Last week Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), promised an investigation into the Climategate email scandal. Today at a press conference at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP15) in Copenhagen, Pachauri backtracked entirely saying, “I want to clarify that this is not an investigation.”
After trying to ignore the brewing firestorm, the IPCC was finally forced to acknowledge the event last week. “We certainly are going to take a look at the whole lot of it and then are going to take a position on it,” Pachauri said. “We certainly don’t want to brush anything under the carpet. This is a serious issue and we will certainly look into it in detail.”
Today Pachauri reversed course and instead launched a defense of the climate scientists that have been accused of collusion, modification and deletion of data and a host of other offenses. He said that he felt the scientists “are being unfairly targeted.” Pachauri said, “The persons who have worked on this report, and those who unfortunately have been victims of this terrible and illegal act, are outstanding scientists, and have contributed enormously over the 20, 21 years of the existence of the IPCC.”
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Pachauri stated that his only concern was finding out who was behind it, not if there are any problems with the science behind the manmade climate change theory or the scientists that formulated it. "I think this is an illegal act. The only issue that has to be dealt with as far as this occurrence is concerned is to find out who is behind it," he said.
In regards to a potential investigation, the climate chief said the agency would look at the event, “just to see if there are any lessons for us that we might want to take onboard. We are determining how best to do that. But I want to clarify that this is not an investigation.”
Questions about the impartiality of the various investigations into Climategate had already arisen with many pointing to the corruption that went unfettered in the UN’s ‘Oil for Food’ program. At the time, the UN stymied any attempt to investigate its own program, which generated more than $10 billion in illegal revenue and lined the pockets of many UN officials. Many other UN programs have since been shown to be rife with corruption and scandal.
The Climate Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia serves as the focal point for the scandal. Its director, Phil Jones, has temporarily stepped aside pending the results of an investigation into the center and many of the controversial emails he sent.
In the United States, Michael Mann of Penn State University is being investigated by his employer for the emails he sent. Mann was the author of the infamous ‘hockey stick’ graph that was used in reports released by the IPCC and in Al Gore’s book and movie “An Inconvenient Truth.” The graph has since been discredited.
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Those fools!
Pure scum.. then again, it is the UN and can not be trusted for anything said. It is up to our congress to provide a public hearing scrutinizing ALL the players and forcing them to show their hand. It must happen. Lying to our gov/congress is not legal and these clowns have been doing it for years... all for profit.
This is sick. But, there is this scumbag, with all his cohorts saying that he will do as the master wishes. No matter... in the US, it is over. People can now see the data and now the opponents will get their say, after many, many years of being abused. Oscuma, it is over.
Protecting the environment is something we all should do, but this does NOT do anything. Forcing taxes and forcing the US, a bankrupt nation, to PAY other countries, many dictatorships, is absolutely insane... unless, of course, your name is gore and you will make billions.
Hardly surprising - nothing to see here, move along. Better for them to spend their time on science rather than witch hunts.
They will not investigate because they are dirty as sin.. No way they can sweep this mess away or lie their way out.. So why even bother tryin.. Just pretend its not there.. That will work
It was much warmer during the medieval warming period.
There are Vikings buried in permafrost in Greenland.
The permafrost is not disturbed.
It was not frozen when they were buried.
I would call that warmer then today, a lot warmer.
The ironic thing is that that this evidence of the medieval warming period is in a museum in Copenhagen.
The Fate of Greenland's Vikings February 28, 2000 by Dale Mackenzie Brown
www.archaeology.org/online/features/greenland
Also, the medieval warming period was global.
Fraudulent hockey sticks and hidden data
joannenova.com.au/2009/12/fraudulent-hockey-sticks-and-hidden-data
For a satirical look at the climategate computer programming (hiding the decline):
Anthropogenic Global Warming Virus Alert.
www.thespoof.com/news/spoof.cfm?headline=s5i64103
Thank you for raising a voice. Can we stop paying them now?
This is what the U.N. offered for all the children of the world last night:
youtubeDOTcom/watch?v=P_9mjBUSDng
There are others, too. Now, I know somehow I paid for that and I'm mad as hell.
No you cant stop paying. Big government and their leftist minions are lost in a green induced bloodlust.. No amount of reason will snap them out of it.. Its best to start working towards kicking the people responsible out of power.. It took them decades for them to work the right people into the right positions and it will take years to clean them out..
I never can figure out why we are so quick to distrust our scientists, who have given us so much, or our governments, international and national, who have also given us so much. The "Climategate" "data" is hardly anything worth looking at - mostly just boring emails. I think the deniers are mostly right wingnuts looking for something to be mad about.
never can figure out why we are so quick to distrust our scientists, who have given us so much, or our governments, international and national, who have also given us so much. The "Climategate" "data" is hardly anything worth looking at - mostly just boring emails. I think the deniers are mostly right wingnuts looking for something to be mad about.
I have read the e-mails. The perversion of the peer review process is not taken out of context and the research fraud is real. This scandal would hit a raw nerve with every researcher that has ever had a paper rejected for publication in any journal. We don't know if this has been the experience of the researchers involved because of their exalted political position, but every such researcher would concur that an investigation is warranted by every affected party involved including the U.N.
FOOD FOR OIL
I don't think they are doing it for profit. I think they're doing it because it's gained a life of its own over many years of feeling fearful about the way we live, and many things play into it. There is something quasi-religious to the fear - prophecies of doom have been around ever since Revelations! And once an individual is convinced something's going badly wrong with the world it can be very hard for them to see things rationally. They think they're on a mission to save the world! And I don't think the world needs saving, but I don't think they are doing it for base motives. They really believe it. Sorting out the science and exposing it to the calm light of day is the only course that will resolve the situation.
I just say let em have fun and all that then when they try to pull something on America we'll just go kick their teeth in and ask em how the party was.
Climategate MUST BE EXPOSED. Take a Lesson from Australia. Minister of Australia Kevin Rude should be sacked and trialled for treason, treachery and fraud, along with his fabian socialist minions, and Malcolm Goldman Sachs Turnbull. People power has taken over Australian Politics last week, where we campaigned of the sacking of the Goldman Sachs Turnbull from the Liberal Party, and to vote NO on the ETS-Carbon Trading Scheme. Americans must take this as fuel for your fire to fight Obama and the fascist tyranny that has encapsulated the USA today. God Speed.
So the UN will defend its climatescientology come what may. I have read those emails closely and the people involved are central to the utter nonsense spouted by the IPCC. These fraudsters belong in jail. AGW is a classic example of the way hysterical crowds and mobs behave. After they've lynched the world economy, they'll just melt away saying, "not my fault, wasn't me"
A UN investigation was a joke to begin with. No investigation will net the same result. The fix is in. it has been bought and paid for.
Free the data; free the code; free the debate!
The magnitude of the publicized effects of global warming and of the measures proposed to minimize its impact overshadow any research group's "proprietary interest" in their data or models. A real ongoing problem has been that much of the data and many of the models supporting the global warming hypothesis have not been available to legitimate researchers.
Scientific papers that are presented at conferences and published in journals should be replicable and/or reproducible. That's a big part of the basic scientific method we all learned in school. The inability to "audit" how a model is used diminishes its results to an opinion. An expert opinion maybe, but an opinion none the less.
Global weather data and climate change models should be accessible. Important public policy should be based on the best information we can get. Now is not the time for the usual scientific jealousies.
Stifling of minority views within the scientific community similar to the “manmade climate change” debate occurs every day. As a meteorologist looking at past weather and climate, I would be cautious making predictions based on subjective analyses of such indicators as ice cores and tree rings. Climate warming has occurred in the past 160 years according to climate records and other indicators such as the melting of glaciers and icecaps. Whether this warming is caused mainly by an increase in carbon dioxide is not conclusive. The medieval warming period, mentioned in an earlier comment, argues against the manmade climate warming “theory”. We know that measurements of atmospheric CO2 since about 1950 show that its quantity has increased 50% or so. There may also be natural causes for this increase including increases in the energy from the sun for which we don’t have any reliable long term (1000 years) record.
This is typical of the UN. Why in the world do we give these clowns a penny? Every single program the UN has been involved with is riddled with fraud and corruption like the "Oil for Food scam". The only reason they are backing the climate change hoax is because they want the money to buy villas with. How can anyone be stupid enough to trus tthe UN? C'mon people someone let me know! here' a challenge explain to be why the People of the United States should be taxed to pay some corrupt UN guys money for the climate hoax: here's my email: spqr_us@yahoo.com
It is useless to rage in comments. Some action is obviously required.
At least an open letter that anyone could sign is a must. Preferably in coordination with Inhofe in US and Monckton in UK.
For as long as we just waste our anger in comments, we are just emitting useless heat and thus accelerating the Anthropogenic Global Warming.
The UN has been exposed as a socialist/marxist tool, and that is a fact. Their 'experts' in every field, I will guarantee you, are investors in pharma, carbon trading, and every other FEAR-based agendas will create.
The UN should only be a 'source' for information and should NEVER AGAIN be taken as the supreme source because it is corrupt. We DO NOT need the UN. It is full of abuses; still trying to promote frauds/scams after they have been exposed shows they have NO REAL intent on doing what is right. FOLLOW the money in the UN; read what these UN 'officials' have to say about population contrrol, redistribution of wealth etc.
It is like the FISTING promoter Kevin Jennings being a 'safe' school 'czar' (using czar in this country seems a bit fanatic in itself)... insanity rules, sheeple listen. The facts and dissenting views from EVERY UN 'project' do EXIST and their voice is NOT heard. Got your billion dollar swine flu shot yet? Follow the money. UN must go.
We the people now have a network of computers large enough to vote individually, our constitution needs domestic protection NOW!
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