Live Microblogging Of GWPF – Montford – Bishop Hill Climategate Enquiries Presentation

I am at the House of Lords for the GWPF / Montford / Bishop Hill presentation of the climategate inquiries report

Follow @mmorabito67 on Twitter for live updates from 10am GMT

UPDATE: here the relevant Twitter entries in chronological order

• Delingpole, Warehouse in attendance
• Lord Lawson, Benny Peer, Lord Turnbull, Andrew Montford ready to go
• Benny Peiser of course – curse you, Android!
• And that was Whitehouse 😛
• Starts right on time. Turnbull first
• Turnbull: so far boys-will-be-boys defence. ButBritish science reputation important.
• Turnbull: climate policy ipcc-based in UK demands almost complete decarbonisation
• People questions if science is solid enough to warrant these sacrifices
• Climategate enquiries timely but did they answer the original questions? New parliam commit looking at things again
• Missing is review of science that select committee thought would be done by Oxburgh and was not
• Montford reads. Starts with lack of independence
• Panels full of campaigners, no skeptic selected
• Serious allegations overlooked, selected papers by UEA and Jones themselves
• Known fraud evidence not considered at all
• Sir Muir Russell informed of FOI breach but did nothing about it
• Curry, von Storch critical of the enquiries too. Reputation of British science is on the line
• Peiser underlines it’s the enquiries that are under scrutiny, not the original allegations
• Times journo challenges Montford on Jones’ selection claim. Good answer.
• Turnbull: flaws from day one, prejudicial remarks, little representativity, flawed processes
• I asked: enquiries give free hands to fraudsters as long as it’s not too serious a fraud: Bishop is more optimistic
• Telegraph journalist asks Lords’ own opinion. Lawson mentions huge cloud of doubt when emails came out
• Inquiries are the expertise of Lord Turnbull -these ones failed to close the debate on Climategate
• They may be right about the science, so why did UEA engage on disreputable behaviour?
• Guardian journalist asks how report was written (desktop job)
• Why the Bishop? Lawson asks to judge report on merits
• Turnbull: parliament is listening to Sir Muir and the others too
• Montford: plenty of citations in my report if anybody is looking for them
• Telegraph: new info? Russell minutes on website, recently available
• UEA head of IT: Briffa took home some emails. Russell did not even mention this
• Turnbull: can we really do AR5 as if nothing had happened
• Lawson: there is no indication the ipcc will implement the recommendations
• The ipcc hid the decline – very disreputable – even if Jones mentioned it in the original articles
• Montford: only mention of hiding at the very last moment in AR4
• Whither the IPCC? Lawson: doubts undermine its purpose
• MP already in Sci Tech committee: our outcome not influenced by our chairman remarks
• Continues: surprise by huge gaps when we asked none there would be
• More: Jones and Briffa cannot reproduce their work. “Very disturbing”
• Meeting closes at 10:53am Gmt