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More On Extremism Unit Investigating Climategate

Posted by BLOGASSAULT on Monday, January 11, 2010 12:20:14 PM
   Bishop Hill broke the news on the investigation of climategate by the National Domestic Extremism Team in Britain. He explains here what this means.
 
The involvement of the Domestic Extremism Police is probably actually predictable. As watchers of the deteriorating civil liberties situation in the UK all know, powers granted to the police in the wake of 9/11 in order to fight terrorism are routinely used in the UK for minor crimes. By bringing in these specialists, Norfolk Police will be able to monitor emails, demand passwords and cryptographic keys and so on. That these powers are out of all proportion to the alleged crime is of course of no concern to law enforcement officers.
 
   This is what happens when you give away your freedoms as the citizens of Britain have done over the years (Guns, cameras on every street corner, etc.). One of them is you get these special units with all kinds of special powers getting involved in all kinds of things, even those that have nothing to do with their original creation.
 
   This is what will happen if we let the dems run things past 2012. Europe is our example of what comes from lefty values.
 
  
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"Extremism" Unit Investigating ClimateGate

Posted by BLOGASSAULT on Monday, January 11, 2010 12:01:00 PM
   Thought this was interesting. Via Climategate.tv
 
This morning I contacted Norfolk Constabulary with a view to finding out if they had yet ascertained whether the breach at the Climatic Research Unit was a leak or a hack. I have just received a response which is frankly amazing:
Norfolk Constabulary continues its investigations into criminal offences in relation to a data breach at the University of East Anglia.  During the enquiry officers have been working in liaison with the Office of the Information Commissioner and with officers from the National Domestic Extremism Team. The UEA continues to co-operate with the enquiry however major investigations of this nature are of necessity very detailed and as a consequence can take time to reach a conclusion. It would be inappropriate to comment further at this stage.
 
 
I then got it confirmed through another website via an article about applications going up at the University of East Anglia Climate Center.
 
Student applications are up 30pc this year according to officials - with a recent upsurge ahead of the January 15 deadline.

The news comes as Norfolk police reveal they have been working with officers from a national unit set up to respond to the threat of extremism to investigate the theft in November, which saw thousands of emails from the climate research unit published on a public website.

I don't know what hacked emails exposing crooked climate scientists have to do with a "extremism unit" doing the investigating into who broke into the server. If anything, the climate scientists are the ones who need looking into by the extremism unit.

This should to be interesting to follow.

 
 
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An Upcoming Ice Age?

Posted by BLOGASSAULT on Monday, January 11, 2010 10:41:57 AM
  There are several climate scientists who think so. (Via Instapundit)
 

The bitter winter afflicting much of the Northern Hemisphere is only the start of a global trend towards cooler weather that is likely to last for 20 or 30 years, say some of the world’s most eminent climate scientists.

Their predictions – based on an analysis of natural cycles in water temperatures in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans – challenge some of the global warming orthodoxy’s most deeply cherished beliefs, such as the claim that the North Pole will be free of ice in summer by 2013.

According to the US National Snow and Ice Data Centre in Colorado, Arctic summer sea ice has increased by 409,000 square miles, or 26 per cent, since 2007 – and even the most committed global warming activists do not dispute this.
 
 
Think this is a joke? Look at the weather this year in Europe; it is cold....
Fallen snow rests on Stonehenge in Salisbury, southern England.
 
As Europe struggles amid the heaviest snowfall seen in decades, yet more snow-induced chaos is in store. The low pressure front "Daisy" is expected to unleash storms and heavy snow across Germany over the weekend. Officials are urging people to stock up on food and avoid driving.

Even more snow is on its way across Germany and much of Europe, weather forecasters predicted on Friday. The German Meteorological Service (DWD) put out a weather warning, saying the low pressure front "Daisy" would bring gale force winds and up to 50 centimeters of snow and could trigger road chaos and power outages over the weekend.

Maybe it is just me, but it sure seems that the weather is much cooler the last few years here in the states as well.
 
 
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