Climate of fraud - Letters - NewsObserver.com

You posed the question, would we rather be safe or take a chance on sorry? I agree that's the correct question. We shouldn't risk devastating the economy by committing to drastic cuts in carbon dioxide emissions when much of the scientific support for taking action may be based on unreliable and possibly fraudulent data.

Daren Bakst

Some Lowland Areas Could See Snow This Weekend - Weather News Story - KIRO Seattle

SEATTLE -- Crews and residents are preparing for the possibility of lowland snow in Western Washington as low temperatures continued to break records for the third straight morning at Sea-Tac airport.

Did Climategate kill Copenhagen?

Global warming almost literally lived and breathed because of sympathetic--no, passionately supportive--media coverage. Climategate cut the ground from under it. So no matter what the science says, and science isn't done saying its piece on this issue, there will be a large number of newly deaf ears in the audience. You can only lose the public's trust once. Climategate has done that for global warming advocates.

US deniers behind 'Climategate,' experts allege | My Sinchew

Weaver said two men tried to hack emails in computers at the Canadian Center for Climate Modeling and Analysis in his building at the University of Victoria -- but left when workers challenged them.
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"The science behind global warming alarmism is falling apart from within, and the Climategate documents demonstrate why," said Sam Kazman, from the Competitive Enterprise Institute, in an email to AFP.

What motivates enviro alarmists?

They think they have found the key to making themselves masters of the universe in the name of saving the planet from catastrophic, manmade global warming – even though it is as phony as a three-dollar bill.

Portrait of a local climate skeptic - thestar.com

So he asked Mann for the data in an email – and was stunned by the answer. The climatologist wrote he'd "forgotten" where the data set was but would get an assistant to find it.

"Here's a guy in his mid-30s, this is his claim to fame, the biggest paper of his life, probably the biggest paper of his career, it's been used on the front page of a UN study and sent to every household in Canada – how the hell could he not know where the data was?" McIntyre said.

"Nobody had ever checked this stuff with any sort of due diligence,'' he said.