CRU: Shooting the messenger

Norwich Stop War President detained in Egypt while trying to aid Gaza

Important info about my friend and Green Councillor colleague Peter Offord. Please help, if you can!!: GAZA FREEDOM MARCH - BREAKING NEWS PETER OFFORD DETAINED IN EL ARISH, EGYPT As some of you may know Norwich Stop the War President, Peter Offord, is one of the international delegates travelling to Gaza to take part in the Gaza Freedom March. With him he is taking in art supplies to assist the Palestine Trauma Centre in Gaza. He and his colleagues were hoping to enter Gaza through the Egyptian border. However we have learned today that the Egyptian police are stopping international delegates from travelling to the Rafah border, where they intended to cross into Gaza to take part in the March. Currently Peter is around 40 kilometres from the Gaza border, which has been closed. This evening he has forwarded the message printed below explaining that he was among those detained in El Arish, to which the message refers. We must do all we can to ensure that the march is allowed to proceed

Greens vs. UKIP on BBC1 on weather vs. climate!

Go 40 minutes in for my debate live on the BBC today with UKIP MEP and Ian Gibson, on the UEA emails controversy, and after that about the prospects for smaller Parties at the General Election... http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00r0srl/The_Politics_Show_East_21_02_2010/ Let me know how you think I did! (I was fairly pleased with how it went... ...I think Mr. Agnew may not be quite as pleased... Just a shame that he pipped me by 1% at the Euro-election last June, such that we now have a scientifically-illiterate climate-denier in Brussels representing us, rather than your's truly... Better luck next time, Eastern Region!)

'Scandal' over hacked climate-science emails at UEA: Don't believe the hype

The 'scandal' of the hacked emails from Environmental Science at UEA ( http://www.uea.ac.uk/mac/comm/media/press/2009/nov/homepagenews/CRU-update - this includes a direct rebuttal of the single seemingly most-damaging email, the 'trick' email), my University, has been gotten out of all proportion in some of the right-wing media, old and new. I have now read a good number of the 'worst' of the hacked emails. I also know a few of the protagonists personally, and for human-interest value the hacked emails certainly do offer some tidbits. But: When the dust settles, I predict that the climate-deniers will be left holding onto hardly anything, here. There is so far as I can tell at this (still-admittedly-early) stage no significant scientific scandal, and most importantly absolutely no reason to doubt any of the fundamentals of the science of manmade climate change here, just a few unpleasant or silly or (at worst) unwise and bad-practice emails. Scient

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