost climate research centers this week and posted an array of e-mails in which prominent scientists engaged in a blunt discussion of global warming research and disparaged climate-change skeptics.

The skeptics have seized upon e-mails stolen from the Climatic Research Unit of the University of East Anglia in Britain as evidence that scientific data have been rigged to make it appear as if humans are causing global warming. The researchers, however, say the e-mails have been taken out of context and merely reflect an honest exchange of ideas.

(Ah, so what the story is really about is ’skeptics’ causing trouble. Note how as high as the second par the researchers are allowed by the reporter to get in their insta-rebuttal, lest we get the impression that the scandal in any way reflects badly on them).

Here is the BBC:

E-mails reportedly from the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit (CRU), including personal exchanges, appeared on the internet on Thursday.

A university spokesman confirmed the email system had been hacked and that information was taken and published without permission.

An investigation was underway and the police had been informed, he added.

(Ah yes, another routine data-theft story so dully reported – “the police had been informed, he added” – that you can’t even be bothered to reach the end to find out what information was stolen).

Meanwhile, the Climategate scandal (and I do apologise for calling it that, but that’s how the internet works: you need obvious, instantly memorable, event-specific search terms) continues to set the Blogosphere ablaze.

For links to all the latest updates on this, I recommend Marc Morano’s invaluable Climate Depot site.

And if you want to read those potentially incriminating emails in full, go to An Elegant Chaos org where they have all been posted in searchable form.

Like the Telegraph’s MPs’ expenses scandal, this is the gift that goes on giving. It won’t, unfortunately, derail Copenhagen (too many vested interests involved) or cause any of our many political parties to start talking sense on “Climate change”. But what it does demonstrate is the growing level of public scepticism towards Al Gore’s Anthropogenic Global Warming theory. That’s why, for example, this story is the single most read item on today’s Telegraph website.

What it also demonstrates – as my dear chum Dan Hannan so frequently and rightly argues – is the growing power of the Blogosphere and the decreasing relevance of the Mainstream Media (MSM).

Climate Gate – All the manipulations and lies revealed 2

sophiaalbertina — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:00:37 +0000

The greatest scientific and political scandal in modern times continues to unravel. It’s about time.

http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/17102

Hacked files of the Climatic Research Unit, Global Warming a deliberate fraud

The Death Blow to Climate Science

By Dr. Tim Ball Saturday, November 21, 2009

Global WarmingChange is often called a hoax. I disagree because a hoax has a humorous intent to puncture pomposity. In science, such as with the Piltdown Man hoax, it was done to expose those with fervent but blind belief. The argument that global warming is due to humans, known as the anthropogenic global warming theory (AGW) is a deliberate fraud. I can now make that statement without fear of contradiction because of a remarkable hacking of files that provided not just a smoking gun, but an entire battery of machine guns.

Someone hacked in to the files of the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) based at the University of East Anglia. A very large file (61 mb) was downloaded and posted to the web. Phil Jones Director of the CRU has acknowledged the files are theirs. They contain papers, documents letters and emails. The latter are the most damaging and contain blunt information about the degree of manipulation of climate science in general and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate in particular.

Climate science hijacked and corrupted by this small group of scientists

Dominant names involved are ones I have followed throughout my career including, Phil Jones, Benjamin Santer, Michael Mann, Kevin Trenberth, Jonathan Overpeck, Ken Briffa and Tom Wigley. I have watched climate science hijacked and corrupted by this small group of scientists. This small, elite, community was named by Professor Wegman in his report to the National Academy of Science (NAS).

I had the pleasure of meeting the founder of CRU Professor Hubert Lamb, considered the Father of Modern Climatology, on a couple of occasions. He also peer reviewed one of my early publications. I know he would be mortified with what was disclosed in the last couple of days.

Jones claims the files were obtained illegally as if that absolves the content. It doesn’t and it is enough to destroy all their careers. Jones gave a foretaste of his behavior in 2005. Warwick Hughes asked for the data and method he used for his claim of a 0.6°C temperature rise since the end of the nineteenth century. Jones responded, “We have 25 years or so invested in the work. Why should I make the data available to you when your aim is to try and find something wrong with it?” He has stonewalled ever since. The main reason was because it was used as a key argument in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Reports to convince the world humans caused rapid warming in the 20th century. The emails obtained are a frightening record of arrogance, and deception far beyond his 2005 effort.

Another glimpse into what the files and emails reveal was the report by Professor Deming. He wrote, “ With publication of an article in Science (in 1995) I gained sufficient credibility in the community of scientists working on climate change. They thought I was one of them someone who would pervert science in the service of social and political causes. So one of them let his guard down. A major person working in the area of climate change and global warming sent me an astonishing email that said. “We must get rid of the Medieval Warm Period.” The person in question was Jonathan Overpeck and his even more revealing emails are part of those exposed by the hacker. It is now very clear that Deming’s charge was precise. They have perverted science in the service of social and political causes.

Professor Wegman showed how this “community of scientists” published together and peer reviewed each other’s work. I was always suspicious about why peer review was such a big deal. Now all my suspicions are confirmed. The emails reveal how they controlled the process, including manipulating some of the major journals like Science and Nature. We know the editor of the Journal of Climate, Andrew Weaver, was one of the “community”. They organized lists of reviewers when required making sure they gave the editor only favorable names. They threatened to isolate and marginalize one editor who they believed was recalcitrant.

Total Control

These people controlled the global weather data used by the IPCC through the joint Hadley and CRU and produced the HadCRUT data. They controlled the IPCC, especially crucial chapters and especially preparation of the Summary for PolicyMakers (SPM). Stephen Schneider was a prime mover there from the earliest reports to the most influential in 2001. They also had a left wing conduit to the New York Times. The emails between Andy Revkin and the community are very revealing and must place his journalistic integrity in serious jeopardy. Of course the IPCC Reports and especially the SPM Reports are the basis for Kyoto and the Copenhagen Accord, but now we know they are based on completely falsified and manipulated data and science. It is no longer a suspicion. Surely this is the death knell for the CRU, the IPCC, Kyoto and Copenhagen and the Carbon Credits shell game.

CO2 never was a problem and all the machinations and deceptions exposed by these files prove that it was the greatest deception in history, but nobody is laughing. It is a very sad day for science and especially my chosen area of climate science. As I expected now it is all exposed I find there is no pleasure in “I told you so.”

You can download the climate change fraud documents from the link below:
http://www.filedropper.com/foi2009 or http://www.megaupload.com/?d=003LKN94