"Climategate" now returns more hits on Google than "global warming"

Interesting. As at the time Anthony Watts did a search on "global warming' on Google - and it's been a hot topic for, gosh, how many years now? - the search result was for 10,100,000 hits.

After just one week of existance, "climategate" was returning 10,400,000 hits! 

Andrew Bolt has more:

The news that many Left-wing journalists refuse to cover is now exploding all over the Internet. “Climategate” now gets 10.6 million mentions on Google, even though Google won’t offer the term on its auto-suggest.

The public is not just learning of Climategate, but learning of media censorship as well.

UPDATE

Google now has “Climategate” on autosuggest - and it returns more hits even than “global warming”. Ask your local media outlet why this scandal is not getting the coverage it deserves.

UPDATE 2

Via Watts Up With That, this video of who’s-who in Climategate:

UPDATE 3

If governments around the world weren’t punting trillions of dollars on the reliability of these scientists’ work, you’d laugh:

SCIENTISTS at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have admitted throwing away much of the raw temperature data on which their predictions of global warming are based. It means that other academics are not able to check basic calculations said to show a long-term rise in temperature over the past 150 years.

The UEA’s Climatic Research Unit (CRU) was forced to reveal the loss following requests for the data under Freedom of Information legislation.

The data were gathered from weather stations around the world and then adjusted to take account of variables in the way they were collected. The revised figures were kept, but the originals — stored on paper and magnetic tape — were dumped to save space when the CRU moved to a new building.

The admission follows the leaking of a thousand private emails sent and received by Professor Phil Jones, the CRU’s director. In them he discusses thwarting climate sceptics seeking access to such data.

In a statement on its website, the CRU said: “We do not hold the original raw data but only the value-added (quality controlled and homogenised) data.”

The CRU is the world’s leading centre for reconstructing past climate and temperatures. Climate change sceptics have long been keen to examine exactly how its data were compiled. That is now impossible.

Roger Pielke, professor of environmental studies at Colorado University, discovered data had been lost when he asked for original records. “The CRU is basically saying, ‘Trust us’. So much for settling questions and resolving debates with science,” he said.

No sane Government can now commit themselves to spending their national wealth on science so shady.

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