It now turns out that last week’s statement by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) that key climate conman, Professor Phil Jones, could not be prosecuted was wrong. Sterling journalism from the UK’s ‘Telegraph’ is now assisting our campaign to bust the climate crimes being hidden by implausible cock ups in the investigations into the Climategate scandal. Christopher Booker takes up the baton raised by my article that this farce is spiralling out of control and is not being intelligently reported. It appears the ICO ‘misread’ the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Now was that done accidentally or deliberately?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/7113552/Climategate-confusion-over-the-law-in-email-case.html
As I reported on Friday, as a consequence of the outrageous statement by the ICO that Jones was ‘guilty’ but the prosecutorial time limit had expired makes a mockery of the whole judicial process.
http://www.climategate.com/climategate-professor-phil-jones-could-face-ten-years-on-fraud-charges
The ICO’s statement seriously prejudices the outcome of any criminal charges brought against Jones, chief climatologist at the UK’s Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia (UEA), for offences as per the FOIA.
The ‘Telegraph’s’ Booker reports:
“The Commission is thus impaled on a hook of its own devising. By admitting that serious offences were committed, it is now legally obliged to bring charges. And if these were brought under the 1977 Criminal Law Act, alleging that the offences amounted to a conspiracy to defy the law, there is no time limit anyway.”
Furthermore, in a statement, Professor Edward Acton, vice-chancellor of UEA commented:
“The ICO’s opinion that we had breached the terms of Section 77 is a source of grave concern to the university as we would always seek to comply with the terms of the Act.”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8484385.stm
But not so fast! In effect, the ICO have labelled Jones ‘guilty’ of the offence so that it is now highly improbable that any court may lawfully convict him on tainted FOIA charges anyway as Jones’s lawyers will argue that the authorities have abused their man’s human rights because every defendant is ‘guilty till proven innocent.’ But in the light of other facts, as outlined below, I fear that fudging this case was the intention all along. But either way, ICO Commissioner, Christopher Graham’s head must roll.
As we reported on Climategate.com, this bungle was no more than a technicality because a case for fraud against Jones may be brought using other sections of the criminal law. For example, under the Fraud Act (2006) ‘Section 3: Fraud by failing to disclose information’ it is an offence to commit fraud by:
“ failing to disclose information to another person where there is a legal duty to disclose the information.“
However, today I can reveal the plot thickens because I can reveal there is further evidence suggesting wilful nonfeasance or malfeasance by government officials. Graham Smith, Deputy Commissioner, said in an emailed press release:
“Norfolk Police are investigating how private emails have become public.”
No mention of climate data fraud there. In fact we may infer that there is no police investigations into the alleged climate date fraud of Professor Jones because such cases involving international fraud involving sums greater than £1 million Pounds (US $1.6m) are required to be investigated by Britain’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serious_Fraud_Office_(United_Kingdom)
The SFO was established in 1988 after the Roskill Report recommended that this specialist duty be taken away from normal police forces and the Crown Prosecution Service. The report came in the wake of several failed prosecutions, as we have now seen perpetrated by the ICO. The Attorney-General’s office has been in direct charge of the SFO since the enactment of the Criminal Justice Act (1987).
So if the SFO is not on climate professor, Phil Jones’s case then who is?
What is even more galling, in light of the above facts, is that the criminal investigation into the leaked CRU emails is not actually being carried out by Norfolk Police but by the National Domestic Extremism Team (NDET), a non-accountable secret police group under the sway of the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO), a private company run by British chief police officers who happen to have considerable pension fund investments in carbon credits!
http://www.climategate.com/the-national-domestic-extremism-team-may-be-watching-you
Anyone else see a conflict of interest here?
Based on the facts as known, the British Government may thus be accused of either deliberately or negligently conducting the investigation into the Climategate Scandal. As regular followers of this story will know, the Climategate controversy first hit the headlines when 1,000+ emails were uploaded to a Russian Internet server on November 19, 2009 causing a sensation among scientific bloggers and climate skeptics. The mainstream media has persisted in claiming the emails were ‘hacked’ despite the proof that the emails had all personal contact details carefully redacted, were contained within a directory marked, ‘FOIA’ ( Freedom of Information) and were thus more plausibly leaked by a concerned whistleblower.
In the wake of the furore over Climategate the floodgates have opened with a succession of further climate calamities to embarrass advocates of pro-green global warming science. These latest news stories are slowly finding their way into a reticent mainstream media who are now grudingly starting to report climate data fraud in fresh scandals such as Glaciergate, Amazongate and Pachaurigate. Although, these too, are only fully exposed on the World Wide Web.
It is no coincidence that after ICO announced there would be no criminal charges against Jones, an exuberant Prince Charles paid a special visit to the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit to publicly praise Jones and his discredited ‘hockey team’ for all their good work in ‘hiding the decline’ in global temperatures.
His Royal Wretchedness said,
“Well done all of you. Many, many congratulations on your work. I wish you great success in the future. Don’t get downhearted by these little blips here and there!”
See him on video here: http://www.itv.com/anglia/royal-climate-research48555/
Just think about that for one moment – the future king of England endorsing crime! This blatant show of eco-fascist hubris is to be condemned as another nail in the credibility coffin of the prince who talks to plants.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100023889/wtf-prince-of-wales-
tells-disgraced-cru-well-done-all-of-you/
As a supplement to my legal analysis for the prosecution against disgraced Professor Phil Jones and based on the thorough scientific analysis of over 1,000+ leaked emails made by acclaimed Australian physicist, Dr. John Costella, I have made a further second analysis ably aided by my growing team of legal associates. We have been able to substantiate further the case against the prevaricating professor from the University of Unthruths.
Dr. Costella adds further commentary to one email that I consciously avoided including, for legal reasons, in my previous article on the prosecution evidence against Professor Jones. This is the now famous ‘trick’ that Jones used to ‘hide the decline’ and which John Costella addresses thus:
“Phil Jones to Ray Bradley, Mike Mann, Malcolm Hughes, Keith Briffa, and Tim Osborn, regarding a diagram for a World Meteorological Organization Statement:
Jones: “I’ve just completed Mike’s Nature trick of adding in the real temperatures to each series for the last 20 years (i.e. from 1981 onwards) and from 1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline. “ [November 16, 1999: email 0942777075]
I defer to the expert commentary of acclaimed Australian physicist, Dr. J. Costella:
“Those thirty-three words summarize the hoax so magnificently succinctly that the Nobel Committee should consider retrieving their Peace Prize from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and Al Gore, and re-issuing it as a Literature Prize to Phil Jones.
This email was sent less than two months after the one analyzed above [not cited]. Clearly, Mike Mann’s problems with Keith Briffa’s data—that it didn’t agree with the real temperature measurements from 1961 onwards—had by this time spread to the data for the other “temperature proxies”, albeit only from 1981 onwards. Jones reveals that Mann did not address this problem by making honest note of it in the paper that he and his co-authors published in Nature, but rather by fraudulently substituting the real temperature data into the graphs, for the past twenty or forty years as required.
That Mann did so would, in and of itself, disqualify him and all of his research from any future consideration in the annals of science; but here we have the other leader of the field, Phil Jones, bragging that he admired the “trick” so much that he adopted it himself. Moreover, his email was sent to the major players who dominated this field. It is the silence of these conspirators over the intervening decade that has forever damned the field of “climate science” to a state of irreversible ignominy.”
Costella speaks authoritatively as a scientist. He is not an attorney nor does he have legal training, but we get the drift of his meaning in the context of scientific ethics.
As you will note the email of the ‘trick’ about ‘hiding the decline’ is dated November 16, 1999. This is ordinarily outside the time limit for a prosecution. But a nimble-minded prosecutor would argue that, as Jones sought to conceal such evidence by lies and deceit such pernicious conscious intent keeps such evidence ‘alive’ so that, despite being over a decade old, it is still admissible under the rules of ‘compounded offences.’
In addition, I have been reliably informed that on the basis of the above email Jones may, supplementary to other Fraud Act offences, be liable here for conspiracy to corrupt, contrary to section 1 of the Criminal Law Act 1977. For the purposes of concurrence, the actus reus is a continuing one and parties may join the plot later and incur joint liability and conspiracy can be charged where the co-conspirators have been acquitted or cannot be traced.
The gives us some extra latitude by permitting that if the victim (taxpayer) has suffered of any financial or other prejudice there of, there is no need to establish that the defendant deceived him or her. Moreover, we may treat Professor Jones’s emails as full confessions under the law. UK’s eminent Lord of Appeal, Lord Steyn, in R v Hayter [2005] UKHL 6 (3 February 2005) at paragraph 25 stated,
“ a confession may be admitted not only as evidence against its maker but also as evidence against a co-accused implicated thereby.”
So that Jones’s admission about Michael Mann’s ‘trick’ to ‘hide the decline’ implicates those other climatologists who received the aforementioned email i.e. Ray Bradley, Mike Mann, Malcolm Hughes, Keith Briffa, and Tim Osborn.
As an illustration, the case against Phil Jones and others under the Fraud Act (2006) is evinced by “ Fraud by false representation (Section 2)” that summarises what a prosecutor would be seeking to prove. To attain a guilty verdict against the Defendant the following five elements must be fulfilled so that Professor Jones:
(1.) made
(2.) a false representation
(3.) dishonestly
(4.) knowing that the representation was or might be untrue or misleading
(5.) with intent to make a gain for himself or another, to cause loss to another or to expose another to risk of loss.
Here is our graph to show an example of the ‘gain’ made by Jones and his university chums by their dishonest practice –
Note the cool £6.6 million in 2002 followed by a lush £2.7million in 2006. So science crime DOES pay – and all with a special thank you from chuckling Charlie!
Since we broke this story last we my legal colleagues and I have yet to hear or read of ANY defence, let alone a plausible one, to my proposed prosecution argument. We believe it is now essential that the SFO now takes over this investigation. It is contrary to the principles of Labour’s much-hyped ‘transparency’ in freedom of information that a select police group is inappropriately operating outside its remit whilst the best of British fraud specialists are stood idly by.
If the authorities continue to bungle and blather then I fear the only conclusion that may reasonably be drawn is that the British Government is engaged in a cover up; a shabby grand conspiracy to evade political embarassment rather than to honourably uphold their elected duty – namely, to best serve the interests of taxpayers.
Until recently I was enjoying correspondence (via my MP) with the Climate Minister, Joan Ruddock in which I urged her to apply due diligence.
http://www.climategate.com/allow-me-to-correct-you-uk-climate-minister-joan-ruddock
Strangely the Minister hasn’t replied to me lately. But my global warming skeptic friends and I are undeterred by such subterfuge, dithering and blind panic. We are steadfastly resolved to bust the greatest science scam of all time.
Gordon Brown’s largesse with our taxes has brought this country to near bankruptcy . For example, he has wastefully donated at least £1.5 billion to a foreign fund to combat the effects of an arguable disaster caused by arguable climate change.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/6803669/Could-islands-be-swamped-because-of-sinking-land-and-not-by-rising-sea-levels.html
More bad news for eco-fascism is coming, methinks.Watch this space!
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