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David Holland writes with the latest update on the bizarre attempts by the Russell inquiry to withhold publication of his evidence.

Climategate: a scandal that won’t go away - Telegraph

As is reflected in so many political tragedies, from Macbeth to Watergate, it is often not the original dark act itself which leads to nemesis but the later attempts to “trammel up the consequence”. Nothing will do more to reinforce suspicion of the CRU’s conduct than the failure, first by those MPs, and now by the team led by Lord Oxburgh, to address properly the way in which it appears to have abused the principles of true science – a scandal which should be of concern not just to us here in Britain, who paid for it, but across the world.

[Alarmist Attenborough takes unnecessary, consecutive, fossil-fueled trips to both Poles]

Attenborough, who also recently visited the South Pole, said: 'The Poles - North and South - look superficially very similar. But when you visit them within a few weeks of one another, as I have just done, you realise how profoundly different they are and how what is happening to them is going to affect the entire planet,' he added.

[Academic idiots: Through a complicated chain of "logic", the effect of tiny amounts of CO2 on prairie dogs may cause hundreds of other species to go extinct]

As it turns out, climate change could be a bigger threat to the Utah animal's future than disease, poison and all other factors combined, found one researcher at Northern Arizona University.
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A couple of points are well-established, said Con Slobodchikoff, NAU biology professor and prairie dog expert: There are nine species directly related to the prairie dogs and 200 other animal species with less-direct connections.

Where the prairie dogs die or are removed, these other species also tend to go extinct, too, he said.