global warming

Computer hackers have broken into a server at a well-respected climate change research center in Britain and posted hundreds of private e-mails and documents online - stoking debate over whether some scientists have overstated the case for man-made climate change.  

The result is a bonanza for climate change skeptics and deniers, but before they crow too loud I would advise them to actually read the emails which contain in some cases poor choices of words but not any real information that shows a conspiracy from scientists to cook the numbers. The most damning exchange was explained by the NYT's Andrew Revkin: In a 1999 e-mail exchange about charts showing climate patterns over the last two millenniums, Phil Jones, a longtime climate researcher at the East Anglia

It sounds incriminating, but when you look at what you're talking about, there's nothing there   -Michael Mann

 

Minister for Environment Jairam Ramesh wants India to be a deal maker at the Copenhagen Climate Conference. We propose here a deal that India can offer that addresses the objectives of the 'deal makers' and the concerns of those who oppose any deal inconsistent with India's past stand. Our proposal is consistent with it and the principles of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) accepted at Rio. The most critical issue in climate change is allocation of emission rights or qu  

Vladimir Gapor is a plumber by trade, but now he's a scavenger, prying bits of scrap steel from the ruins of his old factory and selling them for a pittance. For others beyond this manufacturing graveyard, however, Ukraine's economic collapse has produced a potential multibillion-dollar bonanza. In an era of climate change regulation and carbon trading, Ukraine, ironically, is profiting from the smokeless smokestacks of its industrial shutdown.  

Al Gore's award-winning global warming film "An Inconvenient Truth," socked two years ago by a British court ruling that found several errors, is facing additional scrutiny with the release of a new documentary that seeks to rebut many of Gore's claims. In Gore's film, directed by Davis Guggenheim and released in 2006, the former vice president argues that humans are causing climate change, a problem he says is the biggest moral challenge facing the globe. If humans don't act to reduce their emissions

substantially founded up scientific research and fact   -Michael Burton

 

Although it would, of course, be a cheap and churlish shot to highlight the vast environmental cost of flying all the delegates to Denmark's capital for a talkathon – so I won't – our report today on the number of businesses turning their back on the event should be of concern to all those who back the summit. As the response on my Telegraph web page revealed when I asked readers on Thursday if business is only at Copenhagen to sign up to some warm words on global warming, many people don't see the point  

Hackers broke into the electronic files of one of the world's foremost climate research centers this week and posted an array of e-mails in which prominent scientists engaged in a blunt discussion of global warming research and disparaged climate-change skeptics. The skeptics have seized upon e-mails stolen from the Climatic Research Unit of the University of East Anglia in Britain as evidence that scientific data have been rigged to make it appear as if humans are causing global warming. The researcher

I've just completed Mike's Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (i.e., from 1981 onwards) and from 1961 for Keith's to hide the decline.   -Michael E Mann

 

Looking through the CRU documents provides some enlightening conversations. Here's one that I'd particularly like to draw your attention to , since it illustrates a number of points worth considering. The relevant bit starts, on October 2nd 2009, with Benny Peiser sending a round-up of articles and blogposts concerning the Yamal Implosion to a group called CCMedia (Climate Change Media?).  

E-mails stolen by hackers prove some leading British climate change scientists falsified information to prove their case, skeptics of global warming say. The e-mails, allegedly hacked from East Anglia University in Norwich, England, have been published on Web sites run by climate change skeptics, including The Air Vent, The Times of London reported Saturday. Hundreds of e-mails were stolen from the university's climate research unit, but it had yet to be determined how much of the information publishe