Glaciergate – In 2007 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) claimed that glaciers in the Himalayas would disappear by 2035. It turns out that claim was pure speculation and not based on research that has been been formally published or subjected to peer review.
The 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference held in Copenhagen from December 7-18 was a failure. Who’s to blame?
the director of the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom resigned his position. In November, a hacker breached the unit’s database, gaining access to and subsequently publishing hundreds of emails. The content of those communiques strongly suggests that scientists have been filtering the climate information released to the public between 1996 and 2000 in an effort to preserve funding for their studies proving the existence of man-made global warming. Defenders of the CRU say the scandal, known in some circles as “Climategate,” is nothing more than an effort to sabotage the Copenhagen climate summit, scheduled for December 7-18, 2009.
