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Climategate Investigation
Whitewash: Third Panel Member Exposed As Warmist
"Impartial" inquiry descends into
farce
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 The
so called "independent" investigation into the climategate
emails scandal has descended into farce before it is barely
off the ground as a third member of the six man panel
has been revealed to hold strong views on human induced climate
change.
The impartiality of glaciologist Geoffrey Boulton has been
questioned after he admitted he firmly believed that human activities
were causing global warming.
Professor Boulton, who was officially appointed to the investigative
team by civil servant Sir Muir Russell, has also written numerous
articles indicating a strong belief in anthropogenic warming.
In a 2005 paper Boulton penned for Edinburgh University, he
wrote that the argument regarding climate change was “over”.
It has also been revealed that Boulton was one of a group of
scientists and meteorologists who signed
a statement in December, in the wake of the climate
research scandal, pledging their continued support for the IPCC
and their unwavering conviction that global warming is being
caused by humans.
The statement read:
We, members of the UK science community, have the utmost
confidence in the observational evidence for global warming
and the scientific basis for concluding that it is due primarily
to human activities. The evidence and the science are deep
and extensive. They come from decades of painstaking and meticulous
research, by many thousands of scientists across the world
who adhere to the highest levels of professional integrity.
That research has been subject to peer review and publication,
providing traceability of the evidence and support for the
scientific method.
Boulton's views clearly contradict the founding principle of
the inquiry - to appoint experts who do not have a “predetermined
view on climate change and climate science”.
Boulton told The
London Times: “I may be rapped over the knuckles
by Sir Muir for saying this, but I think that statement needs
to be clarified. I think the committee needs someone like me
who is close to the field of climate change and it would be
quite amazing if that person didn’t have a view on one
side or the other.”
As if that wasn't enough, Boulton actually worked at the University
of East Anglia's School of Environmental Sciences - where the
Climate Research Unit (CRU) is housed - for 18 years until 1986.
His biography on the "independent" commission website
fails to mention this fact.
The controversy comes within hours of the resignation of another
member of the so called "impartial" panel. Dr Philip
Campbell, editor-in-chief of Nature magazine,
stood down on Thursday, after it was disclosed
he had previously given
an interview in which he defended the actions of
researchers at the CRU.
Campbell had been a member of the panel for just six hours
when his statement dating from December 2009 was cited, in which
he said:
"The scientists have not hidden the data. If you look
at the e-mails there are one or two bits of language that
are jargon used between professionals that suggest something
to outsiders that is wrong. In fact, the only problem there
has been is on some official restrictions on their ability
to disseminate data. Otherwise they have behaved as researchers
should."
Both cases come as little surprise, given that the head of
the "investigation", Muir Russell, is a member
of one of the most vehemently pro man-made global warming advocacy
organizations in Europe.
While absurdly billing himself as impartial and unconnected
to climate science, Russell is intimately involved with The
Royal Society of Edinburgh.
The RSE has thrown its weight behind the global warming movement,
lending its absolute support for legislation aimed at reducing
carbon emissions by 80%, a process that will devastate the global
economy and living standards.
This organization has been even more vehement than national
governments in its advocacy of the man-made cause of global
warming, calling for such drastic CO2 cuts to be made in the
short term, not even by the usual target date of 2050.
A
February 2009 response to the Climate Change (Scotland)
Bill outlines the organization’s staunch advocacy for
the hypothesis of anthropogenic global warming.
The head of the Global Warming Policy Foundation in Britain,
and former Chancellor of the Exchequer, Nigel Lawson has issued
the following statement
regarding the lack of impartiality of the investigative panel:
"As the first person to call for an independent inquiry
into 'climategate', I regret that what has been announced
today is defective in a number of ways. The inquiry will wholly
lack transparency, with the hearings held in private, and
no transcripts to be published.
The terms of reference, while better than nothing, are inadequate
in a number of ways, not least the failure to include the
question of the efforts made by CRU scientists to prevent
the publication of papers by dissenting scientists and others,
contrary to the canons of scientific integrity. And the objectivity
and independence of the inquiry is seriously called into question
by the composition of Sir Muir Russell's team, in particular
the Editor in Chief of Nature, who has already published an
editorial on the matter strongly supportive of the CRU scientists
and accusing their critics of being 'paranoid'."
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