Copenhagen Climate Treaty & Climategate

Lord Lawson Calls for Inquiry into Cover-Up Over Climate Change Data

November 24, 2009

Daily Mail - Lord Lawson yesterday called for an independent inquiry into claims that leading British climate change scientists manipulated data to strengthen the case for made-made global warming.

The former Chancellor said the content of hundreds of leaked emails from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit was a 'scandal' - and warned that the credibility and integrity of UK science was at stake.

His comments came after it was revealed that 1,000 private emails written by researchers at the world-renowned unit over the last 13 years were stolen and posted on a Russian website.

While most are impossible to interpret out of context, climate change sceptics have seized on some that appear to show scientists manipulating raw data about historical temperatures.

In one alleged email, scientists discussed how climate data should be best spun and presented to selected journalists.

The emails also appear to discuss ways of dodging Freedom of Information requests from a climate change sceptic seeking raw data.

Lord Lawson called for the university and Natural Environment Research Council, which funds the unit, to launch an open, independent inquiry.

'Astonishingly, what appears, at least at first blush, to have emerged is that the scientists have been manipulating the raw temperature figures,' he said.

He said the integrity of the evidence on which 'far-reaching and hugely expensive policy decisions' are based has been called into question and the reputation of British science was 'seriously tarnished'.

Lord Lawson was launching The Global Warming Policy Foundation, a think tank devoted to challenging conventional wisdom about climate change.

Scientists deny the emails show that global warming is a hoax. Professor Phil Jones, the director of the research unit, said they were taken out of context.

Obama Climate Summit Attendance Welcomed in Europe

FACTBOX: White House Lays Out Copenhagen Emissions Proposal

November 25, 2009

BBC - President Obama's decision to attend the UN climate talks in Copenhagen has been welcomed by European leaders. Swedish Environment Minister Andreas Carlgren said Mr Obama's presence next month would raise expectations.

The US earlier announced that President Obama would pledge to cut greenhouse gas emissions in several stages, beginning with a 17% cut by 2020. However, BBC North America editor Mark Mardell says many environmentalists regard the US targets as disappointing...

US officials said Washington would pledge a 17% cut in emissions from 2005 levels by 2020, 30% by 2025, 42% by 2030 and 83% by 2050. This is much less than the EU's pledge of a 20% cut over the same period, or a 30% cut if there is a global deal; and much less than the 25-40% figure that developing countries are demanding.

Mr Carlgren, whose country holds the rotating EU presidency, said he was pleased the US would deliver an emissions reduction target, but added:

"It needs to be sufficiently ambitious.

"An agreement in Copenhagen will stand or fall on sufficiently ambitious targets by the US and China"...

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Official: Obama Going to Copenhagen Climate Summit

November 25, 2009

AP - Dousing rampant speculation, President Barack Obama has decided to travel to Copenhagen next month and spell out U.S. goals for curbing greenhouse gas emissions at a widely anticipated, high-stakes global climate summit.

The president will take part in the conference on Dec. 9 before heading to Oslo to accept the Nobel Peace Prize. In a statement, the White House called Obama's decision "a sign of his continuing commitment and leadership to find a global solution to the global threat of climate change, and to lay the foundation for a new, sustainable and prosperous clean energy future."

The president will lay out his goals for reducing the United States' carbon dioxide emissions, pledging to cut heat-trapping pollution by about 17 percent from 2005 levels by 2020. That target reflects the still-unfinished climate legislation on Capitol Hill.

A House-passed bill would slash heat-trapping pollution somewhere in the range of 17 percent from 2005 levels by 2020. A Senate bill seeks a 20 percent reduction over the next decade, but that number is likely to come down to win the votes of moderate Democrats.

The European Union has urged the United States, as well as China, to deliver greenhouse gas emission targets at the summit, saying their delays were hindering global efforts to curb climate change.

The conference had originally been intended to produce a new global climate change treaty on limiting emissions of greenhouse gases that would replace the 1997 Kyoto Protocol. However, hopes for a legally binding agreement have dimmed lately, with leaders saying the summit is more likely to produce a template for future action to cut emissions blamed for global warming.

At least 65 world leaders will attend the summit, but unlike Obama, most are expected to attend the final days of the Dec. 7-18 conference.

Danish Prime Minister Lars Loekke Rasmussen, the host and chairman of the talks, said he was "very happy" with Obama's decision to attend.

"The visit underlines the president's desire to contribute to an ambitious, global agreement in Copenhagen," said Loekke Rasmussen.

Yvo de Boer, U.N. climate treaty chief, told reporters in Bonn Wednesday, "I think it's critical that President Obama attend the climate change summit in Copenhagen. The world is very much looking to the United States to come forward with an emission reduction target and contribute to financial support to help developing countries."

While Obama himself tried to tamp down expectations during his eight-day trip to Asia earlier this month, he also called on world leaders to come to an agreement that has "immediate operational effect" and is not just a political declaration.

The administration has indicated for nearly a year that it would eventually come up with specific targets for quick reductions in pollution that causes global warming, as part of international negotiations.

Several other administration officials will also attend the conference, including Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson, Energy Secretary Steven Chu, and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar.

This will be Obama's second trip to Denmark this year. He made a short trip to Copenhagen on Oct. 2 to make a vain pitch for 2016 Summer Olympics in Chicago during a meeting of the International Olympic Committee.