SkepticGate II: Fizzled assault on science « Millard Fillmore's Bathtub

(Stolen e-mails, here; be prepared to be bored, with no smoking guns, no cold guns, no guns at all.)  [Did Ed actually read the emails before telling us what's not in them?]

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The New Nostradamus of the North: Hollywood´s newest global warming propaganda film "Happy Feets Two" flops badly

Too Green To Be Transparent

On his third day in office, President Barack Obama proposed ways to make government more open. He told the press, “The way to make government accountable is to make it transparent, so people can known exactly what decisions are being made, how they’re being made, and whether their interests are being well served.” Yet the Obama administration has attempted to hide from the public eye significant information about his environmental agenda.

Consider the negotiation of the new Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards. The New York Times reported, “There was a simple rule for negotiations between the White House and California on vehicle fuel economy: Put nothing in writing. Mary Nichols, the head of the California Air Resources Board, and Carol Browner, President Obama’s point person on energy and climate change… quietly orchestrated private discussions from the White House with auto industry officials.”

This no-records, closed negotiation is a far cry from the “accountable, transparent” government that Obama once promised, but the transition makes sense: if you’re strong-arming an industry, its best to do it privately. These negotiations were held in clear violation of the Federal Advisory Committee Act and Presidential Records Act, which require documentation, minutes, and records to be kept for the public

Eudora and the Briffa Attachments « Climate Audit

Climategate 2.0 brings interesting new information on the attachments – information which may also shed some light on the provenance of the Climategate dossier itself.