COPENHAGEN: 1999 Prevaricator of the Year nominee Al Gore is at it again. This time he is “setting the record straight” on the East Anglia emails leaked in the Climategate scandal. In an interview with Gore, John Dickerson at Slate.com clears up some of those pesky questions:

Q: How damaging to your argument was the disclosure of e-mails from the Climate Research Unit at East Anglia University?

A: To paraphrase Shakespeare, it’s sound and fury signifying nothing. I haven’t read all the e-mails, but the most recent one is more than 10 years old. These private exchanges between these scientists do not in any way cause any question about the scientific consensus.

That’s the problem with these scientists like Al Gore. Time and space are completely relative when it comes to stretching the truth. The emails in fact have time stamps from as recent as this one by Phil Jones from November 12th, 2009. There are dozens more from just last month. Read more…

NORWICH, England: The NIP has learned of a lawsuit soon to be filed against Al Gore. It appears that the Hadley CRU whose climate research has been discredited in the furor known as “Climategate” is about to sue Al Gore over the incident. More from crack reporter Jon Stewart:

NORWICH, England: It has been entertaining watching rabid global warming advocates trying to defend their position after the leaking of internal data by the Hadley CRU last on November 19th (leaked files here). The NIP reported further Hadley fakery, showing how the researchers ignored data contradicting their results.

But the story just keeps getting better and better. If you watch the video below you will see Ed Begley arguing with Stuart Varney. This smarmy actor keeps saying to check “peer reviewed studies” to find the facts, in other words ignore the leaked files, and don’t read them or think for yourself.

What happens though when reputable scientists want to review the data and perform those “peer reviewed studies” and are told by the Hadley CRU that the data was dumped, and they no longer have it? That’s right, they dumped their own data to prevent others from reviewing their work. Read more…

WASHINGTON: On Wednesday Obama Climate Czar Carol Browner rejected Climategate evidence leaked from the Hadley CRU showing that their global warming research was a hoax.

On November 19th a hacker, or as some have guessed a whistleblower, leaked files from the Hadley CRU. (You can download the Climategate evidence here.) The files showed how the environmentalists hid data that contradicted their position on global warming. Tuesday the NIP released analysis of prior studies (here) that showed how the researchers had cherry-picked samples thereby skewing global temperature models indicating a false rise when the entire data set showed nothing of the kind.

The Washington Times reported today:

Obama administration climate czar Carol Browner on Wednesday rejected claims that e-mails stolen from a British university show climate scientists trumped up global warming numbers, saying she considers the science settled.

… she said she will stick with the consensus of the 2,500 climate scientists on the International Panel on Climate Change who concluded global warming is happening and is most likely being pushed by human actions.   Stephen Dinan, Washington Times

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NORWICH, England: The recent hacking of the the Hadley Climate Research Unit has the world abuzz about the apparent falsifying of data and conclusions by this formerly respected scientific agency. (Read more about the hackers here.)

Turns out this is far from the first time that the Hadley CRU has been discredited. As early as 1995 these guys were bending data, using selective recursion to manipulate results of tree ring analysis to simulate the “hockey stick” graph. This graph supposedly showed an alarming increase in world temperatures during recent years. The increase was to coincide with industrial activity, “proving” the need for unsuspecting and ill-informed government policy-makers to pass draconian measures on industry to curtail CO2 emissions. (CO2- yes, that’s the stuff you breathe out and plants love to breathe in.)

As revealed in his article “Treemometers: A new scientific scandal” in the UK Register Andrew Orlowski explains: Read more…

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NORWICH, England: The Climate Research Unit of the University of East Anglia (aka Hadley CRU) had its servers compromised Thursday and 1079 emails and 72 documents have been exposed to scrutiny on the Internet.

James Delingpole in today’s UK Telegraph opines that the release of these documents amounts to nothing less than “the final nail in the coffin of Anthropogenic Global Warming.”

Andrew Bolt in today’s Melbourne Herald Sun indicates that this scandal “is one of the greatest in modern science”, and that the director of the Hadley CRU admits the emails seem to be genuine:

The director of Britain’s leading Climate Research Unit, Phil Jones, has told Investigate magazine’s TGIF Edition tonight …”It was a hacker. We were aware of this about three or four days ago that someone had hacked into our system and taken and copied loads of data files and emails.”…

TGIF asked Jones about the controversial email discussing “hiding the decline”, and Jones explained what he was trying to say…. Andrew Bolt, Melbourne Herald Sun

Examination of the files seems to reveal the dissatisfaction with the researchers who acknowledge that the globe is actually cooling: Read more…

WASHINGTON: Late last year, the President’s chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, was quoted as saying “you never want a serious crisis to go to waste, and what I mean by that is an opportunity to do things that you didn’t think you could do before.” The stimulus bill, a fine piece of prevarication, was passed under an imminent sense of crisis, and it is this sense of crisis that acts as a powerful conduit to ram controversial bills through the legislative process. It is a strategy that the Obama administration wields often and effectively.

But why wait for a crisis to come to you? What if a crisis could be created to serve a particular purpose? This appears to be what Democrats had in mind when the House passed H.R. 2454 The American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009. Best known as the Cap and Trade Bill, it purports to tackle the challenge of Global Warming, or if you prefer– Climate Change. Guaranteed to have a dire economic impact upon our nation, the Cap and Trade Bill has another potential dark side, a legislatively fabricated crisis. Read more…