The ClimateGate Scandals: What has been revealed and what does it mean?

Russ Steele

With the liberal press and blogs trying to whitewash the ClimateGate scandal, it is time to take a closer look at what the e-mail revealed and what was really taking place at CRU/NASA/NOAA to torture the data until it revealed their version of reality - human caused global warming.

Global warming.org has a video of a Heritage Foundation presentation by Dr. Patrick J. Michaels, Senior Fellow in Environmental Studies, Cato Institute and Joseph D’Aleo, Executive Director, ICECAP, and Consulting Meteorologist.

The scientific case for catastrophic global warming was already showing signs of weakening when the Climategate scientific fraud scandal broke in November 2009.  This release of thousands of computer files and emails between leading global warming scientists showed evidence of data manipulation, flouting of freedom of information laws, and attempts to suppress publication of research that disagreed with the alarmist “consensus.”

Climategate has raised many questions about the reliability of key temperature records as well as the objectivity of the researchers and institutions involved, but it is far from the only global warming-related controversy.  It has been followed by revelations that some of the most attention-grabbing claims in the 2007 UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report - the supposed gold standard of climate science - were simply made up.  Before laws regulating energy use are enacted that could well cost trillions of dollars, it is crucial to understand the extent to which the alleged scientific consensus supporting global warming alarmism has been discredited by these scandals. 

If you really want to understand the significance of ClimateGate and the scientific case that can be made in the suit against the EPA's "Endangerment Finding" please take the time to view this video.