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Russell report claims scientists didn't fudge data; climate change skeptic disagrees

Thu, 07/08/2010 - 15:00 by Jaspreet Virk

A sigh of relief for the scientists at the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia! Clearing the climate change scientists of allegations that they manipulated data to promote their theory that global warming is man-made, a new reports states that they did not fake the results.

Hacked climate change e-mails to ignite political debate?

Wed, 11/25/2009 - 15:41 by Jaspreet Virk

New York, November 25 -- “I’ve just completed Mike’s Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) amd [sic] from 1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline,” wrote Climatic Research Unit’s (CRU) professor Phil Jones in an e-mail in 1999.

Genetically altered crops grow 'in secret'

Mon, 07/27/2009 - 21:53 by Salinder Kumar

Tadcaster, England. -- A British university has quietly resumed growing genetically modified potatoes a year after protesters ripped up the crop, prompting calls of foul play.

The 400 plants in the field near Tadcaster, 15 miles east of Leeds and 10 miles west of York, were originally removed in May 2008, just weeks after planting, as a result of damage caused by unidentified environmentalists.

The project has been restarted without alerting the public, as is usual when such trials begin, prompting environmental groups to warn that local farms and residents could be at risk, The Daily Telegraph reported.