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I overslept, so not much today.

Stock futures are down, the dollar is up.

C stock sale flopped ... no surprise that few would want its shares except at a large discount.

The ClimateGate scandal rolls on. With access now to the actual raw data - previously kept secret by the scientists - others auditing the numbers find huge manipulation and outright doctoring of the numbers. Anything not fitting the "picture" was tossed out. What a scandal ! I wonder if anyone will ever trust the scientific community again ?

It's too bad such a protected clique of money-grubbing and power-grubbing swine have now discredited the entire profession. But the signs were obvious to anyone looking. When secrecy and ad hominem attacks rule, any thinking person knows they are hiding something.

Here's a quote from a website that covers Russian language newspapers.

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Climategate has already affected Russia. On Tuesday, the Moscow-based Institute of Economic Analysis (IEA) issued a report claiming that the Hadley Center for Climate Change based at the headquarters of the British Meteorological Office in Exeter (Devon, England) had probably tampered with Russian-climate data.

The IEA believes that Russian meteorological-station data did not substantiate the anthropogenic global-warming theory.

Analysts say Russian meteorological stations cover most of the country's territory, and that the Hadley Center had used data submitted by only 25% of such stations in its reports. Over 40% of Russian territory was not included in global-temperature calculations for some other reasons, rather than the lack of meteorological stations and observations. The data of stations located in areas not listed in the Hadley Climate Research Unit Temperature UK (HadCRUT) survey often does not show any substantial warming in the late 20th century and the early 21st century.

The HadCRUT database includes specific stations providing incomplete data and highlighting the global-warming process, rather than stations facilitating uninterrupted observations. On the whole, climatologists use the incomplete findings of meteorological stations far more often than those providing complete observations. IEA analysts say climatologists use the data of stations located in large populated centers that are influenced by the urban-warming effect more frequently than the correct data of remote stations.

The scale of global warming was exaggerated due to temperature distortions for Russia accounting for 12.5% of the world's land mass. The IEA said it was necessary to recalculate all global-temperature data in order to assess the scale of such exaggeration.
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Much more and other links are available on http://climateaudit.org/

Word of the Day

"Caconym" - noun [$100]
Caconym means a name, especially a taxonomic name, that is considered linguistically undesirable.
Sentence: Ever since the famous WaterGate affair, the American language has been burdened with that ugly caconym, the -gate suffix - for any public scandal. Yuck! French would provide much better names. Compare ClimateGate to L'affaire de climat. The French name would be much more interesting - even a bit suggestive.