CLIMATEGATE AND THE BIG GREEN LIE

Clive Crook writes at the website Atlantic and makes his views on climate change clear and his views on the failure of Climategate inquiries even clearer.

"I had hoped, not very confidently, that the various Climategate inquiries would be severe. This would have been a first step towards restoring confidence in the scientific consensus. But no, the reports make things worse. At best they are mealy-mouthed apologies; at worst they are patently incompetent and even wilfully wrong."

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CSIRO SCIENTIST STILL DOESN'T GET IT

CSIRO scientist Dr Bruce Mapstone writes in The Age, "Scientists at the University of East Anglia have emerged from the six-month ''climategate'' inquiry with their reputations for honesty intact."

Dr Mapstone has apparently not read the bulk of Climategate emails.  If he had, he could not in all honesty write the above. 

He then goes on to cite the much maligned CSIRO/ BOM State of the Climate report [reviewed on May 28th and June 11 on our Older News tab] as proof that the climate is changing.

This is something we already know.  The challenge for CSIRO is to communicate to the public in a clear and comprehendable manner, the empirical evidence they have to link climate change in any signifcant way to man's activities.  

If they can't they should spend more time on research and less time on advocacy in newspapers.

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IPCC's FIRST TEST IN A NEW WORLD OF OPENNESS

“Climate science is a matter of such global importance, that the highest standards of honesty, rigour and openness are needed in its conduct,” stated the Muir Russell report into the Climategate scandal after it found the Climatic Research Unit at the UK’s East Anglia University guilty of “a consistent pattern of failing to display the proper degree of openness.”

Lawrence Solomon writing at the National Post asks will the IPCC live up to the standards put forward by the Climategate Inquiry authors.

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CHECKING THE HOCKEY TEAM

Peter Foster from the Financial Post tells how a small group botched and manipulated climate science

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CLIMATEGATE WHITEWASH CONTINUES

Dr Pat Michaels has a few words to say online in The Wall Street Journal over the East Anglia and Penn State inquiries into the behaviour of publicly funded climate scientists.

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AMAZONGATE: AT LAST WE REACH THE SOURCE

Christopher Booker from the U.K. Telegraph has been trying to get to the source of false IPCC claims about the Amazon forests for most of this year.

Complicit in the obfuscation over the source material are environment groups and associated 'researchers'.

The issue again highlights the dubious veracity of the IPCC's gold standard of 'peer review'.

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