{"id":1232,"date":"2012-01-20T15:07:43","date_gmt":"2012-01-20T04:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/climatereview.net\/ChewTheFat\/?p=1232"},"modified":"2020-10-21T11:52:28","modified_gmt":"2020-10-21T00:52:28","slug":"climategate-unveiled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatereview.net\/ChewTheFat\/?p=1232","title":{"rendered":"Climategate Unveiled"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Poor old Richard Nixon, his voyeuristic penchant for taping his own conversations and tapping his rivals remains to this day the benchmark in self-incriminating scandals.  So, how did a small bunch of climatologists from East Anglia manage to elevate their actions to en par with those that brought down a U.S. president? Why this parallel to WaterGate, what is ClimateGate?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Climategate, like its forbearer WaterGate<\/a>, is a sensational and highly significant scandal.  It also could bring down a respected institution or, at least, its reputation.  In this case, the noble institution in question is non other than one of the pivotal, Global Warming evangelists, the Climate Research Unit (CRU<\/a>).  The CRU are a part of the University of East Anglia.  But, why would the events in this relatively small university in the U.K. have such a significant, international impact on the Global Warming debate.  Well, the CRU and their partner, the Hadley Centre (which is part of the British Meteorological Office [M.E.T.<\/a>]), compile a surface temperature record<\/a> that is crucial evidence supporting the Global Warming theory.<\/p>\n

The origins and significance of the CRU and Hadley Centre<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The Hadley Centre was setup ironically by the “Iron Maiden”, Prime Minister Maggie Thatcher.  To say she’s not the environmentalists champion is perhaps an understatement.  But, her actions<\/a> have been the greatest gift to their modern cause of CO2<\/sub>-based, “pollution” reduction.  Maggie wanted<\/a> to prove Global Warming.  Strange but true, but what would motivate her to do that?  Why would she set up an “independent”, scientific body (the Hadley Centre) to provide the required evidence to prove Global Warming.  To be fair, Maggie didn’t really care about the possible “pollution” problem, but she did really care about accessing nukes: both in the form of weapons and energy production.  The seeming insurmountable problem she faced was the wide-ranging unpopularity<\/a> of Nuclear in Britain at the time.  She needed to gain public support her pro-nuclear policy and the way to do that was find a worse evil; namely, CO2<\/sub>.  Later, in her memoirs<\/a>, she admitted she never could have imagined the size of the collateral damage beast she unleashed in the process.  She thought Global Warming would be a temporary expedient to convince the British public of the need to go Nuclear.  Little did she know that it would fuel the Green’s, extremist, environmental movement for decades to come.<\/p>\n

Anyway, needless to say the CRU and Hadley Centre are central to the Global Warming debate and are the focus of Climategate.<\/p>\n

So, what is Climategate?  Well, it essentially involved thousands of CRU emails being dumped on a Russian, email server.  They were either hacked or, more plausibly, legally released by a whistle blower.  But, either way, the huge significance of these emails is that they are very self-incriminating and damaging to the Global Warming movement.<\/p>\n