Climategate Latest
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November 23 2009
Slowly seeping into the local media.
The Australian:
COMPUTER hackers have broken into Britain's leading climate science research
centre, making public thousands of private emails between top climate change
scientists and, in the process, laying bare their bitter disagreements about
the cause of climate change.
Tim Blair in the Daily Telegraph:
Should they be proved genuine, which is looking likely at this point, in the
absence of any denials, these emails are absolute dynamite.
Sydney Morning Herald (devoting an entire artice to the defence):
A leading climate change scientist whose private emails are included in
thousands of documents stolen by hackers and posted online says the leaks
may have been aimed at undermining next month's global climate summit in
Denmark.
Prominent climate scientist Roger Pielke Sr says we now need to review the
extent of the hijacking of the IPCC:
The challenge to the IPCC community, now that their duplicity has been
exposed, is to communicate to all of us why the peer-reviewed papers that we
documented, and that were available in time for the IPCC review process,
were considered "bad papers" and thus ignored in the IPCC report. A balanced
assessment would comment on these papers, and provide the reason they
disagree with their results.
UPDATE
Former British Chancellor Lord Lawson in The Times:
Astonishingly, what appears, at least at first blush, to have emerged is
that
(a) the scientists have been manipulating the raw temperature figures to
show a relentlessly rising global warming trend;
(b) they have consistently refused outsiders access to the raw data;
(c) the scientists have been trying to avoid freedom of information
requests; and
(d) they have been discussing ways to prevent papers by dissenting
scientists being published in learned journals.
There may be a perfectly innocent explanation. But what is clear is that the
integrity of the scientific evidence on which not merely the British
Government, but other countries, too, through the IPCC, claim to base
far-reaching and hugely expensive policy decisions, has been called into
question. And the reputation of British science has been seriously
tarnished. A high-level independent inquiry must be set up without delay.
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Warmest Regards
B0n o*
"It is a remarkable fact that despite the worldwide expenditure of perhaps
US$50 billion since 1990, and the efforts of tens of thousands of scientists
worldwide, no human climate signal has yet been detected that is distinct
from natural variation."
Bob Carter, Research Professor of Geology, James Cook University, Townsville