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Fallout continues in the under-reported climate scandal that many are now calling climate-gate. NASA is being threatened with a lawsuit for failure to respond to freedom of information requests and an even more earth shattering (pardon the image) scandal is being reported out of Denmark on carbon trading fraud:
Science: For two years, our space agency has refused Freedom of Information requests on why it has repeatedly corrected its climate figures. ** Chris Horner, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, has threatened a lawsuit against NASA if by year-end the agency doesn’t honor his FOI requests for information on how and why its climate numbers have been consistently adjusted for errors. ** “I assume that what is there is highly damaging,” says Horner, who suspects, based on the public record, the same type of data fudging, manipulation and suppression that has occurred at Britain’s East Anglia Climate Research Unit. “These guys (NASA) are quite clearly determined not to reveal their internal discussions about this.” ** They may have good reason. NASA was caught with its thermometers down when James Hansen, head of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, announced that 1998 was the country’s hottest year on record, with 2006 the third hottest. ** NASA and Goddard were forced to correct the record in 2007 to show that 1934, decades before the advent of the SUV, was in fact the warmest. In fact, the new numbers showed that four of the country’s 10 warmest years were in the 1930s.
November was a horrendous month for global warming propagandists, what with somebody hacking into the computers of East Anglia University’s Central Research Union (CRU) and exposing thousands of emails detailing how climate change data had been systematically cooked. ** Now it looks like December could be another bad month because the Copenhagen Post Online brings word of an exploding scandal in the Scandanavian nation involving massive fraud in the trading of the Danish CO2 Quotas Register. That’s Denmark’s cap-and-trade system in which companies buy and sell carbon emissions credits. ** The Obama-Waxman-Markey and Boxer-Kerry global warming cap-and-trade bills now before Congress are modeled in part on the Danish CO2 Quotas Register. But things don’t look good for the Danish climate change initiative, according to the Copenhagen Post Online: “Police and authorities in several European countries are investigating scams worth billions of kroner, which all originate in the Danish quota register. The CO2 quotas are traded in other EU countries. “Denmark’s quota register, which the Energy Agency within the Climate and Energy Ministry administers, is the largest in the world in terms of personal quota registrations. It is much easier to register here than in other countries, where it can take up to three months to be approved. ** “Ekstra Bladet reporters have found examples of people using false addresses and companies that are in liquidation, which haven’t been removed from the register.