gulfnews : UN climate chief rules out conspiracy behind debate

In an interview with Gulf News, Dr Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC), said: "In every field of endeavour, there might be a few ‘black sheep' who deviate from ethical practices. But that does not mean the whole system can be labelled as being dishonest or fraudulent on the basis of one particular incident, even if it was true."
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The scandal broke on November 19 when hundreds of UEA's internal e-mails were hacked and posted in the public domain. "We are living in an age when there is no chance someone can get away with any make believe, at least not for long," he said.
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Defending IPCC, widely regarded as the leading authority in the world on climate change, Pachauri said: "I m not aware of the actions of individuals. But IPCC is an extremely transparent body. Everything we do is in the public domain. Those we deploy to carry out assessments are selected from a long list of people nominated by governments based on their individual backgrounds, experience and expertise. "At every stage of the draft of any report IPCC produces we carry out detailed peer reviews. Each of these comments is put up on the website after which the authors decide on accepting or rejecting the reviews. Again, reason has to be shown for rejecting a comment," he said.

New research suggests the earth is heading towards six degrees temperature rise by the end of the century.

Historical video perspective: our current “unprecedented” global warming in the context of scale « Watts Up With That?

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Disney commercial with kids pledging to 'save the planet' ...."I pledge allegiance to the Planet..." #hhrs #tcot #climategate

Australia may foot huge climate change bill for China | News.com.au

But new Opposition finance spokesman Barnaby Joyce immediately attacked the proposal.

"Essentially this Copenhagen plan means we borrow money from places like China to pay them to help them develop. I don't think they need our help. They're doing a very good job on their own."

Back to the bunker | [Left-winger John McQuaid doesn't get it]  | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

At times it's gotten flat-out ridiculous. Writing recently in the Wall Street Journal, Daniel Henninger compared scientists who question anthropogenic climate change to Galileo. Obviously, though, a broad scientific consensus - its precise shape still shifting as scientists debate - cannot compared to church dogma, even if some scientists are behaving capriciously.
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This is a childish view of science, politics, and the world. And in fact, bad as "Climategate" is for the cause of mitigating climate change, it's a far bigger disaster for the American conservative movement - worse, in its own way, than last year's loss to Barack Obama. George Bush treated science and scientists with contempt, and America is still paying a price for it. Meanwhile, belief among US conservatives that global warming is occurring has dropped alarmingly. What's desperately needed now is some real leadership, and conservative policy input, on how to address the most serious issue of our time. Instead, it looks like American conservatives are back in their bunker to stay.

Pew: Oct '09: Belief in global warming is falling across partisan lines