{"id":480071,"date":"2010-03-27T15:55:56","date_gmt":"2010-03-27T19:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/climaterealists.com\/index.php?id=5440"},"modified":"2010-03-27T15:55:56","modified_gmt":"2010-03-27T19:55:56","slug":"can-we-trust-the-climategate-inquiry-by-christopher-booker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/480071","title":{"rendered":"Can we trust the ‘Climategate’ inquiry? by Christopher Booker"},"content":{"rendered":"

Article Tags: Christopher Booker<\/a>, ClimateGate<\/a><\/p>\n

Sceptics have not been surprised to find that almost all the members of the ‘Climategate’ inquiry are committed advocates of global warming<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

There has been a curious by-product of the attempts being made by the University of East Anglia to whitewash last November’s embarrassing leak of documents from its Climatic Research Unit. Since it set up not one but two supposedly “independent” inquiries into the “Climategate” affair, climate sceptics were intrigued but not entirely surprised to find that almost all their members were committed, even fanatical advocates of global warming, and hence unlikely to be over-critical of the CRU’s bizarre record.<\/p>\n

Most recently, the sceptics have been particularly intrigued by the background of the man chosen by the university to chair an assessment of the CRU’s scientific record. Lord Oxburgh declared on his appointment that he is linked to major wind-farm and renewable-energy companies. He admitted that he advises Climate Change Capital, which manages funds worth $1.5 billion, hoping to cash in on the “opportunities created by the transition to a low-carbon economy”, in a world market potentially worth \u2013 its website boasts \u2013 $45 trilllion.<\/p>\n

What Lord Oxburgh kept quiet about, however, is that he is also a director and vice-chairman of a strange little private company few of us had heard of known as Globe International. The name stands for “Global Legislators Organisation for a Balanced Environment”, and it describes itself as a worldwide network to lobby governments to take more drastic action on climate change. Globe is certainly well-connected, as it showed just before last December’s Copenhagen conference by staging a seminar addressed by, among others, the conference’s chairman Yvo de Boer, as well as Nancy Pelosi and Ed Markey, the leaders of the campaign to push a cap-and trade-scheme \u2013 which could make a lot of people fabulously rich \u2013 through the US Congress.
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\nSource: telegraph.co.uk<\/p>\n

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