Times Online - Scientists in stolen e-mail scandal hid climate data

The university at the centre of the climate change row over stolen e-mails broke the law by refusing to hand over its raw data for public scrutiny. The University of East Anglia breached the Freedom of Information Act by refusing to comply with requests for data concerning claims by its scientists that man-made emissions were causing global warming. The Information Commissioner’s Office decided that UEA failed in its duties under the Act but said that it could not prosecute those involved because the complaint was made too late, The Times has learnt. The ICO is now seeking to change the law to allow prosecutions if a complaint is made more than six months after a breach. Read the rest at TimesOnline

AoD - Torquemada in East Anglia

Torquemada. When that name is invoked in any debate or opinion piece, rest assured that it's not a term of endearment.

This article lays it out nicely and nails it.

By Mona Charen

Excerpt:

Though professional hysterics may seek to "hide the decline," there has been a noticeable drop in the number of Americans who believe that global warming is a man-made phenomenon. Pause on that for a moment. Though Americans have been harangued about global warming for more than a decade, only 35 percent told a recent Pew survey that global warming is a serious problem, compared with 44 percent the previous year.

This skepticism predated the exposure of the East Anglia e-mails -- those playful missives that reveal some of the most prominent climate researchers to be, if not outright charlatans, at least partisans.

Why don't people buy global warming? Doubtless the poor economy has pushed less immediate worries to the background. But even before the e-mails revealed that supposedly neutral truth seekers were prepared to "redefine peer review" and engage in statistical sleight of hand "to hide" inconvenient truths, there were ample reasons for skepticism.

Read the rest at RealClearPolitics

ClimateGate Source Code Clearly Altered

By Noel Sheppard As NewsBusters has been reporting since the ClimateGate scandal first broke last Friday, America's media have either been shamefully ignoring the sensitive information hacked from a British university's computer system or dishonestly telling the public there's nothing to it. If these revelations furthered the global warming myth by implicating skeptical scientists in a conspiracy to adjust temperature data while shutting out opinions contrary to their own, press outlets would likely have their science divisions poring over every e-mail and document available to find the proverbial smoking gun. Because in this instance any such research could uncover information contrary to the agenda of most news outlets, scientific editors and reporters have abdicated their investigative responsibilities in an obvious attempt to protect policies they support and advocate. With that in mind, the American Thinker's Marc Sheppard, clearly doing the media's job, examined the computer program source code available in what was hacked from this British Climate Research Unit (CRU), and discovered that this scandal is everything the global warming-obsessed media fear: Read the rest at NewsBusters

It's Official - Senator James Inhofe Calls For Investigation

Senator James Inhofe has officially called for an investigation into the emails that were leaked from the Hadley Climate Research Unit. The contents of some of the emails leave no doubt that the climate change alarmists were deliberately cooking the books to make it look like humans were causing climate change.Michael Mann, Gavin Schmidt, Phil Jones and many others have a lot to answer for. The timing of this couldn't have come at a better time with the talks at Copenhagen nearing.

Hadley CRU email Download

If you want to download the Hadley CRU emails click here (63.29 MBs)