Peter Ridd, professor of James Cook University, court ruled he was improperly fired by publishing comments about the inaccuracy of reports on the condition of the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. link

A scam and here is why link

Who is Mr Foia? Link

The Climategate scandal revealed that the UN IPCC was simply a lobbying organization portraying itself as a science panel. If the UN failed to find carbon dioxide was a problem, it would no longer have a reason to continue studying it—or to be in charge of offering “solutions” …The leading UN IPCC scientists were caught red-handed artificially manufacturing the “scientific consensus” for the global warming narrative. Their own words betrayed that they were acting like political partisans, not scientists—crafting a predetermined message rather than following the evidence. Climategate exposed the work product of the IPCC as the best science that politics and activism could manufacture.

On the morning of 17 November 2009 a Pandora’s box of embarrassing CRU information exploded onto the world scene. A computer hacker penetrated the university’s computer system and took 61 Megs of material that showed the CRU had been manipulating scientific information to make global warming appear to be the fault of mankind and industrial CO2. Among many other scandals, the shocking leaked emails showed then-CRU-director Prof. Phil Jones boasting of using statistical “tricks” to remove evidence of observed declines in global temperatures.

In another email, he advocated deleting data rather than providing it to scientists who did not share his view and might criticize his analyses. Non-alarmist scientists had to invoke British freedom of information laws to get the information. Jones was later suspended, and former British Chancellor Lord Lawson called for a Government enquiry into the embarrassing exposé.  The affair became known as “Climategate.”

Assuming the e-mails are genuine, they are nothing short of scandalous. They reveal celebrated climate scientists apparently conspiring to corrupt the peer-review process, to suppress or finesse temperature data at odds with global-warming alarmism, to silence or discredit climate experts who criticize their work, and to hide or eliminate the raw data on which their own much-trumpeted claims have been based. 

Behind that smug public appeal to scientific authority, however, was what now looks like a concerted effort to blackball the skeptics. In a July 2004 e-mail, for example, CRU director Phil Jones dismisses as “garbage’’ the work of two dissenters. “I can’t see either of these papers being in the next IPCC report,’’ he assures fellow scientist Michael Mann of Penn State University. “Kevin and I will keep them out somehow - even if we have to redefine what the peer-review literature is!’’

In another e-mail, Mann fumes because the peer-reviewed journal Climate Research published a paper by two noted skeptics, Willie Soon and Sallie Baliunas of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. “This was the danger of always criticizing the skeptics for not publishing in the ‘peer-reviewed literature.’ Obviously, they found a solution to that - take over a journal!’’ The only thing to do, he suggests, is rig the peer-review system: “I think we have to stop considering ‘Climate Research’ as a legitimate peer-reviewed journal. Perhaps we should encourage our colleagues in the climate research community to no longer submit to, or cite papers in, this journal.’’

 Even more disturbing than such contempt for legitimate disagreement is the thread of e-mails in which Jones and other climate scientists discuss how best to evade requests for the raw data underlying their published work. There are repeated recommendations that records be destroyed. “Mike,’’ wrote Jones last year in an e-mail to Mann regarding the IPCC’s Fourth Assessment Report, “Can you delete any e-mails you may have had with Keith re AR4?’’ Earlier, referring to requests for the meteorological station data used to build the CRU’s global temperature record, Jones had written that if the skeptics “ever hear there is a Freedom of Information Act now in the UK, I think I’ll delete the file rather than send to anyone.’’ link