UPDATED: related FOIA documents are now posted at the end of this story.
Posted on the American Spectator:
“Climate Gate” Development: CEI Files Notice of Intent to Sue NASA
By Chris Horner on 11.24.09 @ 9:46AM
Today, on behalf of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, I filed three Notices of Intent to File Suit against NASA and its Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), for those bodies’ refusal – for nearly three years – to provide documents requested under the Freedom of Information Act.
The information sought is directly relevant to the exploding “ClimateGate” scandal revealing document destruction, coordinated efforts in the U.S. and UK to avoid complying with both countries’ freedom of information laws, and apparent and widespread intent to defraud at the highest levels of international climate science bodies. Numerous informed commenters had alleged such behavior for years, all of which appears to be affirmed by leaked emails, computer codes and other data from the Climatic Research Unit of the UK’s East Anglia University.
All of that material and that sought for years by CEI go to the heart of the scientific claims and campaign underpinning the Kyoto Protocol, its planned successor treaty, “cap-and-trade” legislation and the EPA’s threatened regulatory campaign to impose similar measures through the back door.
CEI sought the following documents, among others, NASA’s failure to provide which within thirty days will prompt CEI to file suit in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia:
– internal discussions about NASA’s quiet correction of its false historical U.S. temperature records after two Canadian researchers discovered a key statistical error, specifically discussion about whether and why to correct certain records, how to do so, the impact or wisdom or potential (or real) fallout therefrom or reaction to doing so (requested August 2007);
– internal discussions relating to the emails sent to James Hansen and/or Reto A. Ruedy from Canadian statistician Steve McIntyre calling their attention to the errors in NASA/GISS online temperature data (August 2007);
– those relating to the content, importance or propriety of workday-hour posts or entries by GISS/NASA employee Gavin A. Schmidt on the weblog or “blog” RealClimate, which is owned by the advocacy Environmental Media Services and was started as an effort to defend the debunked “Hockey Stick” that is so central to the CRU files. RealClimate.org is implicated in the leaked files, expressly offered as a tool to be used “in any way you think would be helpful” to a certain advocacy campaign, including an assertion of Schmidt’s active involvement in, e.g., delaying and/or screening out unhelpful input by “skeptics” attempting to comment on claims made on the website.
This and the related political activism engaged in are inappropriate behavior for a taxpayer-funded employee, particularly on taxpayer time. These documents were requested in January 2007 and NASA/GISS have refused to date to comply with their legal obligation to produce responsive documents.
RELATED DOCUMENTS (PDF)
Hansen GISS Correction FOI Request
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Adam Sullivan (10:06:17) : “FWIW, having Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh…doesn’t add to the weight of the arguments for science.”
Oh, golly, Adam, I surely do hate to be the one to break this news to you, but AGW NEVER WAS ABOUT SCIENCE. IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN ABOUT LEFTIST POLITICS.
shouldn t they at least pretend to be interested in science?
Become an expert:
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@ur momisugly Adam Sullivan (10:06:17) :
Ad-hominems or not, I have to disagree Adam. Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh discussing these issues on their programs spreads the word to literally tens of thousands of people, all taxpayers, all affected by the supposed AGW ‘science.’ That’s valuable in helping to bring pressure to bear to open this wide open.
I can’t see HadCRUT surviving as a credible global temperature record after the revelations in the released documents – the HARRY_READ_ME.txt file is extremely damaging. If Hansen’s GISS temperature record gets exposed as unreliable as well then we’re in new territory as we’re left with just the satellite record which is a mere 30 years old.
There would need to be a global project to build a new temperature record – hopefully built on transparency. An open source project.
“Lucy Skywalker (10:02:53) :
It’s difficult to believe that, having shot themselves in one foot, they are now, it seems, shooting themselves in both feet.”
Ummmmmm….Lucy?…them ain’t feet.
JimB
Adam Sullivan (10:06:17) :
FWIW, having Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh bloviate over all of this is no help.
It doesn’t add to the weight of the arguments for science.
Both these fools are young earth creationists. So when they argue a scientific matter it allows those under attack to fire back with some effective ad-hominems.
The ad hom tactics of the AGW faithful may have been effective before, to those either gullible enough to be taken in by them, or those already committed to AGW ideology, but not so much now. The curtain has been pulled away, and screaming “pay no attention to that man” is just not going to have much effect any more.
So, I don’t agree that Limbaugh and Beck’s “bloviating” can hurt, and will, in fact help turn the tide politically against the AGW movement.
And, those who are so inclined, and I imagine there will be even more now, can always check into the science for themselves, and will see that AGW consists primarily of smoke and mirrors.
For the young entrepreneurs, how about inventing a foot peddle powered shredder. We can’t waste electricity generated by “dirty coal”
The benefits
1 Building up the thighs so they can jemp to conclusions more swiftly
2 It is sustainable if they compost the shredded cellulose or send it to the cellulose driven ethanol plants
3 No aerosols produced
4 No contribution to garbage dump methane.
Finally seeing some coverage in regional Canadian media. I haven’t seen anything at the national level yet.
Calgary Herald 24-Nov
waited so long for this to take place!
Parts of the German media here are going ballistic with this latest “Worse-than-ever-imagined” report.
The last gasp.
Hannity just announced to a caller that he’s going to hit the whole issue in the ‘next hour.’ Unclear if that’s this first hour, or the second, but sounds like he may also hit it hard today.
Mark Hugoson (12:05:10)
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We’re on a tangent here, but the process of fossilization which replaces organic material with stable minerals, and burial, which shields whatever might be there from cosmic radiation, would allow the lithologic and radiometric dating of the fossils to be reasonable.
Phil jones can acrobat all he wants.
No number of hands can keep a house of cards from falling.
John Lish (12:14:34) :
“If Hansens GISS temperature record gets exposed as unreliable as well then were in new territory as were left with just the satellite record which is a mere 30 years old.”
Already done …
http://chiefio.wordpress.com/gistemp/
Jeremy (10:57:52) :
“Why Phil Jones had not yet resigned is utterly astonishing.”
Leading man of this drama Phil Jones, even if he wonted to, will not be allowed to do so by the powers that be.
Wouldn’t that make a laughing stock of many?
The other minor support actors can resign or be dismissed and probably will in due course, someone has to take the rap.
@ur momisugly James F. Evans (10:26:59) :
James, I’m not certain, but I think Rush Limbaugh has something like 22 million daily listeners.
HUGE.
P Gosselin (12:19:10) :
Any online? and, do you have links?
5. Leaves no detectable (or traceable) data residue.
The report which I mentioned at 09:43:51 http://www.copenhagendiagnosis.com/
is on realclimate too!
Ps. It is . com, not .org!!
Wierd. I just watched the BBC interview with the UEA spokesperon on YouTube here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCywd57BmsY He is still coming up with the answer to his experiment before seeing the data. I am somewhat paraphrasing, but he says, “we will have a full internal audit to show that no data was manipulated or hidden….” How does he know before an audit is done? Some lessons about how to do sceince, such as finding the answer before the experiment begins (where you should do the opposite), are hard to learn.
Something of a cultural opinion here: in the UK for example, we don’t really have `bloviators’, whereas they have been part of US radio and television culture for a very long time. That’s why when I see people like Beck I cringe a little. I’m not used to anchors editorialising.
I have compared the recently uncovered secret email database from the CRU (http://www.eastangliaemails.com/search.php) with the 50 most referenced “climatologists” (http://www.eecg.utoronto.ca/~prall/climate/climate_authors_table.html). Clearly what we have seen so far is just the tip of the iceberg; the names listed below who have not publicly come out supporting the IPCC have endorsed “AGW” by their silence.
Part A:
Covert members of the global conspiracy to commit scientific fraud, whose names are absent or only mentioned in passing, as in a reference to their published work or copied on a sent email.
Sir Robert M May
Sir John Sulston
David Tilman
F Stewart Chapin
Stuart Pimm
Sir John T Houghton
Robert Costanza
William H Schlesinger
Sir Nicholas J Shackleton
David S Jenkinson
Gerard Bond
Paul Falkowski
Chris Field
Robert W Howarth
Minze Stuiver
Peter H Raven
J Michael Wallace
Joseph A Berry
James W Hurrell
Jane Lubchenco [the fox in charge of the henhouse – one can assume that the government “research grants” will be flowing in copious amounts as long as she’s in charge]
Dennis V Kent
William J Parton
Charles David Keeling [passed on before the fruition of their plan, but a loyal crony and key collaborator]
Peter Liss
Kelly Chance
Stephen Pacala
Peter J Webster
Sydney Levitus
Richard W Reynolds
Georges Bonani
Steven C Wofsy
John F Nye
Gene E Likens
Wally S Broecker
Tomomi Yamada
Brent Holben
David W Schindler
Inez Fung
William D Nordhaus
Peter B Reich
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Part B:
“Scientists” who have been revealed as part of the global conspiracy by the release of their secret emails. Numbers are the times their name appears in the secret list of e-mails. These are the equivalent of the Secret Service guys around the President who have earphones, dark glasses[probably infrared vision systems to detect firearms/explosives], and black suits – stalking horses to draw your attention away from the other hidden SS agents who you don’t notice.
Philip D Jones – 390
Tom ML Wigley – 161
Michael Hulme – 106
Kevin E Trenberth-102
James E Hansen – 43
David Rind – 27
Jean Jouzel – 24
John FB Mitchell – 28
Gerald A Meehl – 20 [who hides behind the pseudonym Jerry Meehl]
David Schimel – 5
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Part C:
These names do not appear in the most cited “climatologists” list, but were revealed as being activists by my searching for the names above. I’m sure that they are in the thick of things, but it’s going to take a lot of digging to ferret them out and determine their roles.
Michael Schlesinger – 20
Jonathan M Gregory – 4
Klaus Hasselmann – 12
David W Pearce – 1
Pier Vellinga – 6
Wolfgang Seiler – 1
Fred Pearce – 4
Jan Goudriaan – 1
Hartmut Grassl – 4
Nathan Poe [name only shows up in indirect reference, not actually part of the e-mail tree; since he’s so well hidden, he must be a key player and dangerous foe]
Jill Jäger
Hans Opschoor
Tim O’Riordan
Martin Parry
Hans-Joachim Schellnhuber
Tim Mitchell
Meanwhile over at BBC land:
“This year ‘in top five warmest'”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8377128.stm
and wait for it
“Next year we will see the influence of the warming El Nino current, and the Met Office says there is a 50% chance that global temperatures will hit an all-time high. ”
Anyone taking bets?
Jeremy (10:57:52):
Spot on.