{"id":3495,"date":"2010-01-29T16:18:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T21:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=3495"},"modified":"2010-01-29T16:20:54","modified_gmt":"2010-01-29T21:20:54","slug":"climategate-scientists-broke-uk-law-by-concealing-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/3495\/climategate-scientists-broke-uk-law-by-concealing-data\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Climategate&#8221; Scientists Broke UK Law By Concealing Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last month&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/2578\/numbers-hoax-what-global-warming-and-obamanomics-have-in-common\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Climategate&#8221; revelations<\/a> exposed thousands of emails between global-warming activist scientists, who sought to conceal and distort climate data, blackball other climate scientists who rebutted their claims and discredit scientific journals.<\/p>\n<p>Now, UK authorities have concluded that <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB20001424052748704194504575031022338013284.html#mod=todays_us_page_one\" target=\"_blank\">they also broke the law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to the UK Information Commissioner&#8217;s Office (ICO), the climate researchers at the center of Climategate were requested in 2007 and 2008 to submit data on which they based their global warming contentions.\u00a0 Those contentions were in turn a basis on which the United Nations and global warming alarmists around the world issued their latest doomsday predictions.\u00a0 The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) also relied upon them in issuing their <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/2599\/obamas-epa-goes-chicago-thug-style\/\" target=\"_blank\">reckless carbon dioxide regulations<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Under the UK&#8217;s Freedom of Information Act, however, those researchers were required to disclose the data on which they claimed to rest their conclusions.\u00a0 The Act also prohibits deliberate concealment of requested information, which these activist scientists did.\u00a0 According to a statement issued by the ICO, the information requests were &#8220;not dealt with as they should have been under the legislation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Talk about understatement.<\/p>\n<p>Phil Jones, who directed the unit at the center of the Climategate scandal, stepped down following the revelations.\u00a0 Yet, bizarrely, he claims that the team&#8217;s efforts at distortion and concealment were &#8220;taken completely out of context.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Not exactly the defense one would expect from a man with a clear conscience&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month&#8217;s &#8220;Climategate&#8221; revelations exposed thousands of emails between global-warming activist scientists, who sought to conceal and distort climate data, blackball other climate scientists who rebutted their claims and discredit scientific journals. Now, UK authorities have concluded that they also broke the law. According to the UK Information Commissioner&#8217;s Office (ICO), the climate researchers at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26,622,205,787],"class_list":["post-3495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-climate-change","tag-climategate","tag-global-warming","tag-phil-jones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3495"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3500,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3495\/revisions\/3500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}