Climategate Letter to Senator Inhofe | The SPPI Blog

[Richard J. Petschauer] Regarding the emails, the question that was not answered at the hearings: Why so much data had to be hidden, altered, and destroyed if the scientific case these people were promoting had such great merit and agreement within the scientific community as claimed?

As a citizen and retired engineer who has been doing independent research and reading about the science of the role of carbon in the atmosphere, I request that copies of this email be sent to all the senate members of the committee involved and the material placed in the record of the committee.

Stephen H. Schneider: [That's my hockey stick, and I'm clinging to it]

My favorite label on this sad debacle is simply: “Climate Denier Gate” to refocus on the “gate" part—illegally obtained private and privileged materials being used as evidence of climatologists’ malfeasance, rather than hackers and blogsters use of purloined privacy. ...
The fraud however is on the deniers, I'm afraid, since the hockey stick has (a) never been disproved, and (b) nor was it ever the basis for AGW; likelihood assessment.

C3: Roger Pielke's (the Son) Nonsense: His Comments On Sarah Palin & Tom Friedman (NYT) Re: Climategate, Global Warming, etc.

Yesterday was unique in a sense that it had Roger Pielke, Jr. (the "Honest Broker") criticizing Sarah Palin for her innocuous, politician style comments about Climategate, and then lauding the Tom Friedman's climate-crisis hysteria NYT's column. Usually, Roger is a good source of climate/economic/energy information, without needless partisanship or snark, but it would seem Roger is feeling a need to assure others he is a 'liberal-man' and can bash Palin with the best, while making sure to kiss-the-ass of the critical liberal overlords, such as Friedman.

The slow boat to Haifa | The Jewish Chronicle

As world leaders in Copenhagen try to thrash out an agreement to combat climate change, it is good to know that Anglo-Jewish organisations are planning to do their bit. In order to cut carbon emissions, the UJIA is considering sending gap-year students to Israel by boat rather than plane.

Lewis: An inconvenient Oscar - The Denver Post

Hollywood screen writer Roger L. Simon drives a Prius, supports gay rights and thinks Al Gore should give back his Oscar.
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"It was a propaganda film," Simon said. "They (Academy members) were lulled into passive liberalism: 'Oh this is a good thing.' 'Oh, were going to save the environment.'"
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"You tell me Al Gore understands climate science?" said Simon. "This is someone who flunked out of divinity school."