Articles Tagged &quot;ClimateGate&quot;

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AUDIO LORD LAWSON BBC CLIMATEGATE ANDREW MONTFORD STEVE MCINTYRE

MUST LISTEN: ClimateGate Revisited BBC Radio 4

Thursday, November 1st 2012, 4:30 AM EDT

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Over a year left to listen Duration: 28 minutes First broadcast:Wednesday 31 October 2012

Climategate was the term quickly applied in 2009 to the mysterious appearance on the internet of large numbers of emails and documents belonging to some of the world's leading climate scientists.

This happened just a month before the Copenhagen climate change conference, which failed to meet the expectations of many for agreement on international action. The timing may not be coincidental.

Source Link: CLICK THIS LINK for a MUST LISTEN 28 min summary of "ClimateGate" from the BBC

LARRY BELL MR. FOIA (HERO OF CLIMATEGATE EMAIL'S) CLIMATEGATE

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Larry Bell: Who Released The Climategate Emails And Why

Sunday, March 17th 2013, 4:03 AM EDT

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No, it wasn’t a conspiracy plotted by Big Oil or Republican operatives using mercenary hackers after all. And unless you happen to get all your news from the mainstream media, you will undoubtedly recognize that by “Climategate”, I’m referring here to the thousands of leaked email communications between prominent international researchers within the U.K.’s University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit (CRU) network. That person (yes, single individual) has come forth to shed light on a real conspiracy…one to spread false alarm about a concocted global warming crisis.

Not only that, “Mr. FOIA” (aka. Freedom of Information Act) has done it again. He has issued a password along with instructions to a select group that provides access to a new and much larger communications file, one which many of those researchers and their sponsoring organizations have worked very hard to suppress from legal FOIA requests. I have confirmed through reliable sources that this database is authentic. Some intriguing insights have already begun to surface.

The following quotations present what Mr. FOIA said in an explanation note:

It’s time to tie up loose ends and dispel some of the speculation surrounding the Climategate affair.

Indeed, it’s singular “I” this time. After certain career developments I can no longer use the papal plural.

If this email seems slightly disjointed it’s probably my linguistic background and the problem of trying to address both the wider audience (I expect this will be partially reproduced sooner or later) and the email recipients (whom I haven’t decided yet on).

The “all.7z” password is [redacted]

DO NOT PUBLISH THE PASSWORD. Quote other parts if you like.

Source Link: forbes.com/sites/larrybell

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AUDIO CLIMATEGATE

MUST LISTEN: Lord Oxburgh speaks on climate and Climategate

Thursday, August 9th 2012, 6:28 AM EDT

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Lord Oxburgh is in Queensland for the 34th International Geological Congress and granted a 20 minute audience to ABC host Steve Austin. Oxburgh's inquiry into the Climategate affair was superficial and failed to ask the right questions of the right people. It was also hopelessly biased, and allowed the "accused" to select the "evidence" on which the inquiry was based.

Oxburgh himself was compromised from the outset, being president of the Carbon Capture and Storage Association and chairman of a company involved in construction and operation of windfarms. This obvious conflict of interest didn't trouble Oxburgh clearly. I wonder if the same blind eye would have been turned if he was chairman of a fossil fuel company.

That said, he had some interesting things to say on a variety of subjects and I highly recommend listening to the whole interview here. I have transcribed some key sections below.

Source Link: australianclimatemadness.com

JENNIFER MAROHASY CLIMATEGATE MR. FOIA (HERO OF CLIMATEGATE EMAIL'S)

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Jennifer Marohasy: FOIA, government-funded climate science and hole-digging

Thursday, March 21st 2013, 1:34 PM EDT

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FOIA is a recognised shorthand for Freedom of Information Act. Legislation by this name has existed in the USA since 1966, Australia since 1982 and the UK legislation was introduced in 2000. It was climate scientists at the Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia, conspiring to evade the UK FOIA that probably inspired Climategate, with Mr FOIA, as the “hacker” calls himself, releasing over 220,000 documents and emails beginning in November 2009. In a recent email he explained: “The circus was about to arrive in Copenhagen. Later on it could be too late.”

By providing public access to emails and documents from leading climate scientists, Mr FOIA exposed how tricks, adjustments, and corrections, were routinely applied to climate data to support the propaganda of the largely government-funded global warming industry.

I recently scrutinized documents from a successful FOI request by John Abbot to the Australian Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency, DCCEE. As far as I can make out from the documents the entire Australian Climate Change Science Program can be likened to what Mr FOIA describes as “a massive hole-digging-and-filling-up endeavor” for which the climate scientists are generously remunerated by the Australian taxpayer. Let me explain in more detail:

Source Link: onlineopinion.com.au

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ClimateGate: Police closes UEA investigation

Wednesday, July 18th 2012, 3:51 PM EDT

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Norfolk Constabulary has made the decision to formally close its investigation into the hacking of online data from the Climate Research Centre (CRU) at the University of East Anglia (UEA) in Norwich.

The decision follows a comprehensive investigation by the force’s Major Investigation Team, supported by a number of national specialist services, and is informed by a statutory deadline on criminal proceedings.

While no criminal proceedings will be instigated, the investigation has concluded that the data breach was the result of a ‘sophisticated and carefully orchestrated attack on the CRU’s data files, carried out remotely via the internet’.

Senior Investigating Officer, Detective Chief Superintendant Julian Gregory, said: “Despite detailed and comprehensive enquiries, supported by experts in this field, the complex nature of this investigation means that we do not have a realistic prospect of identifying the offender or offenders and launching criminal proceedings within the time constraints imposed by law.

“The international dimension of investigating the World Wide Web especially has proved extremely challenging.

Source Link: norfolk.police.uk

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OPPOSING VIEWS CLIMATEGATE BBC

Opposing Views: 'ClimateGate': Case closed? by Richard Black, BBC

Friday, July 20th 2012, 4:51 AM EDT

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Will we ever know who hacked the "ClimateGate" files, and why?

Probably not, judging by the insights gained by the Norfolk police force during their two-and-a-half-year investigation, which they've just closed.

It's a decision that's caused a fair amount of frustration.

Prof Edward Acton, vice chancellor of the University of East Anglia from where the material was filched in 2009, described himself as "disappointed"; while the Union of Concerned Scientists, which argues for tougher international action on climate change, said it was "a big shame" that whoever stole the material "had got away with it".

At a news briefing in Norfolk Constabulary headquarters in Wymondham, one sensed that the officers running the investigation shared the frustration.

Source Link: bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment

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TWITTER DAVID ROSE HEADLINE STORY CLIMATEGATE UPDATED

Twitter Trends: How Met Office blocked questions on its own man's role in 'hockey stick' climate row, by David Rose, Daily Mail

Sunday, February 7th 2010, 5:15 AM EST

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The Meteorological Office is blocking public scrutiny of the central role played by its top climate scientist in a highly controversial report by the beleaguered United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Professor John Mitchell, the Met Office’s Director of Climate Science, shared responsibility for the most worrying headline in the 2007 Nobel Prize-winning IPCC report – that the Earth is now hotter than at any time in the past 1,300 years.

And he approved the inclusion in the report of the famous ‘hockey stick’ graph, showing centuries of level or declining temperatures until a steep 20th Century rise.

Updated below from The Telegraph

HOW ABOUT THAT! OPPOSING VIEWS CLIMATEGATE HEADLINE STORY IPCC FIFTH ASSESSMENT REPORT

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How About That! Climate scientist loses faith in the IPCC by Ben Cubby

Thursday, October 11th 2012, 10:39 AM EDT

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AS THE world's elite global warming experts begin poring over the drafts of the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report this week, one leading scientist doesn't believe the process should be happening at all.

''I think it will be less successful than the last assessment, and I think it will be blander - I'm disappointed in what I've seen so far,'' said Kevin Trenberth, the head of the climate analysis section at the US National Centre for Atmospheric Research.

Professor Trenberth's misgivings are not based on doubts about the strength of the science underpinning human-induced climate change, but on frustration with the bureaucratic nature of the IPCC.

Dozens of Australian scientists are among hundreds of international experts who started reviewing the IPCC's fifth summary report this week, with the final version to be published next September. The previous report, released in 2007, declared global warming ''unequivocal'' and said it was ''very likely'' to be being driven by human emissions of greenhouse gases.

Source Link: smh.com.au/environment/climate-change

MANN MADE CLIMATE CHANGE OPPOSING VIEWS BOOK CLIMATEGATE

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MUST SEE YOUTUBE: Opposing Views: Full Interview: Michael E. Mann

Thursday, April 12th 2012, 11:39 AM EDT

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FULL INTERVIEW: Michael E. Mann - YouTube link

Published on Mar 29, 2012 by TheHour

Climate warrior Michael E. Mann visits the show to talk about his new book. For more George visit: http://www.strombo.com