Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) today asked the Obama administration to investigate what he called “the greatest scientific scandal of our generation” — the actions of climate scientists revealed by the Climategate files, and the subsequent admissions by the editors of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report (AR4).

Senator Inhofe also called for former Vice President Al Gore to be called back to the Senate to testify.

“In [Gore's] science fiction movie, every assertion has been rebutted,” Inhofe said. He believes Vice President Gore should defend himself and his movie before Congress.

Just prior to a hearing at 10:00 a.m. EST, Senator Inhofe released a minority staff report from the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, of which he is ranking member. Senator Inhofe is asking the Department of Justice to investigate whether there has been research misconduct or criminal actions by the scientists involved, including Dr. Michael Mann of Pennsylvania State University and Dr. James Hansen of Columbia University and the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies.

This report, obtained exclusively by Pajamas Media before today’s hearing, alleges:

[The] Minority Staff of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works believe the scientists involved may have violated fundamental ethical principles governing taxpayer-funded research and, in some cases, federal laws. In addition to these findings, we believe the emails and accompanying documents seriously compromise the IPCC -backed “consensus” and its central conclusion that anthropogenic emissions are inexorably leading to environmental catastrophes.

As has been reported here at Pajamas Media over the last several months, the exposure of the Climategate files has led to a reexamination of the IPCC Assessment Reports, especially the fourth report (AR4), published in 2007. The IPCC AR4 report was named by Environmental Protection Agency head Lisa Jackson as one of the major sources of scientific support for the agency’s Endangerment Finding, the first step towards allowing the EPA to regulate carbon dioxide as a pollutant.

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* Carbon dioxide contributes to only 4.2 – 8.4% of the greenhouse gas effect
* Only approximately 4% of carbon dioxide is man-made
* Water vapor accounts for 90 – 95% of the green house gas effect
* 99.99% of water vapor is natural, meaning that no amount of deindustrialization could get rid of it
* There have been many times when the temperature has been higher than it is now including the Medieval Warming Period, the Holocene, the Jurassic, and the Eemian
* Increases in carbon dioxide follow increases in temperature by about 800 years, not precede them
* Phil Jones of the Hadley CRU, and key figure in the “climategate” scandal, admits that there has been no “statistically significant” global warming since 1995
* 2008 and 2009 were the coolest two years of the decade
* During the Ordovician period carbon dioxide concentrations were twelve times what they are now, and the temperature was lower
* Solar activity is highly correlated with temperature change.

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Two British plane spotters face up to three years in an Indian prison after allegedly hacking into conversations between pilots and airport authorities.

Stephen Hampton, 46, and Steven Ayres, 55, were arrested by police at the five-star Radisson Hotel in Delhi which overlooks the international airport.

Staff raised the alarm after concerns about their suspicious behaviour.

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Just before Christmas, Stephanie Willette went from being a healthy nursing student to suddenly being a helpless patient paralyzed from the neck down with a tracheotomy so she could breathe.

Today the 20-year-old is slowly recovering in a Kingston rehab hospital, still unable to sit up, but hoping that she’ll eventually walk again.

The Lindsay woman is yet another person stricken with Guillain Barre Syndrome, yet another whose family blames her H1N1 flu shot for triggering the rare neurological condition.

“They can’t prove it, but they can’t disprove it. She was perfectly fine until two weeks after her shot,” says her angry mom Karen. “I think there’s a lot more cases out there than the government’s letting on. It’s a big secret.”

According to the ministry of health, they are investigating just four reported cases of GBS in Ontario following the province’s mass inoculation of five million people.

But we’ve already told the harrowing stories of two patients who blame their debilitating onset of GBS on the swine flu shot — which they received within days of each other at the same Markham doctors’ clinic.

Since then, four more GBS victims have come forward to the Sunday Sun. With the addition of a Hamilton case reported last November, that’s seven Ontario cases by our count alone.

So exactly how many have really been devastated by this highly touted vaccine? And why is Quebec the only province that has a no-fault compensation program for the unlucky few who suffer such a crippling side effect?

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The academic at the centre of the ‘Climategate’ affair, whose raw data is crucial to the theory of climate change, has admitted that he has trouble ‘keeping track’ of the information.

Colleagues say that the reason Professor Phil Jones has refused Freedom of Information requests is that he may have actually lost the relevant papers.

Professor Jones told the BBC yesterday there was truth in the observations of colleagues that he lacked organisational skills, that his office was swamped with piles of paper and that his record keeping is ‘not as good as it should be’.

The data is crucial to the famous ‘hockey stick graph’ used by climate change advocates to support the theory.

Professor Jones also conceded the possibility that the world was warmer in medieval times than now – suggesting global warming may not be a man-made phenomenon.

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A reader asked whether the U.S. is still in an official state of emergency, and if so, what that means.

The answer is yes, we are still in a state of emergency.

Specifically:

On September 11, 2001, the government declared a state of emergency. That declared state of emergency was formally put in writing on 9/14/2001:

“A national emergency exists by reason of the terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center, New York, New York, and the Pentagon, and the continuing and immediate threat of further attacks on the United States.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, I hereby declare that the national emergency has existed since September 11, 2001 . . . .”

That declared state of emergency has continued in full force and effect from 9/11 [throughout the Bush administration] to the present.

On September 10 2009, President Obama continued the state of emergency:

The terrorist threat that led to the declaration on September 14, 2001, of a national emergency continues. For this reason, I have determined that it is necessary to continue in effect after September 14, 2009, the national emergency with respect to the terrorist threat.

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A member of the panel set up to investigate claims that climate change scientists covered up flawed data was forced to resign just hours after the inquiry’s launch.

Philip Campbell stood down after it was disclosed he had given an interview in which he defended the conduct of researchers at University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit (CRU), insisting they had done nothing wrong.

In a statement, he said he was stepping down in order to ensure that the ability of the review team to carry out its investigation would not be called into question.

The inquiry, led by the distinguished civil servant Sir Muir Russell, was set up after hacked emails from the CRU scientists prompted accusations that they had been manipulating the data.

However Channel 4 News reported last night that Dr Campbell, the editor-in-chief of the journal Nature, told Chinese State Radio last year that he did not believe the emails showed any evidence of improper conduct.

‘The scientists have not hidden the data. If you look at the emails there is one or two bits of language that are jargon used between professionals that suggest something to outsiders that is wrong,’ he told the station.

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A crippled grandmother has been barred from a gastro pub because she refused to remove her beret.

‘Security threat’ Shirley Phelan and her daughter had already been served one round of drinks when a member of staff requested she take it off.

But Mrs Phelan, 77, refused as daughter Maria tried to order a second round, having entered the pub on crutches following a hip operation.

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The Climategate Emails describe how a small band of climatologists cooked the books to make the last century seem dangerously warm.

The emails also describe how the band plotted to rewrite history as well as science, particularly by eliminating the Medieval Warm Period, a 400 year period that began around 1000 AD.

The Climategate Emails reveal something else, too: the enlistment of the most widely read source of information in the world — Wikipedia — in the wholesale rewriting of this history.

The Medieval Warm Period, which followed the meanness and cold of the Dark Ages, was a great time in human history — it allowed humans around the world to bask in a glorious warmth that vastly improved agriculture, increased life spans and otherwise bettered the human condition.

But the Medieval Warm Period was not so great for some humans in our own time — the same small band that believes the planet has now entered an unprecedented and dangerous warm period. As we now know from the Climategate Emails, this band saw the Medieval Warm Period as an enormous obstacle in their mission of spreading the word about global warming. If temperatures were warmer 1,000 years ago than today, the Climategate Emails explain in detail, their message that we now live in the warmest of all possible times would be undermined. As put by one band member, a Briton named Folland at the Hadley Centre, a Medieval Warm Period “dilutes the message rather significantly.”

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I love the way they renamed Global Warming to Climate Change a few years ago, that way no matter what the weather does it can be blamed on ‘Climate Change’. If the planet is getting hotter its because of all the hot air being spoken by the eco idiots. If it was 30C in February then I would be worried but its not, its winter and its cold so thats a good thing if you ask me.

- Mark, London, 7/2/2010 19:16

“The weather outside your window is not the climate.
Learn the difference

- J, Sheffield”

Oh give it a rest! It’s people like you who have destroyed any credibility in climatologists – even the good ones.

Climate and weather are inextricably linked, years of ‘weather’ equals ‘climate’. You can’t have one without the other.

- Elle, UK, 8/2/2010 5:06

Lol ! MalMonroe, Sheffield, 21:29 – Why can’t people understand about global warming?!!!

Because most of us have more than 2 brain cells and can recognize a scam when we see one.

Continue in your frustrated despair until you too see the light. You should get together, in your ignorance, with Mark of Kent, 19:05, and huddle in your shelter until this great danger has passed. Meanwhile the world will roll on as normal, get hot, get cold and do whatever else it wants to do.

- Paul, Rochester UK, 7/2/2010 22:09

Global warming = the biggest con of the 21st Century. It is nothing more than a ploy to hike taxes and restrict access to fuel, so the Have’s can have more of it.

- Stewart, Keighley Yorkshire, 7/2/2010 21:58

Even a grade school science class will teach you that in order to prove a theory you must test it against all other possible causes for the outcome you reach.

Note: YOU MUST PROVE THE THEORY. There is no scientific requirement for disproval.

If you cannot prove the theory then it is never accepted as fact or scientific law.

Global Wamring/Climate Change/Catch Phrase of the Week has never been proven, which is why it remains a theory. If you want anyone to ever treat it as fact it must be proven, not disproven.

Do date, nobody on earth can prove the theory because nobody on earth is capable of disproving natural causes.

Thus, it remains nothing more than a theory, which any true scientist would accept as being nothing more than an unproven belief with a notable lack of evidience supporting it.

- John, Dallas, Texas, 8/2/2010 16:02

So its the coldest winter in the UK for 30 years.

Its ‘Snowmageddon’ in the USA

Mongolia has the coldest winter in living memory

And Yet:
Mad warmists want us to beleve Global Warming is going to kill us all in 20 years, and we have to pay £Billions in Extra Tax to “Save The Planet”
What a Crock of *****!
The AGW scam has been well and truely unmasked in the past few months, no wonder warmist Climate Scientists have been lying and covering up the truth.

- Aslan, London, 8/2/2010 10:51

Global Warming Data?
Think of the answer that you want!
Choose the data that will give you the answer!
Throw all the inconvenient data away!
Publish your findings!
Sit back and accept the plaudits and pounds for being so clever!
Dont get found out!

- Barry, Cumbria, 8/2/2010 11:44

Mmm This Global Warming (whoops I mean Climate Change) really is a metaphor for liberals isn’t it!

No matter how much factual scientific evidence is put into the public domain the environmental fascists refuse to admit they were wrong.

The dopey IPCC (the said fascists leading body) said:-

Warming would continue to rise from 2001? It’s colder!
Polar bears were decreasing in record numbers? Of the 11 main kinds of polar bear only 2 have either stabilised or shown a slight decrease. Others have all increased.
Carbon dioxide omissions caused a warming effect? In fact it is the reverse. Indeed the planet was warmer 1000 years ago yet where was the industrialisation pumping out the Carbon Dioxide then?

Nothing they have said is true and only the EU the US and, unfortunately now they have a socialist leader, Australia believe it and are committing their respective countries to economic suicide by remaining disciples of it.

God Help Us!

- Patrick Quigley, West Boldon, 8/2/2010 12:39

Windmill huggers,
The majority of British people have made it abundantly clear, we do not believe in Man Made Global Warming/Climate Change. We do not support Green Taxes and we do not trust the IPPC, CRU, Gore, Pachauri or any other charlatans currently making money from this cause.

To those (ever shrinking numbers) who STILL believe…
Please find yourselves a religion that does not enslave the rest of us.

- LWP, Newcastle upon Tyne, 8/2/2010 23:49

Some much for global warming. By the way, Florida has had it’s coldest weather for consecutive days on record. Global warming is something the same clown who invented the interent, Al Gore, has deampt up! As youy Brits say, what a load of rubbish!

- Mike, Miromar Lakes, Florida USA, 06/2/2010 14:09