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Nov 29, 2011 BBC Climate: Sceptics

Roger Harrabin has written an article responding to David Rose's article in the Mail on Sunday about the activities of the Cambridge Media and Environment Programme. This is most of it.

Climate sceptics seeking more space on the BBC helped provoke the Trust’s investigation into science impartiality but the Trust said we were already giving them too much space – not too little. We should bear this in mind when we hear new accusations of bias.

Resemblances: Climategate and Penn State | Watts Up With That?

A grad student, later a coach, sees a coach molesting a boy in the shower. There are plenty of other complaints, even investigations. But nothing happens. They do not act; many seem oblivious to the problem.

Climategate 1.0/2.0 Did Not Begin With Climate: Revisiting Neo-Malthusian Intolerance — MasterResource

The above emails are representative of the sickly fare of a group of physical scientists who set out to change the world from one of open-ended economic growth to one of economic constraint via international carbon planning. The good news is that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) gatekeepers have once again been exposed by the e-mail release of last week, now known the world over as Climategate 2.0.

Having consersations like this is way beyond the bounds of scholarship or decent inquiry. We have heard of market failure and government failure–we need the term academic failure to describe scientists behaving badly.

♫ You’ve got…that vexatious feeling ♫ | Watts Up With That?

It seems as if Palmer is duty bound by all that “vexatious” extra work that these requests supposedly caused CRU scientists, but it seems all Dr. Phil Jones has to do is dismiss each with a wave of the hand.

Climate Common Sense: UK - Another Billion pounds still available for crazy projects!

 The UK has nothing better to do with a billion pounds than to use it to pump a harmless gas underground - a theory which has not worked anywhere in practice. This is obviously a much better investment than hospitals,schools , roads and all the other silly things unenlightened governments in the past used to worry about before the insidious carbon dioxide scare. Those who can't get hospital treatment can take comfort in all that nasty CO2 being temporarily pumped underground knowing that a microscopic change in temperature trumps a life-saving heart operation any time ! Proper priorities must be maintained at all times.After all is said and done it is not real money  but borrowed, and  you can always borrow more- can't you?