The Reference Frame: EU chief scientist urges people to AGW panic

How does it happen that one becomes a chief scientist of the Old Continent? In order to save my stomach, I won't comment on that.

- Bishop Hill blog - More learned analysis of Climategate

Another academic paper on the meaning of CLimategate comes in the shape of this study, by Marianne Ryghaug and Tomas Moe Skjølsvold.

This article analyzes 1073 emails that were hacked from the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia in November, 2009. The incident was popularly dubbed “Climate Gate”, indicating that the emails reveal a scientific scandal. Here we analyze them differently. Rather than objecting to the exchanges based on some idea about proper scientific conduct, we see them as a rare glimpse into a situation where scientists collectively prepare for participation in heated controversy, with much focus on methodology.

The Ground Zero of Global Corruption – it starts with The Currency « JoNova: Science, carbon, climate and tax

“Money-for-nothing” corrupts everything

If you wonder how corruption in climate science could be connected, look no further than Climate Money. Without the printing presses running flat out at the Fed, which politicians would have had the luxury of glorious schemes to control the weather? How could they hand out grants to send, say, aquariums on tour to warn of impending storms? Underneath it all, if large financial institutions were not looking forward to a brand-spanking-new $2 Trillion market to trade carbon, who would have found millions to install 70 foot Carbon-Clocks, 50 page science reports and to donate and push into “green” education campaigns? Funny money makes for funny decisions. Shame no one is laughing.

If real people had to earn real money, investment bankers would need to make real decisions, scientists would have to find real evidence, and politicians would have to come up with real reasons.

Where Is Ground Zero for Climate Change? « NoFrakkingConsensus

here’s the problem: everyone thinks ground zero is somewhere different. Which means that most (perhaps all) of these declarations are dead wrong. They’re meaningless. Journalists and activists evidently employ this phrase casually and cavalierly. Hey, it sounds dramatic and attracts attention.