Richard Littlemore | Pacauri: Email theft a "recreational distraction"

The theft and release of the University of East Anglia emails is nothing more than a "recreational distraction" to the Copenhagen climate summit, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Chair Dr. Rajendra Pachauri said at a news conference today.

Yet immediately after he said it, another senior IPCC member said he believed that his colleagues have, from the very beginning, underestimated the potential effect of the email story on public understanding of climate science - and public support for action in Copenhagen.

Carroll: Creating a bad climate for scientists - The Denver Post

Yet Pielke is despised by a number of influential climatologists. And no wonder. He refuses to ignore those who overstate or misrepresent data to further a policy agenda. He bridles when scientists pretend to speak "for science" when advocating political positions that will actually be determined by the interplay of social and economic values and judgments. And he calls out scientists who indulge in these tricks.

In turn, some treat him as a heretic.

C3: New Solution To Eliminate Man-Made Global Warming? Recent Analysis Reveals How To Do

...case after case is revealing that the Climategate data fraud of creating "hockey stick" temperature records in order to mislead policymakers and the public goes well beyond the cubicle walls of the UK's Climate Research Unit (CRU).

Protesters Urge Action on Climate Change at Summit  - FOXNews.com

“Pay the climate debt, America,” Dustin, a protester from Taiwan, said. “We think the world needs an ambitious climate treaty. My country is suffering from climate change. Several villages were buried this year.”
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Not everyone agreed with the protesters. A young economist from Copenhagen watched as the crowd march by.

“In a hundred years people will say, why did we do so much for the climate, when you could have done so much for the people starving," he said.

[Speaking of ridiculous claims]: Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) - Memorable quotes

Sir Bedevere: What makes you think she's a witch?
Peasant 3: Well, she turned me into a newt!
Sir Bedevere: A newt?
Peasant 3: [meekly after a long pause] ... I got better.
Crowd: [shouts] Burn her anyway!