[Ya think?]: Row over leaked climate emails may undermine reputation of science - Telegraph

The row sparked by the leak of climate change emails from a British university has the potential to "undermine" the reputation of science as a whole, two respected scientific organisations have warned.
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Dr Don Keiller, deputy head of life sciences at Anglia Ruskin University, however, claims that Professor Jones and his colleagues conspired to withhold information in case it was used to criticise them.

He said: "What these emails reveal is a detailed and systematic conspiracy to prevent other scientists gaining access to CRU data sets. Such obstruction strikes at the very heart of the scientific method, that is the scrutiny and verification of data and results by one's peers."

The Climate Scam: Did You Read It First Here? — Mises Economics Blog

But way back (it seems so long ago) in 2006, though, the Daily Articles of this site were graced by a put-up job by none other than myself, titled “How to Achieve Scientific Consensus,” it being an explicitly phony “e-mail” to Warming Denialist Richard Lindzen explaining how his failure to cooperate in the Great Professional Project of Warming Alarmism was messing up not only his career, but that of many of his colleagues.

I find it makes gratifying reading in light of the recent exposure of the global warming boondoggle.

- Bishop Hill blog - Who's withholding what from whom?

Of course, later on, we can see that SMHI's refusual was in fact no such thing anyway. Having being asked for permission to release, SMHI felt they were being asked to endorse Jones' adjusted figures. Quite properly, they refused. It is clear that they had no objection to Jones releasing his adjusted data provided he made it clear that it was just that: adjusted. But to reiterate, this is a red herring. What is required is the raw data as used.

This doesn't look good to me.

Global warming making Tibet’s environment much more fragile than before | Buzz 7

“Global climate change has made Tibet’s environment much more fragile than before,” said Hao Peng, vice-chairman of the Tibet autonomous regional government.
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The local government has limited the development of steel, paper, chemical and other heavy polluting industries in Tibet.

Since 2001, it has shut down nine cement plants, seven steel mills and four paper mills, according to Zhang Yongze, director of the autonomous regional environment protection bureau.