The House of Commons has released its report on the CRU email release. Here is the summary of its findings: We believe that the focus on CRU and Professor Phil Jones, Director of CRU, in particular, has largely been misplaced. Whilst we are concerned that the disclosed e-mails suggest a blunt refusal to share scientific […]
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A.S.S.
March 27, 2010 
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High on the WTFIUWT? list of experiences, a close encounter with ASS. Earlier, I cruised on over to WUWT and noted that he’s claiming WUWT hit 40 million — that’s MILLION — hits. Momentarily blinded by the burn of anti-science, I was just so disgusted to think that WUWT, Climate Depot and Climate Audit taken together […]
Continue readingStates of Denial: Anti-Science Policy in Canada and the US
March 22, 2010 10 Comments
Part One: Canada “There is only one problem — confidence and how to establish it; public assurance and how to create it.” Hill and Knowlton Sage advice to the Tobacco Industry Research Committee (TIRC) in 1950s when the industry faced scientific research showing that substances in their products caused fatal cancers in lab mice. If […]
Continue reading“McIntyre Accused” Meme – Watch It Grow
March 15, 2010 15 Comments
Over at WUWT, there’s a new post up about a Queensland U prof who has accused McIntyre of either directly or indirectly being responsible for the CRU hack. The original article is by none other than Andrew Bolt of the Herald Sun. Here’s an excerpt from WUWT: Somebody needs to educate Quiggin on the CRU […]
Continue readingMuzzling Science
March 15, 2010 11 Comments
Over at DeSmogBlog, Ross Gelbspan has an article titled Is Canadian Government Muzzling the Messengers? about the Canadian Government’s new rules governing when and how climate scientists can speak to the media. Since the introduction of the new rules governing how environment Canada scientists speak to media, the article claims there has been an 80% […]
Continue readingMcIntyre’s Inquiry Claims — Withholding of Data
March 14, 2010 14 Comments
I’m trying to think as a neophyte who happens onto the net and comes across a contrarian or denialist website. What claims about climate science do they see on such websites as CA and WUWT and others. 1. Climate scientists do not follow the basic tenets of science, which include openness and sharing of data […]
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