US Congress investigates Climategate e-mails: this could be the beginning of the end for AGW
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US Congress investigates Climategate e-mails: this could be the
beginning of the end for AGW
By Gerald Warner World Last updated: November 26th, 2009
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The United States Congress has begun the process of investigating the
leaked climate change e-mails from the University of East Anglia,
which means all attempts to suppress and shut down the scandal have
failed. Already aides to Representative Darrell Issa (Republican,
California), who is the ranking member of the House Committee on
Oversight and Government Reform, have begun analysing the
correspondence exposed by hackers.
At the same time, in the upper house, the Senate Committee on
Environment and Public Works has been told by Senator James Inhofe
(Republican, Oklahoma) that unless it acts promptly on the matter he
will call for an investigation into the state of climate science. The
e-mails are of huge interest to American legislators because one of
them was sent by White House Science Adviser Dr John Holdren, in 2003,
when he was at the Woods Hole Research Center, Massachusetts, to
support Michael Mann of Pennsylvania State University.
In his own e-mail, which he has defended and not denied, Mann
suggested colleagues should be encouraged to stop submitting papers to
the journal Climate Research, as it had published a paper to which he
objected. The involvement of a White House adviser has given the
controversy political traction on Capitol Hill, where legislators are
considering the Obama administration�s plans for cap and trade laws,
just when Obama has committed himself to restrictions on greenhouse
gas emissions and personal attendance at the Copenhagen climate summit
in a month�s time.
At this most sensitive moment the whole climate scare is threatening
to unravel with literally immeasurable consequences. The seriousness
with which the Americans are treating this has highlighted just how
pivotal the CRU at East Anglia is to the global warming hype. As
American newsmen are pointing out, East Anglia claims the world�s
largest temperature data set and its findings and mathematical models
were incorporated into the IPCC�s 2007 report, which the US
Environmental Protection Agency admits it �relies on most heavily� in
deciding that carbon dioxide emissions must be curbed.
Now these e-mails are being read on the CBS site, revealing a farcical
Carry On Researching scenario at East Anglia: �Apply a very artificial
correction for decline!!� �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!� And so on. Codes were erratic,
the baffled researchers had no idea what was going on.
Joe Public is now reading this stuff, courtesy of CBS, and wondering
just what the heck has been happening. Republicans will be asking
Obama�s people how the Environment Protection Agency came to rely on
the CRU�s projections. They will also be asking questions about e-
mails referring to grants from the US Commerce Department�s National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to East Anglia. One of them
allegedly says: �We need to show some left to cover the costs of the
trip Roger didn�t make and also the fees/equipment/computer money we
haven�t spent otherwise NOAA will be suspicious.�
Unless and until that e-mail is authoritatively denied (and none of
them so far appear to have been), many will conclude that those
sentiments encapsulate the ethos of the climate alarmist industry.
Contrast, too, the speed with which American legislators have
concerned themselves with this scandal and the indifference of our own
parliamentarians and mainstream media. America may not have
Beefeaters, historic stately homes, or the Queen; but when our
Transatlantic cousins suspect they have been shafted by a bunch of
wide boys in white lab coats they do not hang around.
While the British public has heard only whingers from East Anglia
shouting that hacking into e-mails is a crime, it is the American
media that are pointing out that deleting e-mail messages to conceal
them from a FOI request in the United Kingdom is also a criminal
offence. Congress, seeing an opportunity of derailing Obama, Al Gore
and an attempt to cripple America to the tune of countless billions of
dollars, is on the case. This is global news now.
Meanwhile, the CBS News website is running the George Monbiot quote:
�It�s no use pretending that this isn�t a major blow. The e-mails
extracted by a hacker from the climatic research unit at the
University of East Anglia could scarcely be more damaging.� Too right.
Surfer
>http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/geraldwarner/100017954/us-congress-investigates-climategate-e-mails-this-could-be-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-agw/
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>US Congress investigates Climategate e-mails: this could be the
>beginning of the end for AGW
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I doubt it. Here is a sober assessment of the emails:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/cif-green/2009/nov/23/leaked-email-climate-change
"....Generally, though, the emails are extremely focused, technical,
and, dare I say it, really dull. As noted on realclimate.org, the
emails contain "no evidence of any worldwide conspiracy, no mention of
George Soros nefariously funding climate research, no grand plan to
'get rid of the MWP', no admission that global warming is a hoax, no
evidence of the falsifying of data, and no 'marching orders' from our
socialist/communist/vegetarian overlords...."
And here is independent evidence of warming:
Arctic sea ice extent is still decreasing. See graph at right.
http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/index.html
Larger image here
http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/images/n_plot_hires.png
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> On Sat, 28 Nov 2009 13:21:05 +1100, "o z n o b" <i...@o.com> wrote:
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>>http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/geraldwarner/100017954/us-congress-investigates-climategate-e-mails-this-could-be-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-agw/
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>>US Congress investigates Climategate e-mails: this could be the
>>beginning of the end for AGW
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> I doubt it. Here is a sober assessment of the emails:
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/cif-green/2009/nov/23/leaked-email-climate-change
OK, try explaining these away then ....
There are currently emerging many examples of climate data "adjustments",
secrecy and outright fraud, not to mention increasingly shrill alarmism as
the Copenhagen talkfest nears..
Why would anyone believe we have global warming when, for example, some
"scientist" created a warming trend in a 150 year New Zealand graph whilst
the original data showed no warming.
Or what about the graph which shows that RURAL Australia (as opposed to
URBAN where UHI is present) has not warmed over the last 100 years
http://www.newsweekly.com.au/articles/2009oct31_c.html
And what about the CRU "scientists" "hiding the decline" in temperatures.
There are many other examples.
I think that all these scandals should be thoroughly investigated before we
buy into this climate scam and squander trillons on a non-existent problem.
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Warmest Regards