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The comments were made in a conference call for reporters.Taxpayers will pay for BNP leader Nick Griffin's 5-star Copenhagen trip - mirror.co.uk
The scientists—Somerville, Michael Mann of Penn State and Eric Steig of University of Washington—were supposed to be discussing their new report, the Copenhagen Diagnosis, a dismal update of the UN IPCC's 2007 climate data by 26 scientists from eight nations.
Instead they spent much of the time diffusing the hacker controversy, known in the media as "Climate Gate."
Taxpayers will foot the bill for BNP leader Nick Griffin to enjoy a week of five-star treatment at the Copenhagen climate change summit.University of East Anglia U-turn in climate change row - Telegraph
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As an MEP he is entitled to claim business class flights for the event, as well as his hotel accommodation and a £300 daily allowance.
Griffin has been given a place because he is the only member of the EU environment committee who believes global warming is a hoax.
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A [BNP] party spokesman said: "It's very much in Britain's national interests that at least one politician is willing to question and put under scrutiny what we are all being led to believe by the climate change lobby.
"Nick and the party believe that the whole global warming industry is a huge con."
In a statement welcomed by climate change sceptics, the university said it would make all the data accessible as soon as possible, once its Climatic Research Unit (CRU) had negotiated its release from a range of non-publication agreements.The great climate change science scandal - Times Online
There could, however, be another reason why the unit rejected requests to see its data.
This weekend it emerged that the unit has thrown away much of the data. Tucked away on its website is this statement: “Data storage availability in the 1980s meant that we were not able to keep the multiple sources for some sites ... We, therefore, do not hold the original raw data but only the value-added (ie, quality controlled and homogenised) data.”
If true, it is extraordinary. It means that the data on which a large part of the world’s understanding of climate change is based can never be revisited or checked. Pielke said: “Can this be serious? It is now impossible to create a new temperature index from scratch. [The unit] is basically saying, ‘Trust us’.”
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Roger Pielke Sr has an interesting post up. It says there is 90%-95% overlap between the three major surface station records, GISS, NOAA, and CRU.
An ascertion supported inadvertently by P Jones in the climategate emails.
Comment by Prof. Phil Jones
http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/people/pjones/, Director, Climatic
Research Unit (CRU), and Professor, School of Environmental Sciences,
University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK:
“No one, it seems, cares to read what we put up http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/temperature/ on the CRU web page. These people just make up motives for what we might or might not have done. Almost all the data we have in the CRU archive is exactly the same as in the Global Historical Climatology Network (GHCN) archive used by the NOAA National Climatic Data Center [see here http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/ghcn-monthly/index.php and here http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/ghcn/ghcngrid.html ]……”
I always thought it was odd. See I infiltrate the enemy camp sometimes to have a good argument. Josh Halpern, and Deltoid are pretty good about letting vulgar heathen and heretics post. One of the things they do from time to time to refute skeptics claiming the various data sets don't match, is to set up the SST data lines and normalize them to the same base year.
It ends up being a temperature graph with three lines all displaying the same zig-zag pattern. Almost exact.
Now we know why.
the "tsxpayer funding" is mentioned when a skeptic participates, but strangely omitted with people like Pachauri and all the rest who promote the scam. Someone tell the newspaper, the best way to preserve tax money is to call off the whole Copenhagen conference. Stop it, cancel the hotel reservations, cancel the flights, it's all one giant waste of money.
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