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Climategate: George Monbiot on Real News
A secretive scientific culture permeates climate research, according to Monbiot. Is this unique to climate science? Do most scientists belong to a democratic and "open" society as Monbiot claims, following Karl...
Michael Brklacic of Carleton University is interviewed by Paul Jay of "The Real News" about the emails stolen from the university server for the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia.
CRU Email Hack and "Climategate"
There has been a great deal of chatter in blogs on both politics and climate science regarding emails and scientific data stolen from a university computer serving the Climate Research Unit (CRU) at the University of...
The hypothesis of anthropogenic global warming has finally been conclusively disproven by the failure of politicians meeting in Copenhagen to agree to reduce carbon emissions. Senator James Inhofe announces this exciting finding and rubs it in to...
A retired climatologist, Dr. Tim Ball, confirms how low academic researchers have sunk in terms of professional ethics. Private electronic communications and peer review discussions are no longer confidential. University computer servers are easily...
