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In late 2009, the credibility of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) took a serious hit when email exchanges between some of its senior authors and editors revealed deliberate efforts to falsify data and silence dissenting scientists. The IPCC's reputation was already waning in the wake of scandals concerning Michael Mann's "hockey stick" temperature diagram and the role of government officials and environmental activists in its so-called "peer review" process. The IPCC Email Scandal of November 2009 meant the IPCC could no longer claim to represent the "scientific consensus" on global warming.

Climategate: Hide the Decline

A parody of "Draggin' the Line" by Tommy James and the Shondells about Climategate, by Minnesotans for Global Warming.

 

About the Scandal

The Great Hoax
Peter Ferrara, The Ameriocan Spectator, Dec. 16, 2009
http://spectator.org/archives/2009/12/16/the-great-hoax

CBS/NYT Poll: Just 37%Call Global Warming High Priority
Brian Montopoli, CBS/New York Times, Dec. 14, 2009
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/12/11/politics/
politicalhotsheet/entry5968412.shtml

U.S. 'Deniers' Behind Climategate, Experts Allege
Deborah Jones, Agence France=-Presse, Dec. 11, 2009
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091212
/sc_afp/unclimatewarminguspoliticsscience_20091212174206

Climate Skeptics Make Their Own Forum in Copenhagen
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/10/science/earth/10skeptics.html?_r=2
Tom Zeller Jr., New York Times, Dec. 9, 2009

Open Letter to Secretary-General of United Stations
http://www.copenhagenclimatechallenge.org/
Signed by over 140 scientists, Dec. 8, 2009

Heat on Michael Mann at Home -- Penn State University
Paul Chesser, The American Spectator, Dec. 3, 2009
http://spectator.org/blog/2009/12/03/heat-on-mann-at-home

Understanding Climategate's Hidden Decline
Marc Sheppard, The American Thinker
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/12/understanding_climategates_hid.html

Mann's Mad Money
Paul Chesser, The American Spectator, Dec. 2, 2009
http://spectator.org/blog/2009/12/02/manns-mad-money

Americans Skeptical of Science Behind Global Warming
Rasmussen Reports, Dec. 3, 2009
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/
current_events/environment_energy/americans_skeptical_of_
science_behind_global_warming

E-mails reveal more than global-warming scam
Pete Chagnon, OneNewsNow, - Dec. 1, 2009
http://www.onenewsnow.com/Culture/Default.aspx?id=791774

Global Warming Scandal Makes Scientific Progress More Difficult, Experts Say
Gene J. Koprowski, FoxNews.com, Dec. 1, 2009
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,578368,00.html

The Climate Science Isn't Settled
Richard Lindzen, The Wall Street Journal, Dec. 1, 2009
http://online.wsj.com/article/
SB10001424052748703939404574567423917025400.html

ClimateGate: Follow the Money
Brertt Stephens, The Wall Street Journal, Dec. 1, 2009
http://online.wsj.com/article/
SB10001424052748703939404574566124250205490.html

Groupthink and the Global Warming Industry
Jonah Goldberg, USAToday, Dec. 1, 2009
http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/

Botch After Botch After Botch
Lorrie Goldstein, The Tornonto Sun, Nov. 29, 2009
http://www.torontosun.com/comment/columnists/
lorrie_goldstein/2009/11/29/11967916-sun.html


The Web Discloses Inconvenient Climate Truths
L. Gordon Crovitz, Wall Street Journal, Nov. 30, 2009
http://online.wsj.com/article/
SB20001424052748703499404574564291187747578.html

Cap and Trade Is Dead
Kim Strassel, Wall Street Journal, Nov. 27, 2009
http://online.wsj.com/article/
SB20001424052748703499404574558070997168360.html

Climate-gate Scandal Should Be Wake-Up Call for Press, Politicians
Joseph L. Bast, Investor's Business Daily, Nov. 25, 2009
http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=513542

Extreme Heat vs. Extreme Cold: Which is the Greatest Killer? 
Sherwood, Keith and Craig Idso, Nov. 25, 2009
http://www.co2science.org/articles/V12/N47/EDITb.php

Climategate: The Final Nail in the Coffin of 'Anthropohenic Global Warming'?
James Delingpole * London Telegraph * November 21, 2009
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/ 100017393/
climategate-the-final-nail-in-the-coffin-of-anthropogenic-global-warming/

The Death Blow to Climate Science
Dr. Tim Ball * November 21, 2009
http://www.heartland.org/full/26409/The_Death_Blow_to_Climate_Science.html

CRUs Climate-Tricksters - Context Is Everything
Myron Ebell * GlobalWarming.org * November 21, 2009
http://www.globalwarming.org/2009/11/21/crus-climate-tricksters-context-is-everything/

Presto! Alarmist Emails Not Such a Big Deal
Paul Chesser * American Spectator * November 21, 2009
http://spectator.org/blog/2009/11/21/presto-alarmist-emails-not-suc

The Evidence of Climate Fraud
Marc Sheppard * American Thinker * November 21, 2009
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/11/the_evidence_of_climate_fraud.html

Continuously Updated 'ClimateGate' News Round Up
Marc Morano * Climate Depot * November 21, 2009
http://www.climatedepot.com/a/3943/Read-All-About-it-Climate-Depot-Exclusive--Continuously-Updated-ClimateGate-News-Round-Up

Elsewhere in the Enviro-Activist Mediasphere
Paul Chesser * American Spectator * November 21, 2009
http://spectator.org/blog/2009/11/21/elsewhere-in-the-enviro-activi

Hackers Leak E-mails, Stoke Climate Debate
David Stringer * The Associated Press * November 22, 2009
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/
ALeqM5ikaqlFpp9jCRHWN0zNuamKXfyeMgD9C441LG0

Climategate: An Opportunity to Stop and Think
Joseph Bast * The Heartland Institute * November 23, 2009
http://www.heartland.org/full/26407/
ClimateGate_An_Opportunity_to_Stop_and_Think.html

CNN Sucks: Climategate Never Happened
Paul Chesser * American Spectator * November 23, 2009
http://spectator.org/blog/2009/11/23/cnn-sucks-climategate-never-ha

Andrew Revkin Spins ‘ClimateGate’ Story
K. Daniel Glover * Accuracy in Media* November 23, 2009
http://www.aim.org/on-target-blog/andrew-revkin-spins-climategate-story/

Three Things You Absolutely Must Know About Climategate
Iain Murray * Pajamas Media * November 24, 2009
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/three-things-you-absolutely-must-know-about-climategate/

Science Historian Reacts to Hacked Climate E-Mails
Andrew Freedman * The Washington Post * November 24, 2009
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/capitalweathergang/2009/11/
perspective_on_a_climate_scien.html

Congress May Probe Leaked Global Warming E-Mails
Declan McCullagh * CBS News.com * November 24, 2009
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/11/24/taking_liberties/entry5761180.shtml

Wall Street Journal Highlights Crucial Hacked eMails
Wall Street Journal editors * Climate Science and Candor * November 24, 2009
http://www.heartland.org/full/26441/Heres_a_Selection_of_the_Hacked_
eMails_from_the_Climate_Research_Unit.html

Andy (Revkin) Did Something Good Last Night
Paul Chesser * The American Spectator * November 24, 2009
http://spectator.org/blog/2009/11/24/andy-did-something-good-last-n

Apolitical Phil (Jones, prominently mentioned in CRU hacked emails)
Paul Chesser * The American Spectator * November 24, 2009
http://spectator.org/blog/2009/11/24/apolitical-phil

Research & Commentary on the IPCC

Climategate Figure Plays the Victim Card
James M. Taylor - February 08, 2010
Phil Jones, the central figure in the Climategate scandal, gave a self-pitying interview with the Sunday London Times in which he complains about people ... (read more)

India Forms New Climate Change Body
Dean Nelson - February 04, 2010
The Indian government has established its own body to monitor the effects of global warming because it “cannot rely” on the United Nations’ ... (read more)

IPCC Chair Seeks Asbestos Bath for Critics
James M. Taylor - February 04, 2010
Raj Pachauri, the embattled head of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), shocked global warming analysts yesterday when ... (read more)

Climate Scientist Foretells 'Big Changes' at U.N. Global Warming Agency
Diane Carol Bast - February 03, 2010
PHOENIX (Feb. 3, 2010) -- Climate scientist William Sprigg delivered a bold challenge to his fellow climate scientists in a blockbuster address to EUEC ... (read more)

Former IPCC Leader Says Alternative Group Needed
James M. Taylor - February 03, 2010
Climate science credibility requires the creation of a alternative scientific body outside of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ... (read more)

Copenhagen Summit was Based on Deceit
Alexander Cockburn - February 02, 2010
The global warming jamboree in Copenhagen was an outlandish foray into intellectual fantasizing.Shortly before the Copenhagen summit, the proponents of ... (read more)

UN Caught Misrepresenting Himalayan Glacier Melt
James M. Taylor - February 02, 2010
The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has been caught grossly misrepresenting the status of Himalayan glaciers, falsely asserting ... (read more)

IPCC Made Up Amazon Rainforest Assertions, Relied on WWF
James M. Taylor - February 01, 2010
Claims by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that Amazon rainforests could suddenly and dramatically deteriorate because ... (read more)

IPCC Amazon Scare Based Solely on WWF Report
James M. Taylor - January 27, 2010
Claims by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that Amazon rainforests could suddenly and dramatically deteriorate due to ... (read more)

Glacier Scientist: I Knew Data Hadn't Been Verified
David Rose - January 24, 2010
The scientist behind the bogus claim in a Nobel Prize-winning UN report that Himalayan glaciers will have melted by 2035 last night admitted it was included ... (read more)

More Dodgy Citations in the Nobel-Winning IPCC Report
Donna Laframboise - January 23, 2010
At its heart, the Himalayan glacier scandal that has recently shaken the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) involves a document ... (read more)

More Laundered Literature
Ben Pile - January 20, 2010
In September 2008, Oxfam published a report called “Climate Wrongs and Human Rights: Putting people at the heart of climate-change policy”. ... (read more)

Commentary: Doubtful Data on Climate Change
A. Gary Shilling - January 22, 2010
Economist and investment advisor Gary Shilling writes, "Over 50 years ago, as a physics major at Amherst College, I learned about scientific research. ... (read more)

SPPI Publishes Comprehensive Climategate Report
James M. Taylor - January 22, 2010
The Science and Public Policy Institute has published a comprehensive analysis of the climategate emails that revealed the gross scientific misconduct perpetrated ... (read more)

IPCC Admits Misrepresenting Himalayan Glaciers
James M. Taylor - January 21, 2010
The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has admitted, after receiving tremendous criticism for falsely claiming a scientific consensus ... (read more)

Climategate Analysis
John P. Costella - January 20, 2010
The most difficult thing for a scientist in the era of Climategate is trying to explain to family and friends why it is so distressing to scientists. Most ... (read more)

India Environment Minister Slams UN Glacier Claims
James M. Taylor - January 20, 2010
India’s environment minister Jairam Ramesh slammed the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) over evidence the UN based ... (read more)

U.N. Panel Relied on Fraudulent Temperature Data
James M. Taylor - January 20, 2010
Researchers at the heart of the Climategate scandal tampered with Russian temperature data to assert far more warming in recent years than actually has ... (read more)

World Misled Over Himalayan Glacier Meltdown
Jonathan Leake and Chris Hastings - January 17, 2010
A warning that climate change will melt most of the Himalayan glaciers by 2035 is likely to be retracted after a series of scientific blunders by the ... (read more)

Questions over Business Deals of UN Climate Change Guru Dr Rajendra Pachauri
Christopher Booker and Richard North - December 20, 2009
No one in the world exercised more influence on the events leading up to the Copenhagen conference on global warming than Dr Rajendra Pachauri, chairman ... (read more)

Scientists Behaving Badly
Steven F. Hayward - December 14, 2009
Slowly and mostly unnoticed by the major news media, the air has been going out of the global warming balloon. Global temperatures stopped rising a few ... (read more)

Media Advisory: Boycott of Copenhagen Talks Reveals Hidden Agendas
James Taylor - December 14, 2009
China, India, and other developing nations boycotted United Nations climate talks in Copenhagen Monday, claiming Western nations must commit to deeper cuts ... (read more)

CO2 Science Videos Ask Key Questions about Copenhagen Climate Conference
Craig Idso - December 07, 2009
As representatives of the nations of the world meet in Copenhagen to attempt to restrict the use of energy produced from coal, gas and oil in the guise ... (read more)

Understanding Climategate’s Hidden Decline
Marc Sheppard - December 06, 2009
Close followers of the Climategate controversy know that much of the mêlée surrounds an email in which Climate Research Unit (CRU) chief Phil ... (read more)

Climate Scientist Steps Down
By Keith Johnson, Jeffrey Ball and Gautam Naik - December 02, 2009
The British scientist at the heart of a scandal over climate-change research temporarily stepped down Tuesday as director of a prominent research group ... (read more)

Global Warming Meltdown: Climategate!
Alan Caruba - November 22, 2009
For those of us “skeptics” and “deniers” who have been jumping up and down, pointing at the Sun, and saying, “See, it’s ... (read more)

Climategate: An Opportunity to Stop and Think
Joseph Bast - November 23, 2009
Last week, someone (probably a whistle-blower at the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, England) released emails and other documents ... (read more)

The Death Blow to Climate Science
Dr. Tim Ball - November 21, 2009
Global Warming is often called a hoax. I disagree because a hoax has a humorous intent to puncture pomposity. In science, such as with the Piltdown Man ... (read more)

Climate Science Corrupted
John McLean - November 20, 2009
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was established under the sponsorship of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the United ... (read more)

Hadley Hacked: Warmist Conspiracy Exposed?
Andrew Bolt - November 20, 2009
8.15 PM UPDATE: The Hadley CRU director admits the emails seem to be genuine: The director of Britain's leading Climate Research Unit, Phil Jones, ... (read more)

I Accuse!
Alan Caruba - November 01, 2009
In 1898 an article by the great French novelist Emile Zola was published in L’Aurore. It was addressed to the president of France. Zola accused the ... (read more)

Climate Science, Economics, and Policy
David Henderson - June 01, 2009
I am an economist, and a relative newcomer to climate change issues. I became involved with the subject by accident rather than design. To begin with, my ... (read more)

Ask Not If the Science of Global Warming is True ...
Review By Joseph Bast - September 01, 2009
Why We Disagree About Climate ChangeBy Mike HulmeCambridge University Press, 2009432 pages, ISBN-13: 978-0521727327More than a few people will be tempted ... (read more)

Nearly 90% of Temperature Stations Show Extreme Heat Bias, Study Says
James M. Taylor - August 01, 2009
Eighty-nine percent of official U.S. temperature measurement stations are corrupted by poor site selection that gives false warming signals, according to ... (read more)

Warming Skeptics Get Heard On The Hill
David A. Fahrenthold - May 19, 2009
After the decade they've had, Capitol Hill's climate-change skeptics might well feel like polar bears on a shrinking ice floe.Scientists around the globe ... (read more)

 

Environment & Climate News


WHAT'S NEW

Climategate Figure Plays the Victim Card
James M. Taylor - February 08, 2010
Phil Jones, the central figure in the Climategate scandal, gave a self-pitying interview with the Sunday London Times in which he complains about people ... (read more)

Feds Decline Endangered Listing for Pika
February 08, 2010
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has rejected a petition to give a western rodent endangered species protection based on projections of future global ... (read more)

James M. Taylor to Appear on MSNBC Today
Tammy Nash - February 08, 2010
Heartland Institute senior fellow for environment policy James M. Taylor is scheduled to appear on MSNBC today to discuss a Virginia Republican Party ... (read more)

New Hampshire Tourist Town Battles Milfoil
James M. Taylor - February 08, 2010
Moultonborough, New Hampshire, the town with the most lakefront land in the state, has decided to employ aquatic herbicides to combat an invasion of noxious ... (read more)

Utah Legislator Seeks to Block Warming Suits
James M. Taylor - February 08, 2010
Utah State Rep. Mike Noel (R-Kanab) plans to introduce legislation that would prevent individual citizens from filing lawsuits against companies emitting ... (read more)

Democrats Leading House Effort to Block EPA Warming Regs
James M. Taylor - February 05, 2010
A trio of House legislators – two Democrats and one Republican – has introduced a bill to block the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from ... (read more)

India Forms New Climate Change Body
Dean Nelson - February 04, 2010
The Indian government has established its own body to monitor the effects of global warming because it “cannot rely” on the United Nations’ ... (read more)

IPCC Chair Seeks Asbestos Bath for Critics
James M. Taylor - February 04, 2010
Raj Pachauri, the embattled head of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), shocked global warming analysts yesterday when ... (read more)

Climate Scientist Foretells 'Big Changes' at U.N. Global Warming Agency
Diane Carol Bast - February 03, 2010
PHOENIX (Feb. 3, 2010) -- Climate scientist William Sprigg delivered a bold challenge to his fellow climate scientists in a blockbuster address to EUEC ... (read more)

Deeper Investigation Into Mr. Hockey Stick's Behavior
Paul Chesser - February 03, 2010
The findings from Penn State University's investigation into Climategate scientist Michael Mann were due this week, and today (Feb. 3, 2010), the university ... (read more)



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