Comments on: Climategate Inquiries http://climateaudit.org/2010/09/14/climategate-inquiries/ by Steve McIntyre Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:51:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Punksta http://climateaudit.org/2010/09/14/climategate-inquiries/#comment-251397 Wed, 05 Jan 2011 06:37:57 +0000 http://climateaudit.org/?p=12019#comment-251397 The link to Monford’s report is broken.

]]> By: thefordprefect http://climateaudit.org/2010/09/14/climategate-inquiries/#comment-242487 Sat, 02 Oct 2010 22:45:02 +0000 http://climateaudit.org/?p=12019#comment-242487 Viv Evans
Posted Sep 14, 2010 at 1:47 PM
…For Great Britain, Montfort’s report is of importance because of the ‘blessings’ given by Lord Turnbull in his preface, who is a proper Mandarin, former top civil servant, and thus has the ear of people in the top levels of the civil service who are the ones that tell government ministers what to do.

Hmmm!!

The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) …
We are funded entirely by voluntary donations from a number of private individuals and charitable trusts. In order to make clear its complete independence, we do not accept gifts from either energy companies or anyone with a significant interest in an energy company.

They do not mind employing Mr Turnbull who has interests in energy .
http://www.booz.com/uk/home/who_we_are/our_people/profile/lord_turnbull
Lord Andrew Turnbull
Since retiring from the Civil Service in 2005, Lord Andrew Turnbull has joined Booz & Company as a Senior Advisor. … He entered the House of Lords in December 2005 and is a non-executive Director of Prudential PLC, The British Land Company PLC and Frontier Economics Ltd, and is Chairman of BH Global Ltd.
http://www.frontier-economics.com/europe/en/practices/1/
Frontier’s energy work relates to electricity, gas and oil and covers production, networks, storage, trading and retail. Frontier is recognised as one of the leading energy market, modelling and regulatory experts in Western Europe and Australia and the Pacific and has worked widely on the detailed quantitative and qualitative aspects of environmental policies

His directorship of BH Global. Is interesting (especially if I could understand this document prospectus looks most unsavoury to the uninitiated!)

Page 79 of the document
BHESMF:
Investment Profile by Sector (percentage of capital allocation) energy = 6%

]]> By: TedSwart http://climateaudit.org/2010/09/14/climategate-inquiries/#comment-241902 Wed, 22 Sep 2010 22:56:00 +0000 http://climateaudit.org/?p=12019#comment-241902 Thought police in action? McKitrick’s writing is so well crafted and fair minded that the word “abuse” would never enter any normal person’s head. Maybe it is just because the truth hurts.

]]> By: rafnics http://climateaudit.org/2010/09/14/climategate-inquiries/#comment-241878 Wed, 22 Sep 2010 10:09:03 +0000 http://climateaudit.org/?p=12019#comment-241878 Just had facebook block me from posting the link to McKitrick pdf on grounds that it was “abusive”.

]]> By: TedSwart http://climateaudit.org/2010/09/14/climategate-inquiries/#comment-241763 Sun, 19 Sep 2010 17:03:06 +0000 http://climateaudit.org/?p=12019#comment-241763 The RS announcement was way back in February. On paper it looked and looks potentially like a real investigation at last. But I have not seen anything more about it. Would it be utterly foolish of us to wait with baited breath?

]]> By: Gilbert K. Arnold http://climateaudit.org/2010/09/14/climategate-inquiries/#comment-241756 Sun, 19 Sep 2010 11:25:31 +0000 http://climateaudit.org/?p=12019#comment-241756 Hmm typing gremlins got my fingers…. McKittrick

]]> By: Gilbert K. Arnold http://climateaudit.org/2010/09/14/climategate-inquiries/#comment-241755 Sun, 19 Sep 2010 11:24:34 +0000 http://climateaudit.org/?p=12019#comment-241755 As of 07:20 EDT in the US, no mention in RealClimate about the Montford air McKttirick reports. The last post is dated Sept. 13th. The silence is deafening/

]]> By: Jockdownsouth http://climateaudit.org/2010/09/14/climategate-inquiries/#comment-241750 Sun, 19 Sep 2010 09:50:48 +0000 http://climateaudit.org/?p=12019#comment-241750 I trust that the authors of both these excellent reports will make sure they find their way into the hands of the House of Commons Select Committee.

]]> By: hro001 http://climateaudit.org/2010/09/14/climategate-inquiries/#comment-241526 Thu, 16 Sep 2010 18:15:28 +0000 http://climateaudit.org/?p=12019#comment-241526 I agree. In one of my previous incarnations, I did much “bureaucratic” writing (and reviewing) consequently to me, the IAC report, for all its “diplomacy” is very damning of the IPCC. But for me, the most telling part of your report is your Conclusion 7:

Is the science concerning the current concerns about climate change sound? [...] none of the inquiries addressed the question.

Yet all of the enquiries made declarations that nothing undermined “the science” (owtte)

One might conclude that on this matter as on others there was a determined effort to ask the wrong questions of the wrong people in order to ensure that they always got the right answer.

]]> By: LearDog http://climateaudit.org/2010/09/14/climategate-inquiries/#comment-241510 Thu, 16 Sep 2010 16:20:28 +0000 http://climateaudit.org/?p=12019#comment-241510 In my opinion the RS forfeited its role as arbitar when it took its advocacy position on AGW. They are invested in an outcome and therefore can no longer ‘advise’. Time to adopt an advesarial approach to investigation – including ALL of the emails….

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