by Myron Ebell
December 05, 2009 @ 6:30 pm
Originally posted on Pajamas Media
When the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming held a hearing [1] on the state of climate science on December 2, the Republicans were ready to focus it on the Climategate fraud scandal [2]. And the first witness, President Obama’s science adviser, Dr. John P. Holdren, was ready to respond.
Instead of summarizing his written testimony in his oral remarks, Holdren read a prepared statement on Climategate. He said that the controversy involved a “small group…
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by Myron Ebell
December 01, 2009 @ 7:11 pm
The Associated Press is reporting from London that Professor Phil Jones of the University of East Anglia is temporarily stepping down as director of the Climatic Research Unit, which is at the center of the Climategate scandal.
No surprise there. Jones has been a goner for days. What is surprising is the reason that the AP gives for his “temporary” removal from his directorship:
The university says Phil Jones will relinquish his position until the completion of an independent review into allegations that…
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by Myron Ebell
December 01, 2009 @ 7:04 pm
(Note: this is a copy of part of a post on Pajamas Media, which can be found here.)
When I read the Washington Post’s disgraceful editorial the other day on the Climategate scandal, I thought of how far they have fallen since their big moment in the sun, Watergate. In those heady days, Editor Ben Bradlee and a team of crack investigative reporters led by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein exposed the Watergate coverup and brought down President Nixon. Of course, they…
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by Myron Ebell
December 01, 2009 @ 3:56 pm
The nation’s best science reporter, John Tierney, today publishes a great piece on Climategate on the front page of the New York Times’s Science section. He goes through some of the hilarious comments in one of the juiciest files unearthed in the scandal so far, the “Harry Read Me” file (which I earlier wrote about here). Anyone who thinks that the “world’s leading climate scientists” don’t have anything to hide might want to read Tierney’s article. Forget about the likely possibility…
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by Myron Ebell
November 20, 2009 @ 7:46 pm
The public posting on a web site of private e-mails and documents from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England is going to cause an uproar. Just a quick look at a few of the e-mails provides some startling revelations. My colleague Julie Walsh lists a few of them in today’s issue of the Cooler Heads Digest. Much more detail is provided at Steve McIntyre’s web site, ClimateAudit.
Here is CEI’s press release, and my colleague…
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