BBC, KGB, Oh My: More On Climate Change Fraud

A climate change scandal round-up and a question: Is anyone else having fun pondering as to whether or not there's an old KGB rat named Vlad behind the still growing potential climate change fraud? Of various suspects, Russia would have means, access and plenty of motivation. The original data leak went up on a Russian server, which could easily be spun, or interpreted, as a reason to not suspect Russia, as much as it could be a reason to suspect they were involved. Actually, it may serve even better as a reason for doubt.

Just as another potential scandal in New Zealand breaks out, the original problems for climate change scientists deepens, courtesy of the BBC's knowledge of it before hand. Big media can ignore it all they want for as long as they want, this potentially world changing story is not going away. h/t Instapundit.

The controversy surrounding the global warming e-mail scandal has deepened after a BBC correspondent admitted he was sent the leaked messages more than a month before they were made public.

Given the scope of this still exploding story in a matter of about two days, one at least has to wonder if there isn't some force driving the thing from start to end. Yet, few people are speculating as to who pulled off the original hacking, or why. Coming as it does just before potentially significant buy in from the US thanks to Obama, there are more than a few players involved who have a lot at risk relevant to climate change speculation.

So, I can't help but wonder who has the kind of resources it would take and plenty of motivation. If it's one potential suspect, I'm betting it never gets found out. Given Russia's willingness to engage in political assassination even relatively recently, isn't it at least fair to speculate? They certainly would have motivation enough. And the resources, access and general capability to pull it off.

Russia’s economy is heavily dependent on oil and natural gas exports. In order to manage windfall oil receipts, the government established a stabilization fund in 2004. By the end of 2007, the fund was expected to be worth $158 billion, or about 12 percent of the country’s nominal GDP. According to calculations by Alfa Bank, the fuel sector accounts for about 20.5 percent of GDP, down from around 22 percent in 2000. According to IMF and World Bank estimates, the oil and gas sector generated more than 60 percent of Russia’s export revenues (64% in 2007), and accounted for 30 percent of all foreign direct investment (FDI) in the country.

Kremlin policy makers continue to exhibit an inclination to advance the state's influence in the energy sector. Taxes on oil exports and extraction are still high, and Russia’s state-influenced oil and gas companies are obtaining controlling stakes in previously foreign-led projects. State-owned export facilities have grown at breakneck pace, while private projects have progressed more slowly or have been met with roadblocks by state-owned companies or by various government agencies.

Comments

[x11b1p]

Interesting Dan, could this be another polonium type assassination done via the web courtesy the bare chested tiger tamer Putin? If true, the irony is that former communists and socialists who are now subscribing to "capitalism" are the ones indirectly saving us from the current communists and socialists who don't subscribe to capitalism in Congress. Is it journalist in general that have a harder time being objective today or is the common denominator liberal journalists have a harder time being objective and find it easier to obsfucate or ignore the truth when it comes to liberal policy being nothing more than a full colostomy bag in need of emptying?

[Joe]

http://tiny.cc/1fWoh

Thankfully we have a President who recognizes priorities.

[Lala]

Hide the Decline

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEiLgbBGKVk

On the sidebar of this youtube are other climategate videos

[Badger]

As the owner of the largest privately held ISP in California, we offer huge collocation space for certain servers. We offer a backhaul for Google, Hulu and AT&T. I could go through locations of various servers connected to our network and invariably will include servers all over the planet.

One would need to ping back through 10 or more server layers and backtrack MAC and IP addresses to confirm but this is not an anomaly by any stretch. We get pings from servers globally which merely means the information has traveled through their particular server loop. How have we come to this conclusion that the material originated through server's in Russia?

Thanks in advance.....

[Pasadena Phil]

If I were a scientist today (and I'm not talking about Creationists or Christian Science people), I would be running as fast as I could from the entire AGW crowd even if it means going back to school and taking up a new career.

For the East Anglia university and New Zealand's climate science community, this is fatal. They might as well shut down because their credibility will never recover. Much of scientific progress is incremental where most of the gains are attained in micrometers, not in miles. There work is almost certainly interwoven in everyone else's models so they are taking everyone else down too.

For two marginal players who have no major accomplishments to fall back on, it is death. Think of Rosie Ruiz who "won" the 1980 Boston Marathon until it was determined that she rode most of the race. Same thing. It's like hiring Arthur Anderson after the Enron scandal.

[Pasadena Phil]

On the Russia connection, have we forgotten that Gorbachev has been one of the leading proponents of global warming for many years?

http://www.canadafreepress.com/2007/kohlmayer051107.htm

[Fe]

I think someone wanted to ensure Blair did not become EU President.

[CPT. Charles]

Quite true Phil, but bear in mind that Gorby was hooking himself into the 'old' network [the original Euro-Greens were tools of the KGB to undermine the placement of nukes by the US in the BRD] that had, since then, grown to become a power in their own right.

The 'New Russia', firmly in Vlad's hands, is heading off in whole different direction: Energy dominance. That way was opened by the Greens who minimized efforts in Western Europe towards energy self-reliance [their 'anti-nuke' energy activism].

Within Russia, over the past decade, a number of studies by Russian scientists have come to light, running against the grain of the AGW CW. These studies [published, and generally ignored by their western counterparts] came about because the Russian solar/climate science community is utterly disconnected from the AGW 'grant-pipeline' [which has the majority of their western brothers totally enthralled].

I submit that Russian government is VERY MUCH aware of the possibility of an extended 'cooling trend' being in Earth's future; their head-long rush to develop as much of their gas and oil reserves [and with remarkable speed] might be a clue that Russia's readying a power position that America isn't [and the PRC is] taking.

Has anybody noticed that Vlad and Co. haven't been doing a whole lotta 'soul-searching' about Russia's 'carbon footprint'? Here's a clue: they AIN'T.

Than being said, I don't think there's any Russkie spooks hiding under this particular bed. If anything, they very much want the 'Free-Market' democracies diving into the 'Zero-Carbon', 'Sustainable' Abyss.

Remember, if Russian studies are right, and the AGW crowd is wrong, those countries who choose the wrong path on which way the Earth's climate is heading [over the next 30 to 50 years] will be totally screwed a decade from now.

And that's a scenario NOBODY'S talking about, at least in the 'public forums'.

[CPT. Charles]

To the point, Phil: who says Gorby and Vlad are working at 'cross-purposes' at this moment?

Think about it.

[Pasadena Phil]

I never saw Gorby and Vlad working at cross purposes. Russia has no intention of signing on to any global climate change agreement and wouldn't abide by it if they did. The Kyoto agreement and now the Copenhagen agreement serve only to handicap the West, particularly the US to the benefit of the BRIC countries. It makes perfect sense for Gorby and Vlad to want a global climate change agreement, particularly if their own research debunks it.

I also think it is of monumental significance that GE is the primary US corporation pushing hard for Cap and Trade. It is a blaring siren warning us to start discussing what it means for the American establishment to be investing in a "global" economy where US interests are being abandoned by US corporations as well as by our own politicians dedicated (bought and paid for) to serve only these companies' interests. Is serving these global interests compatible with the interests of ordinary American citizens? For instance, the very day Obama announced that the US would abandon the missile defense shield in Poland etal, Vlad announced the approval of mega-deals with GE and Morgan Stanley. How was serving the interests of ordinary Americans like me?

So why are we not already engaged in a big national discussion about who "us" is? Are those GE and MS investments in Russia "American interests"? When our politicians say "us", who exactly do they mean? When our president, the "global citizen" says "us", who is he talking about? Our equity markets are now proxies for voting on how US corporations and ADR-listed foreign companies stand to fare in the new global economy rather than as proxies for the US economy. "Employment" is now as lagging an indicator as it has ever been because very few of our companies are investing in future jobs in America. According to our Wall Street establishment, that is part of "the new normal".

We are only 4% of the world's population still producing about 25% of the world's production. We are not what is wrong with the world. Becoming more like the rest of what world is anathema to what makes America successful. As Americans, we need to re-educate to our corporate and government leaders as to why national sovereignty, borders and the US Constitution are more important than ever. Corporations can decide for themselves whose interests they represent but they should not be confused as being the same as ours.

[Pasadena Phil]

AGW is falling apart faster than the speed of sound. Here's a report on how the Australian government is dissolving over their own Cap and Trade problem. http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100018003/climategate-five-aussie-mps-lead-the-way-by-resigning-in-disgust-over-carbon-tax/

[Dan Riehl]

"How have we come to this conclusion"

It's been published in various news accounts. I assume it was hosted there - the data files, I mean. That's the only way I can imagine it was published. Where they came from to get there would be another matter, as I am sure you know.

[joyMc]

Maybe this will go down a little like the ACORN tapes scandal. Maybe (hopefully) this hacker has more installments to reveal. This could contribute to the growing trend of exposing the entire progressive/socialist/democrat movement and all its cousins, morphs, and extended family as the bunch of lying toads they really are.