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BBC News - Inquiry into stolen climate e-mails
Some observations:
1. Anyone who ever believed that any professional association of ACADEMICS---devoted blood, sweat and tears to a POLITICAL cause---would act and behave as SCIENTISTS instead of HACKS elicits a lusty LOL! from The pleasure loving Prof.
2. Thus Oblivious Obama crawls to Copenhagen beneath a hurricane of swirling headlines all aghast and agust over the bogused-up trigonometry employed by the warming watchdogs at the Climate Research Unit of East Anglia University.
3. For one day---Obtuse Obama will spend just one day in the city of Hans Christian Andersen.
4. Remember what happened last time he visited the mermaid.
5. Oprah went with him.
6. Over-his-head Obama will pledge there to cut US emissions by EIGHTY THREE % by 2050.
7. He might as well promise to rain lemonade.
8. Climate accords are kaput says APEC.
9. So does Time.
World Leaders Put Off a Climate Change Treaty - COP15: Climate-Change Conference - TIME
10. Indeed, Chairman Hu slapped down the proposal over capers at Singapore when he pointedly explained Peking's position on the topic---climate control, according to the Chinese, means that "wealthy," developed nations must subsidize the cleaner, greener growth of third world economies.
11. Meanwhile, cap and trade is dead in the US Senate---ask Conrad, Pryor, Dorgan, Lincoln, Byrd, Sharrod Brown, Jay Rockefeller...
12. The CRU of the AEA has really put Downing Street in a dilemna.
13. Trapped as well is our inept president.
14. So he escapes to Copenhagen to spout pretty poetry that bears no relation to reality.
15. The incredibly shrinking charlatan diminishes.
The Prof
Details of a university inquiry into e-mails stolen from scientists at one of the UK's leading climate research units are likely to be made public next week.
Announcement of a chair of the inquiry and terms of reference will probably be made on Monday, a source says.
The University of East Anglia's (UEA) press office did not confirm the date.
But a spokesperson said information about the investigation into the hack at UEA's Climatic Research Unit (CRU) would be made public very soon.
Scientists will be scrutinising the choice of chair and the terms of reference.
One senior climate scientist told me that the chair would have to be a person accepted by both mainstream climate scientists and sceptics as a highly respected figure without strong connections to either group.
BBC News understands that senior individuals at UEA have acknowledged the potential damage to the university's reputation from the CRU affair and are anxious to clear the institution's name.
But there is a risk that some people will not accept the findings of any inquiry unless it is fully independent, as demanded by the former UK Chancellor Lord Lawson earlier in the week.
A petition is running on the 10 Downing Street website calling for CRU to be suspended from preparation of any government climate statistics until the allegations have been fully investigated.
Professor Sir David King, the former government chief scientist, told BBC News there are three key issues:
how did the leakage occur - was there any payment in the process?
the alleged behaviour of the scientists indicated by the e-mails
does this have any impact on the scientific conclusion?
If an independent inquiry encompassed all three aspects, Professor Sir David said he would support it.
Some observations:
1. Anyone who ever believed that any professional association of ACADEMICS---devoted blood, sweat and tears to a POLITICAL cause---would act and behave as SCIENTISTS instead of HACKS elicits a lusty LOL! from The pleasure loving Prof.
2. Thus Oblivious Obama crawls to Copenhagen beneath a hurricane of swirling headlines all aghast and agust over the bogused-up trigonometry employed by the warming watchdogs at the Climate Research Unit of East Anglia University.
3. For one day---Obtuse Obama will spend just one day in the city of Hans Christian Andersen.
4. Remember what happened last time he visited the mermaid.
5. Oprah went with him.
6. Over-his-head Obama will pledge there to cut US emissions by EIGHTY THREE % by 2050.
7. He might as well promise to rain lemonade.
8. Climate accords are kaput says APEC.
9. So does Time.
World Leaders Put Off a Climate Change Treaty - COP15: Climate-Change Conference - TIME
10. Indeed, Chairman Hu slapped down the proposal over capers at Singapore when he pointedly explained Peking's position on the topic---climate control, according to the Chinese, means that "wealthy," developed nations must subsidize the cleaner, greener growth of third world economies.
11. Meanwhile, cap and trade is dead in the US Senate---ask Conrad, Pryor, Dorgan, Lincoln, Byrd, Sharrod Brown, Jay Rockefeller...
12. The CRU of the AEA has really put Downing Street in a dilemna.
13. Trapped as well is our inept president.
14. So he escapes to Copenhagen to spout pretty poetry that bears no relation to reality.
15. The incredibly shrinking charlatan diminishes.
The Prof