Travelling Devil
Your humble Devil is briefly back at Hell Towers the now, and I would like to offer up a big thank you to those fine, upstanding contributors who weighed in with their excellent contributions over the last few days.I have a great deal to write about... oh, loads of stuff. Especially CRUdgate.However, tomorrow I am peripatetic once more: this time I am travelling to Bristol for the LPUK AGM.Back on Sunday.

CRUdGate - Why this can't be swept under the carpet
(NB, It's me, the P-G)As others have commented, ad nauseam, the response from the proponents of AGW essentially boils down to the following main components:The mail (often there is only one, not several thousand threads of multiple mails and it's usually only mail, rather mail, code, data and commentary) was hacked and that's frightfully naughty. Aren't hackers nasty. Particularly when they are Russian.This does not merit any response beyond laughter.The science is peer reviewed and it withstood that process.Still an appeal to authority and, more importantly, dealt with damningly

CRU: How to stifle scientific debate
[NB Author's note: I am not the Devil, merely a minor minion]While DK is on the road, I'll take the liberty of pointing readers in the direction of two unmissable posts on the unfolding Climategate scandal. First up is a superb piece at Climate Skeptic which warns of the dangers of the monoculture or groupthink that has grown up around AGW. In particular, Warren considers the idea of "peer review", which alarmists constantly brandish as proof of the indisputabil

More CRU code updates
Your humble Devil is still on the road with work: it's entirelytypical, of course, that I should be near incommunicado at such anexciting time.However, Bishop Hill is collating revelations from the CRU data. Do gohave a look.More later...DK

Reporting the CRU to the Information Commissioner
Further to the excellent and intriguing work the Devil and others have been doing digging through the leaked/hacked CRU emails, Kitchen readers may be interested to know that the TPA are reporting Prof Phil Jones and colleagues to the Information Commissioner for what appears to be a deliberate attempt to breach the Freedom of Information Act. Our full post on the importance of defending FoI, and how it applies to this case is here.If anyone is found to have deliberately destroyed information after an FoI request was made, the law states that they may be subject t