Posts Tagged ‘climategate’

Climategate anniversary

Written By: - Date published: 7:38 am, November 20th, 2010 - 102 comments

It has been a year since the CRU emails were stolen and the “climategate” “scandal” broke.  There’s an interesting summary at the ClimateSight blog.  Meanwhile the record temperatures keep rolling in, the ice keeps melting all over the world, and The Guardian asks “Is climate science disinformation a crime against humanity?”.

The harsh reality of climate change

Written By: - Date published: 11:45 am, June 19th, 2010 - 1,346 comments

The most comprehensive collection and analysis of global temperature trends comes from NOAA.Their global temperatures report for May 2010 makes sobering reading. Since 1880, the globally hottest 10 years have happened in the last 15 years. It looks like 2010 will beat the previous hottest year in 2005, and we’re still at the least energetic part of the sunspot cycle.

Science fights back

Written By: - Date published: 12:11 pm, May 12th, 2010 - 18 comments

A recent open letter from 255 members of the US National Academy of Sciences (including 11 Nobel laureates) calls for “an end to McCarthy-like threats of criminal prosecution against our colleagues …, the harassment of scientists by politicians seeking distractions to avoid taking action, and the outright lies being spread about them”.

Worth 1000 words

Written By: - Date published: 10:25 am, December 16th, 2009 - 72 comments

Cartoon by Nick Anderson.

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