TagsTagsBy now it’s clear that the media, the public, and right wing politicians were taken in, punk’d if you will, by the thoroughly dishonest hoax known as “Climategate.” Today another investigation by a British panel cleared the climate scientists of the CRU. “On the specific allegations made against the behavior ...
Global Warming, Science, AGW, Climate Change, Climategate, CRU, Investigation, Nontroversy
Michael Mann, one of the climate scientists outrageously smeared in the year’s most bogus scandal (“Climategate” - ugh) and also known as one of the main researchers behind the “hockey stick” global warming graph, has now been completely cleared of “scientific misconduct,” in an exhaustive two-part investigation by Penn State. ...
Global Warming, Science, AGW, Climate Change, Climategate, CRU, Investigation, Penn State University
Environmentalist Peter Sinclair’s new video deals with the now thoroughly debunked and discredited “Climategate” nontroversy, the threats and intimidation directed against climate scientists, and the connections between climate change deniers and the worst elements of the far right — including the neo-Nazis at Stormfront (Google cache link). [Video] The “Climategate” idiocy confirms ...
Global Warming, Science, AGW, Climate Change, Climategate, CRU, Denial
Another investigation into the CRU “Climategate” phony scandal has reported in, exonerating the scientists just as I predicted, with only minor criticisms. Here’s the Oxburgh Report — finding no scientific misconduct and no distortion of data.
Global Warming, Climate Change, Science, CRU, Climategate, Nontroversy
The UK House of Commons’ exoneration of the CRU scientists came as no surprise; I’ve maintained from the very beginning that ‘Climategate’ is one of the biggest hoaxes ever perpetrated on the public by the climate change denial industry. The criminals responsible for the hoax stole and carefully arranged a ...
Global Warming, Science, AGW, Climate Change, Climategate, CRU, Britain
The UK is conducting several investigations into the Climategate nontroversy, and the first one has now reported; the House of Commons’ Science and Technology Committee has vindicated the scientists of the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit of the most serious charges, that they exaggerated or tampered with climatic ...
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An excellent post at Deep Climate looks into the exaggerated and false claims being made about the computer code released along with those stolen “Climategate” emails: McClimategate continues: Yet another false accusation from McIntyre and McKitrick. How do they get away with it? That’s the inevitable question as I examine ...
Global Warming, Science, AGW, Climate Change, Denial, CRU, Deception
In the latest example in a long line of dishonest attempts to smear the science of climate change, one of the main critical witnesses in the UK Parliament’s hearings on the CRU email leaks is a shill for the oil and gas industries. And of course, he didn’t disclose this fact ...
Global Warming, Science, AGW, Climate Change, Denial, CRU, Britain
Randy Olson, who made a great little movie about the “intelligent design” creationism movement called “Flock of Dodos: The Evolution-Intelligent Design Circus,” interviews climate scientist Michael Mann about the barrage of recent trumped up climate change “controversies:” MIKE MANN Part II: INTERVIEW – Who will provide communication expertise and leadership ...
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DeSmogBlog’s Mitchell Anderson has new information on the investigation into the cyber-burglary of Britain’s Climate Research Unit (CRU), thoroughly refuting the claims that the leak came from a “whistle-blower:” Who Hacked the CRU? An interesting post on IT-NETWORKS picks apart what is currently known about the hack job and what ...
Global Warming, Science, AGW, Climate Change, Hacking, Crime, CRU
The Daily Mail’s story by David Rose, claiming that climate scientist Phil Jones “admitted” there has been no global warming since 1995, is completely false. Journalism at its most irresponsible. There really ought to be a law. At least there ought to be consequences. The BBC interviews Phil Jones: B - ...
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Embattled climate scientist Phil Jones talks to the Times Online: The leak was bad. Then came the death threats - Times Online. At the worst possible time, in the days immediately before the Copenhagen climate summit in December, it enabled sceptics across the globe to claim that climate science was ...
Global Warming, Science, AGW, Climate Change, CRU, Phil Jones, Climategate
Today’s news about the absurdly exaggerated “Climategate” nontroversy: an internal inquiry by Penn State University into allegations that climate scientist Michael Mann suppressed or “cooked” data has found no evidence of any misconduct by Mann. The internal enquiry has found that Mann did not “participate in, directly or indirectly, any ...
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Here’s another excellent video debunking the claim that climatologists are “censoring” scientific journals to stifle critics and skeptical scientists. [Video]
Global Warming, Science, AGW, Climate Change, CRU, Nontroversy
New Scientist turns the tables on climate skeptics, in an article that documents a few of the many examples of lies, distortions and disinformation emitted by the global warming denial industry - lies and distortions that never seem to result in any consequences for the liars, and are endlessly repeated ...
Environmentalist Peter Sinclair continues destroying the dishonest and absurdly exaggerated climate change denialist claims about the stolen CRU emails, with humor and logic and all that good stuff we care about at LGF. Watch for the quip about “leading Republican intellectuals” at about 8:00. [Video]
Global Warming, Science, AGW, Climate Change, CRU, Peter Sinclair, Nontroversy
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs hit the nail directly on the head in a statement about the phony “Climategate” scandal: Climate-gate global warming doubts ‘silly’. WASHINGTON - The White House on Monday dismissed as “silly” the notion that global warming science had been compromised by emails exposing a row between ...
Here’s another excellent video on the phony scandal unimaginatively titled “Climategate,” with extra added sarcasm. [Video]
A senior member of the IPCC is charging that Russia mounted a sophisticated operation to discredit the Copenhagen climate change summit: Was Russian secret service behind leak of climate-change emails? The news that a leaked set of emails appeared to show senior climate scientists had manipulated data was shocking enough. ...
Global Warming, Science, AGW, Climate Change, CRU, Russia, Crime, Copenhagen
Environmentalist Peter Sinclair’s new video is about the most absurdly overblown phony scandal in a year overflowing with phony right wing scandals, drearily dubbed “Climategate” by right wing blogs and Fox News, in hopes that it will turn out to be a death blow to global warming. It’s not a death ...
Global Warming, Science, AGW, Climate Change, CRU, Peter Sinclair, Nontroversy
The 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has issued a statement about the stolen CRU data, defending the scientists and their work, and condemning the criminal(s) who stole and cherry-picked the data: Working Group I Statement on Stolen Emails. Statement by Working Group I of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate ...
Over at wingnut site Hot Air, they’re cheering and applauding this ridiculous, disgraceful performance by climate change denial shill Marc Morano, appearing on the BBC with climate scientist Prof. Andrew Watson. Morano is such a gigantic flaming arsehole in this clip (laughing, yelling, and spouting over-the-top “Climategate” talking points like ...
Global Warming, Science, AGW, Climate Change, CRU, Marc Morano
Here’s your daily dose of right wing insanity, as Andrew Breitbart says that climate scientist Dr. James Hansen should be executed. And he’s not kidding. Capital punishment for Dr James Hansen. Climategate is high treason.
Global Warming, Science, AGW, Climate Change, CRU, Andrew Breitbart, Bad Craziness
New Scientist has an excellent article titled: Why there’s no sign of a climate conspiracy in hacked emails. The leaking of emails and other documents from the Climate Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia, UK, has led to a media and political storm. The affair is being ...