Archives for December 6, 2009

Climategate is now clearly established as part of the public domain similar to the Pentagon Papers or the Watergate reports. The issue of who is responsible, a whistleblower or a hacker, may be legal issue but not a scientific one. The contents of the emails, particularly how they apply to scientific integrity, are clearly a scientific issue.

For a CBS news comment please see “Fallout over ‘ClimateGate’ Data Leak Grows”: http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/12/02/taking_liberties/entry5860171.shtml

For a report on the temporary resignation of Phil Jones the head of the Climate Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia please see “Climate-Change Scientist Steps Aside Amid Probe”: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125970198500271683.html?mod=WSJ_hps_MIDDLEThirdNews

For a report from the Sunday Times please see “Climate change data dumped”: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6936328.ece

For an article in the Washington Times including Michael Mann’s defense of his actions please see “Climate Researcher defends actions, claims ‘smear’”:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/dec/05/climate-research-furor-might-not-stop-us-deal//print/

For an editorial in the Journal Nature please see “Climatologists under pressure”:
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v462/n7273/full/462545a.html

For an editorial in the New York Times by John Tierney please see “E-Mail Fracas Shows Peril of Trying to Spin Science”: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/01/science/01tier.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print

For another editorial on the general issues please see “The Dominoes Fall”:  http://www.investors.com/News and Analysis/Article.aspx?id=514128

For comments from Mike Hulme, a climate scientist at the University of East Anglia, please see “The Science and Politics of Climate Change”: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704107104574571613215771336.html

And more…

The Climate Science Isn’t Settled – Richard S. Lindzen, Wall Street Journal, Dec. 1
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB20001424052748703939404574567423917025400.html#mod=todays_us_opinion

A Conundrum That Awaits in Copenhagen – Eugene Robinson, Investors Business Daily, Dec 1 – A view from a non-skeptic
http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=513983

The Real Copenhagen Agenda – The Wall Street Journal, Dec 3
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703939404574567921682049840.html

Climategate: Science Is Dieing – Daniel Henning, Wall Street Journal, Dec. 2
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703939404574566124250205490.html

Climategate: Follow the Money – Bret Stephens, Wall Street Journal, Dec. 1
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703939404574566124250205490.html

NASA-Gate – Investors Business Daily, Dec 4
http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=514429

The Mathematics of Global Warming – Peter Landesman, The American Thinker
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/11/the_mathematics_of_global_warm.html

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As governments prepare for Copenhagen, western governments are being urged to ignore climategate and its possible effects on the science of human caused global warming. For example, President Obama’s science advisor, John Holgren, urges climate action (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125977808310373065.html). Yet skeptics including some US Senators are pressing for the opposite: (http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/dec/05/skeptics-press-obama-on-climate-summit//print/). Of course these skeptics include Fred Singer. At the same time it appears that Cap and Trade in the US is dead for now (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB20001424052748703499404574558070997168360.html).

From Kenneth Haapala
http://www.sepp.org