Climate Change Fraud: Hacked Emails!

[sirbadman]

Despite the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (worst proposed carbon emissions trading scheme in the world) getting blocked in Australia's Senate, there will be another vote in Feb. If blocked this time there will be a climate change themed federal election.

It must be noted, the Greens party helped block the laws, because they think they are too weak! And they hope to pick up seats in a possible federal election, so it's a political move too!

Despite the turnaround by key opposition politicians in Australia, the local MSM here is still avoiding climategate, or worse, trying to spin it round to make it pro climate change:

http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/stor ... 21,00.html

Notice this story is unbalanced, it does not include a view from someone who is against the climate con job. Australia is one of the leading ZOG countries in the world.

`Climategate' helps oil and gas lobbyists
Article from: The Courier-Mail

Graham Readfearn

December 03, 2009 10:00am

A SENIOR Federal Government scientist says the illegal hacking of emails from one of the world's most influential climate research centres has played into the hands of coal and oil lobbyists who want to delay action to cut greenhouse gas emissions.

Prof Jean Palutikof, head of the Brisbane-based National Climate Change Research Facility, has sprung to the defence of embattled former colleague Professor Phil Jones.

Yesterday Professor Jones stepped down as director of Britain's Climate Research Unit to allow for an inquiry by the University of East Anglia, the home of the unit.

Green Blog: More on the interview with Prof Palutikof by Graham Readfearn

News emerged last month that hundreds of emails and documents had been stolen from a server at the university.

After the emails and raw climate data were published on a US-based blog, climate change sceptics seized on the release as proof that scientists had manipulated data, blocked Freedom of Information requests for climate records and tried to block publication of scientific papers questioning the science.

But critics of so-called ``Climategate'' have said the emails have been taken out of context and misrepresented and fail to back-up the claims of sceptics

Prof Palutikof, considered one of the world's foremost experts on ways to adapt to climate change, worked at the unit for 15 years and was co-director alongside Professor Jones from 1998 until 2004.

``I feel terrible for Phil,'' she said. ``I think Phil is the best person in the world to be doing this work - he is a globally acknowledged expert and to say that he deliberately perverted the (climate) record is an outrageous accusation.

``This doesn't change the science but it does change how it will play out. It does exactly what the sceptics want. It gives the coal and oil lobbies more chance to build a case and build public opinion against us. It goes right into their hands.''

Prof Palutikof was one of the scientists chosen to accept the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the IPCC in 2007.

She described Professor Jones as ``a friend'' and revealed she had sent him an email instructing him to ''keep smiling''.

She said during her time as co-director at the centre, she received many Freedom of Information requests for data held by the unit.

``Many of those FOI requests are designed, in part, just to make your life difficult and to occupy your time. I felt a lot of them were of that character. It's a way to distract us from our purpose and it's mischievous.''

She conceded the headlines generated over Climategate were damaging but, she said, had not altered the evidence of the need for action on climate change.

``It is so distracting from the main task - and that is the purpose behind this.... to ruin the reputation of scientists. I fear the worst. This will run and run.''

In a statement yesterday, Professor Jones said: ``One has to wonder if it is a coincidence that this email correspondence has been stolen and published at this time. This may be a concerted attempt to put a question mark over the science of climate change in the run-up ti the Copenhagen (climate) talks.''