MPs insist Climategate just hot air

Herald Sun ^ | Wednesday, March 31, 2010 at 01:17pm | Andrew Bolt

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Climategate was a lot of fuss about nothing, claims Britain’s parliamentary inquiry into the scandal:

The focus on Professor Jones and CRU has been largely misplaced. On the accusations relating to Professor Jones’s refusal to share raw data and computer codes, the Committee considers that his actions were in line with common practice in the climate science community but that those practices need to change…

Insofar as the Committee was able to consider accusations of dishonesty against CRU, the Committee considers that there is no case to answer.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

fyi

[Cincinatus]

The Committee found no reason in this inquiry to challenge the scientific consensus as expressed by Professor Beddington, the Government Chief Scientific Adviser, that “global warming is happening [and] that it is induced by human activity”.

What an astonishing result!!

[Bob]

Politicians, eager to assume more power and control, are supporting their guy who's providing them the basis for doing so.

Gee, what a surprise. </sarcasm>

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

They are without scruples! It’s a shameful whitewash!

[steelyourfaith]

Thanx !

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

The Competitive Enterprise Institute will be bestowing the Julian Simon Award on Steve McIntyre and Ross McKitrick for their efforts in debunking Mann's hockey stick at CEI's 2010 Dinner, June 17 at Hyatt Regency Capitol Hill 400 New Jersey Ave. NW Washington, DC 20001.

[Brett66]

the Committee considers that his actions were in line with common practice in the climate science community but that those practices need to change

WTH? Why does it need changed if they think it's just fine?

[BOBTHENAILER]

We knew this was coming-—JERKS.

[Winniesboy]

WTH? Why does it need changed if they think it's just fine?|

They didn't. This is one of those occasions where it helps to go to the original source ( the Committee's report) rather than a third-hand summary thereof.:

http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200910/cmselect/cmsctech/387/38702.htm

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

The closing :

Conclusions and recommendations

The Next committee will pass along the mission.

********************************EXCERPT***************************************

24. A great responsibility rests on the shoulders of climate science: to provide the planet's decision makers with the knowledge they need to secure our future. The challenge that this poses is extensive and some of these decisions risk our standard of living. When the prices to pay are so large, the knowledge on which these kinds of decisions are taken had better be right. The science must be irreproachable. (Paragraph 138)

[SunkenCiv]

Time to start shipping arms to UK Muzzies, since they are an indigenous resistance movement.

[Marine_Uncle]

The whitewash goes on. We should have know they never could admit the crime of the century had taken place.