The American Spectator : Climategate: This Time It's NASA

Now a new "Climategate" scandal is emerging, this time based on documents released by NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in response to several Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) suits filed by the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI). The newly released emails further demonstrate the politicized nature of climate science, revealing a number of questionable practices that cast doubt on the credibility of scientific data provided by NASA.

Climategate hits Westminster: MPs spring a surprise • The Register

Parliament isn’t the place where climate sceptics go to make friends. Just over a year ago, just three MPs voted against the Climate Act, with 463 supporting it. But events took a surprising turn at Parliament’s first Climategate hearing yesterday.

MPs who began by roasting sceptics in a bath of warm sarcasm for half an hour were, a mere two hours later, asking why the University of East Anglia’s enquiry into the climate scandal wasn’t broader, and wasn’t questioning “the science” of climate change. That’s further than any sceptic witness had gone.

Lindsey Graham’s dilemma, part one: How ACES got dealt a poor hand | Grist

No Republicans and too few conservadems can vote for “cap-and-trade,” so whatever it is, it’s got to be called something else.

New York - Heavy snow from storm causing roofs to collapse

A winter storm that shut down school districts and municipal offices late last week while leaving some residents buried in almost 19 inches of snow was also blamed for collapsing roofs of buildings in King Ferry and Auburn over the weekend.

The sight of another scientist being skewered makes for painful viewing | Simon Hoggart's sketch | Politics | The Guardian

Today [fraudster Phil Jones] made his first public appearance since the row began. He looked taut, nervous, often miserable. At times his hands shook. For those of us who, seven years ago, watched Kelly give evidence to another committee, the resemblance was disturbing and painful.
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Acton conceded that not everything pointed in the same direction. It's acknowledged that several hundred years ago Earth became much warmer. If we knew why, we could explain a lot. "The early medieval period is something we should spend more time researching," he mused. This was probably the first time anyone had said that to a parliamentary committee since Simon de Montfort ran the place.