“This is clearly an attempt to sabotage the international climate talks for a second time, and there has not been enough attention paid to who is responsible for these illegal acts,” said Rep. Markey, who is the top Democrat on the Natural Resources Committee and is the co-author of the only climate bill to pass a chamber of Congress. “If this happened surrounding nuclear arms talks, we would have the full force of the Western world's intelligence community pursuing the perpetrators. And yet, with the stability of our climate hanging in the balance with these international climate treaty negotiations, these hackers and their supporters are still on the loose. It is time to bring them to justice.
BBC News - Climate emails: Storm or yawn?
[Richard Black] But what's interesting is that some of the most frank and forthright wording comes from scientists telling their peers off - often, trying to calm them down and get them to be more grounded in accurate science, whatever the political implications.
"Mike, the figure you sent is very deceptive," writes the University of Colorado's Tom Wigley, who emerged from the 2009 bruhaha as a stickler for evidence-related communication and reprises that role here, to Penn State's Michael Mann in 2009.
"Would you agree that there is no convincing evidence for kilimanjaro (sic) glacier melt being due to recent warming (let alone man-made warming?)" asks Geoff Jenkins, ex-UK Met Office, of UEA's Phil Jones in 2004.
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"The Mann/Jones GRL paper was truly pathetic and should never have been published," declaims Ray Bradley of the University of Massachussetts in 2003.
Robust debate? You bet.
Europe's $287 Billion Carbon 'Waste': UBS Report
SWISS banking giant UBS says the European Union's emissions trading scheme has cost the continent's consumers $287 billion for "almost zero impact" on cutting carbon emissions, and has warned that the EU's carbon pricing market is on the verge of a crash next year.
Parks and environment committee chairman Norm Kelly set off a firestorm on Twitter Tuesday when he declared that “global warming will bring more trees” during a discussion with Councillor Raymond Cho. He explained his comments to reporters following the meeting.
Another Treaty Negotiation, Another Batch of Climate Science E-Mail - NYTimes.com
[4:51 p.m. | Updated David Appell has posted a list of excerpts that he labels "troublesome" (I agree with him)....
Ben Pile, who filed an informative piece on the Berkeley temperature analysis for Spiked recently, has an incisive take on the media response to the e-mail release today.
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By all means, Congressman Markey. Let's call the world intelligence community in to investigate. I'm sure Mann, Jones, and company will just love that.
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