Climatologist Dr. Judith Curry: The IPCC’s ‘inconvenient truth’ — ‘The IPCC was seriously tarnished by the unauthorized release of emails from the University of East Anglia in November 2009, known as Climategate’

These emails revealed the ‘sausage making’ involved in the IPCC’s consensus building process, including denial of data access to individuals who wanted to audit their data processing and scientific results, interference in the peer review process to minimize the influence of skeptical criticisms, and manipulation of the media.  Climategate was quickly followed by the identification of an egregious error involving the melting of Himalayan glaciers.  These revelations were made much worse by the actual response of the IPCC to these issues. Then came the concerns about the behavior of the IPCC’s Director, Rachendra Pachauri, and investigations of the infiltration of green advocacy groups into the IPCC. All of this was occurring against a background of explicit advocacy and activism by IPCC leaders related to CO2 mitigation policies.…

Former Harvard Physicist Dr. Lubos Motl on claimed ‘cover up’ of global warming flatline: ‘Politicians are trying to play painful and childish games to misinterpret the results of the scientific research…research that they actually want to control so that it suits their political needs’

‘We have politicians from at least four countries who were proposing ways to hide a key fact about global warming – that it hasn’t been there for over 16 years – and each of them proposed a different “superb solution”..the American comrades urged the scientists to “explain away” the global warming. They didn’t just ask them for the impossible. They told them exactly what the “explanation away” should say.’