Thursday, January 28, 2010

Preternatural Climate News And Other Tweets « The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE
7- “try and change the Received date! Don’t give those skeptics something to amuse themselves with” refers to “East Anglia Confirmed Emails from the Climate Research Unit – 1189722851.txt“
University in hacked climate change emails row broke FOI rules | Environment | The Guardian
The University of East Anglia flouted Freedom of Information regulations in its handling of requests for data from climate sceptics, according to the government body that administers the act.
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Some of the hacked emails reveal scientists encouraging their colleagues to delete emails, apparently to prevent them from being revealed to people making FOI requests. Such a breach of the act could carry an unlimited fine, but Smith said no action could be taken against the university because the specific request they had looked at happened in May 2008, well outside the six-month limit for such prosecutions under the act.
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Bob Ward, policy director at the Grantham research institute on climate Change and the environment at the London School of Economics, said: "I think that anybody reading the emails that have been posted online will have concluded that some of those showed an intention to avoid complying with the FOI. I always thought that those emails were the most damning.

"I think this is quite damaging. It remains to be seen why these requests were not handled properly. I think regardless of any action by the information commissioner, the university should clearly take appropriate action in response to this."
Barack Obama commits to climate change [hoax] bill | Environment | guardian.co.uk
Obama also took a shot at climate change deniers, which brought some mutterings from Republicans.
YouTube - AT SOTU Obama Gives Congress Good Laugh on Climate Change Junk Science
[Don't miss this 31-second video] Barack Obama gave Congress a good laugh when he talked about climate change at SOTU address.
Keeping climate change [fraud] alive | Suzanne Goldenberg | World news | guardian.co.uk
In his state of the union address, Obama seemed willing to trade nuclear power and offshore drilling for climate bill votes
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Before the speech, Hill rats had put the chances of getting a bill through the Senate at between 0 and 40%. Maybe it went up a tick tonight.

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