The Real Climategate Scandal

The global warming scandal keeps getting worse. Revelations over the last few weeks show that many important assertions in the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change were based on misquotes and false claims from environmental groups, not on published academic research as originally claimed. This is on top of the recent mess regarding data, where the three most relied-on data series used by the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 2007 assessment report still not been released. Other information indicates that data have been systematically biased to produce a rise in measured temperatures when actual temperatures were falling or flat.

Take some of the false claims in the 2007 IPCC report.

– The IPCC claims that the Himalayan glaciers could melt away as soon as 2035. The forecast was based on a media interview with a single Indian glaciologist in 1999, and the Indian glaciologist who was interviewed, Syed Hasnain, says that he was misquoted, indeed he had provide no date. Professor Hasnain discovered the mistake in 2008 when he read the IPCC’s published report, but he said: “There are many mistakes in it. It is a very poorly made report. . . . My job is not to point out mistakes. And you know the might of the IPCC. What about all the other glaciologists around the world who did not speak out?”

Even more disturbingly, Rajendra Pachauri, the U.N.’s climate chief, first denied that he knew about the error before the Copenhagen global warming conference. He only admitted that he knew about it before the conference when a writer for the journal Science, Pallava Bagla, pointed to email correspondence that he had with Pachauri last fall.

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Posted Feb 11th 2010 at 8:39 am in Economics, Environment | 73394427 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/jlott/2010/02/11/the-real-climategate-scandal/The+Real+Climategate+Scandal2010-02-11+16%3A39%3A11John+Lott

ClimateGate: Penn State Initial Report Signals Whitewash

I have looked over the Penn State University’s report issued yesterday, “RA-10 Inquiry Report: Concerning the Allegations of Research Misconduct Against Dr. Michael E. Mann, Department of Meteorology, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences”. Below are eight points addressing my initial impressions, in the order they appear in the report (with one bracketed exception from page 4, moved up slightly in order of appearance here].

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My take-away, to spoil the ending for you, is that the panel revealed most of what we need to know about the ability of this internal inquiry to credibly assess charges of misfeasance, by limiting their evidentiary pursuit outside of select blogs and media reports to speaking with Mann, aided by a supportive NAS report (to the exclusion of the Wegman Committee report, inexplicable including for a factor cited, below) and one panel member interviewing ex parte two Mann supporters.

In my opinion, by this approach they did not do, and will in hindsight not be deemed as having done, themselves or their institution any favors.

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Posted Feb 4th 2010 at 5:41 am in Environment, Featured Story, News | 6951483 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/chorner/2010/02/04/climategate-penn-state-initial-report-signals-whitewash/ClimateGate%3A+Penn+State+Initial+Report+Signals+Whitewash2010-02-04+13%3A41%3A41Christopher+C.+Horner

ClimateGate’s Next Phase: False Claims Act Lawsuit

The United States government has shelled out huge sums of money to universities, think tanks, and businesses to study global warming climate change.  The government is poised to dole out even more money for climate-change “solutions” like the cap-and-trade scheme.  With the revelations about the lengths to which the leading group of global warming doomsayers went to “hide the decline” in temperatures in their seminal studies – studies that themselves spawned an avalanche of government spending – the world is seeing that the entire enterprise may be based on a fraud.

In a normal scandal where the government appears to have been ripped off, someone in the legislative or executive branch can usually be counted on to investigate the alleged fraud, if for no other reason than advancing their own political career.  In the case of this scandal, however, the Obama administration and congressional Democrats have calculated that their political interests are best served by ignoring ClimateGate.  This is sure to continue as new scandals emerge.

That leaves only the judicial branch as a place where climate change fraud can be unmasked in a government forum.

Individuals with inside knowledge about scientists, businesses, or any organization who knowingly used false statements to get (or keep) government money to perpetuate the “climate change” machine should consider a lawsuit under the federal False Claims Act.

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Posted Jan 5th 2010 at 6:35 am in Environment, Justice/Legal, federal spending | 55458102 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/bbenbrook/2010/01/05/climategates-next-phase-false-claims-act-lawsuit/ClimateGate%27s+Next+Phase%3A+False+Claims+Act+Lawsuit2010-01-05+14%3A35%3A13Bradley+A.+Benbrook

The Green Religion and ClimateGate: Interview With Steven Mosher

This morning on The Dennis Miller Show, Guest host Andrew Breitbart interviewed Steven M. Mosher, a frequent contributor to the web site ClimateAudit.org.  You probably haven’t heard of Mr. Mosher, but you should have.  And that was the reason for our interview this morning.  Andrew used his six hours of national radio time (yesterday and today) to highlight the top stories from the “Under Media”.   ACORN, NEA, Van Jones, ClimateGate, stories that were virtually ignored by the major networks and pooh-poohed by the NY Times were, in fact, the stories that not only grabbed YOUR attention, but also drove legislation here at home as well as in Copenhagen.

Mr. Mosher was instrumental in promulgating the now infamous “hacked” emails from the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia.  These e-mails have called into question the methods, the calculations, the peer review process, even the overall SCIENCE involved in the Global Warming arguments that drove the Cap and Trade Legislation as well as the UN Climate Conference and Kyoto Protocols.  Mr. Mosher obtained these emails on a CD from an unidentified colleague.  After days of review, Mr. Mosher realized the importance of the information he was sitting on, and he began the process of posting the information on various “Climate Change” websites and blogs.  Because the postings came from Mr. Mosher, the community immediately took them seriously.  The rest is “Under Media” history.

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Tags: ACORN, Adam Baldwin, Andrew Breitbart, cap-and-trade, carbon emissions
Posted Dec 29th 2009 at 1:54 pm in Environment, Featured Story, Media Criticism, News | 53342128 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/sright/2009/12/29/the-green-religion-and-climategate-interview-with-steven-mosher/The+Green+Religion+and+ClimateGate%3A+Interview+With+Steven+Mosher2009-12-29+21%3A54%3A20Larry++O%26%2339%3BConnor

Pollster Opposites: Greens Try to Cope With ClimateGate

Poll after poll have recently affirmed that the ClimateGate revelations (I actually say “affirmations“) dealt a mortal blow to the public’s belief in the environmentalist brass ring of “catastrophic Man-made global warming.” The dishonesty exposed therein iced the cake for a public attentive to the increasingly shrill and absurd alarmist campaign, demonstrably cooler temperatures cool and the sky remaining precisely where we left it.

Troubled by such results, several green groups to rush out polls of their own, riddled with gauzy questions generally distilling to “wouldn’t you want to save the planet from destruction if you could get rich doing so?” I oversimplify, but not grossly. This week the National Wildlife Federation claimed two-thirds of Americans want federal limits on greenhouse gases! Surely a Congress desperate to do something popular will hop on board this train? Not likely.

The shocker from these forays is that a substantial number have so little regard for the alarmist claptrap that they’re willing to dismiss even loaded questions designed to elicit a positive response.

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Tags: cap-and-trade, climate alarmism, climate change, climate emails, Climate Research Unit
Posted Dec 26th 2009 at 8:17 am in Congress, Environment, Featured Story, Politics | 51890103 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/chorner/2009/12/26/pollster-opposites-greens-try-to-cope-with-climategate/Pollster+Opposites%3A+Greens+Try+to+Cope+With+ClimateGate2009-12-26+16%3A17%3A21Christopher+C.+Horner

‘Clueless’ Clark Alert: The Top Ten Undernews Stories of the Year, Part II

5. Hide the Decline: “Climategate” and the CO² ruling

Why it’s important: The unauthorized release in November of 61 megabytes of confidential files and emails hacked from the computers at the East Anglia Climate Research Unit – Ground Zero of the “anthropogenic global warming” racket – shocked nearly all sentient people into the realization that scientists could be just a corruptible as your average politician or, worse, your average “environmental journalists” as they sought to “hide the decline.” While each country’s capo di tutti capi was gathering in Copenhagen to hatch yet another scheme to beggar the industrialized West in the name of collective guilt, the scandal burbled along under the radar as rational people finally had the proof they needed that the Chicken Little alarmists were, well – crowing capons.  For years, skeptics had been derided by such barking lunatics as Albert Arnold Gore, Jr., as “deniers” – the word was deliberately loaded to evoke the Holocaust – even as the Man Who Flunked Out of Divinity School did his best to dodge all challenges to his newfound religion:

Meanwhile, with AGW going up in smoke like a fruitless sacrifice to a god that failed, and the Waxman-Markey “cap and trade” extortion bill faltering in Congress, along came the EPA, right on schedule, with its “endangerment finding” that carbon dioxide – you know, the stuff you breathe out when you exhale, and the same stuff that makes the good green plants happy, healthy and wise – is, of all things, a “pollutant.”  Still, the news for the Karbon Krazies just keeps on getting worse.

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Tags: ACORN, acorn scandal, ACORN videos, Al Gore, Beltway sniper
Posted Dec 18th 2009 at 1:38 pm in ACORN, Culture, Media Criticism, News, Obama, Politics | 4832264 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/mwalsh/2009/12/18/clueless-clark-alert-the-top-ten-undernews-stories-of-the-year-part-ii/%27Clueless%27+Clark+Alert%3A+The+Top+Ten+Undernews+Stories+of+the+Year%2C+Part+II2009-12-18+21%3A38%3A28Michael+Walsh

ClimateGate Just Got Much, Much Bigger

Over at ICECAP.us Meteorologist Joe D’Aleo has posted an item on a “Russian Bombshell” highly relevant to the ClimateGate scandal. The Russian media first posted the story and now some Brits are loving it.

The long and the short of it is best summarized by the Telegraph’s James Dellingpole: “What the Russians are suggesting here, in other words, is that the entire global temperature record used by the IPCC to inform world government policy is a crock.”

That is, we have yet further evidence that the data is being cooked to make the long-running claim of an increase in global temperatures, and now to diminish the apparent cooling of said temps. As the gang at EU referendum tout, “it is in Soviet Union that the CRU, NOAA, NASA show the greatest warming.”

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Posted Dec 16th 2009 at 1:29 pm in Environment | 47538122 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/chorner/2009/12/16/climategate-just-got-much-much-bigger/ClimateGate+Just+Got+Much%2C+Much+Bigger2009-12-16+21%3A29%3A50Christopher+C.+Horner

Meet Stephen McIntyre: Amateur Runs Rings Around Climate ‘Professionals’

Canada’s Macleans has a profile of the skeptic at the center of the ClimateGate e-mails (what, you expected an American newspaper to cover this story?):

The private emails and logs leaked last month from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia can’t tell us whether industrial activity is really heating the earth’s atmosphere and endangering civilization. But they have settled the identity of the Great Satan of climate science. Torontonian Stephen McIntyre, a gentle, persistent amateur who had no credentials in applied science before stepping into the global warming debate in 2003, is mentioned more than 100 times.

In the emails, leading climate researchers dismiss him as a capitalist hireling or a hapless “bozo,” and argue about the relative merits of ignoring him versus counterattacking him, even as others acknowledge that his criticisms have merit and imitate his use of the Web as a venue for hyper-detailed scientific discussion. At one point in 2005, CRU director Phil Jones, now under suspension, ponders the possibility that McIntyre might use U.K. freedom-of-information laws to obtain raw weather-station data compiled by the CRU. He grumbles: “I think I’ll delete the file rather than send to anyone.” The overall impression is that of 100 elephants stampeding in confusion and panic around a mouse.

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Posted Dec 13th 2009 at 9:58 am in Environment, News | 4546655 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/publius/2009/12/13/meet-stephen-mcintyre-amateur-runs-rings-around-climate-professionals/Meet+Stephen+McIntyre%3A+Amateur+Runs+Rings+Around+Climate+%27Professionals%27+2009-12-13+17%3A58%3A51Publius

ClimateGate: So, where’s the “Oh, Snap!” Email?

One thing about “ClimateGate” nagging at the back of my mind is the absence of any discussion by ringleader Phil Jones (or others) of the remarkable, shocking discovery that Jones now claims he had that his precedessor destroyed the raw data in the 1980s.

That is the data that scientists have for years been seeking from Jones under the UK’s freedom of information law. Against numerous such requests he offered equally numerous excuses for refusing access culminating with the September 2009 claim – when it looked like he’d been cornered and had no excuses not to provide it to Prof. Ross McKitrick who met all of his long-stated qualifications – that in fact he’d lost it.

First, it does seem odd that Jones would so firmly and crisply articulate his many, very specific excuses for so many years about why he could not provide something that in fact they had, as he now tells it, lost. His refusals all clearly imply that a belief that he had it.

But where are the emails putting out the word, oh, snap, you guys aren’t gonna believe this?

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Tags: climate change, climate change emails, climate data, Climate Research Unit, climategate
Posted Dec 4th 2009 at 7:46 am in Environment, News, Politics | 40506148 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/chorner/2009/12/04/climategate-so-wheres-the-oh-snap-email/ClimateGate%3A+So%2C+where%27s+the+%22Oh%2C+Snap%21%22+Email%3F2009-12-04+14%3A46%3A58Christopher+C.+Horner

Is ‘Global Warming’ the Greenie Weenies’ WMDs?

Remember in 2003 when Secretary of State Colin Powell dramatically held up the vial of anthrax before the United Nations Security Council and exclaimed, “there can be no doubt that Saddam Hussein has biological weapons and the capability to rapidly produce more, many more?”

It was that argument – that Saddam Hussein was attempting to increase his capability for Weapons of Mass Destruction – on which the Bush Administration hung its credibility and sought to build the public support for an invasion of Iraq in 2003.

As American forces swept across Iraq in an impressive fashion, the cold hard evidence of Powell’s assertions was difficult to find.  And in the following years, the Bush administration’s credibility for its reason to go to war suffered.

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Posted Nov 30th 2009 at 8:11 am in Environment, News, Politics | 3822269 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/kolson/2009/11/30/is-global-warming-the-greenie-weenies-wmds/Is+%27Global+Warming%27+the+Greenie+Weenies%27+WMDs%3F2009-11-30+15%3A11%3A30Kyle+Olson

Cross-Examining the Climate Change Scammers

A trial lawyer reading through the hacked emails from the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit (CRU) will immediately, almost unconsciously, begin generating a list of questions he would love to ask the authors if he were able to face them on the witness stand and under oath.  The beauty of the adversarial process is how cross-examination tests and challenges the other side’s position – precisely what the emails indisputably show the CRU and its allies in the climate change scam have gone to shocking lengths to avoid.

There are several lines of examination that come immediately to mind.  We can rest assured that it will never happen – as the emails show, the last thing they want to do is be in a position where they have to explain themselves.  But certainly asking leading climate change cheerleader Phil Jones about his email describing his use of a “trick” to describe the manipulation of observed temperature data to “hide the decline” in order to achieve the desired result would be amusing:

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Posted Nov 27th 2009 at 3:39 pm in Environment, Featured Story, Justice/Legal, News, Politics | 37782227 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/kschlichter/2009/11/27/cross-examining-the-climate-change-scammers/Cross-Examining+the+Climate+Change+Scammers2009-11-27+22%3A39%3A31Kurt+Schlichter

Cartoon: Global Warming Gets Hacked

The case for global warming alarmism continues to take a major hit after sensitive documents were lifted from the Hadley Climate Center. Enjoy our latest cartoon:

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Posted Nov 23rd 2009 at 2:57 pm in Environment, Political Humor | 3545449 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/bjacobson/2009/11/23/cartoon-global-warming-gets-hacked/Cartoon%3A+Global+Warming+Gets+Hacked2009-11-23+21%3A57%3A27Bret+Jacobson

Media Missing the Plot on ‘Climate Gate’: It’s the Fraud, Stupid!

To the credit of the New York Times, Associated Press and Washington Post — reliable outlets for promoting global warming alarmism, protecting those who craft it and marginalizing those who point out its weaknesses and excesses — they all ran stories in the past 48 hours addressing the documents somehow obtained from the computers of a UK university serving as the warming movement and industry’s Mother Ship. My great surprise is even greater because these outlets have demonstrated a pattern of only giving ink to embarrassing controversies after a week or so, once it appears that damage control is needed and the alarmists have gotten their story straight.

I documented this pattern in a book published one year ago this month, subtly titled “Red Hot Lies: How Global Warming Alarmists Use Threats, Fraud and Deception to Keep You Misinformed.” The title says it all, including all that surely seems to have been affirmed by the documents posted, by “anonymous” on a Russian server and otherwise covering his tracks.

Since this affirms, not “reveals”, the scandal that so many have been explaining is the global warming industry, it also raises the issue of how can each of these media outlets still miss the plot? Well, they are doing so in a fashion so uniform, and in the face of such outrageous exposition of the scandal that is unfolding, that I conclude it is nonetheless yet another exercise in damage-control.

The emails, let alone the data still being combed over by the pointy-heads, plainly affirm everything I wrote, in detail, about the scams being run by the booming industry of Big Academia and Big Science suckling at the teat of the “global warming” panic they are also fostering.

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Posted Nov 23rd 2009 at 8:38 am in Environment, Media Criticism, News | 35302194 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/chorner/2009/11/23/media-missing-the-plot-on-climate-gate-its-the-fraud-stupid/Media+Missing+the+Plot+on+%27Climate+Gate%27%3A+It%27s+the+Fraud%2C+Stupid%212009-11-23+15%3A38%3A20Christopher+C.+Horner