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burnt

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The Environment Minister said today that he will not allow the facts to interfere with his politics:

E-mail controversy doesn’t change climate science: Prentice

Mike De Souza, Canwest News Service Published: Wednesday, December 02, 2009
Environment Minister Jim Prentice, Dec. 1, 2009.

OTTAWA - The Harper government said controversy surrounding hacked e-mails of climate scientists doesn't change its concern about global warming or its position heading into a major international summit this month in Copenhagen.

Environment Minister Jim Prentice said it was unfortunate that a prominent scientist was forced to resign because of revelations in the e-mails, but the government still believes the science is clear that human activity is causing climate change.

"We're all interested in getting to the bottom of that, finding out exactly what happened," Mr. Prentice said after the daily question period in the House of Commons. "It does not change the position of Canada relative to the Copenhagen agreement and the Copenhagen thoughts. The science overall is relatively clear on all of this and as a conservationist and as a responsible environmental steward Canada wants to see carbon emissions reduced."

Governments and scientists around the world have reached a consensus that human activity is causing greenhouse gas emissions that are heating up the atmosphere and threatening major impacts to the planet's ecosystems.

But some skeptics have claimed that the leaked e-mails which were anonymously posted online last month suggest a planetwide conspiracy to suppress evidence and block research that proposes alternative theories.

Phil Jones, the head of the climate research unit at the University of East Anglia, resigned earlier this week pending an investigation because of suggestions in the e-mails that researchers were trying to hide data and get rid of material that would be subject to a Freedom of Information request.

Mr. Prentice said that the revelations suggest that "something quite inappropriate" appears to have happened at the University of East Anglia, but this does not change the importance of reaching an agreement in Copenhagen to fight climate change.

http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=2295516
 

Steve

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global temperature measurements of the Earth's lower atmosphere obtained from satellites reveal no definitive warming trend over the past two decades. The slight trend that is in the data actually appears to be downward. The largest fluctuations in the satellite temperature data are not from any man-made activity, but from natural phenomena such as large volcanic eruptions from Mt. Pinatubo, and from El Niño. So the programs which model global warming in a computer say the temperature of the Earth's lower atmosphere should be going up markedly, but actual measurements of the temperature of the lower atmosphere reveal no such pronounced activity.
source NASA
 
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