Prominent Climate [Fraud Promoter] Joins Colleagues in Assuring Senators That Stolen E-Mails Have 'No Impact' on Climate Science Conclusions | CommonDreams.org

WASHINGTON - December 2 - James McCarthy, a former Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change lead author, sent a letter (pdf) to Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) today stressing that e-mails stolen from climate scientists have no bearing on our overall understanding of climate science.

Dr. McCarthy is board chair of both the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS).

Professor in climate change scandal helps police with enquiries while researchers call for him to be banned | Mail Online

The scientist at the heart of the climate change email scandal was today interviewed by police about the scandal.

Two plain clothes officers arrived in an unmarked car in the afternoon and took Professor Phil Jones to Norfolk Police's headquarters in nearby Wymondham to give a statement.

Kerry, de Boer Preview Copenhagen - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Mr. de Boer, executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, spoke in a telephone conference call sponsored by the Pew Environment Group. Senator John F. Kerry, Democrat of Massachusetts, who will lead the Senate delegation to the talks and who has sponsored global warming legislation, also participated in the call.

Democrats: "ClimateGate" Leak A Non-Scandal - Taking Liberties - CBS News

Markey, the head of a House global warming committee, said during a hearing that his Republican colleagues "sit over here using a couple of e-mails to (tell us) how to deal with a catastrophic threat to our planet." And: "There is no alternative theory that the minority is proposing, other than that we know has been funded by the oil, by the coal industries that want to continue business as usual."
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But when Holdren showed up at the Rayburn House Office Building, he end up being pressed on ClimateGate and little else. He denied its significance, calling the embarrassing disclosures "not remotely sufficient to demonstrate a culture of corruption" and said "as to exactly what went on in the way of manipulation of data, that remains to be seen." He objected to the idea of an independent probe -- the CRU received U.S. government grants -- on grounds that he's not sure an "independent investigation by the Congress of the United States is a way to get at the truth."
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Does anyone really think that, in the wake of the CRU disclosures, cap and trade would clear the House of Representatives if put to a vote today?

There is No Frakking "Scientific Consensus" on Global Warming: Why the Munk Debate Proves the Debate Isn't Over

The position advanced by May and Monbiot lost ground last night after the audience was exposed to an alternative perspective.