Scientists broke the law by hiding climate change data: ...won't be prosecuted

The UK Daily Mail ^ | 1/28/10 | David Derbyshire

[Reaganesque]

Scientist at the heart of the 'Climategate' email scandal broke the law when they refused to give raw data to the public, the privacy watchdog has ruled.

The Information Commissioner's office said University of East Anglia researchers breached the Freedom of Information Act when handling requests from climate change sceptics.

But the scientists will escape prosecution because the offences took place more than six months ago.

The revelation comes after a string of embarrassing blunders and gaffes for climate scientists and will fuel concerns that key researchers are too secretive and too arrogant.

It will pile pressure on the director of the university's climate change unit, Professor Phil Jones, who has stood aside while an investigation is carried out, and make it harder for him to return.

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[Reaganesque]

So, not only are these people scientifically negligent, but criminally as well.

[cripplecreek]

The scientists should be the least of our concerns. I want to know who wanted the warming data and why.

[Huskrrrr]

They sould be sentenced to spend a year in an actual greenhouse.

[GOPJ]

Global Warming was a scam that would make Madoff blush. People need to go to jail.

[bmwcyle]

Hide the Decline

[himno hero]

That is the bottom line. Surest way is through prosecution of the scientist, facts will come out.

It is an interesting thing...make a misrepresentation that others bank on to the SEC and they are on you now!

This effects money, politics and the global future.

To sit back and let a big ponzi/ 4-19 scheme go by is ridiculous.

This too probably leads right back to the presidents nefarious agenda of dismantling, dhiminishing and margininalization of the US of A..

[MrB]

All you have to do is look at the “solutions” to AGW and who is implementing them to know “who”,

and the “why” is the same “why” as has always existed - to control people and empower themselves.

[cripplecreek]

“Once you price CO2 and put a price on it, you find, as you would with any other product, it tends to be rationed. We as a people on this planet have lived under the false concept that air and water were free. And we’ve learned with a planet of 7 billion people, that we have to ration these precious goods. And the good old price system is the best way to do it.”

Richard Sandor, father of the carbon market.

It should be noted that Obama sat on the board of directors at the Joyce foundation when they gave Sandor money to found the Chicago Climate exchange. (CCX)

[GloriaJane]

Too bad they can’t be sued in a class action.

[Myrddin]

This is what happens when the criminally insane are left to wander the streets.

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[Wonder Warthog]

"So, not only are these people scientifically negligent, but criminally as well."

But this finding should be more than sufficient for the university to justify firing them. The only thing that saved them from criminal prosecution was the "statute of limitations" built into the law.

[freekitty]

Why won’t they be prosecuted?

[Reaganesque]

The statute of limitations for this crime, six months, has expired.

[philetus]

The statute of limitations for this crime, six months, has expired.”

“Look guys and girls. We had to make it illegal, but you only have to hide it for six months. Anybody can hide something for six months.”

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Now that is Ugly,...that all of them are getting away with this.