CLIMATEGATE HEATS UP: Head of CRU Steps down and Penn State Professor Being Investigated by his University

CLIMATEGATE HEATS UP: Head of CRU Steps down and Penn State Professor Being Investigated by his University

East Anglia University’s Climate Research Unit (CRU) is considered by many to be ground zero for the science of global warming and climate change. It is now becoming ground zero in a scandal that may become the biggest in mankind’s history.

Two very key players in climategate are men named Phil Jones, head of the CRU in Great Britain and Michael Mann, a Penn State professor who is responsible for what has become known as the “hockey stick” chart. The chart, used at the 2001 U.N. International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) conference, showed a dramatic increase in temperatures at the end of the 20th century. This chart has been debunked and with the release of over 1000 emails from the CRU over the internet, it’s increasingly looking like data was manipuated and a fraud may have been perpetrated.

Bob Chapman of the International Forecaster is an expert in economics and politics who can speak to both the money behind the enviornmental movement as well as the political implications of a scandal this big. “Here you have trillions of dollars going to so-called climate change research and now it’s become apparent that the scientists were manipulating data and squashing dissent in order to push an agenda,” Chapman said.

There are many more people than Jones and Mann involved in Climategate, many much more well known names. Former vice president Al Gore has become the poster child for the global warming movement and Obama administration Science Czar John Holdren is also involved to some degree. At least one of the emails from him to Mann in 2003 shows that he is actively trying to discredit two solar scientists named Soon and Baliunas who were challenging Mann’s interpretation of what’s known as the Medieval Warming Period (MWP).

It may be too early to call climategate an international conspiracy but when one considers the fact that a conspiracy is defined as an agreement by two or more persons to commit a crime, fraud, or other wrongful act, that possibility remains viable. The CRU that Jones heads is in Great Britain and Mann is in the United States.

There are over one thousand emails involved in this scandal but the one that has seemed to serve as THE red flag was one written by Jones to Mann and others in which he uses words like, “nature trick” and “hide the decline”. Here is a copy of the email with key words in italics.

From: Phil Jones
To: ray bradley ,mann@xxx, mhughes@xxx
Subject: Diagram for WMO Statement
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 13:31:15 0000
Cc: k.briffa@xxx,t.osborn@xxx

Dear Ray, Mike and Malcolm,
Once Tim’s got a diagram here we’ll send that either later today or
first thing tomorrow.

I’ve just completed Mike’s Nature trick of adding in the real temps
to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) amd from
1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline. Mike’s series got the annual
land and marine values while the other two got April-Sept for NH land
N of 20N. The latter two are real for 1999, while the estimate for 1999
for NH combined is 0.44C wrt 61-90. The Global estimate for 1999 with
data through Oct is 0.35C cf. 0.57 for 1998.
Thanks for the comments, Ray.

Cheers
Phil

Prof. Phil Jones
Climatic Research Unit Telephone XXXXXX
School of Environmental Sciences Fax XXXXXX
University of East Anglia

THE FOLLOWING STORIES MAY BE HELPFUL DURING SHOW PREP:

http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/p-j-gladnick/2009/11/26/climategate-white-house-involvement-scandal-will-make-it-harder-msm-ig

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/01/AR2009120102737_pf.html

http://barracknow.blogspot.com/2009/11/link-to-all-cru-climate-change-fraud.html

http://barracknow.blogspot.com/2009/11/video-excellent-climategate-song.html


ROBERT J. CHAPMAN BIOGRAPHY:

Bob Chapman was born in Boston, MA and attended Northeastern University majoring in business management. He spent three years in the U. S. Army Counterintelligence, mostly in Europe. He speaks German and French and is conversant in Spanish. He lived in Europe for six years, off and on, three years in Africa, one year in Canada and another year in the Bahamas.

Mr. Chapman became a stockbroker in 1960 and retired in 1988. For 18 of those years he owned his own brokerage firm. He was probably the largest gold and silver stockbroker in the world during that period. When he retired he had over 6,000 clients.

From 1962 through 1976 he specialized in South African gold shares. He and his family lived in Salisbury, Rhodesia (now Harare, Zimbabwe) and Johannesburg, South Africa from 1970 to 1973. During that time he did a great deal of further study into the South African mining industry.

Mr. Chapman belonged to The Traders Association for 25 years. He did all his own trading. During his South African years some was done directly through Johannesburg, but 95% was done through London brokerage firms. Hence, he has extensive contacts, both in London and on the Continent.

Starting in 1967 Mr. Chapman began writing articles on business, finance, economics and politics having been printed and reprinted over the years in over 200 publications. He owned and wrote the Gary Allen Report, which had 30,000 subscribers. He currently is owner and editor of The International Forecaster, a compendium of information on business, finance, economics and social and political issues worldwide, which reaches 10,000 investors and brokers monthly directly, and parts of his publication are picked up by 60 different websites weekly exposing his ideas to over 10 million investors a week.

In 1976, after the Soweto riots, Mr. Chapman began buying North American shares exclusively for his clients. Up to that point only a handful of American and Canadian issues interested him, due to the high dividends the South African shares had paid out over the years. Between 1976 and 1988 his business surged from 1,000 to 6,000 clients, so the bulk of his business ended up being Vancouver Stock Exchange issues. For this reason he is very conversant with the quality of management, geologists, properties and traders on today’s North American scene. He is well known.

From 1976 to present he has spoken and given workshops at over 200 business conferences worldwide, and has been on radio and TV thousands of times. Until his retirement he was always judged by the attendees to be one of the top three speakers and never once was lower than first in workshops due to his vast knowledge of the mining business and his grasp of worldwide financial markets and political scenes.

In June of 1991, at the request of business associates, and due to retirement boredom, he began writing the International Forecaster.

Over the past 40 years, Bob Chapman has immersed himself in the study of world politics and economics. His articles have run in more than 200 publications. His newsletter, "THE INTERNATIONAL FORECASTER,” has active subscribers all across world. Bob Chapman has conducted hundreds of workshops at business conferences and has been a featured guest on hundreds of radio and television programs.

Some of his uncanny predictions include:

* Called the top of the market in April 2000.
* Predicted 9/11 or an event like that, nine months early, within 33 days of it actually occurring.
* Predicted the invasion of both Afghanistan and Iraq two years before they happened.

To schedule an interview with BOB CHAPMAN, call: 630-848-0750.