Thread: British Seek Probe Into Climate Data E-Mails

British Seek Probe into Climate Data E-mails

Tuesday, November 24, 2009 3:04 PM

By: Dave Eberhart

Former Chancellor Lord Lawson has called for a probe into charges that top climate change scientists manipulated data to bolster the case for man-made global warming, according to a report in the U.K.’s Telegraph.

This week, Lord Lawson launched a global warming think tank, which will include on its board a former senior policy adviser to the Prime Minister and a former deputy chairman of Barclays.

The Global Warming Policy Foundation, which is being launched in anticipation of the United Nations’ climate change conference in Copenhagen, will have Lord Donoghue, who advised former Prime Minister Harold Wilson, and Barclays’ Sir Martin Jacomb included on its board.

Lawson, who was chancellor between 1983 and 1989, said the independent think tank is “deeply concerned about the costs and other implications of many of the policies currently being advocated.â€

One of the e-mails that has the former Chancellor baffled is one written by Phil Jones, the center’s director, in 1999: "I've just completed Mike's Nature [the science journal] trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (i.e., from 1981 onwards) and from 1961 for Keith's to hide the decline."

The Texas Heatwave!
Texas back in 1980. 42 consecutive days over 100 degrees. It got up to 115.

They must need the 1980 data in the previous years data to make it look warmer than it really was.

Dixie