By Dschabner

Nov 30, 2009 7:00am

The Presidential Planner

From Sunlen Miller

This morning President Obama is scheduled to sit down for a one-on-one meeting with Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd of Australia in the Oval Office.

The two leaders will likely discuss the upcoming climate change summit in Copenhagen, which President Obama last week agreed to attend, as well as Afghanistan, as Obama prepares to address the nation Tuesday night, formally announcing  his war strategy.

The rest of the president’s day will be spent in his regular, daily meetings.

– Sunlen Miller

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—SCIENTISTS at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have admitted THROWING AWAY MUCH OF THE RAW TEMPERATURE DATA on which their predictions of global warming are based.
It means that other academics ARE NOT ABLE TO CHECK basic calculations said to show a long-term rise in temperature over the past 150 years.
The UEA’s Climatic Research Unit (CRU) was forced to reveal the loss following requests for the data under Freedom of Information legislation.
The data were gathered from weather stations around the world and then adjusted to take account of variables in the way they were collected. The REVISED FIGURES WERE KEPT, but the originals — stored on paper and magnetic tape — were dumped to save space when the CRU moved to a new building.
In a statement on its website, the CRU said: “We do not hold the original raw data but only the value-added (quality controlled and homogenized) data.”—(The Times of London)
“Value-added,” of course, means adjusted to suit the plans of the statists to take more power and stifle western economies.

Posted by: Global Warm-mongers | November 30, 2009, 8:40 am 8:40 am

Barack, tell Kevin we know about the fudged data. The jig is up. We can see what you guys are doing.
The peer review process was compromised.
The burden of proof is now on the fudging scientists to explain or cue Joe Wilson.

Posted by: Krakatoa | November 30, 2009, 8:45 am 8:45 am

Oh oh . .. here come the oil industry shills huffing and puffing while the oil burns. Humans are angels, we don’t pollute – oil is clean, you spill it in water, or burn it into the air – no problems. Everything is fine folks, move on . . . nothing to see here.

Posted by: tierra | November 30, 2009, 8:56 am 8:56 am

Obama you will have to be on your guard,because Kevin does not share your mollycodling of Muslims, he told them to obay Australian laws or hit the road.

Posted by: earl | November 30, 2009, 8:58 am 8:58 am

Let’s not be naive. Government officials invariably “lose” incriminating data when faced with pesky FOIA requests. That is, if they can’t manage to ‘redact’ everything that will get them jailed. Our world leaders are going into Copenhagen pretending that climategate never happened, while press lackeys like the intrepid Mr. Tapper play right along.

Posted by: h5mind | November 30, 2009, 9:01 am 9:01 am

Again, the priorities are all wrong – focus on cleaning up recovery.gov – regaining some credibility to your administration; focus on what happened to the stimulus money and why it’s not working; FOCUS ON JOBS….not how you can cover your butt on this climate fraud fiasco.

Posted by: Jenny | November 30, 2009, 9:05 am 9:05 am

If the price of a gallon of gas was not enough reason to seek alternate energy,I still do not see any reason for these so called scientists to fabricate global warming by men,other than to get rich off some investments or other charge the taxpayers scheme.

Posted by: earl | November 30, 2009, 9:14 am 9:14 am

Tiara, you think we are “oil industry shills”? Really? Because we don’t believe in Global Warming? Because we can see through scams like Cap and Trade which will only separate us from our money through ridiculous frivolous taxes and will do NOTHING to effect the climate (which has been “changing” and cycling for millions of years)?
Why do you immediately think those who oppose the president’s wacky ideas (health care reform, cap and trade, etc.) are somehow paid dissenters? Project much?

Posted by: Krakatoa | November 30, 2009, 9:53 am 9:53 am

Why should research funding institutions and taxpayers fund scientists who deliberately delay, obfuscate and deny open access to their research? Why should scientific journals publish peer-reviewed research where the submitting scientists have not made every reasonable effort to make their work – from raw data to sophisticated computer simulations – as transparent and accessible as possible? Why should responsible policymakers in America, Europe, Asia and Latin America make decisions affecting people’s health, wealth and future based on opaque and inaccessible science?
They should not. The issue here is not about good or bad science, it is about insisting that scientists and their work be open and transparent enough so that research can be effectively reviewed by broader communities of interest. Open science minimizes the likelihood and consequences of bad science. (Financial Times)

Posted by: Climate Fraud | November 30, 2009, 11:32 am 11:32 am

Hey, I think I remember some guy named Barack Obama saying this about scientific integrity back in March:
“But let’s be clear: Promoting science isn’t just about providing resources — it’s also about protecting free and open inquiry. It’s about letting scientists like those who are here today do their jobs, free from manipulation or coercion, and listening to what they tell us, even when it’s inconvenient — especially when it’s inconvenient. It is about ensuring that scientific data is never distorted or concealed to serve a political agenda — and that we make scientific decisions based on facts, not ideology.”
Oh well, it must be optional, like so many other promises of his.

Posted by: Climate Fraud | November 30, 2009, 2:43 pm 2:43 pm

“But let’s be clear: Promoting science isn’t just about providing resources — it’s also about protecting free and open inquiry. It’s about letting scientists like those who are here today do their jobs”
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If you have evidence the President has been blocking scientific inquiry – well produce it then.
Or is this yet another unsubstantiated accusation?

Posted by: tierra | November 30, 2009, 3:04 pm 3:04 pm

“Treehugger”??
Really??
Yeah, there’s an objective source on climate science?
Hey, why not throw in some rapid contributor at DailyKos while you’re at it?

Posted by: Climate Fraud | November 30, 2009, 5:05 pm 5:05 pm

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