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Holdren Implicated in Warmaquiddick

It just gets better and better:

“A perfect person and opportunity appeared. On 16^th October 2003 Michael Mann, infamous for his lead in the ‘hockey stick’ that dominated the 2001 IPCC Report, sent an email to people involved in the CRU scandal; “

Dear All,

Thought you would be interested in this exchange, which John Holdren of Harvard has been kind enough to pass along…” At the time Holdren was Teresa and John Heinz Professor of Environmental Policy & Director, Program in Science, Technology, & Public Policy, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government. He is now Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Assistant to the President for Science and Technology, and Co-Chair of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology—informally known as the United States Science Czar.

““In an email on October16, 2003 from John Holdren to Michael Mann and Tom Wigley we are told:

”“I’m forwarding for your entertainment an exchange that followed from my being quoted in the Harvard Crimson to the effect that you and your colleagues are right and my “Harvard” colleagues Soon and Baliunas are wrong about what the evidence shows concerning surface temperatures over the past millennium. The cover note to faculty and postdocs in a regular Wednesday breakfast discussion group on environmental science and public policy in Harvard’s Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences is more or less self-explanatory.”

Soon and Baliunas argued that it was clear from all the relevant data that there was indeed a Medieval Warming Period.

And what kind of direct evidence can one find for a Medieval Warming Period? Well, here's a fascinating example. Of course, science has been restored to its rightful place under the Oddministration, but read the whole thing for a savor of this arrogant fuckwad totalitarian.

Now the Competitive Enterprise Institute is suing NASA for their failure to cough up climate data repeatedly requested over a 3-year period under the FOIA.

In case you are wondering what actual climate science looks like, this is a good example.

Regarding yesterday's prediction regarding the coverage, it was too easy.

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