Thousands of emails, from the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit (CRU) were released on a server in the city of Tomsk in Siberia, Russia [19, 20, 21] on November 19, 2009, just before the Copenhagen Summit on Global Warming [8, 23, 24, 25]; the email scandal was coined Climategate first by James Delingpole. [1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9, 14, 22]
CRU, who’s director is Professor Philip Jones, is recognised as one of the world’s leading institutions concerned with the study of natural and anthropogenic [man-made] climate change, they keep “the global temperature record used to monitor the state of the climate system, as well as statistical software packages and climate models.” They are a “small group of scientists who have for years been more influential in driving the worldwide alarm over global warming than any others, not least through the role they play at the heart of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).” [26]
“[h]undreds of internal emails written by scientists working at the CRU were obtained by a hacker [or whistleblower] and posted on the internet, some of which appeared to show that researchers had deliberately faked evidence of global warming by manipulating statistics” as climate warming was inconveniently lacking evidence. [8, 18]
“Researchers at CRU, one of the world’s leading research bodies on natural and human-induced climate change, played a key role in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report, which is considered to be the most authoritative report of its kind” [15, 16]
On November 29, 2009 the CRU scientists were “forced to admit they had thrown away most of the raw data that their global temperature calculations were based upon” which means “other academics are not able to check basic calculations said to show a long-term rise in temperature over the past 150 years.” [17] The Climategate scientists who conspired to delete emails, escaped criminal conviction on a “statute of limitations” technicality.
“The documents and emails illustrated how prominent climatologists, affiliated with the UN’s International Panel on Climate Change [IPCC], embarked on a venomous and coordinated campaign to ostracize climate skeptics and use their influence to keep dissenting reports from appearing in peer-reviewed journals, as well as using cronyism to avoid compliance with Freedom of Information Act requests”
As reported, 2009 is when “Global Warming” become known as “Climate Change”! [5, 10, 11, 12, 13]
By 2010 when no warming has occurred for 15 years, Obama science advisor wanted to dump the term “global warming” for “global climate disruption“!
Why does IPCC always quote a temperature variation around a zero point?
What average global temperature does that zero point represent, 14 or 15 degrees C?
On the back of these “man-made” Climate Change claims, they also claim that human disease incidence is on the rise!
Climategate WATCH, NOTES
CNN version of Climategate: PART 1, PART 2, PART 3
Australian Bolt Report on Climate Science – 2011