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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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 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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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

He gave the impression that he was acting swiftly to correct the claim, made in the IPCC’s 2007 report, that Himalayan glaciers would disappear by 2035.

These glaciers are so thick and at such high altitude that most glaciologists believe they would take several hundred years to melt at the present rate. Some are growing and many show little sign of change.

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(CNN) — Public concern about global warming and trust in climate leaders has dropped sharply in the U.S. according to a survey.

Fifty-seven percent of Americans polled at the end of 2009 and early 2010 believe climate change is happening compared with a figure of 71 percent in October 2008.

The report, “Climate Change in the American Mind” published jointly by Yale University and the George Mason University Wednesday also reveals a picture of falling trust in scientists, politicians and the media concerning climate change.

Anthony Leiserowitz, principal investigator and director of the Yale Project on Climate Change told CNN: “I’m not surprised by the direction of the results but I am surprised at the magnitude of them.

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Climate scientists have overlooked a major cause of global warming and cooling, a new study reveals today.

American researchers have discovered that the amount of water high in the atmosphere is far more influential on world temperatures than previously thought.

Although the findings do not challenge the theory of man-made global warming, they help explain why temperatures can rise and fall so dramatically from decade to decade.

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President Obama’s budget proposal includes no money for the Ares 1 rocket or Constellation program, sources say. Instead, NASA would be asked to monitor climate change and develop a new rocket.

Reporting from Washington and Cape Canaveral, Fla. – NASA’s plans to return astronauts to the moon are dead. So are the rockets being designed to take them there, if President Obama gets his way.

When the White House releases its budget proposal Monday, there will be no money for the Constellation program that was to return humans to the moon by 2020. The Ares I rocket that was to replace the space shuttle to ferry humans to space will be gone, along with money for the Ares V cargo rocket that was to launch the fuel and supplies needed to return to the moon. There will be no lunar landers, no moon bases.

“We certainly don’t need to go back to the moon,” one administration official said.

Instead, according to White House insiders, agency officials, industry executives and congressional sources familiar with Obama’s plans, NASA will look at developing a “heavy-lift” rocket that one day will take humans and robots to explore beyond low-Earth orbit. That day will be years away.

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