Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 12/02/2009 9:53:32 AM PST by lbryce
The British scientist at the heart of a scandal over climate-change research temporarily stepped down Tuesday as director of a prominent research group amid an internal probe that follows the release of hacked emails involving him and other scientists.
People in Copenhagen form the logo of a campaign to cut carbon emissions to 350 parts per million.
The University of East Anglia in the U.K. said Phil Jones, head of the university's Climatic Research Unit, had decided to step aside from the director's post.
The announcement comes less than a week before world leaders are set to meet for a climate summit in Copenhagen. The two-week conference, sponsored by the United Nations, is supposed to come up with tougher policies to curb greenhouse-gas emissions and slow global warming.
The need for such action has been buttressed in large part by research by Dr. Jones and his colleagues in East Anglia and around the world. But hackers recently stole emails and documents from the East Anglia center that suggested Dr. Jones and other like-minded scientists tried to squelch the views of dissenting researchers and advocated manipulating data.
John Holdren, President Barack Obama's top science adviser, supports the view that global warming is man-made.
The fallout from the hacked emails is spreading beyond the U.K. Also Tuesday, Penn State University confirmed that Michael Mann -- a climate scientist on its faculty who figures prominently in the emails -- is under "inquiry" by the university.
Dr. Mann's work reconstructing historic global temperatures has, over the past decade, become a focal point of debate. Penn State said in a statement that its inquiry, which stems from disclosed emails written by Dr. Mann, is a preliminary step to determine whether a full investigation is needed. He didn't respond to requests for comment.
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obviously he couldn't take the heat...
yuk yuk yuk
I won’t hold my breath waiting for U.S. climate ‘scientists’ to step down ... they will fight like the cornered rats they are until long after the funding is cut off.
It seems like hackers have poured “cold” water on their plans to heat up the global warming brouhaha.
Agree completely. These guys make Bernie Madoff look like a piker in comparison. Charles Ponzi, eat your (dead) heart out.
This makes it VERY hard for the lefties to say the wistleblower files all much ado about nothing.
It’s over folks. AGW is dead.
temporarily stepped down
From James Buchal’s book The Great Salmon Hoax:
“Vice President Gore has written, in Earth in the Balance, that journalists should downplay scientific findings of ecological improvement because good news may dilute the public sense of anxiety.”
Us oldsters clearly remember the “global cooling” hoax perpetrated by these same assclowns (and their mentors) back in the ‘70s. No matter what the hoax, it’s always about the money. Try getting some of those $million$ in “grant” money if you are a scientist who DOES NOT support the position that manmade “global warming” is imperiling the planet.
That “grant” money is nothing less than the front money put up by the global socialists in the hope that it will multiply itself thousands of times over when “global warming” is used as the basis for raising taxes (”cap and tax”, for example) and redistributing America’s wealth to corrupt third-world sewers around the globe.
Look at it this way: Imagine that mobsters have paid off the referees to “fix” the Super Bowl so that they can place bets and quadruple their money, but the referees go and get arrested and exposed as crooks the day before the Super Bowl. That’s what ‘Climategate’ is like for the “global warming” mobsters. ...Except these mobsters bribed scientists with taxpayer money to “fix” climate data in order to scam many times MORE money out of those same taxpayers.
And now those “scientists” have been busted the day before the Copenhagen Super Bowl.
Sweet.
I guess this means Algore actually won the Nobel Prize for FRAUD...at least that’s what I’ll refer to it as now.
Yes indeed. And do it BIG! Look up Charles Ponzi and see what he said to a reporter as he was on his death bed.
The hacks were hacked.......
A fine short history of warming and cooling scares has recently
been produced and is available here.
PDF:Newsweek Global Cooling
Asked about his whereabouts when the emails were sent...
Al Gore responded he had been drinking a lot of tea that day and had gone to the rest room.
"Never let a good crisis go to waste" . . . and we'll manufacture one if we have to.
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