Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 11/27/2009 1:04:01 PM PST by Sub-Driver
ClimateGate Scientists Cited in Report to White House and Congress By Noel Sheppard Created 2009-11-27 15:14
Scientists involved in the growing ClimateGate [0] scandal were cited in an October climate change report prepared for the White House and Congress.
Titled "Our Changing Planet," the 172-page document [1] was created by The U.S. Global Change Research Program along with the Subcommittee on Global Change Research, and was submitted as a supplement to President Obama's fiscal 2010 budget.
As such, its contents not only impact future and current legislation involving global warming, but also how tax dollars are spent to research and address it.
The report began with an introduction by White House science czar John Holdren, a man directly involved [1] in ClimateGate (h/t Right Pundits [2] via NB reader George):
Members of Congress:
We herewith transmit a copy of Our Changing Planet: The U.S. Climate Change Science Program for Fiscal Year 2010. The report describes the activities and plans of the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) established under the Global Change Research Act of 1990. The USGCRP coordinates and integrates scientific research on climate and global change supported by 13 participating departments and agencies of the U.S. government. [...]
The document describes a range of activities including examples of the USGCRP's contribution to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, as well as progress in understanding Earth system components of the global climate system, how these components interact, and the processes and forces bringing about changes to the Earth system. [...]
USGCRP is committed to its mission to facilitate the creation and application of knowledge of the Earth's global environment though research, observations, decision support, and communication. We thank the participating agencies for their close cooperation, and we look forward to working with Congress in the continued development of this important program.
Respectfully,
Dr. John P. Holdren, Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy Assistant to the President for Science and Technology
The subsequent chapters addressed a number of topics involving climate, and concluded with "Chapter References and Endnotes" where the following names appeared:
* Phil Jones, Director of the British Climate Research Unit * Gavin Schmidt, NASA climatologist and climate modeler * Michael Mann, Penn State professor and author of the Hockey Stick graph * Benjamin Santer, Lawrence Livermore Lab climate modeler * Raymond Bradley, professor at University of Massachusetts, Amherst * Kevin Trenberth, head of the Climate Analysis Section at the National Center for Atmospheric Research * Peter Stott, climate scientist at the UK Met office * Tom Wigley, climate scientist at the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
To be sure, that papers by these scientists would be cited in such a report is by no means shocking. They have been preparing high-profile documents about global warming for years including for the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
In reality, it would have been shocking if this report DIDN'T include them.
However, what is disturbing is that America's news media haven't cross-referenced this high-profile report with all the names in the e-mail messages obtained from the computers of the University of East Anglia, and reported to the American people just how connected to the United States government these people are.
Or would that be too much like journalism?
Before you answer, consider how the press would be all over this report if the scandal involved policies advocated by leading Republicans that were not supported by the media, and the man in the White House was also a Republican.
"Hadley CRU has apparently been hacked –[epic fraud?]"
Click the picture:
Hadley or Univ East Anglia?
They aren't the same ...
That was the headline from the original article, abbreviated.
Since many of the scientists who are part of this hoax have been getting government grants, how about prosecuting them for fraudulently obtaining government funds?
PUT TOGETHER A TEAM OF LAWYERS AND SUE ALL THE BASTARDS INVOLVED. THE CASE INVOLVES FRAUD AND IS WORTH LOTS OF 0000s.
(should appear as “http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/11/24/the-people-vs-the-cru-freedom-of-information-my-okole.../";)
“As far as I know, I am the person who made the original Freedom Of Information Act to CRU that started getting all this stirred up. I was trying to get access to the taxpayer funded raw data out of which they built the global temperature record. I was not representing anybody, or trying to prove a point. I am not funded by Mobil, I’m an amateur scientist with a lifelong interest in the weather and climate. I’m not “directed” by anyone, I’m not a member of a right-wing conspiracy. I’m just a guy trying to move science forwards.”
This provides the context and external perspective of WHAT the CRU “scientists” were discussing internally and with the peers in their interchanges.
It is an astounding and clear indictment of the corruption and elitism with which they have treated the AGW turf as their personal fiefdom and basis for their career and personal success.
This alone indicates clearly there has likely been an illegal cover-up and conspiracy to hide and even destroy protected public information. It also makes clear that there is a DEFINITE possibility that the actual scientific data and results which support AGW theory have been fraudulently shaped. This is much more important an issue than whether these CRU scientists and other respondent parties just were behaving badly as regards to what they wrote in emails and discussed amongst themselves.
It appears they know that if the raw data and methodologies they used are disclosed, it will be clear that they have been cherry picking and shaping the fundamental data supporting AGW.
It is important to note that it is the A of AGW that is at issue. If there is indeed GW, but it is a result of natural processes (and not man-caused by the world-wide combustion of carbon, the primary and fundamental energy source for the world’s entire economy), that the entire response required is different. In other words, adapt and prepare for inexorable natural climate change, versus forcing via political means, wide-sweeping changes in the entire world’s basis for survival and economic success.
I believe the information in the URL may be pivotal in establishing a proper foundation for honest, truthful and truly scientific examination of the climate change issue.
Forward this to any you think might be interested, including journalists and politically-involved acquaintances.
These pathological liars need an on camera pie in the face.
That was the headline from the original article, abbreviated.Well, isn't that special?
Imagine that, an 'article' with an error ...
By now you probably realize these two entities are over half of England apart ...
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