Posted on 12/04/2009 5:28:26 PM PST by Kaslin
Science: For two years, our space agency has refused Freedom of Information requests on why it has repeatedly corrected its climate figures. A leading researcher threatens to sue to find more inconvenient truths.
What's become known as "Climate-Gate" may be about to explode on this side of the pond as well. Chris Horner, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, has threatened a lawsuit against NASA if by year-end the agency doesn't honor his FOI requests for information on how and why its climate numbers have been consistently adjusted for errors.
"I assume that what is there is highly damaging," says Horner, who suspects, based on the public record, the same type of data fudging, manipulation and suppression that has occurred at Britain's East Anglia Climate Research Unit. "These guys (NASA) are quite clearly determined not to reveal their internal discussions about this."
They may have good reason. NASA was caught with its thermometers down when James Hansen, head of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, announced that 1998 was the country's hottest year on record, with 2006 the third hottest.
NASA and Goddard were forced to correct the record in 2007 to show that 1934, decades before the advent of the SUV, was in fact the warmest. In fact, the new numbers showed that four of the country's 10 warmest years were in the 1930s.
Hansen, who began the climate scare some two decades ago, was caught fudging the numbers again in declaring October 2008 the warmest on record. This despite the fact that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration had registered 63 local snowfall records and 115 lowest-ever temperatures for the month, and ranked it as only the 70th-warmest October in 114 years.
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Notice the scaremongers NEVER touch 1600 - 1800?
“Hide the little Ice age.”
“Hide the decline”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEiLgbBGKVk
Heh, Sine Wave? “What Dat?”
(Ouch...as a Pat’s fan, that was tough to say!)
BWAAAAHAAAHAAA! That was great! (Now song is stuck in my head...)
entropy = death
Perhaps that is what the climate mongers wish for?
You are correct. They are going to use every tool at their disposal to fight this. And those tools are considerable. There is a lot of money, and a lot of vested interest in propagating the global warming hoax.
I was waiting for this to show up.
The house of cards is falling...
Here is a glipse of the money they are talking about from the AP article below (with link):
“It may even be $200 billion a year or $300 billion a year, said Chris Hope, a business school professor at the University of Cambridge and part of the IIED study.
Nevertheless, Hope said failing to adapt would be even more expensive — perhaps $6 trillion a year on average over the next 200 years. Adaptation could cut that by about $2 trillion a year, he said.
Global warming may require higher dams, stilts
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091204/ap_on_sc/sci_climate_adapting
I admit I had to look up Penny Wong to get that one...:)
“Don’t worry...we work for Penny Wong!”
YUCK!
Maybe Obama’s replacement as President 2012 will eliminate one Federal agency.
” Any one seen the plans for the Saturn 5 ?
I left them sitting right next to those climate data.
Say, where IS that climate data?
“NASA was caught with its thermometers down”
That is a bloody BRILLIANT line!
Hmmmmm!
Your the poster that said it ....
“Hansen is the leaker of the emails....they’ve fingered him”
You just pull this outs yo hiney or do you have any reference to give us? The snow get to you or what?
From what I have been able to read, your the first to make this claim.
THIS VERSION OF STARGATE IS REALLY FUNNY.
I thought FOI requests were only applicable to the military and the CIA.
That’s what the New York Times told me anyway....
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