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CLIMATEGATE: THE MAN-MADE GLOBAL WARMING HOAX CLIMATEGATE: THE MAN-MADE GLOBAL WARMING HOAX The release of leading climate scientists’ emails, suggestive of a conspiracy to manipulate global warming data, raised the temperature ahead of the December 2009 Copenhagen climate change summit. an-made global warming has now been exposed as a deliberate lie, constructed by some of the world's leading scientists. When on 17 November 2009 a hacker broke into a computer used by the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit (CRU)—where one of the world's four global temperature datasets is held—and then released a 61-megabyte zip file containing 160 MB of climate change data on he Internet, the results put science, as practised in the 21st century, in the most shameful of lights. Indeed, controversial Australian journalist Andrew Bolt has labelled the hoax as "the greatest in modern science".' It is. British author, policy adviser and hereditary peer Christopher Monckton as gone so far as to label the scientists involved as snake-oil salesmen, profiteers and crooks—"crooks who have perpetrated their crimes at the expense of British and US taxpayers".?. Monckton reported the scientists to he UK Information Commissioner, with a request to investigate their offences and, if thought fit, prosecute. The CRU, which was established in 1972 and cooperates with the UK Met Office Hadley Centre in providing global temperature information, has now been caught in purposely promoting a lie. Amongst the 1,079 emails and 3,000 documents hacked from the CRU's computer, some coming from eading climate change scientists, one finds clear evidence of conspiracy, collusion and potentially illegal destruction of embarrassing information, as well as organised resistance to disclosure, admissions of flaws in their arguments and manipulation of data. In one email dated 16 November 1999, the CRU’s director, Professor Phil ones, wrote: "I've just completed Mike's Nature trick of adding in the real emps to each series for the last 20 years (i.e., from 1981 onwards) and from 961 for Keith's to hide the decline."** The email is confirmation that the evidence was altered in favour of man-made climate change and global warming. When confronted with this statement, Jones denied manipulating he evidence and insisted his comment had been misunderstood. He said hat he'd used the word "trick" as in "a clever thing to do". Jones has since stepped aside from his position as director while an Independent Review into the allegations is conducted. One of the other people involved in the scandal is Dr Kevin Trenberth, ead the climate analysis section of the US National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado. One hundred and two of his emails were posted online. In one of the emails, dated 12 October 2009, Trenberth reportedly wrote: "The fact is that we can't account for the lack of warming at he moment and it is a travesty that we can't"—a clear admission that a chief promoter of global warming actually had no real evidence to back up is claim. But when asked for comments, he actually asserted that the acking had occurred so that sceptics could undermine the scientific consensus on man-made climate change! Pots and kettles... by Philip Coppens © 2009 PO Box 13722 North Berwick EH39 4WB United Kingdom Email: info@philipcoppens.com Website: www.philipcoppens.com PO Box 13722 North Berwick EH39 4WB United Kingdom Email: Website: NEXUS ° II by Philip Coppens © 2009 info@philipcoppens.com www.philipcoppens.com FEBRUARY - MARCH 2010 www.nexusmagazine.com