PHOENIX — The University of Arizona has been ordered to surrender emails by two UA scientists that a group claims will help prove that theories about human-caused climate change are false and part of a conspiracy.
Pima County Superior Court Judge James Marner rejected arguments by the Board of Regents that disclosure of the documents would be “contrary to the best interests of the state.”
Marner said it may be true that some of the documents sought by Energy & Environment Legal Institute might be classified as unpublished research, manuscripts, preliminary analyses, drafts of scientific papers and plans for future research.
But the judge said the subject matter of the documents has become available to the general public. And that, Marner said, does not allow the university to withhold disclosure under a separate section of the law governing university records.
There was no immediate response from the university.
The ruling is a turnabout for Marner, who had previously ruled that some emails were properly withheld because they contained things like confidential information or attorney work product. He said at the time that the university did not act arbitrarily or capriciously in withholding other documents, including unpublished data, research, drafts and commentary.
But last year the state Court of Appeals told Marner to take another look.
Appellate Judge Joseph Howard, writing for the unanimous court, said it’s legally irrelevant what university officials thought was appropriate to disclose.
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In other news, perhaps seeing the writing on the wall earlier in the summer (since his emails are sought), Dr. Jonathan Overpeck announced his retirement from UA and has left for the University of Michigan.
The UN isn’t happy with this decision as AGW is key to their strategy . . .
Also unhappy with this Trump spanner-in-the-works:
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/12/08/trump-touts-rejection-of-u-n-plan-to-force-mass-third-world-immigration/
World Government by unelected UN officials experiencing a few set-backs of late.
May there be more!
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+ quite a shed load!
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When does the institute actually get to see the emails
Overpeck is the Climategate conspirator who wanted to get rid of the Medieval Warm Period, the exact text of his email is on record. So that the Hockey Stick would stand up. I note inter alia in the university’s parting eulogy that he studied sea level rise due to AGW and polar ice cap melting. Eh?
By line used Phoenix as a location but both U of A and the Pima County Superior Court are in Tucson not Phoenix. Just for future reference.
They will appeal the decision, and then appeal it again, and then again…. using taxpayer money every step of the way.
Stu: I don’t think they can appeal this. The original appeal was sent back to the lower court by a higher court. They cannot appeal using the original argument since that has been rejected by the courts already. Unless they have a new “compelling” argument they are dead in the water. Rud maybe able to shed some light on this thought.
This will continue one slow drip at a time, like a melting glacier or as I suspect as one deluge when the sun cycles down to a point where climate on earth will dive down to a decisive deep freeze and catch most of humanity off guard because of all the false dogma. We should be taking names of all those to burn at the stake for all the lives that will be lost.
There should be severe Federal penalties for falsifying scientific data including jail time and monetary penalties, especially when Federal money is involved. Additionally, any scientific research that has Federal or State money involved should accessible at any time to review by for accuracy and compliance.
RE: “skeptics of human-caused climate change”. That’s not me. (There’s bound to be some human-caused climate change – e,g, Urban Heat Islands just for a start!) I’m more of a sceptic of global warming ALARMISM, and the gross exaggerations, bad statistics, bad reasoning and bad science that go with it.
The emails might indeed prove that there is a conspiracy. But you can’t prove that a scientific theory is false using emails. That is a scientific question and you need data for that.
Look all this wasted energy on FOI requests . Forget it . All they have to do is create a fake dossier , take it to the FBI claiming something about Russia and Trump then fake an authorization on a FISA warrant and all the correspondence , E mails, phone calls will come spewing out . The Clinton caper is tried and true and I bet you can even do it for less than $12 million too .
The entire ‘scientific’ premise of ‘global warming’ is based on the erroneous concept of ‘greenhouse gases’.
If CO2 in the atmosphere absorbs infrared energy from the sun and heats the atmosphere, what would happen to an atmosphere without CO2? The infrared energy it would have absorbed would pass through the atmosphere and strike the surface, where it would be absorbed and converted into heat.
Where would this heat go? It would heat the air that is in contact with the warmed surface.
Either way, the infrared energy ends up *heating the atmosphere*. The presence or absence of a gas that absorbs infrared energy does not affect the total amount of energy transferred to the atmosphere. The source of all that infrared energy is the sun. The gas may, at best, provide a secondary path for some of the energy to get absorbed by the atmosphere.
It is the adiabatic lapse rate (ADL) that governs the distribution of heat energy throughout the atmosphere. The ADL is easily derived by anybody who has taken Physical Chemistry or a second year physics course that includes thermodynamics.
dT/dh = – g/Cp (which is about – 2° C per thousand feet)
The only variable related to the *composition* of the atmosphere is the Heat Capacity at Constant Pressure (Cp), to which CO2 makes a very minor contribution.
tadchem December 11, 2017 at 2:28 am
The entire ‘scientific’ premise of ‘global warming’ is based on the erroneous concept of ‘greenhouse gases’.
If CO2 in the atmosphere absorbs infrared energy from the sun and heats the atmosphere, what would happen to an atmosphere without CO2? The infrared energy it would have absorbed would pass through the atmosphere and strike the surface, where it would be absorbed and converted into heat.
You have this backwards, it is the IR emitted from the earth which is absorbed by the CO2 in the atmosphere. ‘What would happen to an atmosphere without CO2?’ The IR would be directly lost to space and the earth would be colder.
Is that a temperature station fenced off in the parking lot ?????