Tuesday, November 29, 2011

PROTEST RALLY OUTSIDE ALP'S NATIONAL CONFERENCE















PROTEST RALLY OUTSIDE ALP'S NATIONAL CONFERENCE

DARLING HARBOUR CONVENTION CENTRE

SUNDAY DECEMBER 4TH 12NOON, BAYSIDE CENTRE

"THE PM WHO CONNED US WITH A LIE"


PM GILLARD WHY?

CARBON TAX - LIE

MINING TAX - LIE

ASSYLUM POLICY - LIE

NBN - LIE


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Hi everyone,

This is certainly a testing time in our ongoing campaign against the introduction of the carbon tax. We can feel recharged by this week's newspoll with Labor's primary vote back down to 30% & the two party preferred at 57% Coalition to Labor's 43%. This is truly incredible when one considers the blaze of media attention the PM has received with world leaders in the Queen, President Obama, CHOGM, G20 and the recent Asian leaders forum. In contrast Tony Abbott tactfully kept a low key approach knowing full well he could not compete against those big 5 tickets. Now we get down to the real agenda, not the fairytale, fake message that the PM tried to portray to world leaders and the media.

This PM cannot escape the fact that she conned the nation with a lie that is "there will be no carbon tax..." and the other areas mentioned above. Our next protest rally outside the ALP national conference will be a big reminder to all those in attendance and the media of this huge lie that will not go away until the next election, hopefully very soon.

CATA encourages all to be there and make it known to everyone that we will not be beaten, this tax must be and will be repealed. This ALP event is over 3 days from Friday 2nd to Sunday 4th. We will meet outside the Bayside Centre at 12noon on Sunday the 4th of December. Bring your banners, your loud voices as we let the media and those inside the conference know exactly how we feel in been conned by the PM over the carbon tax.

This protest will be the start of a new form of campaigning until this tax is repealed. We need to be in their face and on their turf. This carbon tax cannot stand the test of time as it is a big fraud, con and will do ZERO for the climate.

So we have every reason to continue our attack until the job is done, we have a promise signed in blood from Tony Abbott that he will repeal it, for that reason CATA will be behind the Coalition actions in axing the tax.


Kind regards


CATA TEAM
Consumers & Taxpayers Association Inc.

MORE INFO HERE : http://www.consumersandtaxpayersassociation.com/events_6.html

Canada adds its objections to $100-billion climate fund

The Harper government is joining the United States in raising objections to a planned $100-billion (U.S.) a year climate fund that is designed to bridge differences between rich countries and the developing world.
Heading into the United Nations climate conference in Durban this week, the United States has made it clear it will not support the current proposals for the climate fund over concerns about how the money would be raised, lack of verification of how it is spent, and an unwillingness of major emerging countries to commit to legally binding emissions reduction.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/video/video-kyoto-is-in-the-past-environment-minister-says/article2252304/?from=2252782

Environment Minister Peter Kent has raised his own doubts about the climate fund, saying on the weekend that Ottawa would not agree to proceeding with it in the absence of a broad global agreement, which would include China and other emerging economies, to restrain greenhouse-gas emissions.
The Harper government has already indicated it will not commit to new targets under the Kyoto Protocol after the treaty’s first commitment period expires in 2012.
Mr. Kent on Monday would not comment directly on reports that the government will pull out of Kyoto after the Durban conference. Such a move would remove international monitoring of Canada’s emissions reductions. It would also amount to a repudiation of key principles of the Kyoto treaty, notably that the developed world has a historical obligation to do the lion’s share of reduction because it has contributed most of the industrial emissions that cause climate change.
“Kyoto is the past,” he told reporters on Monday.
The Harper government has instead endorsed the 2009 Copenhagen accord, which included a commitment to reduce greenhouse gases from all major emitting countries, including the United States and China. While countries have published targets, negotiators have made little progress in converting the Copenhagen political compromise into a binding treaty.
“Our commitment is to Copenhagen and to a realistic plan to reduce greenhouse gases in alignment with our neighbour and closest trading partner with whom we have very integrated economies to reduce our greenhouse gases on a continental basis,” Mr. Kent said.
New Democratic Party environment critic Megan Leslie accused the government of attempting to sabotage the Durban talks with its hard line on Kyoto.
The Harper government has largely mirrored the U.S. approach to global climate negotiations, a stand that has frustrated European and developing countries that are members of the Kyoto Protocol.
Negotiators at Durban are wrestling with how to finance the climate fund. UN officials are suggesting countries consider taxes on air travel and marine transport, and some countries support a financial transaction tax. Neither Washington nor Ottawa have supported such measures.
The United States last week indicated it supported the “basic concept” of a climate fund, but had serious reservations about its design. Washington wants major emerging countries like China, Brazil and India to play a role in financing emission reductions in lesser developed countries.
Graham Saul, executive director of Climate Action Network Canada, said the climate fund is a critical prerequisite to an international treaty that would bring real progress on global emissions reductions.
“The fund was supposed to be about building trust toward a meaningful international agreement and Canada has violated that trust in so many ways, this is only the latest way,” Mr. Saul said.

Climategate scientists DID collude with government officials to hide research that didn't fit their apocalyptic global warming

Former Chancellor Nigel Lawson was strongly critical of those who supported the 'Climategate' scientists
Former Chancellor Nigel Lawson
was strongly critical of those who
supported the 'Climategate' scientists
  • 5,000 leaked emails reveal scientists deleted evidence that cast doubt on claims climate change was man-made
  • Experts were under orders from US and UK officials to come up with a 'strong message'
  • Critics claim: 'The stink of intellectual corruption is overpowering'
  • Scientist asks, 'What if they find that climate change is a natural fluctuation? They'll kill us all'

  • more than 5,000 documents have been leaked online purporting to be the  correspondence of climate scientists at the University of East Anglia who were previously accused of ‘massaging’ evidence of man-made climate change.

    Following on from the original 'climategate' emails of 2009, the new package appears to show systematic suppression of evidence, and even publication of reports that scientists knew to to be based on flawed approaches.

    And not only do the emails paint a picture of scientists manipulating data, government employees at the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) are also implicated.

    One message appeared to show a member of Defra staff telling colleagues working on climate science to give the government a ‘strong message’.

    The emails paint a clear picture of scientists selectively using data, and colluding with politicians to misuse scientific information.

    ‘Humphrey’, said to work at Defra, writes: ‘I cannot overstate the HUGE amount of political interest in the project as a message that the government can give on climate change to help them tell their story.

    'They want their story to be a very strong one and don’t want to be made to look foolish.’

    Professor Phil Jones, director of the Climatic Research Unit at the centre of the affair, said the group findings did stand up to scrutiny.

    Yet one of the newly released emails, written by Prof. Jones - who is working with the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) - said: 'Any work we have done in the past is done on the back of the research grants we get – and has to be well hidden.

    'I’ve discussed this with the main funder (U.S. Dept of Energy) in the past and they are happy about not releasing the original station data.'

    The University of East Anglia, where most of the emails originated - none of the newly released emails appear to be post 2009, but clarify the extent of government involvement in the scandal

    The University of East Anglia, where most of the emails originated - none of the newly released emails appear to be post 2009, but clarify the extent of government involvement in the scandal

    In another of his emails, he wrote: 'I’ve been told that Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is above national Freedom of Information Acts.

    'One way to cover yourself and all those working in AR5 would be to delete all emails at the end of the process.'





    Other scientists are clearly against such a policy, but some seemed happy to collude with concealing and destroying evidence.

    One nervous scientist wrote: 'The figure you sent is very deceptive.'


    'I also think the science is being manipulated to put a political spin on it which for all our sakes might not be too clever in the long run,' wrote another.

    The lead author of one of the reports, Jonathan Overpeck, wrote, 'The trick may be to decide on the main message and use that to guide what’s included and what is left out.'

    A weak performance by Environment Secretary Chris Huhne on Question Time has helped to inflame the row over the second leak of private UEA emails - now described as Climategate 2.0.

    Professor Phil Jones, Director of the Climatic Research Unit, appears before the Science and Technology Committee after the last dump of leaked climate-change emails
    Professor Phil Jones, Director of the Climatic Research Unit, appears before the Science and Technology Committee after the last dump of leaked climate-change emails

    Former Chancellor Nigel Lawson's Global Warming Policy Foundation warned against ignoring 'shortcomings' in a letter strongly critical of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

    It said: 'The BBC, in determining its policy towards the coverage of global warming, which is of course not simply a scientific issue but an economic and a political issue, too, ought to shred that section of the Jones review and revert to the impartiality laid down in its charter.'

    He was also strongly critical of sections of the media who lent support to the scientists.


    Andrew Orlwowski, UK science site The Register's science correspondent comments on one email that says, 'What if climate change turns out to be a natural fluctuation? They'll kill us all'

    'The stink of intellectual corruption is overpowering.'

    Orlowski says, 'That won't be necessary.'

    Clive Crook, a commentator for the Atlantic, who described the earlier inquiries into the Climategate emails as 'ineffectual' and 'mealy mouthed', reportedly said, 'The closed-mindedness of these supposed men of science, their willingness to go to any lengths to defend a preconceived message, is surprising even to me.

    'The stink of intellectual corruption is overpowering.'



    There is other correspondence from scientists such as Prof Michael Mann, director of the Earth System Science Centre at Penn State University, some of which have a distinct feel of PR 'spin'.

    The release of the information echoes the 'Climategate' leaks of hacked private emails two years ago ahead of crunch climate talks in Copenhagen that referred to ways to ‘hide the decline’ in global warming.

    A series of independent reviews cleared the East Anglia researchers of impropriety, but they were told they had been too secretive.

    Today's leak may also be timed to disrupt the next session of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change next week in South Africa.
    The new email leak is accompanied by a text file which appears to protest against the huge expense of anti-warming technologies - highlighting deaths from poverty against the $36 billion expense of 'green' energy
    The new email leak is accompanied by a text file which appears to protest against the huge expense of anti-warming technologies - highlighting deaths from poverty against the $36 billion expense of 'green' energy

    The emails have been released in the form of quotes carefully 'chosen' to show bias, or that scientists were pursuing a particular agenda in their research.


    The unnamed individuals who released them chose the 5,000 emails from keyword searches, saying, 'We could not read every one, but tried to cover the most relevant topics.'

    The emails were posted on a Russian server - Sinwt.ru - as a downloadable ZIP file in an apparent attempt to cause disruption in advance of next week's climate change conference in Durban.

    They were rapidly reposted on climate-sceptic blogs such as The Air Vent.

    It is not clear, though, whether they are new, or indeed whether they indicate any kind of conspiracy.

    The release of the data was accompanied by a 'press release' in the form of a readme file, which said, 'Over 2.5 billion people live on less than $2 a day.'

    'Poverty is a death sentence. Nations must invest $37 trillion in energy technologies by 2030 to stabilise greenhouse gas emissions at sustainable levels.'

    'Today's decisions should be based on all the information we can get, not on hiding the decline,' said the file.

    The identity of the people who posted it was not revealed - although the clear political statement is new.

    The file also contains more than 200,000 other emails, which are encrypted, and no password is provided.

    Presumably, this is to protect the individuals involved - or simply because the material is so non-controversial or boring that it's not worth releasing.



    NASA thermal satellite image showing the world's arctic surface temperature trends: Today's emails appear to show scientists interested in painting a particular picture of such trends - but the information is not new
    NASA thermal satellite image showing the world's arctic surface temperature trends: Today's emails appear to show scientists interested in painting a particular picture of such trends - but the information is not new

    The University of East Anglia has not confirmed whether the material is genuine.

    None of the material appears to be new, either: it seems to date from the first release in 2009.

    It also occurs against a rather different scientific background, after the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature review of climate-science data by prominent climate sceptic Richard Muller, which analysed 1.6 billion temperature records, and concluded that global warming was a genuine effect.

    It is still unclear what effect - or combination of effects - is causing the current warming of the atmosphere, which has risen around one temperature in the past 50 years.

    Professor Mann, speaking to the Guardian, described the release as 'truly pathetic.'

    'Well, they look like mine but I hardly see anything that appears damning at all, despite them having been taken out of context.

    'I guess they had very little left to work with, having culled in the first round the emails that could most easily be taken out of context to try to make me look bad.'

    A police investigation is ongoing.


    Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2066240/Second-leak-climate-emails-Political-giants-weigh-bias-scientists-bowing-financial-pressure-sponsors.html#ixzz1f4QA2Yid

    Saturday, November 5, 2011

    NO CARBON TAX RALLY Thursday 17th November 2011 at 12 Midday

    http://www.stopcarbonlies.com/canberra_rally.html
     
    Rally Info


    NO CARBON TAX RALLY
    REPEAL CARBON TAX - YES WE CAN
    PRESIDENT OBAMA WILL ADDRESS PARLIAMENT
    Thursday 17th November 2011 at 12 Midday
    Parliament House, Canberra

    Join Young Australians, Working Families, Students, Workers, Small Business Owners and Senior Citizens who will take the Election Now, No Carbon Tax message up with the Government by protesting outside Parliament House in Canberra during the visit of the USA President Obama.

    DateThursday 17th November 2011
    Time
    1200 Midday
    WhereParliament House, Canberra

    TransportCoaches organised by CATA
    Public Transport
    Own Transport



    Schedule

    • March
    • MC Welcome
    • Key Note Speaker
    • Invited Speakers
    • Industry Speakers
    • Rally Participants
    • MC Close

    ParkingTBA


    What to bring
    • Sunscreen,
    • hat,
    • water bottle,
    • placard,
    • casual or more formal attire is fine.
    • Aussie Flags are another great symbol.
    • Wet weather gear, but only if forecast looks like rain.
    Placards and Props**
    Placards should be soft materials like cardboard or corflute and should not be attached to large stakes or poles. You cannot put anything into the ground on the lawn, gardens and walkways as required by the authority. No structures are permitted. If in doubt please contact CATA for clarification.

    Aussie SpiritLastly, bring your Aussie spirit, integrity and pride. Its an uplifting experience and you will meet a lot of people as we put the Government on notice that Australians take democracy seriously and expect their representatives to act with integrity and seek a mandate for major issues.

    Thursday, October 13, 2011

    Please HELP US! All private homes and property in NSW are currently being rezoned using extreme Green legislation.

    Please HELP US!

    All private homes and property in NSW are currently being rezoned using extreme Green legislation in Local council ‘LEP’s or ‘Local area plans’.
    This is a legacy of the former Labor government, but was not stopped by the new Liberal leadership.
    But you can!
    Most people don’t realise that this legislation threatens to destroy the basic ownership rights of EVERYONE’s private property!
    But we have a plan.
    With your help we can collapse the whole process!
    Our area is one of a few that has used people power in public meetings to stall this LEP process.

    But while we have been rallying locals, and planning a letter drop.
    Local Greens and bureaucrats within council are using a loophole in the submissions process, and have put the word out far and wide for greens to send in bogus submissions from outside our area. To outnumber local ones.
    But what if we did the same!
    And the submissions outnumbered the population of the whole Shire? (which is only 30 000)
    The Council would then have little option but to stop the whole submissions process. And we have the real numbers on the ground to flood their public council meetings.
    The point is, if just one council area like ours can stop this process, the politicians and mainstream media will have to concede that the people are against this legislation. And the media attention will force politicians to act!
    So can everyone PLEASE copy this pre written submission, and paste it in as a submission on the link below!!
    The council submission link will require your details, but don’t worry about your address not being local. Remember you don’t have to be a local! We only have until the 28th of this month, so we need this to go viral! So please post this to any groups that you think can help.
    So here it is: http://www.esc.nsw.gov.au/your-say/lep-submissions/

    This is a submission to Eurobodalla Shire Council for the Draft Local Environment Plan (LEP)
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    Dear Sir/Madam,
    I oppose this LEP and its aims, which degrade the rights of all private property owners. And which is in direct conflict with my ‘fee simple’ rights, which are not even within the Governments jurisdiction. As such I want the following demands met.

    1. No Environmental zonings on private property in this Shire.
    Should council feel that any land has great significance, they already have powers to acquire it for the common good, and render just compensation to the owners.
    If council want to lock up land, let them use public land.
    And no downgrading of current zonings to lesser zonings. All zoning transfers must be to zonings with equal or greater rights (not less)

    2. No Environment or restrictive overlays on private property in this Shire.
    Again, if Council or the Government wish to create restrictions, let them again use public land.

    3. A guarantee in the LEP that no one will have ANY rights or uses removed or eroded, that were in previous LEP's. And that the current draft be amended to restore those missing rights and uses.
    And that no other regulations or bylaws be created which have the effect of removing or eroding private property rights or uses, even outside the LEP itself.

    4.The immediate (and retrospective) removal of all binding agreements, or any future requirements for land owners to make them. Or any requirement to have ground truthing , or enter into any other binding arrangements to access property rights or uses, or to get applications approved.

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    Thanks to Everyone who can Help!
    Sincerely, Damien Rogers

    For more information please read prior discussion about NSW Local Environmental Plans - Class action against councils

    YES WE CAN REPEAL THE CARBON TAX! PROTEST...

    TIME : Thursday, November 17 · 12:00pm - 3:00pm


    Don't agree with the Carbon Tax?

    Here is your chance to say "YES WE CAN repeal the carbon tax!"

    Barrack Obama will be addressing Parliament on this day, the worlds media will be there to see that we, the people of Australia do not want this toxic tax!
    ...
    CATA is organising this rally on behalf of Australia's consumers and tax payers...that's YOU!

    Come and show unity and fight for our democracy!

    Please share!

    See you there!

    RSVP BY CLICKING HERE!

    The meaning of REPEAL!

    A repeal is the amendment, removal or reversal of a law. This is generally done when a law is no longer effective, or it is shown that a law is having far more negative consequences than were originally envisioned.

    If a campaign for the repeal of a particular law gains particular moment, an advocate of the repeal might become known as a "repealer". This happened in 19th century Britain to a group in favour of the re-separation of Ireland from the United Kingdom

    Many repeals are the result of changes in society, such as the old Jim Crow laws or blue laws. Other repeals are for more mundane things, such as century-old laws against dancing or cabarets. Some repeals are of extremely old and outdated laws that now seem bizarre, such as one from the 19th century against bathing.

    The motion to rescind, repeal, or annul is used in parliamentary procedure to cancel or countermand an action or order previously adopted by the assembly.

    Monday, September 26, 2011

    Scientist quits over climate 'religion' .


    Philip Sherwell, New York
    September 25, 2011

    A NOBEL laureate has resigned from one of the world's leading organisations for scientists in protest at its assertion that the evidence of damaging global warming is ''incontrovertible''.
    Professor Ivar Giaever resigned from the 48,000-strong American Physical Society (APS), where his peers had elected him a fellow to honour his work.
    The society's policy statement says: ''The evidence is incontrovertible: global warming is occurring.''

    But Professor Giaever, 82, who shared the 1973 Nobel physics prize, said: ''Incontrovertible is not a scientific word. Nothing is incontrovertible in science.''
    The US-based Norwegian physicist, chief technology officer at Applied Biophysics Inc, added: ''Global warming has become the new religion.''
    Professor Giaever was among 70 Nobel laureates who endorsed Barack Obama for president in 2008. But he has since criticised his stance on global warming, and joined scientists declaring that ''the case for alarm regarding climate change is grossly overstated''.
    He questioned whether the average temperature of ''the whole earth for a whole year'' could be accurately measured, but contended that results indicated the climate has been ''amazingly stable'' for 150 years.
    In its policy statement, the APS says: ''Emissions of greenhouse gases from human activities are changing the atmosphere in ways that affect the Earth's climate … The evidence is incontrovertible: global warming is occurring.''
    An APS spokesman said the society was ''disappointed'' by Professor Giaever's decision and his criticisms were based on ''misunderstandings''.


    Read more: http://www.watoday.com.au/world/scientist-quits-over-climate-religion-20110925-1kru9.html#ixzz1Z2jT4zoe

    Saturday, September 24, 2011

    Action OZ! Standing up for Australians...Website coming soon.


    What is Action OZ ?

    The Action OZ! organization brings real Australians back into the political process - From farmers to stay-at-home mums to business leaders – we work together to sustain the democracy of our country. Action OZ! is a service - a way for busy but concerned citizens to find their political voice in a system dominated by big money and big media.

    From sending an email to a member of parliament, organising events or creating campaigns and TV Ads, Action OZ! members pursue direct and effective action.

    Action OZ! is headed by a committee of dedicated people and all members have a say in its direction.

    Action OZ! Has no political affiliation. we are not-for-profit.
    We rely on the good Australian community spirit for funds and donations. 
    We believe in fairness, justice and truth for all Australians.

    How to become a committee member.
    If you wish to become a committee member and play an active role within our organisation Please email us with your Name, Address and Phone number at actionoz@clearmail.com.au and we will contact you personally with regards to becoming a member of our committee.

    Our Website.
    Our website is under development as we speak and will be introduced to the Australian people upon completion.We will keep you posted on our progress and remember this is your organisation.

    Thank you for your support !




    Friday, September 23, 2011

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    Thursday, September 22, 2011

    Corruption: Lies, damn lies and climate change

    Jim Kouri's photo 

    Law Enforcement Examiner


    Al Gore, guru of the climate change movement, remains silent about scientific fraud as does media.

    Al Gore, guru of the climate change movement, remains silent about scientific fraud as does media.





    World leaders spouting their usual "sky-is-falling" rhetoric during their international climate change summit in Copenhagen this month, along with their supporters, are ignoring evidence of fraud and corruption exposed in emails exchanged by leading "climate experts."
    Last Friday, Congressman Chaka Fattah (D-PA), a member of the House Appropriations Committee and its subcommittees that oversee funding for federal science, commerce, energy and water development agencies, issued a statement regarding President Obama's global warming diplomacy and upcoming appearance on December 9 at the United Nations Climate Change Conference inCopenhagen
    In his statement, Rep. Fattah said, "Give President Obama credit for changing the game on climate change. His environmental diplomacy will finally place the United States at the forefront of efforts to save our planet."
    "President Obama's pledge to reduce United States greenhouse gas emissions is in line with targets in House legislation that I supported upon passage in June. Those targets lay down a marker for the Senate. We in Congress owe it to the American people and in fact the world community to send the President a comprehensive, action-oriented bill- a necessary complement to his global leadership in climate change," said the congressman.
    Opponent's of so-called Cap-and-Trade environmental legislation are quick to remind Obama's political allies that besides being destructive to the US economy, such legislation is based -- wholly or partially -- on faulty or manipulated science.
    "These liberal-left politicians and activists see an opportunity to use so-called global warming as a means to push forward their Marxist philosophy. Part of the agenda is to take away wealth from the American people and give it to Third-World countries," said political strategist Mike Baker.
    The evidence provided by the intercepted emails of renowned climatologists has created one of the biggest scandals in the last decade -- if not the century, according to Baker.
    Thousands of emails and documents allegedly "stolen" from the University of East Anglia (UEA) and posted online indicate that researchers massaged figures to mask the fact that world temperatures have been declining in recent years.
    These leaked emails provide compelling evidence that much of what is being touted as scientific fact is in reality erroneous, fraudulent, and perhaps criminal if participating scientists used their phony research to acquire government grants.  
    Several emails contained discussions about how to best portray data sets, among other topics. Scientists maintain their comments have been taken out of context, but those who fiercely oppose the climate change thesis argue the emails invalidate most scientific research.
    Even the leftist newspaper The Guardian described its newsroom's shock over discovering that the documents revealed scientists were "cooking the books," in order to prove the earth is warming at an alarming rate. 
    What is even more shocking is that the authors of the emails are not just any old bunch of academics. "Their importance cannot be overestimated, What we are looking at here is the small group of scientists who have for years been more influential in driving the worldwide alarm over global warming than any others, not least through the role they play at the heart of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)," stated Baker. 
    Baker points to the senders and recipients of the leaked emails saying that they are a "who's who" of science. Their ranks include Doctors Michael Mann, Ben Santer, Kevin Trenbeth, and even Al Gore's climate guru, Dr. James Hansen. Gore used Hansen's studies in his Oscar-winning motion picture An Inconvenient Truth.
    Even after being caught with the "smoking gun," they and their defenders have offered every possible excuse for concealing the background data on which their findings and temperature records were based. Most incriminating of all are the emails in which scientists are advised to delete large chunks of data, which, when this is done after receipt of a freedom of information request, is a criminal offense.

    According to the emails, scientists involved secretly discussed ways they could manipulate the scientific peer review process so that skeptic could not get their articles and papers published in scientific journals. skeptical papers had no access to publication.
    For example, when Dr. Thomas Wigley of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research complained that paleo-climatologist Hans von Storch was responsible for “the publication of crap science ‘in order to stimulate debate’” and that they “must get rid of von Storch” as an editor of the journal Climate Research.
    Armed with allegedly phony proof against Storch, they succeeded in getting von Storch to resign.
    The scandal is also raising questions about members of the news media being complicit in covering up ClimateGate. For example, a BBC meteorologist and climate change expert, Paul Hudson, admits he was sent the leaked emails a month prior to their discovery by bloggers, radio and television talk hosts and other interested parties.

    Meanwhile in the US, major media outlets continue to ignore the story, according to the media watchdog group, Accuracy in Media. 
    Since the emails where first discovered, ABC had only mentioned the story once, on Sunday’s This Week with George Stephanopolous, and CBS and NBC still has never reported the leaked emails on the morning or evening news, according to AIM. 
    "Rather than focus on this huge scientific scandal, the timing of which is critical considering the cap and trade legislation stalled in the Senate and the upcoming Copenhagen meeting supposedly intended to combat global warming—the mainstream media have done their best to ignore it.
    "The scandal involves the destruction of data, the manipulation and cover-up of data, and a plan to punish scientific journals that might dare to publish the views of skeptics of the man made global warming theory. They realize that a full airing of the facts would likely undermine an important part of President Obama’s agenda, and expose the corruption of a significant part of the scientific establishment," writes AIM's contributing editor Allie Duzett.
    Alden Meyer, director of strategy and policy for the Union of Concerned Scientists, said in an interview with the Washington Post from that Obama's decision to go to Copenhagen suggests that "he'll be here at the end to help seal the deal."
    "The Washington Post is one of the culprits in this enormous cover up," accuses Mike Baker. "And why aren't reporters flocking to Al Gore for his reaction to this proof that climate change is a farce?"
    For years, Al Gore has played the role of a modern day Paul Revere, sounding the alarm regarding potential consequences of global warming in order to gain public attention. Whenever there is a story related to environmental issues, reporters quote Gore. In fact, Fox News Channel on Saturday morning reported that conservatives in Hollywood are demanding that Gore be stripped of his Oscar for his documentary that served as a vehicle to ratchet up global warming fears. 
    "But putting aside the fact that Gore has honed his public speaking skills, the fly in the ointment is that he’s a fraud. Like the very global warming movement to which he has attached himself, he’s a snake oil salesman whose sales pitch is laced with scare tactics designed to push the public into embracing a radical, carbon-free agenda that rests on a combination of half-truths and outright fabrications," alleges AWR Hawkins, a conservative writer who holds a Ph.D. in military history from Texas Tech University and writes for Pajamas Media.
    "And Gore’s fraudulence is not only seen in the fact that he pawns a lie, but also in the fact that he refuses to abide by the very lie he pawns," quipped Dr. Hawkins.
    Jim Kouri, CPP is currently fifth vice-president of the National Association of Chiefs of Police and he's a columnist for The Examiner (examiner.com) and New Media Alliance (thenma.org).  In addition, he's a blogger for the Cheyenne, Wyoming Fox News Radio affiliate KGAB (www.kgab.com). Kouri also serves as political advisor for Emmy and Golden Globe winning actor Michael Moriarty. 




    He's former chief at a New York City housing project in Washington Heights nicknamed "Crack City" by reporters covering the drug war in the 1980s. In addition, he served as director of public safety at a New Jersey university and director of security for several major organizations.  He's also served on the National Drug Task Force and trained police and security officers throughout the country.   Kouri writes for many police and security magazines including Chief of Police, Police Times, The Narc Officer and others. He's a news writer and columnist for AmericanDaily.Com, MensNewsDaily.Com, MichNews.Com, and he's syndicated by AXcessNews.Com.   Kouri appears regularly as on-air commentator for over 100 TV and radio news and talk shows including Fox News Channel, Oprah, McLaughlin Report, CNN Headline News, MTV, etc.