Apparently NASA’s James Hansen has been as secretive over at NASA as the UK climate warming scientists caught up on Climategate were, refusing to release data by which NASA had made its calculations puruant to a Freedom of Information Act request. A lawsuit is being filed. From the story:
The fight over global warming science is about to cross the Atlantic with a U.S. researcher poised to sue NASA, demanding release of the same kind of climate data that has landed a leading British center in hot water over charges it skewed its data. Chris Horner, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, said NASA has refused for two years to provide information under the Freedom of Information Act that would show how the agency has shaped its climate data and would explain why the agency has repeatedly had to correct its data going as far back as the 1930s. “I assume that what is there is highly damaging,” Mr. Horner said. “These guys are quite clearly bound and determined not to reveal their internal discussions about this.” The numbers matter. Under pressure in 2007, NASA recalculated its data and found that 1934, not 1998, was the hottest year in its records for the contiguous 48 states. NASA later changed that data again, and now 1998 and 2006 are tied for first, with 1934 slightly cooler.
Throw open the books! This issue is one of the most important of our times and “the scientists” have no right to keep the data secret or the methods of coming to conclusions. Indeed, if global warming is so obvious and beyond debate, they would want us to see all the data. All of it! I mean, what better way to prove one’s position than letting the data speak for itself?
Ah, but if it isn’t, or if it has been wildly exaggerated, well, secrecy becomes a needed protection, doesn’t it? I have always thought this was the case: Gore’s refusal to debate has been more than just a matter of being imperious.
And Congress? You can hear the crickets chirping among the majority. As I have said before, they know what they don’t want to know.
December 3rd, 2009 | 7:41 pm
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December 3rd, 2009 | 11:27 pm
The email climategate scandal has peeled open an insightful view into the strange and criminal world that so called scientists manipulating climate data have inhabited for nearly half of my lifetime. The email tells a sordid tale of corruption and racketeering and alone is damning enough. But of the contents that were leaked on the server, 95% of the materials were source code. Source code that can be analyzed and evaluated for discrepancies and oddities.
And the tale the source tells is even worse. It isn’t just clear that criminal activity exists, it is without a doubt. No hack programmer that is worth his salt can ignore this outrageous attempt to code their way into the biggest global scam in history. Check out the source, it’s on many sites, but this one describes it quite nicely:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/11/crus_source_code_climategate_r.html
That, my friends, is a smoking gun… and is more than enough evidence to put the whole lot of the culprits in any one of a number of nation prisons for quite some time.
Now onto the next logical step. Who in the current administration, house of representatives, senate and other federal institutions had a hand in this. Their email needs to be peeled open as well. We need to see the publicly paid for servants email to determine if they were in on this collusion. Any organization that has anything to do with global warming, climate change or environmental studies needs to open up their servers and materials for full evaluation so an audit can be conducted to find out who is responsible for this horrific crime against humanity. Trillions of dollars have been spent, lifetimes of opportunities have been forgone, and continuous harassment of the general population has been all a part of this farce and the individuals responsible need to be held in account for it.
December 4th, 2009 | 1:22 am
Attacking those who have claimed collusion amongst climate scientists as ‘conspiracy theorists’ constitutes an ‘ad hominem’ attack. It ignores some real evidence of collusion and attempts to paint them as a bunch of nuts in order to hide an unpleasant reality.
Psychiatrists have a saying that goes “It ain’t paranoia when they’re really after you.” In this case, it is no longer a conspiracy THEORY once the conspiracy is demonstrated.
The recent email release shows leaders in the climate research field engaged in some extraordinarily unprofessional behavior — including suborning the peer review process, denying access to and threatening destruction of raw data and cooking the analysis to fit preordained conclusions.
Such actions, if proven, would end the careers of many scientists.
Whatever your views on CO2 and climate, dismissing these acts as ‘no big deal’ and painting those who call attention to them as ‘conspiracy nuts’ only strengthens the deniers arguments. –PEACE. Michael Santomauro
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