Academia
Mar
How to avoid your own Climategate scandal
What are the lessons of Climategate? More honesty and transparency in science? Not according to attorney Alan Nelson in the Guardian UK today. To him, the lesson is how not to get caught next time. So how do universities and academics ensure that their correspondence does not become the “smoking gun” that turns a simple [...]
Mar
Climategate II: The coverup!
Would you believe Climategate II is here? More emails have been disclosed, but this time they are from a National Academies of Science listserv.
Mar
95% chance that you’re a climate killer, and they have your fingerprints
Have you noticed that warmers have started to fight back? Today, the Times UK tells about a study that has reduced to 5% the probability that skeptics are right. Oh, and get this: the IPCC UNDERSTATED the effect of mankind on climate change. The evidence that human activity is causing global warming is much stronger [...]
Mar
Royal Statistical Society join Chemist and Physicists lecturing the University of East Anglia on non-disclosure
I’m not convinced that the inquiry into the University of East Anglia will result in anything but a whitewash, but it’s nice to see academics being forced to sit and have simple scientific principles dictated to them as if they’re simple-minded students. The Royal Statistical Society (RSS) recently made some statements about data needing to [...]
Mar
Former student claims Climategate University ‘often’ falsified data
Lalu Hanuman, a former post-graduate student of the University of East Anglia has submitted a damning assessment to the UK Government Inquiry, revealing potentially unethical and criminal conduct by staff .
Mar
Royal Society of Chemistry backs 36,000 physicists in condemning Climategate
The RSC now stands shoulder to shoulder with the 36,000 strong in speaking out against the cover up and destruction of data by unethical and criminal climate researchers at the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit.
Mar
And they’re still lying at East Anglia
The University of East Anglina, at the center of the climategate row over stolen e-mails has been accused of making a misleading statement to Parliament.
Feb
VINDICATED! “Henk Tennekes – He was right after all,” says De Telegraaf
The Netherlands largest daily newspaper, De Telegraaf, has vindicated Henk Tennekes, the country’s most famous global warming skeptic. Tennekes was forced to resign as director of the Netherlands Meteorological Institute in the early 1990′s due to his disbelief of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPPC) “science.”
Feb
Czechgate: Climate scientists dump world’s second oldest ‘cold’ climate record
Blogger ‘Chiefio’ (aka E. M. Smith) confirms that the Global Historical Climatology Network (GHCN) has cynically dumped the world’s second oldest and reliable climate record at Prague in the Czech Republic for no scientific reason.
Feb
Thank you, Young Americans for Freedom, for your Penn State demonstration
Saturday we wrote about the groups who were demonstrating at Penn State, both for and against the university’s leniency on Climategate’s Professor Michael Mann. Leading the charge against Mann were the local Young Americans for Freedom group.