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Climategate: Mad Sunday

I mean "Mad" in a good way. This was the day when so many wheels came off Al Gore's AGW gravy train and flew off in so many different directions, it was all but impossible to keep track of them.

Richard North and Jonathan Leake in The Sunday Times broke Africagate, exposing yet another erroneous claim in the fatally flawed Fourth IPCC Assessment report:

The most important is a claim that global warming could cut rain-fed north African crop production by up to 50% by 2020, a remarkably short...

Dear Geoffrey Lean, let me explain why we're so cross…

My colleague Geoffrey Lean is upset by the vitriol he attracts on the internet. I feel for him. Though I have never met Geoffrey colleagues tells me he's a delightful fellow who means very well. I'm sure he does and, though our views on AGW are very different, I take no more pleasure in seeing him taken to pieces by Telegraph-reading sceptics than I do from all the charming emails I get from George Monbiot groupies calling me something beginning with "C". (And it's shorter than "Climate...

Michael Mann as innocent as OJ – possibly more so – finds internal Penn State investigation

Penn State University has completed its internal investigation into potential wrongdoing by its star professor Michael Mann, creator of the most discredited graph in scientific history – the incredible, completely made-up Hockey Stick.

And guess what? Turns out the guy hasn't done anything wrong at all.

Well, probably. There's one area, the University has decided, which merits closer investigation:

"Decision 4. Given that information emerged in the form of the emails purloined from CRU in...

Cameron and his suicidal eco-rats clamber aboard sinking ship

I thought the last straw was when the Conservatives decided at the weekend to kiss goodbye to fiscal responsibility. But no. Their determination to scrap every last vestige of Tory ideology really does know no bounds: (hat tip: the Unbrainwashed)

LONDON -(Dow Jones)- The U.K. opposition Conservative party will set out plans Tuesday to consolidate the government's various plans to support climate- friendly technologies into a single Green Investment Bank if they emerge victorious in an...

At last: expert Sir David King expertly reveals true identity of Climategate 'hackers'

Sir David King, the totally sane, not remotely hysterical, and non-aluminium-foil-hat-wearing  former advisor to much-loved and respected former Prime Minister Tony Blair, has spoken out on the Climategate emails.

Apparently, he has told the Independent, they weren't leaked (as pretty much every other person who has been following the story now thinks). They were hacked. Probably by US "anti-climate-change lobbyists" or, possibly, by evil foreign intelligence services.

Sir David said, however...

Climategate: Is the British government conspiring not to prosecute?

Ed Miliband, the weird blobby egg creature with dark hair on top currently doing untold damage as Britain's Energy and Climate Secretary, has declared war on Climate Sceptics.

According to the Observer:

The danger of climate scepticism was that it would undermine public support for unpopular decisions needed to curb carbon emissions, including the likelihood of higher energy bills for households, and issues such as the visual impact of wind turbines, said Miliband.

If the UK did not invest in...

Glorious send-up

Bellamy's People (BBC2, Thursday) began life in 2006 as a spoof Radio Four phone-in show called Down the Line presented by 'award-winning' Gary Bellamy (Rhys Thomas) with the Fast Show's Charlie Higson and Paul Whitehouse playing the various callers.

Now it has moved to TV and its satirical target — not before time — are all those programmes where celebrities drive round the country meeting people and saying, 'Isn't Britain brilliant?' So, in his classic Triumph Stag with a Union flag painted ...

Climategate: time for the tumbrils

A mighty outpouring of rage today from Philip Stott, foaming with righteous indignation, on the life and imminent death of the AGW scam.

Part of him is naturally enthralled:

… as an independent academic, it has been fascinating to witness the classical collapse of a Grand Narrative, in which social and philosophical theories are being played out before our gaze. It is like watching the Berlin Wall being torn down, concrete slab by concrete slab, brick by brick, with cracks appearing and...

'AGW is real!' insists Al Gore's new soul mate Osama Bin Laden

Just when you thought the Warmists had lost the argument completely, an unlikely new champion has ridden to their cause. (Hat tip: Rob Stevely)

DUBAI (AFP) – Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden lectured the US and other industrial nations on climate change, and urged a dollar boycott in response to American "slavery," in a fresh verbal assault broadcast Friday.

In the message aired on Al-Jazeera television, possibly timed to coincide with the World Economic Forum in Davos, bin Laden said "all...

The case against Dr Phil 'Climategate' Jones

Dr Phil Jones – the (suspended) head of the Prince of Wales's favourite AGW-promotion institution the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia – had a narrow squeak the other day. Though the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) found his department in breach of Freedom of Information laws (Jones and his team had deliberately withheld or conspired to destroy data), Jones was able to escape  prosecution on a technicality.

Next time, he may not be so lucky. Our friend span