Lorrie Goldstein;

If you’re wondering how the robot-like march of the world’s politicians towards Copenhagen can possibly continue in the face of the scientific scandal dubbed “climategate,” it’s because Big Government, Big Business and Big Green don’t give a s*** about “the science.”
They never have.

Indeed, they never have. Watch this and marvel…

Well, the focus has changed.
[This] article dated November 26th 2009 reveals that the MSM has a new reason for reducing carbon dioxide and it’s no longer global warming or climate change. The new reason for cutting carbon dioxide is

“ … slashing carbon dioxide emissions also could save millions of lives, mostly by reducing preventable deaths from heart and lung diseases, according to studies published this week in the British medical journal The Lancet.”

Read them both, then;

[S]end a message to Prime Minister Stephen Harper by e-mail (pm@pm.gc.ca), fax (1-613-941-6900) or call toll-free (1-866-599-4999) and ask to be put through to the Office of the Prime Minister.
Do the same for Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff by e-mail, (ignatm@parl.gc.ca). fax, (1-613-947-0310), or call-toll free (1-866-599-4999) and ask to be put through to the Liberal Leader’s Office.
Tell them you want no part of the madness in Copenhagen.
Blow their phones off the hook.

Your Member of Parliament can be contacted here.
Related – Charles Adler has Lorrie’s column from yesterday for those who missed it, along with commentary from Dr.Tim Ball.

It’s the tale of the red hot Kiwi…

[New Zealand’s National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research’s] David Wratt has told Investigate magazine this afternoon his organization denies faking temperature data and he claims NIWA has a good explanation for adjusting the temperature data upward.
[…]
Those adjustments were made by New Zealand climate scientist Jim Salinger, a lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change who started work on the series when he was with the University of East Anglia, the centre of the Climategate scandal. (Salinger was dismissed by NIWA this year for speaking without authorisation to the media.)
The New Zealand Climate Science Coalition, which created the last two graphics and includes an IPCC reviewer, now alleges that Salinger and NIWA have refused to explain the basis on which the data was adjusted:

The shocking truth is that the oldest readings have been cranked way down and later readings artificially lifted to give a false impression of warming, as documented below. There is nothing in the station histories to warrant these adjustments and to date Dr Salinger and NIWA have not revealed why they did this.

Adjusted upward – by 1500 per cent.
Comparative graphs at the first link, full report from the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition here (pdf).
(Thanks, tipsters. There were lots of you.)

Hide the decline….

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Editor’s note: for as much attention as the emails have received – and they are damning – it’s the computer code that is revealing the real story behind the climate models. It includes corrupted and incomplete data, data manufacture and manipulation. programming failure, and program bias. The details are too lengthy and complex to include in this round-up post, but no commentary on this scandal is complete without a thorough examination of what is being uncovered in the CRU computer code files and documentation.
John Gormley Live and SDA – doing the job the CBC won’t do! (link fixed) Segment here.

If you’re arriving here new to the Climategate scandal, these links will help to bring you up to speed. “The fix is in.” Possibly the best summary yet of the corruption of peer review, at Real Clear Politics. Let’s go to the pub – even better than the first. Climate Audit (currently on a mirror site as the original site server has been incapable of handling the traffic.) Original Climate Audit site (very technical). Surface Stations temperature station auditing project – Is the U.S. surface temperature record reliable? In a word – no. Watts Up With That? – Meteorologist Anthony Watts is your best bet for major breaking developments, explained in layman’s language. The CRU emails in a searchable format. THe CRU emails in clipping format. Charlie Martin at Pajamas Media has an extremely good analysis..

Hide the Decline! “Mike’s nature trick” explained. The Hockey Stick was never accurate–and CRU knew it The Hockey Stick Peer Review Gauntlet The Yamal Implosion – a saga uncovering wholesale data “cherry-picking” in an all out effort by CRU scientists to save the “hockey stick”. It’s long, but it’s a must read.

The Harry_Read_Me.txt file – the world’s most frustrated Fortran programmer, in his own expletives.
Data Destruction; East Anglia CRU “have admitted throwing away much of the raw temperature data on which their predictions of global warming are based.”
Freedom of Information denied – “This is an attack on the heart of science,”
Beware The Scientific-Technological Complex
Powerline Blog series on the email archives.
Recent Canadian commentary
Stephen Taylor interviews Ross McKitrick
Ross McKitrick, Financial Post – “Flawed climate data”
Lorne Gunter, National Post – Cooking The Climate Books
Lorrie Goldstein, Toronto Sun – “‘Botch after botch after botch'”
Douglas J. Keenan – The Wang Affair
As usual, their columnists are well ahead of the news department. What gives? I presume they’re published out of the same building….
The SDA “The Sound Of All Hell Breaking Loose” series in chronological order, a loose compendium of links, quotes, and developments as they emerge across various sites on the net.
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