The UN has announced it will open an investigation into climate research as a result of the CRU e-mails and documents that became public last week. The UN said it is luanching the probe because some of the research in question touches on related work either completed or promoted by its own Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
So far President Obama has made no official public statement on "climategate", and is resisting calls for an investigation. The White House's reluctance to look into the matter stems from the fact that its top scientists claim that the scandal doesn't prove that man-made global warming is not occuring,
The president's Science Advisor, John Holdren, said, "It is important to understand that these kinds of controversies and even accusations of bias and improper manipulation are not all that uncommon in science, in all branches of science."
Rep. Darrell Issa, R-CA, said Friday that the UN announcement is a "direct rebuke" of the Obama administration.
Rep. Issa went on to call the White House's refusal to open an investigation "a sad abdication of their responsibility to ensure that U.S. policies are not driven by corrupted science and data."
“The very integrity of the report that the Obama administration has predicated much of its climate change policy has been called into question and it is unconscionable that this administration and Congress is willing to abdicate responsibility of uncovering the truth to the United Nations," said Issa, who is the ranking member on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
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Obama ignoring facts for purely political reasons? Come on. You don't really expect people to believe that, do you?
The president's Science Advisor, John Holdren, said, "It is important to understand that these kinds of controversies and even accusations of bias and improper manipulation are not all that uncommon in science, in all branches of science."
COMMENT: In other words, FRAUD occurs all the time so there's no need to investigate. Un flipping believable.
These guys should all be pushed off the nearest cliff.
the UN is lauunching an "investigation". Yeah, that worked really well for the oil for food racket.
The UN is only one of the major groups that helped promote this Global Warming scam... and so we are to trust that they will provide an unbiased probe? What a joke.
Who is going to lead this probe? Probably one of the biggest global warming alarmists, Rajendra Pachauri. Just in case you don't know - he is one of the world’s biggest spewers of climate change doom, arguing that global warming is “the greatest challenge facing humanity.” Last year he shared the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the IPCC with Al Gore.
Like he si goiong to provide a fair evaluation.
I expect at the conclusion of their probe the UN will announce that it found no wrongdoing by the CRU scientists and that the Earth is indeed warming at an alarming rate. Several independent investigations are either underway or have been called for. Sadly, I don't believe any of them will produce unbiased, thruthful results. If any do, the mainstream media will never report on the findings. They'll do everything they can to bury the facts under a story on how many mistresses Tiger Woods had, or a similar meaningless celebrity scandal.
The UN is going to investigate what???
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Stop it! You're killin' me! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
The commenters on this article are a sad lot. Travel much?
Have any of you commenters even been north of the arctic circle in your lives? I dare you, take a walk in those places being 'allegedly' impacted by global warming and tell those people it is not happening - they will laugh you out of town.
Richard, the question isn't so much did the earth experience warming over the last 100 years or so, the question is was it caused by man and was it as dramatic as the CRU scientists claimed. Study science much? The earth has undergone many climate changes. The e-mails from the CRU researchers has shown that the methods used to reach their conclusions are suspect. Data was manipulated, data was destroyed, deleted, and thrown into the trash. They attempted to shut down debate and ridiculed researchers who arived at a different conclusion. It would be insane not to question their work and take a harder look at claims of Anthropogenic Global Warming. Some of these very same scientists warned us of an impending catastrophic "ice age" in the 70's. That was supposedly being caused by the same thing they claim is causing global warming now. They even suggested cover the poles with a layer of soot to cause melting of the polar ice caps to decrease temps. Why should we believe anything they say?
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