As scandals surrounding the flawed global-warming report by the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change continue to grow, new calls for investigations are turning up the heat.

A Senate report from the Environment and Public Works Committee presented Tuesday concluded that scientists at the center of the scandal now known as Climategate committed unethical and potentially criminal acts to further global-warming alarmism.

According to the report, entitled '''Consensus' Exposed: The CRU Controversy," Climategate scientists “obstructed release of damaging data and information; manipulated data to reach preconceived conclusions; colluded to pressure journal editors who published work questioning the climate science ‘consensus‘; and assumed activist roles to influence the political process.” 

Republican Senator James Inhofe from Oklahoma, ranking member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, also chastised the Environmental Protection Agency for relying on the now-discredited IPCC report to make its finding that carbon dioxide was a pollutant which should be regulated. "The EPA accepted the IPCC's erroneous claims wholesale, without doing its own independent review," he said during Tuesday’s hearing, adding that he planned to ask the EPA’s Inspector General to launch an inquiry, and that the agency’s endangerment finding rested on “bad science." He also recited a long list of acknowledged flaws in the UN climate-change report.

"Climategate shows there is no consensus, that the science is far from settled, and that the Obama administration is moving ahead with a massive, job-killing tax for no good reason," Inhofe added. He is also reported to be asking the Department of Justice to open an investigation.  

Senator Barbara Boxer and EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson both distanced themselves from the IPCC report during the hearing, but Jackson claimed that the many flaws that have been pointed out do not undermine the underlying science behind anthropogenic (human-caused) global-warming theories.

But now, even the former chair of the IPCC is calling for an inquiry. “The mistakes all appear to have gone in the direction of making it seem like climate change is more serious by overstating the impact. That is worrying,” Professor Robert Watson, who chaired the panel from 1997 to 2002, told the Times Online in an interview. “The IPCC needs to look at this trend in the errors and ask why it happened.”

The infamous IPCC report has come under increasing fire in the last several months as scientists and critics have pointed out error after error. After the Climategate scandal broke, several serious mistakes (or possibly lies) in the UN report were discovered and have now become known worldwide, severely tarnishing the credibility of both the panel and its report.

Glaciergate, as it has become known, is just one of them. The panel included in its report the false claim that Himalayan glaciers would melt within 25 years. Other misinformation relates to North African crop losses reaching 50 percent within 10 years. Both of those errors have now been thoroughly exposed. The Dutch government has also officially asked the IPCC to correct its erroneous claim that 55 percent of the nation was below sea level, since in reality only about 25 percent is below sea level. The panel has since admitted that it made a mistake. And these are just a few of the most blatant errors.

The movement to impose “global governance” under the guise of anthropogenic global warming appears to be losing steam as the house of cards the case was built upon begins to tumble down. Far less than half of Americans even believe in man-made global warming. But there are still major threats on the horizon — most notably, the Obama administration’s dictatorial push to use the EPA to bypass Congress and regulate plant food. So while the lies and propaganda are being exposed, the power-grabs continue.

Criminal investigations to determine whether any laws were broken would be a good place to start. Using the public’s money to lie to the public and promote more government is simply unacceptable — and judging from the Climategate e-mails, that’s exactly what happened. Investigating IPCC warming bias, as the former chairman suggests, is also a good idea; though the UN investigating itself is hardly likely to uncover serious wrongdoing.

But Americans must remain aware and continue to fight against government efforts to control everything under the guise of protecting the environment. It is a crucial battle that must be won, because the consequences of losing will be devastating to struggling families everywhere, particularly in the developing world. The economy and freedom can hardly take any more blows. 
 

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Bonnie said:

... Those who have committed this fraud should be arrested, tried, convicted, and sentenced to unheated cells in the Arctic. Wouldn't it be amusing to watch these idiots kneel in their cells and pray for global warming to occur!

February 24, 2010

JJ Suprise said:

It happened because they wanted it to happen. “The IPCC needs to look at this trend in the errors and ask why it happened.” It happened because they WANTED IT TO HAPPEN!!!!!!!! Amen Bonnie, that would be hilarious.

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gallopingcamel said:

Pollutant? There is not one real scientist who could keep a straight face while publicly declaring "Atmospheric carbon dioxide is a pollutant".

February 24, 2010

proud denier said:

Think globally, destroy locally Well that's what's about to happen to the city where we live, unless commonsense prevails. Environoia is a disaster, www.palmerston-north.info

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Andrew30 said:

Perhaps we need something like the Merck/Vioxx trial to bring out the fraud in this whole AGW thing. Perhaps we need something like the Merck/Vioxx trial to bring out the fraud in this whole AGW thing. Merck had: Years of research. Peer reviewed papers. Medical studies. Multi-year field trials. Patient testimonials. Favorable publication in scientific magazines. Thousands of doctors believing them. Millions of people believing them on multiple continents. And the court discovered that Merck, their researchers, the reviewers and the magazines had been lying the whole time. People died. Science won, Merck lost.

February 24, 2010

Flu-Bird said:

Heads should roll This is a example of the green conseracy being carried out by the eco-nazis and the various eco-wacko groups AL GORE,JAMES HANSEN,GREENPEACE,ENVIROMENTAL DEFENSE and the others should be brought under full investigation for this This could be the biggist consperacy in the history of the whole world

February 25, 2010

Mike P said:

... If global warming is real, the history books will, wrongly, blame the right for "politicizing" science. Oh, but I bet to differ. It was the left that politicized it. "The world is warming. So logically it follows we must create a global bureaucracy accounted to no one to solve the problem." Oh, hell no. And their two big ideas for solving the supposed crisis? 1) Transfer wealth from relatively transparent Western countries to Eastern governments, as if giving billions upon billions of dollars to African nations or countries like Cambodia or Lao will somehow mitigate the effects of rising water. 2) An emissions credit trading market! An utter scam that does absolutely nothing other than take money from guilt-laden corporations and gives it to Al Gore and his cronies. Seriously, read it to this scheme. It's a hilarious racket.

February 25, 2010

dave said:

Climate Change's OJ Simpson Moment Written by Bill Mckibben http://www.tomdispatch.com/pos...n_moment/ Everyone should read this, whether you deny or accept AGW.

February 26, 2010

dave said:

... or since the URL was truncated :/ try this: http://bit.ly/97A0F1

February 26, 2010

dave said:

... Oh hey, and while we're all jumping up and down advocating the prosecution of Al Gore et al, I'd like to start the ball rolling on prosecuting the Churchs (of all religions) for their centuries standing fraud and subsequent enslavement of generations of the human race.

February 26, 2010

dave said:

... Bonnie: Kneeling in Cells and praying, oh snap :/ that cuts a little close to the reality of what is happening right now in Guantanamo. Been desensitized much ? LOOK AT WHAT YOU'RE BEING SPOON FED.

February 26, 2010

Btok said:

... The truth matters not, fraudulent science fits the orchestrated political agenda. I think every alarmist knows that CO2 plays a minuscule to no part in a warming planet. They also know that spending trillions on reducing CO2 will not produce a notable change. Everybody is in this for the riches. “Oil for food” was just a drop in the ocean compared to the “Pay for Activity & Breathing” carbon tax. This is a regime stealing from 99% of the people and dividing amongst the 1% who fervently defend the fraud. Steve Watson Infowars.net Monday, Feb 15th, 2010 The so called “independent” investigation into the climategate emails scandal has descended into farce before it is barely off the ground as a third member of the six man panel has been revealed to hold strong views on human induced climate change. The impartiality of glaciologist Geoffrey Boulton has been questioned after he admitted he firmly believed that human activities were causing global warming. PS: The United Nations should have to have non – connected independent PHD scientists analyze all of the IPCC Science Data, for the panel investigation to mean anything near to being an official reliable base to begin new measurements and Data that any type of document or legalized agreement could be made from and considered legitimate! Other wise the investigation is just PR Hooey and Bologna!

February 28, 2010

Sean said:

... Climate change is caused primarily by solar activity & variations in our solar orbit. Greenhouse gases are only one variable to consider when building a theory to model climate change. CO2 is only a minor greenhouse gas; the most influential gas is H2O (water vapor). CO2 is a very minor part of a small variable – and the man made portion of this is even more miniscule – significantly less than 1 percent of all atmospheric CO2. Al Gore's AGW movement conveniently ignores all primary factors in climate, picks the least influential variable and exaggerates its influence. To make matters worse, they both manipulate the data to make it fit their theory, and ignore evidence that shows temperature change lags CO2 change. This shows there is a correlation between the two variables, but CO2 is not causative and thus not useful as a predictive variable. Any hypothesis that proposes AGW by CO2 - is fundamentally flawed in its ignorance of the primary drivers of climate and temperature - solar activity. Debate over climate gate is a waste of time since the flawed CO2 theory fails on its face. It is like debating whether fleas living on a dog cause earthquakes.

March 01, 2010

John A. Jauregui said:

IPCC Agrees Question: What are the chances an infinitesimal (.04%) trace gas (CO2), essential to photosynthesis and life on this planet, is responsible for runaway Global Warming? Answer: Infinitesimal The IPCC agrees. See the IPCC Technical Report section entitled Global Warming Potential (GWP). Much more will be revealed as Climategate revelations of fraud and misconduct continues to unfold.

March 08, 2010

thewarner said:

Infintesimal Impact of all human caused emissions When I was given Forensic Engineering responsibility for a new non-existant fuel system to help with emissions for Ford Motor Company I researched every thing pertinent to the subject that at that time was available. A Cal Tech paper told me everything I needed to know about the whole issue of world air quality and its contributors. Quote--"One volcano in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, of hundreds, puts out more emisions in one day than all of the emissions from all human sources in one year." Get it??? From that point on everything else is a fairy tale to entertain children, Liberals (water melon crowd who are green on the outside, red on the inside and seedy throughout).

March 17, 2010

thewarner said:

Time span-For Hennie Pennies This was 1968. So, there has been plenty of time to go back and research Cal Tech and grow up.

March 17, 2010