Saturday, November 28, 2009

CRU climate data already ‘over 95%’ available (28 November) - University of East Anglia (UEA)
Over 95% of the CRU climate data set concerning land surface temperatures has been accessible to climate researchers, sceptics and the public for several years the University of East Anglia has confirmed.
Satellites to monitor countries for climate change under Gordon Brown plan - Telegraph
An international satellite monitoring system to check countries comply with new climate change targets was proposed by Gordon Brown last night as a way of binding developing nations into a new deal on the environment.
Hacked E-Mail Data Prompts Calls for Changes in Climate Research - NYTimes.com
“This whole concept of, ‘We’re the experts, trust us,’ has clearly gone by the wayside with these e-mails,” said Judith Curry, a climate scientist at Georgia Institute of Technology.
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Gavin A. Schmidt, a NASA climatologist involved in many of the e-mail exchanges, said that voluntarily disclosing more data would never satisfy the “very hard-bitten, distraught core” of climate skeptics. “The number of attacks on our integrity will actually increase since there will be more ways to twist what it is we do to support some conspiracy theory or other,” he said.
Questions for James Inhofe - Global Warning - Interview - NYTimes.com
[Q] [Boxer] and her fellow Democrats have lately suggested that global warming could be a threat to national security by destabilizing developing countries.
[Inhofe] That’s the most ludicrous thing. They looked around and they found, I think, five generals to testify before the committee. Well, that’s 5 generals out of 4,000 retired generals that say that. There are a lot of generals who don’t like to be out of the limelight. They’d like to get back in.

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