Roger Helmer has been speaking to his Swedish friends after hearing Professor Phil Jones testimony to the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee.  Roger picks up on what the nutty professor had professed:he said that he had been unable to make data available when requested, because it came (in part) from the Swedish Meteorological Institute, which (he testified) had refused to allow its data to be published. But according to my Swedish friend Goran Ahlgren of the Stockholm Institute, the Swedish data are public, and Professor Jones had been advised in correspondence that this is the case.And here is the press release - copied and pasted from Roger Helmers post.     PRESS RELEASE Stockholm March 5, 2010Climate cover-up continuesClimate scientist delivers false...

There is a petition on the Downing Street Website that is worth a look.  Interestingly, it will not expire until after the General Election, so who knows who will be...

There is a very interesting BBC Q&A; between Roger "the Dodger" Harrabin and Phil "deceitful bastard" Jones. It's worth reading the whole thing, but the most significant section is the first answer. [Emphasis mine (other than on the question).]A - Do you agree that according to the global temperature record used by the IPCC, the rates of global warming from 1860-1880, 1910-1940 and 1975-1998 were identical?An initial point to make is that in the responses to these questions I've assumed that when you talk about the global temperature record, you mean the record that combines the estimates from land regions with those from the marine regions of the world. CRU produces the land component, with the Met Office Hadley Centre producing the marine component.Temperature data for the period...

As we all remain thoroughly amused at the barrage of attacks on the IPCC's rapidly waning credibility, it's all too easy to miss a dodgy citation or two.As such, and via Climate Sceptic, I am happy to point you towards a rapidly expanding compendium of all of the dodgy citations in the IPCC's AR3 and AR4 reports, hosted by the informative ClimateQuotes.com.In other news—just in case you missed it—55% of the Netherlands is not below sea level, as claimed by IPCC AR4: the figure is more like 20%. This may sound like nit-picking, but it's annoyed the Dutch; apart from anything else, the report made outrageous claims about the effect on the Netherlands's productivity should the sea rise a couple of inches.The worrying thing about the sudden outrage by the Dutch is worrying—as my...

Dr North takes the lead again in the fight back against the IPCC, with another revelation about the 2007 IPCC report which bogusly claimed that the Himalayan Glaciers would have melted in the next 25 years. That revelation showed that this was an entirely false claim and has rippled around the world and is what we know as Glaciergate.Dr North now says that the very same report was again wrong with claims that food yields from rain-fed agriculture could be reduced by 50% by 2020. The 2020 projection is in fact now exposed as based on nothing more than speculation that is sourced back to a Canadian advocacy group, and written by an obscure academic who specialises in Carbon Trading and citing references that do not support his claims.Time and again, we must examine why such claims are...

Northern Ireland’s political leaders have reportedly been rewarded with the promise of a new US investment programme after closing a historic deal last week which saved power sharing. UK Prime Minister Gordon “Gormless” Brown (pictured above with upstanding pair DUP cuckold Peter Robinson – husband of adulteress Iris Robinson - and former IRA commander Martin McGuinness of Sinn Fein) and his Irish counterpart, Brian “Biffo” Cowen, flew into Northern Ireland to put their seal of approval on the deal, which will create a Department of Justice, gives Unionists concessions on the issue of Protestant parades and saves the power-sharing executive from collapse. Mr Brown said the achievements over the longest period of unbroken negotiations since the...

Dr North says:We're putting together a single blog using available videos to form a running videlog on Climategate and related issues. It is work in progress, but you can see it here. Let us know what you think.Great idea, and duly added to the blogroll.  I would have left a comment over on the wordpress site, but I can never sign in as me as someone else has the Daniel1979...

Fred Pearce, the New Scientist of "Glaciergate" fame (his 1999 article having been quoted by the WWF 2005 paper), is in The Guardian today, with two linked stories, based on an analysis of the "Climategate" e-mails.The stories can be found here and here, questioning the work done by Jones et al, of CRU fame, on the Chinese urban heat island effect.The remarkable aspects of these reports are, firstly, that Pearce is a staunch "warmist" who has been in the forefront of hyping up climate alarmism. Secondly, this appears to be the first occasion where an MSM journalist has initiated his own investigation on the "Climategate" e-mails. Thirdly, the stories are published in the temple of "warmism", The Guardian.Pearce, as one might expect, stresses that the findings do not change the global...

In the UK the latest opinion polls in advance of the impending general election are suggesting that after the poll the House of Commons (pictured above) may well have the prospect of a hung parliament, where no party will have an overall majority. It has to be said that after the last few years, with economic calamity, political correctness, politicians’ corruption and official incompetence, most British electors will heartily welcome the notion of a hung parliament. But not in a statistical sense. - And if there is a hung parliament, UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown (pictured above) is reportedly making secret plans to stay on as New Labour leader after the general election even if his party is defeated. The PM has told close colleagues that he will refuse to quit unless the...

UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown today pledged that the Government would do “everything it could” to make sure jobs are kept in Britain following the proposed takeover of Cadbury’s (above).  The PM said assurances had been sought from Kraft about the US company’s awareness of and commitment to the Cadbury name, workforce and quality after its approach was recommended for approval. Gormless Gord did however duck questions as to why the UK taxpayer-owned Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) was prepared to lend money to Kraft to fund the £11.9 billion takeover bid.  So now we have the incredible scenario where British taxpayers have bailed out the banks, including RBS, and now their money is being used to fund the foreign ownership of a venerable and profitable British...

The belief that many have in catastrophic anthropogenic climate change (CACC) is based, not entirely unreasonably, on faith: they themselves know little of science or statistics and trust that those who claim to do so are, in fact, telling the truth.Those of us who are—to say the least—highly sceptical of the alarmists' claims have constantly worried at not only the science but also the credibility of those presenting it. Because, if those people are themselves compromised then so is the quality of the evidence.This tactic might be—and is—dismissed as a series of ludicrous ad hominem attacks, but it has been forced upon us largely by the climatologists' refusal to release the raw measurements on which they have based their reports.What has not helped the alarmists' case is that...

The New Scientist: starting to wake up...?The New Scientist is often an interesting read, but the magazine's slavish devotion to the climate change religion has put me off buying it on a number of occasions. I also find that some people's faith in what is, in the end, a bunch of hacks recycling scientific press releases somewhat worrying, e.g. @dnotice: "... but articles in @newscientist are based on peer-rev'd articles...".Now, it seems, The New Scientist hacks are horrified to find that maybe the AGW alarmist sources aren't quite as honest—or, indeed, "peer-reviewed"—as that magazine's naive hacks might have hoped. [Emphasis mine.]Sifting climate facts from speculationIt was a dramatic declaration: glaciers across much of the Himalayas may be gone by 2035. When New Scientist heard...

Prince Charles and Gordon Brown charter seperate flights to Copenhagen.So to "off set" this 6.4 tons of CO2, which is an additional 5.2 tons than would have been produced if they had taken a scheduled flight they both now need to write a cheque to one of Al Gore's GIM investment Carbon Credit...

Al Gore speaking to Copenhagen delegates:"These figures are fresh.  Some models suggest to Dr [Wieslav] Maslowski that there is a 75% chance that the entire northern polar ice cap, during the summer months could be completely ice-free within five to seven years."Hmmm... Sounds like we should all stop driving to work and write a cheque to one of Al Gore's GIM backed Carbon Trading Firms.  But wait a minute, what's this?Dr Maslowski replied:"It's unclear to me how this figure was arrived at, I would never try to estimate likelihood at anything as exact as this"I am confused now, why would Al Gore say something that is not true?  Isn't the science already settled?From The TimesMr Gore’s office later admitted that the 75 per cent figure was one used by Dr Maslowksi as a...

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With a big tip of the hat to Mr All Seeing Eye, I would like to direct the attention of fellow flat-earthers to the Popular Technology Blog, and via this link they have published links to 500 peer reviewed science papers supporting the sceptic arguments against "Man-Made" climate change. Further confirmation, not that more was needed that claims of the science being settled is a load of nonsense; propaganda for the limited thinker.As Ed Begley Jr himself advised, with some ferocity, look for and trust the peer reviewed literature... So it would seem that the science is not settled and that more and more sceptics who have kept quiet for fear of losing grants and being shunned by the scientific community are starting to speak out and push their work to the fore. All of the money has always...

Just to confirm the numbers now that the poll has closed.Question: The Climategate Email Revelation Has...Answers, with responses:Made no difference to my opinions, man-made CO2 is affecting our climate and we must cap it - 1Made some difference, but I still believe climate change is linked to CO2 - 1Has made me question if the science is really there, and if I have been lied to - 7 (9%)Confirmed my recent suspicions that it was all a big scam, the science does not add up - 25 (32%)Made no difference, I have always known it was a load of old tosh - 42...

Neil Craig nails it.In debunking the ludicrous "plane crashing" AGW analogy, Neil gives us a suitably alliterative moniker for the CRUddites:"a mob of Mystic Megs"Exquisite....

The UN Copenhagen Climate Change summit was in disarray yesterday (above) after developing countries reacted furiously to leaked documents that show world leaders will next week be asked to sign an agreement that hands more power to rich countries and sidelines the UN’s role in all future climate change negotiations. The document is also being interpreted by developing countries as setting unequal limits on per capita CO2 emissions for developed and developing countries in 2050; meaning that people in rich countries would be permitted to emit nearly twice as much under the proposals. The so-called “Danish Text”, a secret draft agreement worked on by a group of individuals known as “the circle of commitment” – but understood to include the UK, US and...

(NB, It's me, the P-G)Right. Can we stop with this "Would you board a 'plane" nonsense right now?Here's Johann Hari with a classic of the genre:Imagine you are about to get on a plane with your family. A huge group of qualified airline mechanics approach you on the tarmac and explain they've studied the engine for many years and they're sure it will crash if you get on board. They show you their previous predictions of plane crashes, which have overwhelmingly been proven right. Then a group of vets, journalists, and plumbers tell they have looked at the diagrams and it's perfectly obvious to them the plane is safe and that airplane mechanics – all of them, everywhere – are scamming you. Would you get on the plane? That is our choice at Copenhagen.Now, I'm going to leave aside pulling...

This is Maggie Thauersköld, Sweden’s most prominent climate-sceptic bloggerStolen from Roger...

Pictured above is Amanda Knox, the young American girl convicted over the weekend of murdering British student Meredith Kercher in Perugia, Italy. Since that verdict was handed down, there has been an increasingly concerted effort by first her family, then the US media, to imply that the evidence against her was flawed and that the Italian legal system was pre-disposed to convict her. We’ve even now got a US Senator, Maria Cantwell, asking US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to intervene, saying that there are “serious questions” about the Italian legal system and that the verdict was “anti-American”. So to sum up, there are voices in America calling for reason, “justice” and compassion. But wait…. Pictured above is British citizen Gary...

From the Telegraph's Andrew Gilligan:The airport says it is expecting up to 140 extra private jets during the peak period alone, so far over its capacity that the planes will have to fly off to regional airports – or to Sweden – to park, returning to Copenhagen to pick up their VIP passengers.As well 15,000 delegates and officials, 5,000 journalists and 98 world leaders, the Danish capital will be blessed by the presence of Leonardo DiCaprio, Daryl Hannah, Helena Christensen, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Prince Charles. A Republican US senator, Jim Inhofe, is jetting in at the head of an anti-climate-change "Truth Squad." The top hotels – all fully booked at £650 a night – are readying their Climate Convention menus of (no doubt sustainable) scallops, foie gras and sculpted caviar...

A chilled draught is cooling inflamed passions over in lager country, scene of Gordon’s intended ‘I saved the World’ wedding reception at Copenhagen. The High Priest has already announced that he will not be personally attending the forthcoming nuptials in front of the excited global warming enthusiasts; Al Gore isn’t coming, or isn’t going, either way,...

Although the title and content of Local Transport Today (LTT) might suggest that its greatest role might be as the featured anorak mag on Have I Got News for you, it is a twice monthly bible and font of wisdom for the top, and most influential transport professionals in Britain. And, as such, it is likely that the following LTT article may well have more potential to trigger significant change in attitudes among transport policy and implementation professionals than most single news items... There have, of course, been many reports of concern over the scientific legitimacy of the basis for constraining use of motorised transport to save the planet. These appear with increasing frequency in a vast range of news sources from mainstream print and TV media to Twitter. But, IMHO, very...

HERE is the link to this petiton, please feel free to spread the word on this.Hattip: Daily...

(NB, It's me, the P-G)I am struggling, manfully, to resist the temptation to reply to the ever-pertinent question:Cui bono?with the answer:Bono?It transpires that there are two other rather better answers....

This is not so much Recommended Reading as it is Required Reading.  The Science & Public Policy Institute has released THIS REPORT which analyses the Climategate emails and demonstrates how the Science of climate change is not settled; and how the email revelations have in fact hidden then truth about what is going on with our environment and our climate.The report delves into the science, but is written as best as possible for those of us without PhD's.  There are some interesting recommendations at the end, all of which seem reasonable to me.  If we are to subject the world to carbon taxes in the middle of the worst economic downturn for several generations, it should be based on global, open and verifiable science with the raw data available to everybody on earth to...

They talk about it all the time on the TV, Google's motto official or otherwise is "Don't be evil".So, by extension, despite hundreds of thousands, if not millions of sites referring to and writing about Climategate, why is it not a valid "query selection" that they will automatically offer in their search box? Does Google consider the ready availability of information questioning the CO2 link to Climate Change as "evil"? This is not new to today; this has been the case all week as I have tried a number of times using google to see what is coming out new on this story around the world. I thought earlier in the week that it was suspicious, but put it down to being a new topic and my readiness to see a conspiracy; I am no longer alone in this query.I am not sure what it is about this...

Whatever you think about man-made climate change and worldwide plans to cut personal mobility and spend trillions on addressing the global warming ‘problem’, there is no doubt that we are reaching a critical and potentially dangerous turning point. The point is this. After some resistance an inquiry is now looming to investigate a momentous leak of emails that cast doubt on the motives of climate change scientists. These communications are between key people at the vanguard of the ‘science’ on which world leaders and their publics base many passionately held beliefs that man-made global warming is real is set to create insurmountable catastrophe and doom for us all. And in case you didn’t know, this latest development follows a big leak of emails that...

Unlike the British news outlets, the US news is now reporting on the Climategate emails, it's not just Fox (video above) CBS is also giving this some prominence on their TV news and website.  Now the US Congress has decided that it is serious enough to warrant an investigation. Gerald Warner has more HERE.  It is a reflection on the UK political scene that these emails have been hacked from a British University, involve British scientists and yet the media is largely apathetic to the news and is not giving it much attention.  Furthermore, that a foreign legislature has felt the need to look into the actions before the UK Government, and probably in that absence of any kind of UK Government investigation.  There may be much more to be revealed in this story, as it...

Recent evidence that prominent climate scientists have tried to intimidate academic journals into not publishing papers submitted by “climate change” skeptics have caused a major brouhaha in the ongoing political battle over global warming. At least some of the scientists in question certainly seem to have put ideology above the search for truth. The effort to keep skeptical articles out of academic journals also raises the issue of whether the academic “consensus” supporting global warming theory is genuine, or a product of systematic exclusion of dissenting voices. I lack relevant scientific expertise on global warming, so I don’t have anything useful to say about the scientific issues involved. The question I want to address is what impact these revelations should have on...