Once again, I was working to get the new texture pack uplpoaded here – new freebies for everyone! I was online and saw a UK newsfeed about the Tiger Woods incident, but also on that page was something more intriguing.
A blurb about the prestigious Climate Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia in England, being hacked and emails and data being released to various climate change blogs. Being a "nature-freak" (although one that’s not "sold" on human caused global warming), I was captivated. In those travels through the blogosphere I saw that my old mentor Tim Ball has weighed in on the debacle which got me reading more and more.
The upshot is that the main scientists responsible for the large datasets and climate change research, the same research UN uses to make global world policies/prognostications about climate change, appear to have fudged the data! And a lot more! I ended up spending most of the weekend immersed in this real life soap opera.
Normally I’m not one of those "conspiracy addicts" but when you read through these emails, it’s quite clear that amongst the climate change "industry" there is definitely an elite "cabal" working the system, and controlling the message. Global warming may indeed be human casused but not for the reasons we have been lead to believe.
And there’s been absolutely NO coverage of this huge story (and I belive it has the makings of a monumental scandal) in any of our local media – not the national papers, national TV news, or despite the local connection with Tim, nothing in the Winnipeg media either.
Here are the main links if you’re interested, but also just Google "climategate", CRU hacked, and you’ll find it all! Be prepared not to get anything else done for the rest of today though!
http://wattsupwiththat.com/climategate/
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/20/private-climate-conversations-on-display/
And if you want to read the actual emails (which I would have thought was the smoking gun, however since this broke over a week ago many other scientists have had a chance to look as some of the data that was also released and say that IT, not the emails is the lynchpin in this whole saga!)
http://www.eastangliaemails.com/index.php
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