Govt-Funded Research Unit Destroyed Original Climate Data | CEI

Washington, D.C., October 6, 2009―In the wake of a revelation by a key research institution that it destroyed its original climate data, the Competitive Enterprise Institute petitioned EPA to reopen a major global warming proceeding.

In mid-August the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit (CRU) disclosed that it had destroyed the raw data for its global surface temperature data set because of an alleged lack of storage space. The CRU data have been the basis for several of the major international studies that claim we face a global warming crisis. CRU’s destruction of data, however, severely undercuts the credibility of those studies.

[Still more public money blown on climate swindle]: Feds award $2.7M for Wolverine carbon project

The federal government has awarded $2.7 million to a Michigan electric power co-op for a carbon storage project at a proposed coal-fired power plant near Rogers City.

The Arts | 'Wondrous Cold': Burke exhibit shows there's much more to Antarctica than penguins | Seattle Times Newspaper

Sidor says that for most of the last 300 million years, Antarctica was not covered in glaciers and snow.

Climate Costs: Can The World Really Afford to Roll Back Carbon Emissions? - Environmental Capital - WSJ

For environmentalists worried that the world is on the verge of catastrophic tipping points, quibbling over the check seems immoral. For others less convinced by the still-turbulent science of climate change, spending a few hundred billion dollars a year on an insurance policy seems reckless.