Quelle Surprise !!!: Climategate "scandal" made from whole cloth

[marmar]

via MichaelMoore.com:



April 2nd, 2010 10:49 AM

"Climategate" Researchers Largely Cleared
Investigation Finds No Evidence Supporting Allegations of Tampering with Data or Peer Review Process

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(CBS/ AP) The first of several British investigations into the e-mails leaked from one of the world's leading climate research centers has largely vindicated the scientists involved.

The House of Commons' Science and Technology Committee said Wednesday that they'd seen no evidence to support charges that the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit or its director, Phil Jones, had tampered with data or perverted the peer review process to exaggerate the threat of global warming two of the most serious criticisms levied against the climatologist and his colleagues.

In their report, the committee said that, as far as it was able to ascertain, "the scientific reputation of Professor Jones and CRU remains intact," adding that nothing in the more than 1,000 stolen e-mails, or the controversy kicked up by their publication, challenged scientific consensus that "global warming is happening and that it is induced by human activity."

The 14-member committee's investigation is one of three launched after the dissemination, in November, of e-mails and data stolen from the research unit. The e-mails appeared to show scientists berating skeptics in sometimes intensely personal attacks, discussing ways to shield their data from public records laws, and discussing ways to keep skeptics' research out of peer-reviewed journals. One that attracted particular media attention was Jones' reference to a "trick" that could be used to "hide the decline" of temperatures. ........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latest-news/climategate-researchers-largely-cleared

[Champion Jack]

1. good news

[gratuitous]

2. So sorry, on to something else now

But the idea is now pretty firmly fixed in the public mind that climate research is bunkum. Too bad for you if you breathe air or drink water, but Big Oil and other polluters must make money, and that's more important than human survival.

[malaise]

6. Don't expect a discussion on

M$Greedia

[SpiralHawk]

3. Republicon disinformation is a crime againt honor

and the republicons have no honor left to be violated -- even by their own lies.

[Kingofalldems]

4. Recently tombstoned freepers were all over this went it came out

They were tag teaming DU on multiple threads. Of course wew know now they were full of it.

[hfojvt]

5. kick

I want to be able to read this when I get home from work