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THE DISCLOSURE OF CLIMATE DATA FROM THE CLIMATIC RESEARCH UNIT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA

House of COMMONS
MINUTES OF EVIDENCE
TAKEN BEFORE
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY SUB-COMMITTEE
THE DISCLOSURE OF CLIMATE DATA FROM THE CLIMATIC RESEARCH UNIT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA
Monday 1 March 2010
LORD LAWSON OF BLABY and DR BENNY PEISER
RICHARD THOMAS
PROFESSOR EDWARD ACTON and PROFESSOR PHIL JONES
SIR MUIR RUSSELL KCB

PROFESSOR JOHN BEDDINGTON, PROFESSOR JULIA SLINGO OBE

and PROFESSOR BOB WATSON
Evidence heard in Public Questions 1 – 229
USE OF THE TRANSCRIPT
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The new climate game: Sources

United States Senate Report ‘Consensus’ Exposed: The CRU Controversy

House of Commons minutes of evidence taken before the Science and Technology Sub-Comittee: The disclosure of Climate data from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia

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The new climate game

(Apr. 10, 2010) Right from the early days of the global warming controversy, they whacked any scientist who dissented from the view that CO2 was warming the planet in a dangerous way. Up popped other skeptical scientists, and WHACK!! Down … Continue reading

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The new climate game

(April 10, 2010) Right from the early days of global warming controversy, they whacked any scientist who dissented from the view that CO2 was warming the planet in a dangerous way. Up popped other skeptical scientists, and WHACK!! Down they went. Continue reading

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Banking on green subsidies

The feed-in-tariff being offered by the British government for clean energy should be the new savings account. One media outlet claims that a £12,500 investment in solar panels will pay a tax-free return of six to eight per cent per year—more than double what one would earn in a typical savings account.
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Arctic ice at high point

The Arctic ocean has more ice today that it did last year at this time, more than it had the previous year at this time or the year before that or the year before that. More ice, in fact that at any time since the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, using a sensor launched on a NASA satellite in mid 2002, began tracking the extent of Arctic ice.

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Aldyen Donnelly: New CAFE standards are a potential cash cow for the US Treasury

US regulators appear to be planning/budgeting for a high level of non-compliance with the proposed new CAFE standard. This planned non-compliance will generate significant new tax revenues for the US Treasury. Canadian manufacturers will take a hit, as they’ll account for more than 15% of the new US Treasury revenues from fines.

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Lawrence Solomon: France to hold official debate on climate change

(April 5, 2010) At the suggestion of France’s science minister, Valérie Pécresse, France’s National Academy of Sciences will hold an official debate on climate change to try to defuse this newly explosive issue. Continue reading

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Withering in the Spanish sun

For the past two years Spanish solar companies working in once-gritty city of Puertollano were soaking up the rays of government subsidies—creating what one paper called a 21st century gold rush. But just as quickly as the rush began, the sun set on the subsidies, leaving the city dotted with low-quality, poorly designed solar plants. 

Now it’s the time of reckoning.
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Aldyen Donnelly: A closer look at California’s vehicle emission standards

A recent letter from Diane Feinstein to John Kerry provides a little insight into what is currently under negotiation for a new US Senate climate change bill.

What I find quite interesting is the frequent reference to California’s vehicle emission standards as "more stringent" than US federal standards.
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