As you read article below click and give a listen to a highly recommended speech by Lord Monckton with over 215,000 hits since mid October with two of the same videos combined which is quite a bit for a 90 minute speech. Another portion of this speech of about 5 minutes has gone viral with almost 2.5 million hits since 10/16/2009 at Lord Monckton's highly recommended 90 minute speech on UN Climate Change Treaty going viral on You Tube.
NCPA has this interesting email update below comments concerning a Freedom of Information request for why climate numbers have been adjusted for errors. But first here is some context concerning what is being dubbed "Climate Gate".
Back in October BBC News had an article titled What happened to global warming? which was the number one news story cited in the blogosphere for 3 days straight. See BBC News: Current climate models fail to forecast that the globe is not warming even though man made carbon dioxide continues to rise for more.
Now more recently a story at the New York Times titled Hacked E-Mail Is New Fodder for Climate Dispute was the number one cited news story for 2 days straight (see: New York Times article on Hacked e-mails of global warming scientists is the most linked to story for two days now.) and now yet another news story from TimesOnline in the UK has been number one for the last two days titled Climate change data dumped - Times Online according to BlogPulse. On 12/06/2009 the last two articles have both remained in the top 10 linked to news articles on the blogosphere. See links for more.
And now NASA may be getting some attention riding off of the concerns of "Climate Gate".
NASA-GATE
What's become known as "Climategate" 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 Freedom of Information (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 (CRU). "These guys (NASA) are quite clearly determined not to reveal their internal discussions about this."
They may have good reason, says Investor's Business Daily (IBD):
- 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.
- Scores of temperature records from Russia and elsewhere were not based on that October's readings at all; figures from the previous month had simply been carried over and repeated two months running.
Hansen has said in the past that "heads of major fossil-fuel companies who spread disinformation about global warming should be tried for high crimes against humanity and nature." What penalties would he recommend for himself and his CRU colleagues, asks IBD?
Source: Editorial, "NASA-Gate," Investor's Business Daily, December 7, 2009.
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