I thought of killing myself, says climate scandal professor Phil Jones

Written by Richard Girling, Times Online | 08 February 2010

Prof. Phil Jones on suicide watch?

THE scientist at the centre of the “climategate” email scandal has revealed that he was so traumatised by the global backlash against him that he contemplated suicide.

Professor Phil Jones said in an exclusive interview with The Sunday Times that he had thought about killing himself “several times”. He acknowledged similarities to Dr David Kelly, the scientist who committed suicide after being exposed as the source for a BBC report that alleged the government had “sexed up” evidence to justify the invasion of Iraq.

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IPCC chief Rajendra Pachauri under pressure to go over glacier error

Written by Ben Webster, Times Online | 04 February 2010

He can always get a job doing Geico commercials.

The head of the UN’s climate change body is under pressure to resign after one of his strongest allies in the environmental movement said his judgment was flawed and called for a new leader to restore confidence in climatic science.

Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), has insisted that he will remain in post for another four years despite having failed to act on a serious error in the body’s 2007 report.

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Penn State says more investigation needed on Climategate's Michael Mann

Written by Mark Tapscott, Washington Examiner | 03 February 2010

Penn State University officials say further investigation is warranted into at least one charge of professional misconduct by Prof. Michael Mann [pictured] in connection with his research and advocacy on behalf of the global warming cause.

In a statement just posted on the school's web site, officials said:

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Global deal on climate change in 2010 'all but impossible'

Written by Guardian | 01 February 2010

A global deal to tackle climate change is all but impossible in 2010, leaving the scale and pace of action to slow global warming in coming decades uncertain, according to senior figures across the world involved in the negotiations.

"The forces trying to tackle climate change are in disarray, wandering in small groups around the battlefield like a beaten army," said a senior British diplomat.

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U.N.'s Global Warming Report Under Fresh Attack for Rainforest Claims

Written by Gene J. Koprowski, FoxNews | 28 January 2010

A United Nations report on climate change that has been lambasted for its faulty research is under new attack for yet another instance of what its critics say is sloppy science -- adding to a growing scandal that has undermined the credibility of scientists and policymakers who back the U.N.'s  findings about global warming.

In the Fourth Assessment Report (AR4), issued in 2007 by the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), scientists wrote that 40 percent of the Amazon rainforest in South America was endangered by global warming.

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Can Climate Forecasts Still Be Trusted?

Written by GERALD TRAUFETTER, ABC News | 28 January 2010

Confidence Melting Away: Doubts Grow in Climate Change Debate

The Siachen Glacier is home to the world's highest crisis region. Here, at 6,000 meters (19,680 feet) above sea level, Indian and Pakistani soldiers face off, ensconced in heavily armed positions.

The ongoing border dispute between the two nuclear powers has already claimed the lives of 4,000 men -- most of them having died of exposure to the cold.

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Scientists in stolen e-mail scandal hid climate data

Written by Ben Webster and Jonathan Leake, Times Online | 28 January 2010

Prof. Phil Jones

The university at the centre of the climate change row over stolen e-mails broke the law by refusing to hand over its raw data for public scrutiny.

The University of East Anglia breached the Freedom of Information Act by refusing to comply with requests for data concerning claims by its scientists that man-made emissions were causing global warming.

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Global warming ranks last in public opinion of priorities - again

Written by Tony Hake, Climate Change Examiner | 25 January 2010

A new poll conducted by the Pew Research Center places global warming dead last in a list of priorities for 2010. A mere 28% of those surveyed believed it should be a ‘top priority’, a 2% drop from the results obtained from the same question last year and a full 10% drop since first rated in 2007.

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Glaciologist demands apology from Pachauri for 'voodoo' remark

Written by Economic Times | 19 January 2010

According to Pachauri, this is what climate models
look like in India.

India's senior-most glaciologist V K Raina today said the chief of the UN climate body should apologise to the scientist fraternity for dubbing their work on melting of Himalayan glaciers as "voodoo science".

Raina's demand comes even as the UN body, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate change (IPCC) headed by R K Pachauri, deliberates on retracting its statement on Himalayan glaciers melting.

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Don't Blame Global Warming for Calif. Storms

Written by Paul Yeager, Sphere | 19 January 2010

These days, we blame nearly every weather calamity on global warming, but that wasn't always the case. Until several years ago, it seemed as if El Nino was the main weather culprit. If we were to assign singular blame to the strong storms currently moving through California, it would go to El Nino, not global warming.

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Met Office computer accused of 'warm bias' by BBC weatherman

Written by Mail Online | 18 January 2010

Shall we play a game?

[H/T to planet gore]  A BBC weather forecaster has suggested that the Met Office's super-computer has a 'warm bias' which has stopped it predicting bitterly cold spells like the one we have just endured.

Paul Hudson said the error may have crept into the computer's climate model as a result of successive years of milder weather.

His claim was rejected by the Met Office but other experts said there could be flaws in the system, which was first developed 50 years ago.

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Peer-to-Peer Review (Part III): How ‘Climategate’ Marks the Maturing of a New Science Movement

Written by Patrick Courrielche, Big Journalism | 12 January 2010

PART III – A global warming skeptic receives the leaked files from an anonymous “Deep-Climate” insider. Release of files [download] exposes gatekeeping and leads to the maturing of a new science movement – that of peer-to-peer review.  Last in a series.  Please click for Part I and Part II.

Few outside the climate skeptic circle have ever heard of Steven Mosher. An open-source software developer, statistical data analyst, and thought of as the spokesperson of the lukewarmer set, Mosher hasn’t made any of the mainstream media outlets covering the story of Climategate.

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