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Canadian Defense Against Climategate
As Climategate exploded prior to a December U.N. conference in Copenhagen that failed to produce a global agreement to limit greenhouse gas emissions, top environmental officials in Canada tried to paint a happy face on the scandal.
As Climategate exploded prior to a December U.N. conference in Copenhagen that failed to produce a global agreement to limit greenhouse gas emissions, top environmental officials in Canada tried to paint a happy face on the scandal. The country's Canwest News Service reports this morning that a top-ranking official with Environment Canada produced a memo for Environment Minister Jim Prentice -- just before his participation in Copenhagen -- that defended the integrity of the UN IPCC science:
The personal e-mails exchanged by climate scientists wound up in the hands of special-interest groups who say they are skeptical about peer-reviewed research that concludes humans are causing global warming....
But in the memorandum obtained by Canwest News Service, Environment Canada's deputy minister, Ian Shugart, suggested the skeptics had it wrong. He explained the scientific information in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's latest assessment of climate-change research was still the best reference tool for the negotiations.
"Recent media reports in the aftermath of the hacking incident at the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia . . . has raised some concerns about the reliability and robustness of some of the science considered in the (fourth assessment of climate science released in 2007 by the) IPCC," said the memorandum to Prentice from his deputy minister...
"Despite these developments, the department continues to view the IPCC (fourth assessment) as the most comprehensive and rigorous source of scientific information for climate-change negotiations."
We've seen since then the birth of numerous other "Gates," which revealed "rigorous" IPCC science sources such as student dissertations, climbing magazines, publications including Leisure and Events Management, and World Wildlife Fund pamphlets.
Canwest also reported how the Canadian memo cited the evidence from temperature records:
The document also noted that temperature records in the report, which have been challenged by climate skeptics, were based on four different scientific agencies.
"All four data sets provide a very similar picture of the warming over land over the 20th century."
We've now also learned that three of the four datasets that IPCC depended upon for their scientific research were tainted, thanks to evidence revealed from a Freedom of Information Act inquiry by Chris Horner at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. And then there was this BBC report about fudge factors and messy data, just after Climategate was exposed:
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matthew s harrison| 4.5.10 @ 10:33AM
The Canadians, like the Brits have far too much vested in the so called "climate change" to walk away from the fraud now. The grants/tax dollars they have thrown at it, will all have to be pulled back, as will the laws written around the fraud. Thus, they, like the Brits, under pressure from UN and the US(Obama) will keep them drinking the Kook Aid until they have nary enough to hand out asprin to their suffering populous. It is the same around the world. Only in places like France where they have perfected the nation-wide strike will the people actually be heard, and their threats of disobedience be heeded. Everywhere else, where the electorate has ceded their personal liberty to the fraud co-conspirators, it will be business as usual. Hopefully though, with sites like Spectator, we'll continue to chip away at the layers of the conspiracy and eventually take back our liberties from these perpetrators of our own doom!
Eric Cartman| 4.5.10 @ 10:37AM
This is a hint of what is coming. The Left is thinking that they MUST get their crappy stuff through now, no matter what. Its the best last chance the figure, They are going to cram this down our throats just like health care. Al Gore shut out the press in a speech recently, so plans are being hatched. I hate sounding conspiratorial, but the Left IS conspiratorial. We must stomp them to dust.
Lullaby's, Legends and Lies| 4.5.10 @ 11:55AM
Yeah, stomp them to dust, and then piss on their remains, just to rub it in a bit. Then mail the leftovers to Canada and England, marked as cocaine, so the that the Canucks and the Limeys can get high on our Liberals while their own Countries slowly turn to crap. And then finally, everybody dies, when the winter storm of the century rolls into town, but the windmills can't save them from the cold. Irony!!
Whatever happened to that college love story you were writing recently? Did they finally die, after the Liberals started eating their young? I hope so!!
Eric Cartman| 4.5.10 @ 1:45PM
"Whatever happened to that college love story you were writing recently? Did they finally die, after the Liberals started eating their young? I hope so"
LOL - well, I've been waiting for another Obama Lovefest story where it fits. Shouldn't be long. LOL Thanks ;-)
GavInTucson| 4.6.10 @ 12:57AM
Not to worry, Eric. As they say, elections have consequences, and I think the left is about to learn a long, painful lesson. Anything that can be done can be undone.
And, although my father would disagree with this, you really can put the (excrement) back into the horse.