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Lawrence Solomon: Climategate gangis writing the script for Copenhagen
December 07, 2009 - by Lawrence SolomonClimate change,global warming,Lawrenc Solomon,Michael  Mann,climate change,countdown to catastrophe,profiteers, Climategate,CRU,East Anglia University,HADCRUT,Climate  Research Unit,Copenhagen Diagnosis,Hadley Centre  The Copenhagen Diagnosis, a year-long study to be unveiled atthe Copenhagen climate change meetings that begin today,was designed to dramatize how little time we have left to savethe planet from catastrophic climate.But the Copenhagen Diagnosis, which is billed as an update tothe last report of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on ClimateChange, has a credibility problem. The Climategate gang - thesame crew now discredited by emails that emerged showing aconspiracy to cook the books - had a dozen of its members incharge of producing the Copenhagen Diagnosis. Morecredibility problems: The Copenhagen Diagnosis relies on datafrom the Hadley Centre of the UK meteorological office and theClimate Research Unit of East Anglia University - two bodiesthat may now need to set aside the data altogether and startover. The suspect data --- known as HADCRUT - is a merged datasetcomprised of marine temperatures provided by the HadleyCentre and land-based temperatures from the ClimateResearch Unit. Because the CRU portion of the data is sosuspect with so much of the public, the Met Office hasannounced a three-year year investigation in which it will re-examine 160 years of temperature data. The Met took thisstep, which makes official the view that the world has beenrelying on suspect data, over the objections of the UK government, which fears waiting until 2012 before having soliddata. UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown is among the most vocalof global warming advocates, having said that Copenhagen isthe last chance to save the world from environmental disasterand characterizing those who disagree as "behind-the-times,anti-science, flat-earth climate sceptics." The IPCC, has also announced an investigation into theClimategate scandal, as has East Anglia University and Penn
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