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Climategate: Science Museum's green propaganda backfires

London's  Science Museum has been holding a special exhibition on 'global warming'. Have a guess what this gag-inducingly PC institution's considered position is. Yes, that's right:

The Science Museum has examined the evidence. We're convinced climate change is caused by humans and requires urgent action.

To help visitors to its website reach the correct view on all this, it makes a series of bold but largely unsubstantiated assertions:

The climate change we are experiencing cannot be explained...

Climategate: Googlegate?

What is going on at Google? I only ask because last night when I typed "Global Warming" into Google News the top item was Christopher Booker's superb analysis of the Climategate scandal.

It's still the most-read article of the Telegraph's entire online operation – 430 comments and counting – yet mysteriously when you try the same search now it doesn't even feature. Instead, the top-featured item is a blogger pushing Al Gore's AGW agenda. Perhaps there's nothing sinister in this. Perhaps some G...

Climategate: how the 'greatest scientific scandal of our generation' got its name

In his superb summary of the Climategate story so far, Christopher Booker generously credits me with having invented the name. Almost but not quite. The person who really coined it was a commenter called "Bulldust" on the Watts Up With That site. He wrote:

Hmmm how long before this is dubbed ClimateGate?

'Not at all long' was the answer. I picked up his ball and ran with it. And yes,  I totally agree with all those of you who groan that it's too obvious or insufficiently witty (Mark Steyn's...

Climategate: the Conservative backlash begins

Conservative leader David Cameron has issued a statement reiterating his party's commitment to "tackling carbon emissions" to deal with the "real danger of climate change" and describing the Copenhagen summit as of "historic importance." (Hat Tip: my splendid new friend Plato Says)

And the party faithful don't like Cameron's Copenhagen Kool-Aid Consumption one tiny bit.

Here's what Cameron has to say on the Tory party's Blue Blog:

In nine days time, representatives from 192 countries will meet...

Climategate: the IPCC is over says UEA climate scientist

Could this be the beginning of the end for the IPCC-endorsed AGW scam? UEA climate science professor Mike Hulme has expressed these reservations before. But Climategate is the game-changer that will make people listen. Here's what he has to say in response to the leaked files:

[Upcoming UN climate conference in Copenhagen:] "is about raw politics, not about the politics of science. [...:] It is possible that climate science has become too partisan, too centralized. The tribalism that some of...

Climategate: sack 'no longer credible' Michael Mann from IPCC urges climatologist

Not everyone shares the BBC's rosy view of discredited Climategate scientist Michael Mann (inventor of the roundly discredited Hockey Stick graph and unlikely Youtube comedy musical star) (hat tip: Bishop Hill) (Still less will they do so after the gobsmacking revelations by Steve McIntyre that in his latest paper, he's actually got his data UPSIDE DOWN!)

One of his IPCC co-authors Eduardo Zorita has demanded that Mann should be banned from contributing to future reports because his...

Climategate: the whitewash begins

Breaking news from the splendid Bishop Hill. It seems the AGW establishment has launched an urgent damage limitation exercise in order to whitewash the Climategate scandal in time for Copenhagen.

Here's the (so far unconfirmed) story:

1) Lord Rees (Royal Society) to be asked by UEA to investigate CRU leak.

2) Foreign Office and government leaning heavily on UEA to keep a lid on everything lest it destabilises Copenhagen.

3) CRU asked to prepare data for a pre-emptive release in past couple of...

Climategate: What would the Gipper do?

Climategate is a Conservative issue.

Conservatives believe in a small state. The Climategate scientists are part of a global conspiracy to expand it.

Conservatives are pragmatists who believe "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." But Al Gore's AGW agenda is about spending vasts sums of public money on a problem than doesn't exist.

Conservatives are empiricists, with no time for idealistic fantasies about how much better the world could be if only you tortured human nature enough. That's why they...

The Tory test that all Conservative candidates should pass

The other day I met the perfect prospective Conservative parliamentary candidate. She was young, she was very bright, she was seriously good-looking and she had a thorough intellectual grasp of Tory values.

"God, you should seriously stand for election. You'd be a shoe-in with Dave Cameron's new all-female shortlists," I told her.

"I already tried and they rejected me," she replied. "I think what swung it was when a question about the environment came up. I told them I didn't believe all that n...

Warts and all

With hindsight it was probably a mistake to sit down with my daughter to watch Enid (BBC4, Monday). Before it started, Girl was a massive fan, especially of the Naughtiest Girl series and The Magic Faraway Tree. By the end, she pronounced herself so disgusted with the evil hag that she swore never to read another word.

I'm not sure how glad I should be. On the one hand, I suppose it's good that Girl will no longer have her expensive boarding-school fixation stoked by the Naughtiest Girl's...