The Guardian ClimateGate “Debate” 14 July 2010 by Piers Corbyn « An Honest Climate Debate

There were the expected wishy-washy meanderings and praise of whitewash by George Monbiot, Prof Trevor Davies pro-vice chancellor of the University of East Anglia, Prof Bob Watson former head of IPCC, and Fred Pearce environment apologist, which seemed to amount to insistence that fraud isn’t fraud if you only select rather than change data!

One can only wonder if the Guardian take the same view of tax fraud when a banker or politician only declares 25% of his income stream for tax purposes?! [“With regret we note their somewhat non-transparent procedures”, they would doubtless rage.]

Magnetic apocalypse 2012 | Opinion & analysis | RIA Novosti

[Q] Does this mean that climate change is not necessarily man-induced?

[Ph.D. Anatoly Levitin, head of the geomagnetic variations laboratory at the Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere and Radiowave Propagation of the Russian Academy of Sciences] Exactly; climate change is a physical process. Climate is in fact like the Earth’s energy budget. The Earth receives most energy from the Sun and some energy from its depths – as we see in earthquakes and other reactions taking place deep inside the Earth. That energy warms the oceans that store the warmth on the Earth’s surface. This is a kind of energy budget consisting of elements that come and go.

[Q] If mankind is not to blame, why spend billions of dollars on the problem?

[A] The energy mankind generates is so small compared to that overall energy budget that it simply cannot affect the climate. However, the energy budget is very under-studied because there is only a small range of observations used to measure it. This is a very complicated process.