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The Climategate Inquiries
Andrew MontfordA detailed assessment of the Climategate inquiries set up by the University of East Anglia and others which finds that they avoided key questions and failed to probe some of the most serious allegations. The report The Climategate Inquiries , written by Andrew Montford and with a foreword by Lord (Andrew) Turnbull, finds that ...
Understanding the Climategate Inquiries
Ross McKitrickNews broke on or around 19 November 2009 that a large archive of emails and files from the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) in the UK had been released on the Internet. The contents of the files were sufficiently disconcerting to the public, governments, and university administrations that a number of inquiries were established ...
Petition to EPA for Reconsideration of its CO2 Endangerment Finding
Peabody Energy CompanyPeabody Energy Company has petitioned the Environmental Protection Agency to reconsider its December 2009 finding that greenhouse gas emissions endanger public health or welfare. The basis for Peabody s 238-page petition are the emails exchanged by scientists in the United Kingdom and the United States who authored, edited, and ...
Response to Misinformation by Deutsche Bank
Ross McKitrick... the report s treatment of the Hide the Decline email. These should suffice to illustrate the weakness of the DB report.... ...
Understanding Climategate's Hidden Decline
Marc Sheppard... Mike s Nature Trick (MNT) to hide the decline. And yet, seventeen days and thousands... that very few understand exactly which decline was being hidden, what trick was used to do so, and why Jones s words have become the slogan for the greatest scientific fraud in history. As the mainstream media... ...
Petition for Reconsideration of "Endangerment and Cause or Contribute Findings for Greenhouse Gases under Section 202(a) of the Clean Air Act" on behalf of eight U.S. Representatives by the Southeastern Legal Foundation Inc.
Shannon L. Goessling, Edward A. Kazmarek, and Harry W. MacDougaldThe representative assert EPA should convene a new endangerment finding proceeding because the CRU emails show the validity and reliability of the IPPC science and other " consensus" reports on which EPA relies has been impeached. The data lacks integrity, peer review was corrupted, and authors demanded " mandatory orthodoxy" from ...
Understanding Climategate’s Hidden Decline
Marc Sheppard... Mike s Nature Trick (MNT) to hide the decline. And yet, 17 days and thousands... seems very few understand exactly which decline was being hidden, what trick was... issue, it was not the temperature decline the planet has been experiencing since... 1998 that Jones and friends conspired to hide... ...
Curry Blog Tackles ‘Hide the Decline’
James M. Taylor... Climate, Etc . In a post titled Hiding the Decline , Curry writes, To date, I ve... aspect of this issue: the infamous hide the decline. The entirety of Curry s Hiding the Decline blog post is very much worth... there has been no attempt to hide the divergence... ...
Scientists Behaving Badly
Steven F. Hayward... other pollsters all find a dramatic decline in public belief in human-caused... Mike's Nature [magazine] trick" to " hide the decline" that inconveniently shows up after 1960... other messages, while less blatant than " hide the decline," expose scandalously unprofessional behavior. There... ...
Climategate: A Step by Step Analysis
John P. CostellaA painstakingly detailed review of the Climategate e-mails bolsters the picture they paint of deliberate data manipulation by " scientists" bent on blaming mankind for climate change." Climategate Analysis," published by the nonprofit Science & Public Policy Institute, presents all the leaked e-mails from the University of East Anglia ...
Climategate Analysis
John P. CostellaThe most difficult thing for a scientist in the era of Climategate is trying to explain to family and friends why it is so distressing to scientists. Most people don t know how science really works: there are no popular television shows, movies, or books that really depict the everyday lives of real scientists; it just isn ...
Petition for Reconsideration of Endangerment and Cause or Contribute Finding for Greenhouse Gases Under Section 202(a) of the Clean Air Act
Greg AbbottTexas petitions EPA to reconsider its Endangerment Finding, relying on the CRU emails and other data calling the finding into question. Texas notes EPA regulation of greenhouse gases would impact 3,800 farms and 28,000 cattle operations that will need permits just to continue operating. It may also jeopardize 375,000 Texans who ...
The Great Hoax
Peter FerraraGlobal warming warmongers insist that the recently exposed " Climategate" emails, exchanged among climate scientists working for the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), do not change the basic science underlying global warming, so they are no big deal. But they are quite wrong. The data and the arguments now ...
Andrew Revkin Spins "ClimateGate" Story
K. Daniel Glover... that scientists have been conspiring to hide the decline in temperatures that would undermine the... to do it. I m thinking hide the decline could be a slogan for a... and the Times certainly are in decline. They re just not very good at hiding it yet. K. Daniel Glover is... ...
Penn State’s Integrity Crisis
Steve Milloy... e., Mike s Nature trick to hide the decline. While explaining how trick could merely... the committee failed to even mention hide the decline, a phrase referring to Mann s still-unexplained deletion of temperature data contradicting the climate alarmism hypothesis. Based on Mann s denial, the... ...
Q : Professor Phil Jones
BBC News... trick the public? You also mentioned " hiding the decline" (in temperatures). Why did you say... has nothing to do with any " decline" in observed instrumental temperatures. The remark... the last 600 years. The phrase 'hide the decline' was shorthand for providing a composite representation... ...
In Denial: The Meltdown of the Climate Campaign
Steven F. HaywardIt is increasingly clear, writes Steve Hayward in this report for The Weekly Standard, that the leak of the internal emails and documents of the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in November has done for the climate change debate what the Pentagon Papers did for the Vietnam war debate 40 years ago changed ...
The Evidence of Climate Fraud
Marc SheppardA folder containing documents, data and, e-mails purportedly " hacked" from Britain's Climate Research Unit (CRU) may be smoking-gun proof of a worldwide conspiracy to exaggerate the existence, causation, and threat of global warming. And the list of apparent conspirators includes many of the world's leading climate alarmists -- the ...
2010 February Environment & Climate News (full text PDF)
Edited by James M. TaylorThe February 2010 issue of Environment & Climate News opens with a report on Climategate, the temperature data-tampering scandal that would not die. A series of e-mails between scientists who serve as gatekeepers for the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change leaked from the University of East Anglia Climate ...
John Cook: Skeptical Science
Luboš MotlJohn Cook, a former student of physics in Australia, has constructed an interesting website trying to attack the opinions of climate skeptics: Skeptical Science: Getting skeptical about global warming skepticism. Lubo Motl says It s been in my climate bookmarks for quite some time but no one really cared about it so I didn ...