Leaked climate change emails scientist 'hid' data flaws | Environment | The Guardian

Jones and a collaborator have been accused by a climate change sceptic and researcher of scientific fraud for attempting to suppress data that could cast doubt on a key 1990 study on the effect of cities on warming – a hotly contested issue.

Today the Guardian reveals how Jones withheld the information requested under freedom of information laws. Subsequently a senior colleague told him he feared that Jones's collaborator, Wei-­Chyung Wang of the University at Albany, had "screwed up".

The revelations on the inadequacies of the 1990 paper do not undermine the case that humans are causing climate change, and other studies have produced similar findings. But they do call into question the probity of some climate change science.

The apparent attempts to cover up problems with temperature data from the Chinese weather stations provide the first link between the email scandal and the UN's embattled climate science body, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, as a paper based on the measurements was used to bolster IPCC statements about rapid global warming in recent decades.

Wang was cleared of scientific fraud by his university, but new information brought to light today indicates at least one senior colleague had serious concerns about the affair.

It also emerges that documents which Wang claimed would exonerate him and Jones did not exist.

Climategate - now the Guardian discovers what was always there | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

The only real things that’s changed now is the media’s willingness to see the fraud and fiddling that was always part of the great global warming scam. To finally see the fraud and fiddling that bloggers have written about for years.
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This example actually suggests how complicit the media has been in keeping the global warming scare alive by failing to report what was actually under its nose.

But now there’s a great change. There is now a race on to uncover the next big IPCC scandal, and I doubt the great climate change scare can survive. The papers will, of course, take the credit.

There is No Frakking "Scientific Consensus" on Global Warming: Weekend Roundup: Climate Boss Pachauri

This is huge. The mainstream media's coverage of climate issues has been steadfastly pro-IPCC and far-too-friendly toward Pachauri. At last, the wheel is turning - in the UK, at least.

Die Klimazwiebel: Two months of Klimazwiebel - the cultural sciences make the difference

[Hans von Storch] I had at several occasions ... the opportunity to also meet and listen to sceptics, real hard sceptics, and to learn about their motives and logics, their entrenchments, their inability to accept the simple fact that science is a social process and that our thinking is culturally conditioned. Usually they are not well versed in the field of climate science, but physicists, chemists, engineers or geologists, who simply believe they would know it better than those in the field.