2010 Russian Heat Wave Was Only 20% Caused by “Climate Change”, Says Academy Of Sciences

Note there is no mention in the Ria Novosti report of “man-made climate change” – only “climate change”. Since climate is always changing naturally, in sync with other cycles like ocean and solar cycles, evidence of a human greenhouse gas fingerprint as the cause would seem to be impossible to discern.

Transcript: The Reviews into the Climatic Research Unit’s E-mails at the University of East Anglia

Q115 Stephen Metcalfe: Obviously it is a serious allegation that there was a scientific fraud. Just taking that slightly wider, who do you believe should be responsible for looking at scientific frauds and investigating allegations of that sort?

Sir Muir Russell: It is difficult. I’m not sure it was fraud. Fraud implies that it was all deliberately set out to be done to conceal or to fabricate. I don’t think that’s the evidence of what people thought they were doing in 1990. Whether it should have taken 17 years for someone to spot it and whether, at the end of the day, the records weren’t right so that you could set it right is another question.