Monday, January 23, 2012

- Bishop Hill blog - A major FOI victory

It appears that UEA were keen that Jones should not appear on the witness stand, where he would be required to give evidence under oath.  In fact it is noteworthy that, despite all the official “investigations”, Jones has never been required to answer questions under oath or provide a signed declaration.

...UEA are now required to approach the Police to see if they will provide a copy of the email in question, and to see if they or someone else will extract it for them. (As another aside, we might note that copies of Jones' emails and indeed those of Keith Briffa and Tim Osborn have already been provided to the Russell inquiry. I wonder what happened to those copies of the emails or if UEA also received a copy?).

So, the key outcome of this case is that a further precedent has been set. That precedent is that UEA’s refusal to release information on the grounds that under EIR Reg. 12(4)(a) – Information not held, is no longer valid. Backup servers have to be searched.

MPs From All Parties In Bid To Halt Costly Wind Farms

A NEW cross-party campaign group is to be set up in Westminster to demand the Government drops its support for thousands more wind farms. Backbench MPs from all parties will brand heavily subsidised onshore wind farms inefficient, expensive and a major blight on the landscape. They will urge Ministers to re-think a policy which will add £280 to the annual energy bill of hard-pressed homeowners by 2020.

Forecastthefacts.org – Political Activists Gagging Our TV Meteorologists on Climate Issues | Watts Up With That?

Email this article to your local TV weathercaster/meteorologist. Let them know they are going to be the target of a paid political activist campaign out of Berkeley that has nothing to do with the American Meteorological Society.

Trenberth's missing heat found - it's hiding in the "uncertainties" | Australian Climate Madness

So the moral of the story is, if the data simply won’t agree with your rigid global warming narrative, just widen the error bars until they do.

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