Wow! MORE stuff on this! The gift that keeps on giving.
Climate scientist at center of e-mail controversy to step down
This has gotten enough notice that even the WaPo has to take cognizance.
A scientist who is one of the central figures in the controversy over hacked e-mails from the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit announced Tuesday that he is stepping down while the university investigates the incident.
Climate skeptics have seized on several e-mails from Phil Jones, director of the university’s Climatic Research Unit, to other researchers as evidence that prominent scientists have sought to silence their voice in the debate over global warming.
This is one of the “majors” in the flap – the Brit “scientist” caught in flagrante by his own e-mails.
The e-mails were pirated and posted online last month.
Looks more like they were leaked rather than hacked…but the effect is the same…a really hot time for the glowbull warming freaks.
Not only the Brits – Michael Mann, one of the originators of the bogus “hockey stick” graph is under a cloud at Penn State:
Penn State Will Investigate ‘Climategate’
The Penn State administration plans to investigate Climategate and determine if it needs to take further action,…E-mails indicate that climate change researchers—including Penn State Prof. Michael Mann—exaggerated or fabricated global warming data. And, according to the report, some E-mails indicate that the director of the research unit in question may have contacted researchers and asked them to “delete certain E-mails.”
THE scientific consensus that mankind has caused climate change was rocked yesterday as a leading academic called it a “load of hot air underpinned by fraudâ€. Professor Ian Plimer condemned the climate change lobby as “climate comrades†keeping the “gravy train†going.
In a controversial talk just days before the start of a climate summit attended by world leaders in Copenhagen, Prof Plimer said Governments were treating the public like “fools†and using climate change to increase taxes.
He said carbon dioxide has had no impact on temperature and that recent warming was part of the natural cycle of climate stretching over Âbillions of years.
There’s more, but the point is clear.
Meanwhile, down under, it seems that Climategate has given the Oz Parliament a blow upside their collective head with the cluebat!
Australia’s Parliament defeats global warming bill
Australia’s plans for an emissions trading system to combat global warming were scuttled Wednesday in Parliament, handing a defeat to a government that had hoped to set an example at international climate change talks next week.
The Senate, where Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s government does not hold a majority, rejected his administration’s proposal for Australia to become one of the first countries to install a so-called cap-and-trade system to slash the amount of heat-trapping pollution that industries pump into the air.
More summary and comment from the London Telegraph:
Climategate: it’s all unravelling now
So many new developments: which story do we pick? Maybe best to summarise, instead. After all, it’s not like you’re going to find much of this reported in the MSM.
They have their summary, and their summary is a part of this one. Some of it’s the same, but they note even more newly breaking events.
Funny how this all results from glowbull warming junk scientists pulling their data and models from someplace where the sun never shines, and then claiming it’s the light of day.