Climate Audit

jae

Calmour of the Times:

http://web.me.com/sinfonia1/Clamour_Of_The_Times/Clamour_Of_The_Times/Entries/2010/1/30_Global_Warming%3A_the_Collapse_of_a_Grand_Narrative.html

Robert Christopher

It’s from an earlier post, from David Newland, Emeritus Professor of Engineering Cambridge University; (the letter is half way down the page and is about Climategate and NOT what is in the URL title):

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/letters/7104596/A-hole-in-the-evidence-that-puts-the-value-of-the-Chilcot-Inquiry-in-doubt.html

Chris

Daily Mail – Milliband declares war on climate skeptics

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1247459/Ed-Miliband-declares-war-climate-change-sceptics.html

There is a (somewhat inaccurate and hilarious) Radio 4 interview somwhere but that is UK only unless someone has an MP3 or similar ?

• RAC
  Posted Jan 31, 2010 at 1:38 PM | Permalink

  Try this link:

  http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00q9kgh/The_World_This_Weekend_31_01_2010/

  The Miliband interview starts at 9.40, but there is an interesting earlier segment.

• C. Baxter
  Posted Feb 1, 2010 at 3:51 AM | Permalink

  snip – commenting

Punch My Ticket

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1247376/Controversial-climate-change-boss-uses-car-AND-driver-travel-mile-office—says-YOU-use-public-transport.html

George Barwood

Telegraph editorial Jan 31 “We need facts, not spin, in the climate debate” here

David Longinotti

Milwaukee Sentinel Journal: Climate Bill: All Cost No Benefit

http://www.jsonline.com/news/opinion/83069547.html

Eric Gisin

Lawrence Solomon: Keeping Canadian students in the dark on climate change
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2010/01/29/lawrence-solomon-keeping-canadian-students-in-the-dark-on-climate-change.aspx

Steve Janke: The planet will survive. You heard it here first
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2010/01/27/steve-janke-the-planet-will-survive-you-heard-it-here-first.aspx

Rex Murphy: So, whatever happened to Copenhagen?
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2010/01/30/rex-murphy-so-whatever-happened-to-copenhagen.aspx

Stacey

BBC Radio 4 The world this weekend. Professor Stott Emeritus Professor of the University of London is interviewed. The interviewer then discusses an opinion poll and subsequently interviews Ed Milliband Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b00q9kgh

• TAG
  Posted Jan 31, 2010 at 1:43 PM | Permalink

  The interview with Professor Scott begins 5:25 into the recording.

Stacey

James Delinpole of the Telegraph

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100024548/climategate-is-the-british-government-conspiring-not-to-prosecute/#comments

dearieme

Some mummy-journalism compares Climategate’s effect on reducing trust in science to the MMR scandal.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/jemima-lewis/7113264/MMR-taking-a-shot-in-the-dark.html

David Longinotti

Sydney Morning Herald: facts brushed over by warming fanatics

http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/facts-conveniently-brushed-over-by-the-global-warming-fanatics-20100131-n6fr.html

Mike Ramsey

TERI got Rs 56 lakh to run UN climate meetings http://www.hindustantimes.com/News-Feed/newdelhi/TERI-got-Rs-56-lakh-to-run-UN-climate-meetings/Article1-503595.aspx

For a discussion of above, http://libertynewscentral.blogspot.com/2010/01/is-pachauri-losing-hindustan-times.html

Mike Ramsey

David Stockwell

Lord Monkton rallies at The J for Australian tour – balanced.

smcg

Sydney Morning Herald and Canberra Times:

http://www.smh.com.au/environment/more-flaws-found-in-climate-report-20100131-n6n0.html

Eric Crampton

A contract paying $1 in the event Pachauri loses his job before May is now trading at $0.75 over at iPredict, a New Zealand real money event derivatives market.

WillR

CBC Report — UN climate report hurt by errors on glaciers from AP
http://www.cbc.ca/smartshift/2010/01/un-climate-report-hurt-by-errors-on-glaciers.html

Vargs

UK Channel Four News tonight.

http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/science_technology/climate+change+controversy+warning/3521937

WillR

One of many articles by Tim Ball

The New Big Lie: Climategate Emails Are Not Significant
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/17916

Find the rest here…
http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/members/1/Ball/

Geoff Sherrington

“The Australian” principal national newspaper reports similar to “Sunday Times”

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/more-flaws-emerge-in-climate-alarms/story-e6frg6n6-1225825250835

Australian PM sticks to IPCC line, Opposition Leader ready to vote against carbon tax

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/kevin-rudd-slams-tony-abbotts-carbon-mega-tax/story-e6frg6nf-1225825250951

Summaries of several talks on ABC radio, the national broadcaster for OZ

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/breakfast/index/subjects_Climate_Change_2010.htm

David L. Hagen

Challenge of climate change, post-Copenhagen R. K. Pachauri, Feb. 1, 2010, The Hindu, Opinion

The science of climate change is now well established. . . . in Africa, for instance, as early as 2020. . .in some countries, yields from rain-fed agriculture could be reduced by up to 50 per cent. . . .Today, the power of sceptics has become extremely high because economic interests which resist change support them . . . The challenge . . . is, therefore, to launch urgent grassroots action by civil society, business and local governments.

‘Sloppy’ science dogs UN panel ADAM MORTON February 1, 2010 Sydney Morning Herald – re IPCC & glaciers.

Monckton stokes the global warming fire January 30, 2010 Sydney Morning Herald

Jon Faine holds a “debate” Andrew Bolt Feb. 1, 2010 “Jon Faine, . . . allowed Lord Monckton into his studio.”

LeeW

snip – please restrict this to current articles

Robinson

Ed Milliband declares war on climate change sceptics. Daily Mail – 31st January 2010

PhilipM

The Times
January 29, 2010
Climate change data must be presented clearly

The Times
January 30, 2010
Scientists and climate change

Clif C

Britain protests over false melting glacier claims
“Britain has officially expressed its concern to the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) about lax scientific procedures used by the body which supplies the world with the facts about global warming.”

Clif C

China Daily: Do three errors mean breaking point for IPCC?

Clif C

snip – policy

oneuniverse

Professor Philip Stott
Global Warming: the Collapse of a Grand Narrative

Clif C

Der Spiegel: Can Climate Forecasts Still Be Trusted?
“”Pachauri should resign, so as to avert further damage to the IPCC,” say German climatologist Hans von Storch.”

WillR

Climate chief doesn’t see deal in Mexico

WillR

World Newspaper List here most searchable

Ron Cram

Story on IPCC cited a dissertation
http://climatequotes.com/2010/01/31/the-story-of-the-geography-major-dissertation/

Andrew Weaver says the IPCC crossed the line
http://www.windsorstar.com/technology/Canadian+scientist+says+global+warming+panel+crossing+line/2487264/story.html

WillR

If the climate were a bank… from Australia

WillR

More flaws found in climate report from Canberra Australia

pat

UK Times: UN climate panel shamed by bogus rainforest claim
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article7009705.ece

• jimspice
  Posted Jun 30, 2010 at 1:39 PM | Permalink

  The Times has retracted this story:

  The article “UN climate panel shamed by bogus rainforest claim” (News, Jan 31) stated that the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report had included an “unsubstantiated claim” that up to 40% of the Amazon rainforest could be sensitive to future changes in rainfall. The IPCC had referenced the claim to a report prepared for WWF by Andrew Rowell and Peter Moore, whom the article described as “green campaigners” with “little scientific expertise.” The article also stated that the authors’ research had been based on a scientific paper that dealt with the impact of human activity rather than climate change.

  In fact, the IPCC’s Amazon statement is supported by peer-reviewed scientific evidence. In the case of the WWF report, the figure had, in error, not been referenced, but was based on research by the respected Amazon Environmental Research Institute (IPAM) which did relate to the impact of climate change. We also understand and accept that Mr Rowell is an experienced environmental journalist and that Dr Moore is an expert in forest management, and apologise for any suggestion to the contrary.

  The article also quoted criticism of the IPCC’s use of the WWF report by Dr Simon Lewis, a Royal Society research fellow at the University of Leeds and leading specialist in tropical forest ecology. We accept that, in his quoted remarks, Dr Lewis was making the general point that both the IPCC and WWF should have cited the appropriate peer-reviewed scientific research literature. As he made clear to us at the time, including by sending us some of the research literature, Dr Lewis does not dispute the scientific basis for both the IPCC and the WWF reports’ statements on the potential vulnerability of the Amazon rainforest to droughts caused by climate change.

  In addition, the article stated that Dr Lewis’ concern at the IPCC’s use of reports by environmental campaign groups related to the prospect of those reports being biased in their conclusions. We accept that Dr Lewis holds no such view – rather, he was concerned that the use of non-peer-reviewed sources risks creating the perception of bias and unnecessary controversy, which is unhelpful in advancing the public’s understanding of the science of climate change. A version of our article that had been checked with Dr Lewis underwent significant late editing and so did not give a fair or accurate account of his views on these points. We apologise for this.

  The original article to which this correction refers has been removed

  • RomanM
    Posted Jun 30, 2010 at 2:40 PM | Permalink

    This has been discussed recently at WUWT.

    It appears to me that there has been a substantial (organized?) increase in effort on the part of the CAGW CACC aficionados to rehabilitate the flagrant errors and flaws that have been exposed in the recent past, both on the blogs and in the MSM.

EdeF

From the LA Times, “Mt. Rainer’s Melting Glaciers Create Hazard”.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-na-rainer-debris31-2010jan31,0,604880.story

• BillyBob
  Posted Jan 31, 2010 at 11:20 PM | Permalink

  “Protruding from the summit with nearly 2 feet of pipe high and dry, the marker appears to have melted out of the ice cap that covers the mountain’s highest point.

  But records from the U.S. Geological Survey tell a different story.

  The marker was never buried beneath the ice – and wasn’t installed on the summit in the first place, said surveyor Larry Signani, who led teams that remeasured the mountain’s height in 1988 and 1999.”

  http://www.physorg.com/news173716809.html

Dab_Mandl@yahoo.com

I think this guy might be a professor at some university. Very interesting uses of probability theory. I wonder if things would turn out different if we used more of a Bayesian approach to statistics.
http://mobjectivist.blogspot.com/2010/01/odds-and-uncertainty.html

RomanM: This has nothing to do with Climategate. I would suggest that Unthreaded is available for such links.

Clif C

Calgary Herald: Canadian scientist says UN’s global warming panel ‘crossing the line’

Clif C

Hindustan Times: ‘Busy’ IPCC ignored erroneous Himalayan glaciers report

Clif C

AFP: UN climate panel based claims on student essay: report

Clif C

Sunday Pioneer: Climate of Disbelief
“Recently, it has also been revealed that not only Indian scientists and IPCC, but NASA too had put out a report saying Himalayan glaciers were set to melt down by 2030″ [emphasis added]

Clif C

please delete the redundant large post before these

Raven

[snip]

RomanM: Steve asked that there be “no editorializing or comment”

• eddy
  Posted Feb 7, 2010 at 5:35 AM | Permalink

  Phile Jones interview, Sunday Times, Feb 7th: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article7017905.ece

  “He also suspected that the CRU was the target of a co-ordinated attempt to interfere with its work — a suspicion that hardened into certainty when, over a matter of days, it received 40 similar FoI requests. Each applicant asked for data from five different countries, 200 in all, which would have been a daunting task even for someone with nothing else to do. It was clear to Jones that the attack originated from an old adversary, the sceptical website Climate Audit, run by Steve McIntyre, a former minerals prospector and arch climate sceptic.”

Another Voice

German high profile news magazine “the spiegel”

english
“Can Climate Forecasts Still Be Trusted?”
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,674087,00.html

german (not the same article)
“Klimarat-Chef soll Panne verschwiegen haben”
http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/natur/0,1518,675075,00.html

PROST 🙂

IanP

See http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/climate-emails-hacked-by-spies-1885147.html

HotRod

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/01/13/the_end_of_magical_climate_thinking?page=0,0

Chris

Guardian UK (as usual) starts a defence.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/feb/01/climate-change-banking-economics

An amusing quote, which ignores the gatekeeping and praises the peer reviewed nature of the pro AGW argument –

“Elsewhere, some voices have called for there to be a separate climate sceptics’ report. On one hand, this misses the point. If the sceptics’ science was good enough to be published in decent, peer-reviewed journals, it would be considered alongside everything else by the IPCC. But on the other hand, subjecting the deniers to the same degree of rigorous review as everyone else is a rather delicious prospect. If that was done, the final report would likely be short indeed.”

Chris

PS to the above – a transcript is available here if you can’t listen.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/programmes/analysis/transcripts/25_01_10.txt

StuartR

Flashback: December 18th last year David King made similar claims about sinister government agencies hacking the emails, which was call ‘far-fetched’ in this BBC report at the time, dunno why it’s getting legs again this time?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8420000/8420178.stm

Q

sorry this is the link to previous posting:
http://www.climategate.com/prosecutor-humiliated-in-climategate-u-turn-charges-tainted

Ray Girouard

Walter Russell Mead from The American Interest Online, Feb. 1, 10:

blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2010/02/01/the-death-of-global-warming/

david watt

http://www.dailytelegraph.newspaperdirect.com has two articles by Richard Gray on p 2 a review of Pachauri’s book on p3,the Christopher Booker column,an Editorial, 5 letters and has Alan Titchmarsh on the online edition.

Alan Burke

Here’s what Andrew Weaver really says:

IPCC findings sound in face of all controversy

Dr. Andrew Weaver, The Daily News
Published: Monday, February 01, 2010

Re: ‘UN climate agency panel tainted: Scientist’ (Jan. 27, Daily News)

An article in many Canwest papers suggested I believe that the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was tainted by political advocacy, that its chairman should resign, and that its approach to science should be overhauled.

These statements do not accurately reflect my views. The IPCC has and continues to offer policy makers thoughtful and rigorous assessments of the science of climate change.

More…

http://www2.canada.com/nanaimodailynews/news/story.html?id=837eeddf-bf3b-4dee-8abc-a5095faf13ec

Link Hogthrob

Pajamas Media on the WWF:

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/wwf-the-para-governmental-organization-at-the-epicenter-of-climategate/

Robinson

It’s The Sun I know, but anyway: Inconveniently for the experts, Global Warming IS a con.

L Gardy LaRoche

NIWA reveals NZ original climate data missing,
From TBR.cc

NIWA Unable To Justify Official Temperature Record

EdeF

GlacierGate from the Economist:

http://www.economist.com/sciencetechnology/displayStory.cfm?story_id=15328534&source=most_commented

StuartR

Continuing the David King saga:

“David King admits to speculation over source of climate science emails”

Apparently

…he had been misinformed about key facts

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/feb/01/david-king-climate-emails-speculation

It contains an interesting claim that I haven’t seen before:

In fact, as UEA confirmed today, all the files and emails were archived on a single backup server on the Norwich campus. Once access was gained, it would have been simple to copy all the material.

PhilipM

Ed Miliband declares war on skeptics is also at The Observer, Sunday 31 January 2010
Juliette Jowit, environment editor
Ed Miliband declares war on climate change sceptics

EdeF

ClimateGate emails ‘stolen by foreign spies’, in the Telegraph, Feb. 1:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/7126586/Climategate-emails-stolen-by-foreign-spies.html

• Rich
  Posted Feb 1, 2010 at 10:55 PM | Permalink

  Reports that spies were involved should be taken with appropriate grains of salt, but here are some links for further background on the subject. Speculation regarding FSB involvement appeared previously in the Telegraph here (with alternate whistleblower theory pointed out by James Delingpole the next day here) and in the Independent here, where an IPCC executive was quoted as supporting the theory:

  “It’s very common for hackers in Russia to be paid for their services,” Professor Jean-Pascal van Ypersele, the vice chairman of the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change, said in Copenhagen at the weekend. “It’s a carefully made selection of emails and documents that’s not random. This is 13 years of data, and it’s not a job of amateurs.”

  The subsequent denial by the FSB was reported in the Daily Mail here (near the end of the article). The FSB was quoted anonymously:

  A Russian intelligence source claimed the FSB had new information which could cast light on who was behind the elaborate operation.

  “We are not prepared to release details, but we might if the false claims about the FSB’s involvement do not stop,” he said. “The emails were uploaded to the Tomsk server but we are sure this was done from outside Russia.”

  Two weeks later, the Daily Mail reported receipt of further information from the FSB here:

  But, anxious to distance themselves from the leak, the FSB revealed how the data had been sent to Siberia from a computer in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

  The evidence passed to The Mail on Sunday now raises questions about whether Chinese hackers, backed by the communist regime, are the source of the emails.

  A detailed analysis of the meta-data of the CRU e-mails and files that strongly suggests the e-mails were leaked instead of hacked appeared on Anthony Watts’ website here (with more background here). Speculation on the identity of a possible whistleblower appeared on blogs here, here and here.

• Greg F
  Posted Feb 1, 2010 at 11:43 PM | Permalink

  David King withdraws his ‘stolen by foreign spies’ assertion in the Guardian.
  David King admits to speculation over source of climate science emails

Richard Drake

Fred Pearce: How the ‘climategate’ scandal is bogus and based on climate sceptics’ lies. Claims based on email soundbites are demonstrably false – there is manifestly no evidence of clandestine data manipulation. The Guardian, 1 Feb

• StuartR
  Posted Feb 1, 2010 at 8:14 PM | Permalink

  Re: Richard Drake (Feb 1 20:02),

  Sorry if this is breaking the rules by discussing a point, but have you seen the Guardians later item?

  http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/feb/01/leaked-emails-climate-jones-chinese

  I think it is really big news, it is a total turn around from that Fred Pearce item. It almost appears they have just found out who the whistleblower is. They are using the word leak now.

  • StuartR
    Posted Feb 1, 2010 at 8:36 PM | Permalink

    Re: StuartR (Feb 1 20:14),
    It’s on Drudge now.

  • Richard Drake
    Posted Feb 1, 2010 at 8:39 PM | Permalink

    People had already drawn attention to the later one, Stuart. But I find it very interesting that they’re both by the same guy – the Chinese story primarily reportage, the other other much more commentary. All in all, some real schizophrenia on show in the Guardian at the moment.

• StuartR
  Posted Feb 1, 2010 at 8:42 PM | Permalink

  Re: Richard Drake (Feb 1 20:02),

  There is this other item from the Guardian which is also on Drudge on the moment

  Strange case of moving weather posts and a scientist under siege

  It’s also from Fred Pearce, but it seems such a turn around from his prevous article, that I have to think that the Guardian have heard some extra information that they aren’t revealing right now.

  http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/feb/01/dispute-weather-fraud

  I

Winny

Bless him, what would we do without Rajendra K. Pachauri‎. Link to an extended interview with Hindustan Times below. Following is a couple of snippets from the interview;

On AR4;
“There is only one error (Himalayan glaciers melting by 2035), to which we have admitted. After that the errors reported are spurious. They (some western media) said the IPCC claim on the losses from disasters was not from an authentic source. We checked the source; it was authentic. The IPCC was also correct on its claim on Amazon forests.”

On the rise of climate skepticism;
“there are 2,300 lobbyists in Washngton DC, whose only job is to see no policy, no legislation comes into existence that will tackle the problem of climate change.”

On his income;
“The IPCC does not pay me a single penny.”

and also
“The only thing I get reimbursed for is travel to IPCC meetings. […] I am grateful that my government has provided support to my institute […] so that I can function as the chair of the IPCC. But I get no payment from any source, certainly not the IPCC for anything I do.”

http://www.hindustantimes.com/They-can-bend-me-but-they-can-t-break-me/H1-Article1-504204.aspx

Michael B Combs

Strange case of moving weather posts and a scientist under siege
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/feb/01/dispute-weather-fraud

debreuil

An article in Make Magazine about snow by Forrest Mimms mentions the surfacestations project and how the dwindling number of thermometers have a warming bias.

http://www.make-digital.com/make/vol21/?pg=28

david watt

http://www.dailytelegraph.newspaperdirect 2nd.com on 2nd Feb. quotes report on faster tree growth due to carbon: reports industry attacks on BBC for exaggerating fish stock decline.

• David L. Hagen
  Posted Feb 2, 2010 at 10:46 AM | Permalink

  Re: david watt (Feb 2 03:56), also by Study: trees are growing faster because of climate change USA Today – citing
  Smithsonian Environmental Research Center Forests are growing faster, climate change appears to driving accelerated growth based on a
  PNAS paper by Parker and McMahon Feb. 1 to be posted. (Could this impact tree temperature proxies?)

jerry

You’ve just got to love the BBC ‘interpreting’ climategate history willy-nilly

http://www.newssniffer.co.uk/articles/304558/diff/5/6

Was: “Officials said messages leaked in November showed that requests under the Freedom of Information Act were “not dealt with as they should have been”.”

Became: “Officials said messages hacked in November showed that requests under the Freedom of Information Act were “not dealt with as they should have been””

TomFL

The Death of Global Warming
http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2010/02/01/the-death-of-global-warming/

Consider the source – William Russel Mead – not exactly a neo-conservative

“The movement died from two causes: bad science and bad politics.”

TomFL

New ‘Climategate’ evidence puts East Anglia scientist’s future in doubt.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/geoffreylean/100024719/new-evidence-puts-east-anglia-climate-scientists-future-in-doubt/

The Telegraph/Guardian state they are the first to discover the Chinese temperature station problem (???).

“The new – and much more serious – evidence, publicised in newspaper reports this morning, concerns temperature data from Chinese weather stations.”

StuartR

NPR is airing the Guardian Phil Jones story

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2010/02/climategate_continues_guardian.html

David L. Hagen

Omitted: The Bright Side of Global Warming It seems the U.N. IPCC only tabulates the benefits of climate change when they are outweighed by the costs. ANNE JOLIS Feb 1, 2010 Wall Street Journal

Such seemingly deliberate efforts to overstate the risks of climate change while obscuring the possible benefits not only hobbles serious debate, but also raises the question of why such tactics are necessary for supposedly “overwhelming scientific evidence,” to quote U.S. President Obama.

WillR

From the Financial Post All smoke and no fire in Montreal carbon market

StuartR

Statement from the University of East Anglia in response to ‘UK scientist hid climate data flaws’ (Guardian, 02.02.10)

The allegations made in today’s Guardian create a misleading picture and require important clarifications in three areas:

http://www.uea.ac.uk/mac/comm/media/press/CRUstatements/guardianstatement

windansea

BREAKING NEWS: NIWA reveals NZ original climate data missing

From the “A goat ate my homework” excuse book:

More major embarrassment for New Zealand’s ‘leading’ climate research unit NIWA tonight, with admissions that it “does not hold copies” of the original reports documenting adjustments to New Zealand’s weather stations.

http://briefingroom.typepad.com/the_briefing_room/2010/02/breaking-news-niwa-reveals-nz-original-climate-data-missing.html

David L. Hagen

Pending:
Sensenbrenner, Issa, Barrasso, and Vitter Request Response to December 2, 2009 Letter on “Climategate”

We also reiterate our request for the agency to turn over all documents and records related to the communications or other interactions with Hadley CRU dating from March 2007 through December 1, 2009 to our respective Committees no later than February 15, 2010.

In addition, we request a written response to the following questions no later than February 15, 2009:

1. EPA has asserted that “nothing in the emails undermines the science upon which the finding was based.” Has EPA conducted a thorough review of the Hadley CRU emails and documents? If so, who conducted the review? When was the review completed? Please discuss all of EPA’s findings and conclusions based on this review.

2. If EPA has not conducted a review of the “Climategate” documents how can you state with certainty that “nothing in the emails undermines the science upon which the finding was based?”

3. You have publically stated that “no new issues have been raised by the emails that were not already covered and discussed in response to comments.” Please identify the precise instances in the Endangerment Finding that responds to accusations of data manipulation at the Hadley CRU. Please also identify any instance where EPA discussed and accounted for accusations of corruption and manipulation of the peer review process has already been considered by EPA. Please note: A general reference to the Endangerment Finding or the Technical Support Document is not an adequate response.

4. Please identify any research grants that EPA has awarded in the past 20 years to the Hadley CRU, to Phil Jones, or to Michael Mann. Your response should include the date the award was made, the amount of the award, and the project funded by the award. Your response should include any funding that materially benefited either the Hadley Center, Phil Jones, or Michael Mann.

GPR

snip – commenting

TAG

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/leading_article/article7009653.ece

Editorial in the Times about poor quality research referenced by IPCC

ianl8888

Just seen on CNN (Wed Feb 3, 8:30am Aus time):

Beddington (Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Govt) –

a) basic science is unchallengeable
b) “mistakes” (such as the melt time for Himalayan glaciers were made) but of minor importance
c) more transparency and open debate with sceptics is needed

Standard line, of course, but what is remarkable is that CNN actually broadcast this in response to what it described as a “growing controversy”, including Climategate. This is the first time I’ve seen CNN acknowledge any of this

PhilipM

Fred Pearce, The Guardian, Tuesday 2 February 2010
Climate change emails between scientists reveal flaws in peer review

Dick Garneau

I have read all the CRU emails, News Stories etc.
I found the information difficult to follow so have recorded all my notes of my web site.
I am a historian so the data is logged by year/date
Enjoy!

WillR

So much for pure science

‘Climategate’ raised questions about global warming. The ongoing debate about its impact raises questions about the the vested interests of climate science by Kevin Libin, National Post

Charles DrPH

On 10 Feb, 2010, Prof. Richard Lindzen of MIT will make a presentation on “The Peculiar Issue of Global Warming” to the staff and scientists of the US DOE laboratory Fermilab. Here’s the link:

http://www-ppd.fnal.gov/EPPOffice-W/colloq/colloq.html

His abstract is intriguing, and the talk will probably be recorded and then posted on the http://www.fnal.gov website as an archive item.

alain G.

No comment!

http://climate.nasa.gov/kids/

Anon

Couldn’t find this particular snippit on the web but it must be there somewhere!:
The Guardian Newsapaper 2nd Feb, page 7: by Fred Pearce: extreme right hand side of page under the title “Allegations: Lies, soundbites and hot air – how the media fell into the sceptics’ trap”.

Anon

Found that Fred Pearce article from The Guardian Newsapaper 2nd Feb,: “Allegations: Lies, soundbites and hot air – how the media fell into the sceptics’ trap” under a different title: “How the ‘climategate’ scandal is bogus and based on climate sceptics’ lies”

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/feb/01/climate-emails-sceptics

Mark Cooper

Sorry Steve, you don’t make the list of top 10

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/georgemonbiot/2009/mar/06/climate-change-deniers-top-10

WillR

U.S.A. House Ag chairman co-sponsors bid to block EPA regs — interesting story

WillR

Mann inquiry findings Feb 3, 2020

StuartR

Fred Pearce again, he is detailing the FOI story with seemingly a lot stuff that must have been gleaned from this blog and with reference to the leaked emails again:

Climate scientists contradicted spirit of openness by turning down FoI requests

Hacked emails reveal systematic attempts to block requests from sceptics — and deep frustration at anti-global warming agenda

PhilipM

The Press and Journal
Can we trust the doom-laden eco-loonies on global warming?
By Derek Lord
Published: 27/11/2009

We climate-change sceptics have our supporters, too
By Derek Lord
Published: 15/01/2010

Rich

Editor of Honolulu Magazine regrets participation in AGW alarmism:

People make these kinds of mistakes all the time, and the motives are no mystery. For the researchers, grant dollars and reputations are on the line. For reporters, global warming offers the thrill of covering The Biggest Story Ever Told, an appeal I could not resist. For politicians, it has offered an endless opportunity for grandstanding and power grabs. Convinced they are saving the earth—what could be more rewarding or important?—all three groups helped each other lose their minds.

“Editor’s Page: May Cooler Heads Prevail”

David L. Hagen

Nick.Barnes at ClearClimateCode reports:

NASA GISS wants to use our code
After the release of ccc-gistemp 0.3.0, I contacted Dr Reto Ruedy of NASA GISS to ask him to try out the release and have a look through it. Dr Ruedy responded, thanking us for our effort, and saying “I hope to switch to your version of that program”. After some further discussion, he clarified this: When GISS has the resources:

johnh

UK Environmental agency is in tears

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/156113/Climate-change-cynicism-a-tragedy-says-Lord-Smith

theduke

From the Spectator. This is quite good.

Global Warming Guerrillas

http://www.spectator.co.uk/spectator/thisweek/5749853/the-global-warming-guerrillas.thtml

Steve and Anthony are getting ink by the barrel. Congrats to both.

• EdeF
  Posted Feb 5, 2010 at 12:35 AM | Permalink

  Good find.

johnh

Prince Charles throws rattle out of pram

http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/156294

Acton Now

Return to Amoral

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/opinion/news/article.cfm?c_id=466&objectid=10624147&pnum=0

Jim Hopkins reviews the sequel.

“…you can judge for yourself as the Harold proudly presents a world-exclusive extract from Dr Pachauri’s all-new raw and raunchy, hot and steamy, “Get your gear off, I’ve come to save your world” bodice ripper. Enjoy.”

Rich

Detectives question climate change scientist over email leaks
The Guardian, 4 February 2010:

One piece of information that led police to question Dennis was the discovery of emails between him and Stephen McIntyre, who runs a sceptic blog in Toronto called Climate Audit. Climate Audit was the first to receive an anonymous link to the leaked data. Dennis subsequently emailed McIntyre to alert him to a Norwich University message confirming that a leak had occurred.

• Rich
  Posted Feb 5, 2010 at 12:05 AM | Permalink

  Sorry, I misplaced the link:

  http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/feb/04/climate-change-email-hacking-leaks

David S

Steve
It looks like the Guardian is back up and running with the “hacker” theory. Can anyone here cast any light on this article?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2010/feb/05/cru-climate-change-hacker

Venter

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/feb/04/scientists-fallibilty-self-criticism-question

NickB.

Steve,
You’re mentioned here: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/05/climategate_questions/

Great article by the way, you’re not the subject but it seems to imply that Paul Dennis was investigated because he had corresponded with you 🙂

Rich

Climategate news and opinion from 4 February 2010:

Cyber fraudsters attack EU’s carbon trading system
AFP, 4 February 2010

UN climate chief defends Pachauri over error
AFP, 4 February 2010

Environmental groups split over calls for IPCC boss to resign
John Vidal, The Guardian, 4 February 2010

Scientists, you are fallible. Get off the pedestal and join the common herd
Simon Jenkins, The Guardian, 4 February 2010

Climate emails: were they really hacked or just sitting in cyberspace?
David Leigh, Charles Arthur and Fred Pearce, The Guardian, 4 February 2010

Penn State panel partially clears professor in climate e-mail inquiry
Frank Warner, Los Angeles Times, 4 February 2010

Companies feel threatened by climate fight: U.N. chief
Matthias Williams, Reuters, 4 February 2010

India forms new climate change body
Dean Nelson, The Telegraph, 4 February 2010

IPCC chief Rajendra Pachauri under pressure to go over glacier error
Ben Webster, The Times Online, 4 February 2010

TomTurner in SF

Clive Crook, at The Atlantic Monthly, weighs in on Climategate, Nov. 20, 2009.
http://clivecrook.theatlantic.com/archives/2009/11/more_on_climategate.php

Glenn Reynolds (better known as InstaPundit), writes for The Washington Examiner about the internal Climategate emails and how they reveal the very poor quality of the data used in the computer models that predict warming tends, Nov. 29, 2009.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/Sunday_Reflections/Climategate-denial-foundering-on-army-of-Davids-8595184-76420732.html

A critique of the scientists involved in the scandal by an independent organic chemist, Dec. 1, 2009. (www.corante.com)
http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2009/12/01/climategate_and_scientific_conduct.php

Reason Magazine looks at the scandal, Dec. 1, 2009.
http://reason.com/archives/2009/12/01/the-scientific-tragedy-of-clim

The Telegraph reports on a Russian claim that British climate scientists have deliberately cherry picked data from Russian temperature station to exaggerate the case for anthropogenic global warming, Dec. 16, 2009.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100020126/climategate-goes-serial-now-the-russians-confirm-that-uk-climate-scientists-manipulated-data-to-exaggerate-global-warming/

The mainstream media comes under fire by its conservative critics for biased reporting, pointing out that some of the leaked emails show an AP reporter working with the CRU scientists as an ally against skeptics, rather than as an objective reporter, Jan. 8, 2010
http://bigjournalism.com/lotts/2010/01/08/as-climategate-becomes-pressgate-questions-for-the-media/

PajamasMedia reviews Climategate: The CRUtape Letters, the first book to tackle the issue, Jan. 20, 2010.
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/climategate-the-end-of-the-beginning/

CNN reports that the IPCC has admitted to using unsubstantiated claims that Himalayan glaciers would melt away by 2035, a false claim that is actually separate from the Climategate scandal, Jan. 20, 2010. Much more on this at ABC News, Jan. 28, 2010.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/01/20/glacier.himalayas.ipcc.error/index.html?iref=allsearch

ABC: Can climate forecasts still be trusted?
http://abcnews.go.com/International/climate-change-forecasts-trusted/story?id=9685251

Climate Depot reports on the IPCC exaggerating temperature data specifically to affect the political discussion of climate change, Jan. 26, 2010.
http://www.climatedepot.com/a/5064/Manufactured-Science-Another-IPCC-Scientist-Reveals-How-UN-Scientists-talked-about-trying-to-make-IPCC-report-so-dramatic-that-US-would-just-have-to-sign-Kyoto-Protocol

London’s The Times reports that the University of East Anglia violated the Freedom of Information Act, but could not be prosecuted because this was revealed too long after the incidents, Jan. 28, 2010
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article7004936.ece

The February issue of Scientific American attempts to dismiss Climategate as much ado about nothing. The article quotes IPCC head, Dr. Rejendra Pachauri, as lamenting how politicized climate change science has become. The article omits that Pachauri earns millions from countless business relationships in green technology companies—exactly how much, he won’t disclose.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=negating-climategate
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/6847227/Questions-over-business-deals-of-UN-climate-change-guru-Dr-Rajendra-Pachauri.html

Climategate: confusion over the law in email case
“… Careful examination of the Act, however, shows that it says nothing whatever about a time limit. The Commission appears to be trying to confuse this with a provision of the Magistrates Act, that charges for an offence cannot be brought more than six months after it has been drawn to the authorities’ attention – not after it was committed.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/7113552/Climategate-confusion-over-the-law-in-email-case.html

Robert Christopher

We need to cool down the climate change row
By Geoffrey Lean @ The Telegraph

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthcomment/geoffrey-lean/7168212/We-need-to-cool-down-the-climate-change-row.html

(the article is accompanied by a large number of vigorous comments, current count 60)

Robert Christopher

Sir David King: IPCC runs against the spirit of science
By Professor David King, former Government chief scientist
in the Daily Telegraph, Feb 6th 2010, 7:30AM GMT

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/7170299/Sir-David-King-IPCC-runs-against-the-spirit-of-science.html

David L. Hagen

Scientists feel heat over climate e-mails, Fiona Harvey, Environment Correspondent,Financial Times February 5 2010 20:19

In the next few days, the jury who will decide the fate of one of the UK’s most prominent climate scientists will take their places. . . .There are three clear charges: that Prof Jones and others tried to subvert the scientific peer-review process; that he attempted to conceal data that others requested; and that some data were manipulated.

Al Gored

http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2010/02/06/lawrence-solomon-ipcc-beyond-the-himalayas.aspx

———-

http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2010/02/05/kelly-mcparland-tough-times-for-the-guru-of-climate-change.aspx

Rich

Recent carbon emissions mitigation news and opinion:

snip – policy.

• Rich
  Posted Feb 7, 2010 at 6:59 PM | Permalink

  I didn’t know if those were appropriate here or not, so I put them all in the same comment to make them easier to snip. You may also want to snip “Climate scepticism grows among Tories”, below.

Rich

More climategate news and opinion from February 4th and 5th:

A time for introspection – Rajendra Pachauri and the IPCC
The Economist, 4 February 2010

An interview with Rajendra Pachauri
The Economist online, 4 February 2010

Climate consensus under strain – We ask a range of experts: what damage has been done by recent criticisms of climate science credibility?
George Monbiot, Vicky Pope, Mike Hulme, Mark Lynas, Roger Pielke Jr, Roger Highfield, Richard Tol, Bryony Worthington, Myles Allen, Jim al-Khalili, Fiona Fox, Ben Pile, Ed Miliband, Bjorn Lomborg, Yang Ailun, and James Garvey,
The Guardian, 4 February 2010

Profile: Climate chief Rajendra Pachauri
BBC, 5 February 2010

U.N. Climate Chief: Critics Should Rub Their Faces With Asbestos
FOXNews.com, 5 February 2010

Climate change skeptics “are people who deny the link between smoking and cancer; they are people who say that asbestos is as good as talcum powder,” he said.

“I hope that they apply it (asbestos) to their faces every day.”

The great global warming collapse
Margaret Wente, The Globe and Mail, 5 February 2010

Until now, anyone who questioned the credibility of the IPCC was labelled as a climate skeptic, or worse. But many climate scientists now sense a sinking ship, and they’re bailing out. Among them is Andrew Weaver, a climatologist at the University of Victoria who acknowledges that the climate body has crossed the line into advocacy.

Climate scepticism ‘on the rise’, BBC poll shows
BBC, 5 February 2010

PhilipM

From: The Australian
February 06, 2010
A Vatican of the laboratory
by Brendan O’Neill

H/T AlanG

Robert Christopher

Stratospheric Water Vapor is a Global Warming Wild Card
http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2010/20100128_watervapor.html

reported in:
Water Vapor Confirmed as Major Player in Climate Change
http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/vapor_warming.html
Kathryn Hansen
NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center

which is linked from:
http://www.ecofactory.com/news/noaa-nasa-water-vapor-largely-responsible-global-warming-012910

• Rich
  Posted Feb 9, 2010 at 8:26 PM | Permalink

  The Economist also covered this a few days ago:

  Dry cold – A drying out of the stratosphere may help explain recent temperature trends at the Earth’s surface
  The Economist Online, 1 February 2010

  …with a link to the following paper:

  Susan Solomon, Karen Rosenlof, Robert Portmann, John Daniel, Sean Davis, Todd Sanford, Gian-Kasper Plattner, Contributions of Stratospheric Water Vapor to Decadal Changes in the Rate of Global Warming, Science, Published Online January 28, 2010

  …at the Science pay-wall here.

Ron Cram

From 6 February 2010

UEA scientist quizzed by police in climategate probe

“It is thought Dr Dennis, who is head of stable isotope and noble gas geochemistry laboratories, came to the attention of detectives after corresponding with climate change sceptic bloggers in North America, while he also refused to sign a petition in support of Prof Phil Jones, the man at the centre of the controversy.”

Say my name, say my name.

Jimchip

More from the Telegraph. Teri sponsors win Teri awards.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/7177323/Climate-change-research-bungle.html

Bruce P

Seems like the US is following India’s lead ….

… don’t want to categorize the announcement one way or another out of respect for Steve, but the language is interesting.

Obama Administration Proposal:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/02/08/administration-proposes-new-agency-study-climate-change/

Craig Loehle

Netherlands not below sea level
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.8d6e5773c60565dfc6e882b0a8dcbf18.4e1&show_article=1

Martin Ackroyd

Another blow for the climate change lobby: Prince Charles

http://www.spectator.co.uk/rodliddle/5753113/another-blow-for-the-climate-change-lobby-prince-charles.thtml

StuartR

Fred Pearce Has a ‘new’ 12 part series in the Guardian – Part 1 discussion of Steves work – tag line being,

In a unique experiment, The Guardian has published online the full manuscript of its major investigation into the climate science emails stolen from the University of East Anglia, which revealed apparent attempts to cover up flawed data; moves to prevent access to climate data; and to keep research from climate sceptics out of the scientific literature.

• Rich
  Posted Feb 9, 2010 at 4:14 PM | Permalink

  This caught my eye:

  As well as including new information about the emails, we will allow web users to annotate the manuscript to help us in our aim of creating the definitive account of the controversy. This is an attempt at a collaborative route to getting at the truth.

Rich

The most recent climategate news stories may be obtained from Google here, here, and here. From these searches, it appears that the media are writing climate-related news stories faster than I can post the links here. Some highlights:

Global warming to become global cooling, says expert
John Ingham, The Daily Express, 8 Februry

Citing predictions by climatologists in the 1970s of a new Ice Age, Professor Beenstock said: “I predict that ­climatologists will look equally foolish in the years to come. Indeed, it may be already happening.”

The case for climate action must be remade from the ground upwards
Ian Katz, The Guardian, 8 February 2010

Next, the credibility of the IPCC – or some form of scientific high court – must be restored. In the short term that means appointing independent experts to review any alleged errors in the panel’s reports. At the same time the IPCC should renounce, or at least severely restrict the use of, grey ­literature. “If that means you can’t be comprehensive then don’t be,” says a senior scientist advocating this course. There is a strong case for more radical reforms: the panel should arguably be replaced by a body controlled by national scientific academies rather than governments.

Walker’s World: Climate facts and doubts
Martin Walker, UPI, 8 February 2010

With the capital city of the United States immobilized by the kind of snow that Moscow takes in stride, the phrase “global warming” is becoming a bad joke. But “climate change,” the preferred alternative of the scientists that allows them to blame hurricanes, floods and blizzards on carbon emissions, is also at increasing risk of mockery…

“There’s been some dangerous crossing of that line,” [climatologist Andrew Weaver] told Canadian reporters. “The problem we have is that the IPCC process has taken on a life of its own. Some might argue we need a change in some of the upper leadership of the IPCC, who are perceived as becoming advocates.”

The storm over climate change: Goldstein
Lorrie Goldstein, Toronto Sun, 9 February 2010

The U.K. government’s chief scientific advisor, John Beddington, has acknowledged some climate scientists exaggerated the impact of global warming and called for more honesty in explaining to the public the inherent uncertainties of predictions based on computer climate models, adding: “I don’t think it’s healthy to dismiss proper skepticism.”

• Rich
  Posted Feb 9, 2010 at 4:24 PM | Permalink

  Also, the two articles mentioned earlier from Saturday’s Telegraph with the fresh allegations of IPCC impropriety (Climate change research bungle and New errors in IPCC climate change report) may be growing legs, and have been picked up by a couple of other blogs in the past few days.

Rich

Does an Old Climate Critique Still Hold up?
Andrew Revkin, The New York Times, 9 February 2010

I have yet to see anyone provide definitive evidence — with no error bars — that the fingerprint of human-generated greenhouse gases (or other emissions or actions) is unequivocal. The only thing described as “unequivocal” in the report was the warming, not the cause, unless I really haven’t been paying attention for the last two decades.

I’ve sent out an email to the lead authors and overall leaders of the report on the basic science and will update this post when they respond.

An update containing a response by IPCC author Gabriele Hegerl has already been posted by Mr. Revkin.

Robert Christopher

The end of the IPCC
American Thinker, By S. Fred Singer, Feb 10th, 2010
http://comments.americanthinker.com/read/42323/535796.html

Bad Science Costing Economy Big Bucks
FoxNews, Feb 10th, 2010, with Sen. Jim Inhofe, (R-Okla.)
on why the administration’s climate-change policy has cost the economy heavily this winter.
http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/4010543/bad-science-costing-economy-big-bucks/?playlist_id=87185

Charles DrPH

Well, well, well, will wonders never cease? Now the New York Times has picked up on the story!
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/09/science/earth/09climate.html?pagewanted=1&sq=IPCC&st=cse&scp=2

Martin Ackroyd

“An independent review into the ‘Climategate’ leaked email scandal at the University of East Anglia is due to begin today.”

“The review by Sir Russell, who has no previous links with the climate science community or with the University of East Anglia, will examine whether there has been any manipulation or suppression of data “at odds with acceptable scientific practice”.

Sir Muir Russell is a member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. The RSE’s web site states: “The science that indicates that climate change is resulting from greenhouse gas emissions is well established, with the only real uncertainty being the scale of the future changes.”

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Climategate-Leaked-Emails-Scandal-Review-Launched-Over-University-Of-East-Anglia-Case/Article/201002215546468?lpos=UK_News_Top_Stories_Header_2&lid=ARTICLE_15546468_Climategate_Leaked_Emails_Scandal%3A_Review_Launched_Over_University_Of_East_Anglia_Case

Martin Ackroyd

‘Climate-gate’ review member resigns

Within hours of the launch of an independent panel to investigate claims that climate scientists covered up flawed data on temperature rises, one member has been forced to resign after sceptics questioned his impartiality.

http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/science_technology/aposclimategateapos+review+member+resigns/3536642

Bruce P

First US Governmental Group (Utah House of Representatives) to jump into Climategate. Looks like they landed with both feet too. A version of this bill has already passed their senate. Ut was introduced as a Joint Resolution.
HJR 12
http://www.freemeninstitute.com/utah-climate-change-epa-conspiracy.html

The amended version isn’t nearly as much fun as the originally proposed version. A few highlights. A lot of people won’t want to go read the legalese. Any phrase surrounded by “H. [phrase or word] .H” was removed from the final draft

This resolution:
urges the United States Environmental Protection Agency to immediately halt its carbon dioxide reduction policies and programs and withdraw its “Endangerment Finding” and related regulations until a full and independent investigation of H. [ the ] .H climate data H. [ conspiracy ] .H and global warming science can be substantiated.

WHEREAS, the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA)
“Endangerment Finding” and proposed action to regulate CO2 under the Clean Air Act is based on H. [ flawed ] questionable .H climate data and would place significant regulatory and financial burdens on all sectors of the nation’s economy at a time when the nation’s unemployment rate exceeds 10%;

WHEREAS, the “hockey stick” global warming assertion has been discredited and climate alarmists’ carbon dioxide-related global warming hypothesis is unable to account for the current downturn in global temperatures;

WHEREAS, emails and other communications between climate researchers around the globe, referred to as “Climategate,” indicate a well organized and ongoing effort to manipulate
H. [ and incorporate “tricks” related to ] .H global temperature data in order to produce a global warming outcome;

WHEREAS, there has been a concerted effort by climate change alarmists to marginalize those in the scientific community who are skeptical of global warming by manipulating or pressuring peer-reviewed publications to keep contrary or competing scientific viewpoints and findings on global warming from being reviewed and published;

WHEREAS, Earth’s climate is constantly changing with recent warming potentially an indication of a return to more normal temperatures following a prolonged cooling period from 1250 to 1860 called the “Little Ice Age”;

WHEREAS, H. [ the climate change “gravy train,” estimated at ] .H more than $7 billion annually in federal government grants, may have influenced the climate research focus and findings that have produced a “scientific consensus” at research institutions and universities;

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Legislature of the state of Utah urges the United States Environmental Protection Agency to immediately halt its carbon dioxide reduction policies and programs and withdraw its “Endangerment Finding” and related
regulations until a full and independent investigation of H. [ the ] .H climate data H. [ conspiracy ] .H and global warming science can be substantiated.

Snip this if it’s just too long.

Al Gored

World may not be warming, say scientists

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article7026317.ece

Rich

I just noticed these three linked on Drudge:

Climategate U-turn as scientist at centre of row admits: There has been no global warming since 1995
Jonathan Petre, The Daily Mail, 14 February 2010

He [Dr. Jones] further admitted that in the last 15 years there had been no ‘statistically significant’ warming, although he argued this was a blip rather than the long-term trend.

World may not be warming, say scientists
Jonathan Leake, The Sunday Times, 14 February 2010

“The temperature records cannot be relied on as indicators of global change,” said John Christy, professor of atmospheric science at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, a former lead author on the IPCC.

The Great Climate Change Retreat
Ed Price, The Daily Express, 15 February 2010

Professor Jones also conceded for the first time that the world may have been warmer in medieval times than now. Sceptics have long argued the world was warmer between 800 and 1300AD because of high temperatures in northern countries.

Bruce P

I can’t decide if this article is funny or just sad and I am glad I’m not paying taxes in the U.K.. I thought we wasted money here in the U.S. …

British Council gets in on the Climate Act …

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/7231466/British-Council-gets-in-on-the-climate-act.html

Al Gored

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1250872/Climategate-U-turn-Astonishment-scientist-centre-global-warming-email-row-admits-data-organised.html#ixzz0fffVo9aQ

“Professor Jones also conceded the possibility that the world was warmer in medieval times than now – suggesting global warming may not be a man-made phenomenon.

And he said that for the past 15 years there has been no ‘statistically significant’ warming.”

Jimchip

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article7028362.ece

February 16, 2010
Science blogger finds errors in Met Office climate change records

Jimchip

US Energy Secretary Chu interviewed:
US energy chief struggles to shift debate, http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/6f9abaa0-1c02-11df-a5e1-00144feab49a.html
Also, there’salink for the full interview

Robert Christopher

Bill Gates, Environmental Kook
American Thinker, Feb 18th, 2010, by Claude Sandroff
http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/02/bill_gates_environmental_kook.html

Robert Christopher

‘Climategate’ fallout: shadow of suspicion falls across East Anglia
Times Higher Education on Feb 18th 2010, by Zoë Corbyn

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=410426&c=1

Mood darkens as online critics question work because it emanates from UEA.

Academics at the University of East Anglia who have nothing to do with the study of climate change are being affected by the fallout from the “Climategate” scandal, as unfair questions are asked about the veracity of their work.

Jimchip

Lawrence Solomon: Vindication — Dutch global warming denier “was right after all”
http://network.nationalpost.com/NP/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2010/02/18/lawrence-solomon-vindication-dutch-global-warming-denier-quot-was-right-after-all-quot.aspx

English translation pdf http://www.probeinternational.org/files/UKVersieHenkTennekes.pdf

Jimchip

Tulsa Today Oklahoma Climatological Survey Strangely Mum
http://www.tulsatoday.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1601:oklahoma-climatological-survey-strangely-mum&catid=54:tulsa-speaks&Itemid=147

Jimchip

The Guardian Yvo de Boer’s resignation compounds sense of gathering climate crisis
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/feb/18/yvo-de-boer-resignation-un-climate-change-body

Hoi Polloi

NASA FOIA Emails here:

http://www.neutralpedia.com/wiki/NASA_FOIA_Emails

Martin Ackroyd

The crackup of the climate ‘consensus’
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/the_crackup_of_the_climate_consensus_T3eGnulTAq4Xm76qB0Mr7N

Jimchip

Orange County Register, Mark Landsbaum. A long list of -gates
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/-234092–.html

Robert Christopher

EPA, Countering Critics of Greenhouse Gas Findings, Says ‘Science Is Settled’
FOXNews, updated Feb 19th, 2010, by Molly Henneberg

The EPA says it is going forward with “common sense measures that are helping to protect Americans from this threat” and said its critics are trying to “stall progress.”

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/02/19/epa-countering-critics-greenhouse-gas-findings-says-science-settled/

with added URL

Jimchip

Virginia attorney general questions global warming red tape By THE WASHINGTON TIMES
http://washingtontimes.com/news/2010/feb/21/cuccinelli-fights-the-epa/

Jimchip

Climategate: The big picture By E. Thomas McClanahan, Kansas City Star Editorial Page columnist
http://voices.kansascity.com/node/7667

Jimchip

Der Spiegel The World from Berlin ‘De Boer’s Resignation Is Catastrophic’

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,679005,00.html

Robert Christopher

Scientists hit by climate doubt fallout

The Independent, on Feb 20th 2010, By John von Radowitz, Press Association
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/scientists-hit-by-climate-doubt-fallout-1905414.html

Fallout from a loss of public confidence in climate science is affecting other fields of research, a top US academic claimed.

Jimchip

Global warming: Rolling heads gather no moss–and make for bad policy
February 20, 12:28 PMEnvironmental Policy Examiner Thomas Fuller

http://www.examiner.com/x-9111-Environmental-Policy-Examiner~y2010m2d20-Global-warming-Rolling-heads-make-bad-policyand-gather-no-additional-moss

Jimchip

Toronto Sun Great global warming snow job: Remember, weather is not the same thing as climate … unless David Suzuki says it is By Lorrie Goldstein, Senior Associate Editor Last Updated: February 21, 2010 2:15am

http://www.torontosun.com/comment/columnists/lorrie_goldstein/2010/02/19/12952876.html

Jimchip

Bias comes in the way of climate solutions
The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has fudged and exaggerated some reports in order to drive politicians to make decisions in certain directions By Saadallah Al Fathi, Special to Gulf News February 22 2010

http://gulfnews.com/business/opinion/bias-comes-in-the-way-of-climate-solutions-1.586417

Jimchip

Fumento in the CFP (so its sorta like a ‘climate blog’) but some good links.
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/20246

Jimchip

Climate scientists withdraw journal claims of rising sea levels Study claimed in 2009 that sea levels would rise by up to 82cm by the end of century – but the report’s author now says true estimate is still unknown
David Adam guardian.co.uk, Sunday 21 February 2010 18.00 GMT

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/feb/21/sea-level-geoscience-retract-siddall

Al Gored

Editorial summary of bias in CRU inquiry.

http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/19987

Jimchip

Figuring out how ‘global warming’ becomes ‘no global warming’
Failing to understand statistical significance has lead to conflicting media reports about climate change, but is the media solely to blame?
By Peter McKnight, Vancouver Sun February 22, 2010

http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Figuring+global+warming+becomes+global+warming/2596138/story.html

Jimchip

All Things Considered
UN Panel Errors Fuel More Doubt In Climate Science
February 22, 2010 … Climate scientists insist these are minor mistakes and that climate change is still a fact.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123973664

Jimchip

BREAKING: Senator Barbara Boxer and EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson Throw IPCC Under the Bus

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/breaking-senator-barbara-boxer-and-epa-administrator-lisa-jackson-throw-ipcc-under-the-bus/

Rich

Climate scientists hope independent reviews will reverse public’s loss of trust
Ben Webster, The Times, 25 February 2010

The Met Office, which supplies the global temperature trends used by the IPCC, has proposed that an international group of scientists re-examine 160 years of temperature data. The Met Office proposal is a tacit admission that its previous reports on such trends have been marred by their reliance on analysis by the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit.

ANALYSIS-Scientists examine causes for lull in warming
Gerard Wynn and Alister Doyle, Reuters, 25 February 2010

Scientists said they must explain better how a freezing winter this year in parts of the northern hemisphere and a break in a rising trend in global temperatures since 1998 can happen when heat-trapping gases are pouring into the atmosphere.

“There is a lack of consensus,” said Kevin Trenberth, head of the Climate Analysis Section at the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research, on why global temperatures have not matched a peak set in 1998, or in 2005 according to one U.S. analysis.

Al Gored

A perfect storm is brewing for the IPCC

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/7332803/A-perfect-storm-is-brewing-for-the-IPCC.html

Al Gored

Jones gets grilled…

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/mar/01/phil-jones-climate-science-emails-select-committee-hearing

Martin Ackroyd

“By this point Jones and Acton appear to have lost the sympathy of the Committee’s Chair, Willis.”

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/02/parliament_climategate/

Al Gored

Professor Jones… told MPs: “We have given them the finished product available from the very beginning but not the raw [weather] station data.

“Most scientists do not want to deal with the raw station data, they would rather deal with a derived product.”

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8543289.stm

• bobdenton
  Posted Mar 3, 2010 at 2:30 AM | Permalink

  He seems to saying that he would give scientists his results, most scientists do not deal with the raw data they just want the results.

Janice Baker

On March 3, the Globe and Mail published a story by John M. Broder, “Scientists open up climate data”, supplied by the New York Times News Service. I cannot locate it on the net; perhaps others, more expert, will be able to find it. The author refers to Climategate as “the unauthorized release . . . of e-mail messages”.

• Al Gored
  Posted Mar 3, 2010 at 3:44 PM | Permalink

  This could be it…

  Scientists Taking Steps to Defend Work on ClimateBy JOHN M. BRODER
  Published: March 2, 2010

  http://www.nytimes/2010/03/03/science/earth/03climate.html?th&emc=th

Al Gored

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100028525/warmists-overwhelmed-by-fear-panic-and-deranged-hatred-as-their-science-collapses/

Robert Christopher

IPCC Science Designed For Propaganda
Canada Free Press, Feb 5th 2010, By Dr. Tim Ball
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/19702

“The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was specifically designed by Maurice Strong as a political vehicle to further his objective of crippling the industrial nations”

Robert Christopher

Ed Miliband’s [UK Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change] adverts banned for overstating climate change
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article7061162.ece
From The Sunday Times, Jonathan Leake, Environment Editor, March 14th, 2010

Jack and Jill went up the hill …
Rub a dub dub, three men in a tub …

Jimchip

Hosted by Warren Olney, NPR To The Point
http://www.kcrw.com/news/programs/tp

MON MAR 15, 2010
Political Change on Climate Change

Americans were increasingly worried about climate change until last year, when there was a surge in skepticism that’s still growing. Is it the economy? The news media? What are the consequences for public policy in the US and around the world? Also, settlement construction in Jerusalem will go on, and new violence in Mexico as Spring Break begins in the US.

Jimchip

CBS News. By Associated Press Writer Brian Skoloff; AP Science Writer Seth Borenstein contributed to this report from Washington.

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., March 26, 2010
Coral Reefs Face Extinction Within Century
Half of Caribbean Coral Already Gone; Climate Change, Pollution, Development, Bottom-Dragging Fishing Boats Blamed.

ludens

WTF!!! We had tornado in Serbia yesterday.
http://www.intermezzo.ba/latn/?page=6&kat=41&vijest=36022