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Climategate: the official cover-up continues |
2010-02-13 |
If there's one thing that stinks even more than Climategate, it's the attempts we're seeing everywhere from the IPCC and Penn State University to the BBC to pretend that nothing seriously bad has happened, that "the science" is still "settled", and that it's perfectly OK for the authorities go on throwing loads more of our money at a problem that doesn't exist. The latest example of this noisome phenomenon is Sir Muir Russell's official whitewash -- sorry "independent inquiry" into the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) scandal. The inquiry has not even begun and already it has told its first blatant lie -- seen here on its official website. Do any of the Review team members have a predetermined view on climate change and climate science? By what bizarre logic, then, did Sir Muir think it a good idea to appoint to his panel the editor of Nature, Dr Philip Campbell? Dr Campbell is hardly neutral: his magazine has for years been arguing aggressively in favour of the AGW, and which published this editorial in the wake of Climategate: The e-mail archives stolen last month from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia (UEA), UK, have been greeted by the climate-change-denialist fringe as a propaganda windfall (see page 551). To these denialists, the scientists' scathing remarks about certain controversial palaeoclimate reconstructions qualify as the proverbial 'smoking gun': proof that mainstream climate researchers have systematically conspired to suppress evidence contradicting their doctrine that humans are warming the globe. Dr Campbell has since resigned his post -- and rightly so, as the Global Warming Policy Foundation makes clear. But are we to feel any more confident about the alleged neutrality of another of Sir Muir's appointments, Professor Geoffrey Boulton? Bishop Hill certainly doesn't think so. He notes that Professor Boulton....
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Posted by:GolfBravoUSMC |
#3 I think they all still hoping for the CASH from ETS schemes and the like |
Posted by: Sundown 2010-02-13 18:27 |
#2 When you Lost the BBC |
Posted by: Jease White7807 2010-02-13 09:20 |
#1 Climategate: Inhofe Raises the Temperature |
Posted by: Hupeath Borgia3058 2010-02-13 08:27 |