Coddling the Climategate criminals

The so-called “six-month” statute of limitations that is supposedly protecting the Climategate charlatans doesn’t exist:

There is something very odd indeed about the statement by the Information Commission on its investigation into “Climategate”, the leak of emails from East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit. Gordon Smith, the deputy commissioner, confirms that the university’s refusal to answer legitimate inquiries made in 2007 and 2008 was an offence under S.77 of the Information Act. But he goes on to claim that the Commission is powerless to bring charges, thanks to a loophole in the law – “because the legislation requires action within six months of the offence taking place”.

Careful examination of the Act, however, shows that it says nothing whatever about a time limit. The Commission appears to be trying to confuse this with a provision of the Magistrates Act, that charges for an offence cannot be brought more than six months after it has been drawn to the authorities’ attention – not after it was committed. In this case, the Commission only became aware of the offence two months ago when the emails were leaked – showing that the small group of British and American scientists at the top of the IPCC were discussing with each other and with the university ways to break the law, not least by destroying evidence, an offence in itself.

I’m with James Delingpole on this. Prosecute and imprison the lying, thieving little bastards. Force them to repay the millions in grant money they fraudulently obtained. Actually, they deserve far worse than penury and prison, for they were at the heart of a scheme to reduce all of Mankind to serfdom in the name of science.

But don’t worry. There’s so much more fraud and chicanery left to be uncovered that the scientists will have to be thrown to the wolves before long.

Phil Jones, the beleaguered British climate scientist at the centre of the leaked emails controversy, is facing fresh claims that he sought to hide problems in key temperature data on which some of his work was based. A Guardian investigation of thousands of emails and documents apparently hacked from the University of East Anglia’s climatic research unit has found evidence that a series of measurements from Chinese weather stations were seriously flawed and that documents relating to them could not be produced.

As I have stated repeatedly, scientists are no more trustworthy than anyone else, their self-serving claim to objectivity by virtue of academic training is no more credible than that made by journalists. Scientists whose income is dependent upon achieving specific results are no more trustworthy than used-car salesmen. And peer review is a worthless method for policing science, as it is primarily useful for passing off non-science as science. Regardless, it is becoming ever more clear that the age of the scientist as sage and secular priest is over.