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Title: Climate change scandal deepens as BBC expert claims he was sent leaked emails six weeks ago
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Daily Mail (UK)
URL Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art ... cover-emails-month-public.html
Published: Nov 26, 2009
Author: Carol Driver
Post Date: 2009-11-26 15:42:34 by Original_Intent
Keywords: Global, Warming, Cooling, Fraud
Views: 260
Comments: 25
The controversy surrounding the global warming e-mail scandal has deepened after a BBC correspondent admitted he was sent the leaked messages more than a month before they were made public. Paul Hudson, weather presenter and climate change expert, claims the documents allegedly sent between some of the world's leading scientists are of a direct result of an article he wrote. In his BBC blog three days ago, Hudson said: 'I was forwarded the chain of emails on the 12th October, which are comments from some of the world's leading climate scientists written as a direct result of my article "Whatever Happened To Global Warming".' That essay, written last month, argued that for the last 11 years there had not been an increase in global temperatures. It also presented the arguments of sceptics who believe natural cycles control temperature and the counter-arguments of those who think it's man's actions which are warming the planet. The leaked files - which show 4,000 documents which have allegedly been sent by scientists over the past 13 years - were apparently taken from servers at the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit, which is a world-renowned centre focused on studying climate change. They were then uploaded on to a Russian server before being published on a blog called Air Vent. The e-mails apparently show researchers discussing how to 'spin' climate data and how that information should be presented to the media. However, Hudson does not explain why he sat on the controversial information for so long, but added: 'I do intend to write a blog regarding the CRU being hacked into, and the possible implications of this very serious affair.' The leak comes ahead of inter-governmental talks in Copenhagen next month which campaigners have argued is a last opportunity to prevent irreversible climate change. Former Chancellor Lord Lawson has called for an inquiry into the scandal, warning the credibility of UK science is at stake. It comes amid pressure on the professor at the centre of the scandal to quit from his position at the CRU. In one damning email, he appears to call the death of a climate change sceptic 'cheering news!'. In other messages, researchers appear to be discussing manipulating data and how to dodge Freedom Of Information requests. Another shows a climatologist from the U.S. admitting it was a travesty that the lack of global warming in recent years could not be explained. George Monbiot, a leading environmentalist, said he was convinced the emails were genuine, adding: 'I'm dismayed and deeply shaken. 'There are some messages that require no spin to make them look bad. 'The head of the unit, Phil Jones, should now resign. Some of the data discussed in the emails should be re-analysed.' However, Professor Jones yesteday told the Telegraph he stands by his findings. He called any conspiracy to manipulate climate data to support the theory of man-made global warming 'complete rubbish'. 'The facts speak for themselves, there is no need for anyone to manipulate them,' he added. When posted on the internet, the emails were accompanied by the anonymous statement: 'We feel that climate science is, in the current situation, too important to be kept under wraps. 'We hereby release a random selection of correspondence, code and documents. 'Hopefully it will give some insight into the science and the people behind it.' A spokesman for the University of East Anglia said: 'We are aware that information from a server used for research information in one area of the university has been made available on public websites. 'Because of the volume of this information we cannot currently confirm that all this material is genuine. 'We are undertaking a thorough internal investigation and have involved the police in this inquiry.' Paul Hudson was unavailable for comment. Read more: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/...public.html#ixzz0XznhBQQu
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#1. To: farmfriend, TwentyTwelve, lod, christine, Cynicom, FormerLurker, Wudidiz, All (#0)
"An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't. ~ Anatole France
You think you are funny posting political pics of an idiot that attests to global governance. But the truth is: the planet is dying.
“Gold is the money of kings; silver is the money of gentlemen; barter is the money of peasants; but debt is the money of slaves.”
Along those lines, you are too.
But, but, but...Jeebus & SkyGhost sez we're supposed to be fruity & multiply an renner unto O'boingo an stuff. It sez right in the bybull a gazillion peepuls will fit in Texus. It sez the UN is da debbil. Your so stoopid. I bet you wish you wuz smart like me.
And your point? Yes, we have severe environmental problems resulting from toxic pollution - industrial, agricultural, and power generation. Glowbull Warming is at best incorrect at worst a diversion from the real problems in the environment. So, yes Algore is relevant because he is one of the main Hucksters selling the fraud. "An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't. ~ Anatole France
This is the funniest part that I have read so far. Their credibility has been zero with me for a long time. And not just the the UK, but all the other nations pushing this crap. The scientists will take the blame for this while the ones who paid for this farce will stay behind the scenes. No scientist would dare tell them who told them to fix the data. They know they wouldn't live long if they did.
God is always good!
Him holding up an Oscar is funny. The global warming myth is dying. The fact that the planet is getting colder is helping speed up it's death.
Within a day or two of this scandal being uncovered, the following story appeared in our local rag, right on cue. Since '97, global warming has just gotten worse Monday, November 23, 2009 3:01 AM By Seth Borenstein Associated Press Click here to enlarge graphic RELATED STORY Hackers leak climate-change documents GOING GREEN Get the latest news on conservation and the environment from The Columbus Dispatch. WASHINGTON -- Since the 1997 international accord to fight global warming, climate change has worsened and accelerated -- beyond some of the grimmest of warnings made back then. As the world has talked for a dozen years about what to do next, new ship passages opened through the summer sea ice of the Arctic. In Greenland and Antarctica, ice sheets have lost trillions of tons of ice. Mountain glaciers in Europe, South America, Asia and Africa are shrinking faster than before. It's not just the frozen parts of the world that have felt the heat in the years leading up to next month's climate summit in Copenhagen: • The world's oceans have risen by about an inch and a half. Story continues belowAdvertisement • Droughts and wildfires have turned more severe worldwide, from the U.S. West to Australia to the Sahel desert of North Africa. • Species now in trouble because of changing climate include not just the lumbering polar bear, which has become a symbol of global warming, but also fragile butterflies, colorful frogs and entire stands of North American pine forests. • Temperatures are 0.4 of a degree warmer than the dozen years leading up to 1997. Even the gloomiest climate models back in the 1990s didn't forecast results quite this bad so fast. "The latest science is telling us we are in more trouble than we thought," said Janos Pasztor, U.N. climate adviser. And here's why: Since an agreement to reduce greenhouse-gas pollution was signed in Kyoto, Japan, in December 1997, the level of carbon dioxide in the air has increased 6.5 percent. Officials from across the world will convene in Copenhagen next month to seek a follow-up pact, one that President Barack Obama says "has immediate operational effect ... an important step forward in the effort to rally the world around a solution." From 1997 to 2008, world carbon-dioxide emissions from the burning of fossil fuels have increased 31 percent; U.S. emissions of this greenhouse gas rose 3.7 percent. Emissions from China, now the biggest producer of this pollution, have more than doubled in that period. When the U.S. Senate balked at the accord and President George W. Bush withdrew from it, that meant that the top three carbon polluters -- the U.S., China and India -- were not part of the pact's emission reductions. Developing countries also were not covered by the Kyoto Protocol, and that is a major issue in Copenhagen. The effects of greenhouse gases are more powerful and happening sooner than predicted, scientists said. "Back in 1997, the impacts (of climate change) were underestimated; the rate of change has been faster," said Virginia Burkett, chief scientist for global- change research at the U.S. Geological Survey. In 1997, global warming was an issue for climate scientists, environmentalists and policy wonks. Now, biologists, lawyers, economists, engineers, insurance analysts, risk managers, disaster professionals, commodity traders, nutritionists, ethicists and psychologists are working on global warming. "We've come from a time in 1997 where this was some abstract problem working its way around scientific circles to now when the problem is in everyone's face," said Andrew Weaver, a University of Victoria climate scientist. Back in 1997, "nobody in their wildest expectations" would have forecast the dramatic sudden loss of summer sea ice in the Arctic that started about five years ago, Weaver said. From 1993 to 1997, sea ice would shrink on average in the summer to about 2.7 million square miles. The average for the past five years is less than 2 million square miles. What's been lost is the size of Alaska. In Antarctica, large chunks of ice shelves -- adding up to the size of Delaware -- came off the Antarctic peninsula. Measurements show that since 2000, Greenland has lost more than 1.5 trillion tons of ice, while Antarctica has lost about 1 trillion tons since 2002, according to two scientific studies published this fall. And the rate of those losses is accelerating, so that Greenland's ice sheets are melting twice as fast now as they were just seven years ago, increasing sea-level rise. Glaciers are shrinking three times faster than in the 1970s, and the average glacier has lost 25 feet of ice since 1997, said Michael Zemp, a researcher at World Glacier Monitoring Service at the University of Zurich. Also, permafrost -- the frozen northern ground that oil pipelines are built upon and that traps the potent greenhouse-gas methane -- is thawing at an alarming rate, Burkett said. Another new post-1997 impact of global warming has scientists very concerned. The oceans are getting more acidic because more of the carbon dioxide in the air is being absorbed into the water. That causes acidification, an issue that didn't even merit a name until the past few years. More acidic water harms coral, oysters and plankton and threatens the ocean food chain, biologists say. In 1997, "there was no interest in plants and animals" and how they are hampered by climate change, said Stanford University biologist Terry Root. Now, scientists are talking about which species can be saved from extinction and which are goners. The polar bear became the first species put on the federal list of threatened species, and the small rabbit-like American pika may be joining it. More than 37 million acres of Canadian and U.S. pine forests have been damaged by beetles that don't die in warmer winters. And in the U.S. West, the average number of acres burned per fire has more than doubled. Insurance losses and blackouts have soared. The number of major U.S. weather- related blackouts from 2004-08 were more than seven times higher than from 1993- 97, said Evan Mills, a scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. "The message on the science is that we know a lot more than we did in 1997, and it's all negative," said Eileen Claussen, president of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change. "Things are much worse than the models predicted."
You wouldn't know the truth if it came to you and bit you in the ass.
God is always good!
Love the pic.
"The only thing better than a Federal Reserve audit would be a Federal Reserve autopsy."
LOL! Thank you I hope yours went well.
"An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't. ~ Anatole France
Yup - the Rotchild/Rockefucker complex has staked a lot on the "Glowbull Warming" Con and so they are not going to let it die without throwing up cloud of chaff to divert away. Pretty soon you'll see articles on how the "contribution" by the "scientists" invovled in the e-mail scandal was "not really that important". What is important is that we need the Carbon TAX to combat "Glowbull Warming". You can count on that being a planted article.
"An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't. ~ Anatole France
Glad you enjoyed. Dees is brilliant.
"An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't. ~ Anatole France
Saw a new one last night even. Said the scientists were being attacked as a last ditch deniers effort.
"The only thing better than a Federal Reserve audit would be a Federal Reserve autopsy."
When in actuality what we are seeing is a last ditch effort to save Glowbull Warming and discredit the e-mails, and all of the preponderance of evidence which suggests we are actually undergoing Global COOLING as part of the normal climatological cycle.
"An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't. ~ Anatole France
I'm going to have fun watching the fallout from this scandal.
"The only thing better than a Federal Reserve audit would be a Federal Reserve autopsy."
My hope and prayer is that this revelation of fraud, forever and a day, kills the insane cap and trade scheme. If TheWoodenOne goes down with it, so much the better.
MSM is starting to pick it up. I think this story has legs.
"The only thing better than a Federal Reserve audit would be a Federal Reserve autopsy."
More and more .gov officials around the world are calling for criminal, conspiracy, fraud investigations. They really were trying to screw the entire planet.
Write you congress critters. Hit em hard while the story is hot. I'll be drafting a letter to send out.
"The only thing better than a Federal Reserve audit would be a Federal Reserve autopsy."
Hilarious !!! Dees is great !!!
Doing what's right isn't always easy but it's always right.
Bwahahahahahahahahahahahaha and it just turned 100 billion years old.
Doing what's right isn't always easy but it's always right.
And it doesn't look a day over 60 billion.
Hahahahaha !!!
Doing what's right isn't always easy but it's always right.
#2. To: Original_Intent (#1)
#3. To: buckeroo (#2)
But the truth is: the planet is dying.
#4. To: buckeroo (#2)
Mike Flaherty: Yeah, it's been there a long time. I wish I knew which corner.
My Man Godfrey (1936)
#5. To: buckeroo (#2)
You think you are funny posting political pics of an idiot that attests to global governance. But the truth is: the planet is dying.
#6. To: Original_Intent (#0)
Former Chancellor Lord Lawson has called for an inquiry into the scandal, warning the credibility of UK science is at stake.
#7. To: buckeroo, Original_Intent (#2)
You think you are funny posting political pics of an idiot that attests to global governance. But the truth is: the planet is dying.
"The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so." ~ Josh Billings
#8. To: Original_Intent, All, *Global Climate Change* (#7)
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!
HERE IS YOUR THANKSGIVING TURKEY!
"The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so." ~ Josh Billings
#9. To: Original_Intent (#0)
#10. To: buckeroo (#2)
#11. To: Original_Intent (#1)
#12. To: wudidiz (#8)
#13. To: Obnoxicated (#9)
#14. To: farmfriend (#11)
#15. To: Original_Intent (#13)
Pretty soon you'll see articles on how the "contribution" by the "scientists" invovled in the e-mail scandal was "not really that important".
#16. To: farmfriend (#15)
(Edited)
Saw a new one last night even. Said the scientists were being attacked as a last ditch deniers effort.
#17. To: Original_Intent (#16)
#18. To: farmfriend. all (#17)
#19. To: Lod (#18)
#20. To: farmfriend (#19)
#21. To: Lod (#20)
#22. To: Original_Intent (#1)
#23. To: buckeroo (#2)
But the truth is: the planet is dying.
#24. To: noone222 (#23)
Mike Flaherty: Yeah, it's been there a long time. I wish I knew which corner.
My Man Godfrey (1936)
#25. To: Esso (#24)
And it doesn't look a day over 60 billion.
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