Cliimategate: Another American media failure

Great round up of all the lies and mistakes related to global warming that the US media is covering up.

Britain's Weather Office Proposes Climate-Gate Do-Over

"At a meeting Monday of 150 climate scientists, representatives of Britain's weather office proposed that the world's climatologists start all over again and produce a new trove of global temperature data that is open to public scrutiny and "rigorous" peer review."

Should have done this in the first place.

Climate scientists withdraw journal claims of rising sea levels

"Announcing the formal retraction of the paper from the journal, Siddall said: "It's one of those things that happens. People make mistakes and mistakes happen in science." He said there were two separate technical mistakes in the paper, which were pointed out by other scientists after it was published. A formal retraction was required, rather than a correction, because the errors undermined the study's conclusion."

U.S. Press Digs Into IPCC Story

"Digs" is a bit strong. More like kicking sand on a beach. The CJR compares the anemic reporting in the US with the "all over the news" in the UK reporting.

"It is this kind of detailed, intellectually honest (even technologically innovative) reporting that news outlets like The New York Times should be striving for with their coverage of the recent controversies related to the IPCC. Coverage in the U.S. still feels like the proverbial tale of blind men examining different quarters of an elephant. Readers need the point-by-point master narrative. How exactly did this crisis in public confidence crystallize over the last month or so? How did various criticisms of the IPCC roll out? Which of those are legitimate? Which false? And what, if anything, can be done to improve the IPCC’s work?

It is not a story that can be told without a significant amount of context, but news outlets have a responsibility to get it right. If that means sacrificing the front-page thought and running a twelve-part series online instead, so be it."

Indeed.

The global warming guerrillas

"It was not Private Eye, or the BBC or the News of the World, but a retired electrical engineer in Northampton, David Holland, whose freedom-of-information requests caused the Climategate scientists to break the law, according to the Information Commissioner. By contrast, it has so far attracted little attention that the leaked emails of Climategate include messages from reporters obsequiously seeking ammunition against the sceptics. Other emails have shown reporters meekly changing headlines to suit green activists, or being threatened with ostracism for even reporting the existence of a sceptical angle: ‘Your reportage is very worrisome to most climate scientists,’ one normally alarmist reporter was told last year when he slipped briefly off message. ‘I sense that you are about to experience the “Big Cutoff” from those of us who believe we can no longer trust you, me included.’"

The Continuing Climate Meltdown

How far will it go?

UN global warming data skewed by heat from planes and buildings

Now IPCC hurricane data is questioned • The Register

Science blogger finds errors in Met Office climate change records

U.N. climate panel admits Dutch sea level flaw

"OSLO (Reuters) - The U.N. panel of climate experts overstated how much of the Netherlands is below sea level, according to a preliminary report on Saturday, admitting yet another flaw after a row last month over Himalayan glacier melt."

BBC News - Climate debate not settled

I bet the BBC almost choked writing that.

"But he agreed that two periods in recent times had experienced similar warming. And he agreed that the debate had not been settled over whether the Medieval Warm Period was warmer than the current period. "

You have to love this.

"He said "sceptics" who doubted his climate record should compile their own dataset from material publicly available in the US."

Now why would he recommend people use US records instead of his own UK CRU data? Oh, that's right, he destroyed that data!

"The major datasets mostly agree," he said."

But we've no way of knowing that Jones since you destroyed yours.

Now this is turning into a farce. Here's Jones "the dog ate my homework" excuse.

"His colleagues said that keeping a paper trail was not one of Professor Jones' strong points. Professor Jones told BBC News: "There is some truth in that.

"We do have a trail of where the (weather) stations have come from but it's probably not as good as it should be," he admitted.

"That's similar with the American datasets. There were technical reasons for this, with changing data from different countries. There's a continual updating of the dataset. Keeping track of everything is difficult. Some countries will do lots of checking on their data then issue improved data so it can be very difficult. We have improved but we have to improve more."

It's very hard to keep track of when you destroy it.

Climate scientists withheld Yamal data despite warnings from senior colleagues | Environment | guardian.co.uk

The Guardian is trying give the impression that they are leading an independent investigation into Climagegate. But, listen to this.

"It is hard to believe that tree trunks dragged from frozen bogs in Siberia could undermine the argument about man-made climate change. But that is the claim that has been made by sceptics in recent months."

Interesting though, how the warmists were quite happy to use those same frozen tree trunks to bolster their claim of global warming. Can't have it both ways folks.

Emails reveal strenuous efforts by climate scientists to 'censor' their critics | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Climategate: House of Peers

BBC News - Climate scepticism 'on the rise', BBC poll shows

Great news! And great to see the BBC forced to start covering climategate.

Climategate: The Science is Unsettling. video

Climate change emails between scientists reveal flaws in peer review

"But a close reading of the emails hacked from the University of East Anglia in November exposes the real process of everyday science in lurid detail.

Many of the emails reveal strenuous efforts by the mainstream climate scientists to do what outside observers would regard as censoring their critics. And the correspondence raises awkward questions about the effectiveness of peer review – the supposed gold standard of scientific merit – and the operation of the UN's top climate body, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)."

Climategate: WWF, the ‘Para-Governmental Organization’ at the Center of the Storm

WWF commercials seeking donations are on my TV constantly.

Leaked climate change emails scientist 'hid' data flaws

"Phil Jones, the beleaguered British climate scientist at the centre of the leaked emails controversy, is facing fresh claims that he sought to hide problems in key temperature data on which some of his work was based.

A Guardian investigation of thousands of emails and documents apparently hacked from the University of East Anglia's climatic research unit has found evidence that a series of measurements from Chinese weather stations were seriously flawed and that documents relating to them could not be produced."

And yet I daily see government and NGO commercials claiming man made global warming.

BBC - Judgement day for public trust in science

Nice to see the BBC reporting something on climategate.

"And then there's "glaciergate" - evidence that the speed of Himalayan glacier melt has been seriously misrepresented in a report from the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change (IPCC).

It is profoundly worrying that it took three years for this issue to emerge, especially since the IPCC proudly proclaims its reports to be "peer reviewed", and therefore trustworthy. "

Oh the irony! The BBC has been pushing global warming all those years and was too busy burying any information that contraicted its view.