Climategate

Everything you need to know about Climategate is addressed in this terrific book by James Delingpole.

Watermelons: The Green Movement's True Colors

What Moore witnessed was the beginning of a process which would accelerate in 1989 after the fall of the Berlin Wall: the supplanting in the Green movement of the old guard of ageing hippies with a new breed of zealots less interested in saving Planet Earth than in destroying the capitalist system. These are the “Watermelons” of this book’s title—green on the outside, red on the inside.

The book is available as a free Kindle download through Amazon. The Kindle reader for PCs is free too.

While you're at it, there are lots of other free books available too.

Reassessing Global Warming

Climate High-Sticking - Steven Hayward

More importantly, Muller is heading up the new Berkeley Earth Temperature Study, which will review and analyze all of the data on this subject starting from scratch. Unlike the Climategate cabal in Britain and in our NASA, the Berkeley group will share its data with all comers. Keep your eye on this; it will take time--years more than months probably--but may prove to be the thread that unravels the main prop of the climate campaign.

Climate Change Resources

Some good resources on Climate Change:

• Cosmic Rays and Climate - by Jasper Kirby
• The Inconvenient Truth About Malaria - by Paul Reiter
• Hockey Stick Observed in NOAA Ice Core Data - by J. Storrs Hall
  
• Hockey Stick Over Time - by Doc at theautopsy.wordpress.com
• Climate chaos? Don't believe it - Christopher Monckton
• Fact-based Climate Debate - Lee C. Gerhard
  

Climategate: A Multifaceted Fraud

The Climategate scandal (or Climaquiddick, or the CRUtape Letters if you prefer) has demonstrated the fraudulent actions of those behind Anthropogenic Global Warming alarmism. The various aspects of wrong-doing include:

1. Although AGW proponents publicly declared that there was a settled consensus about the methods and conclusions of their work, there was in fact intense and ongoing debates about these issues even within their own close-knit community.

• Scientists Behaving Badly - Steven F. Hayward

2. Researchers concealed raw temperature data and analytic methods from critics and perhaps illegally destroyed data when a Freedom of Information Act request was granted.

• Climate Change Data Dumped - Jonathan Leake
• The Tip of the Climategate Iceberg - Wall Street Journal
• Scientists in stolen e-mail scandal hid climate data - Ben Webster and Jonathan Leake
  

3. Researchers colluded to exclude AGW critics from publishing in scholarly journals and then claimed that the critics had no merit because they lacked significant published work.

• The Scientific Tragedy of Climategate - Ronald Bailey
  
• Three Things You Absolutely Must Know About Climategate - Iain Murray
  
• University of East Anglia emails: the most contentious quotes - The Telegraph
• Climategate: the Fix is In - Robert Tracinski
  

4. Researchers were unable to replicate earlier results from computer program models when trying to demonstrate it on the same temperature data at a later date. They eventually gave up and quietly let the earlier results stand.

• Climategate Computer Codes are the Real Story - Charlie Martin

5. Researchers made arbitrary "adjustments" to temperature data in order to reach predetermined results.

• Climategate: The Smoking Code - Robert Greiner
• The Smoking Code, part 2 - Robert Greiner
• Understanding Climategate's Hidden Decline - Marc Sheppard
• ClimateGate: Was Data Faked? - Megan McArdle
• The Smoking Gun At Darwin Zero - Willis Eschenbach
• Climategate goes SERIAL: now the Russians confirm ... - James Delingpole
• Climategate: Faster and Faster, the Dominos Fall - Charlie Martin
• Climategate: Something’s Rotten in Denmark ... - Joseph D’Aleo
• Climategate: NOAA and NASA Complicit in Data Manipulation - Joseph D'Aleo
• Surface Temperature Records: Policy Driven Deception? - Joseph D'Aleo & Anthony Watts
• Strange case of moving weather posts and a scientist under siege - Fred Pearce
• Climategate Update 1: The China Syndrome - Ronald Bailey
  

Another interesting point is that the individuals implicated by the emails are not minor participants operating in unimportant locations. On the contrary, these scientists represent the mainstream of the AGW scientific establishment.

• Climategate: Obama’s Science Adviser Confirms the Scandal — Unintentionally - Myron Ebell

Additional Climategate Resources:

• http://www.climate-gate.org/
• http://climateaudit.org/
  
• http://www.climatedepot.com/
• http://wattsupwiththat.com/climategate/
• Charlie Martin: fast-facts-about-climategate
• Climategate: How To Follow the Money - Charlie Martin
  
• Pajamas Media document database
• The Timeline, “ClimateGate: 30 years in the making” - Joanne Nova
• It's Not Apostasy - John Hinderaker
  

Climategate: The Video

Hide the Decline video (via PowerLine).