MPs begin the Climategate whitewash April 4, 2010
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MPs begin the Climategate whitewash
By Christopher Booker
The Telegraph, April 3, 2010
To anyone who watched or read the hearings of the Commons committee looking into “Climategate”, the scandal over leaked documents from the East Anglia Climatic Research Unit, two things might have been obvious. The first was that all but one of the MPs (Labour’s Graham Stringer) were hopelessly out of their depth in their efforts to understand this not very complex story. The other was that their chief purpose was to find that the CRU and its director, Professor Philip Jones, had done nothing wrong and that the case for man-made global warming remained intact.
Both points were amply confirmed by the slipshod report rushed out by the MPs last week (which only Mr Stringer opposed). One cannot say the MPs deliberately missed the points raised by the Climategate scandal, because they so clearly didn’t grasp what these were in the first place. For instance, they justified Jones’s famous “hide the decline” email, by claiming that he had deleted data because it was “erroneous” – when the whole point was that he hid the data, not because it was wrong, but because it didn’t fit in with the case he and his colleagues wanted to put across.
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Gossip Central, aka the British High Commission in Canada, is sending out its “climate expert” Sabrina Shulz to speak in Victoria this week. She used to be the spokeswoman for the association of private security agencies of the UK. So, that makes her an expert. Right. Let’s see how she does at rescuing the failed UK high commission’s media-communications plan on climate change.