IS RUSSIA ALIGNED WITH CONSERVATES ON CLIMATEGATE?

A bit of perplexing yet refreshing reality here. As has been the case as climategate has been unfolding, the British press is putting the American press to shame. The longer that goes on, the more shameful the American press continues to look. Pride is a very powerful and destructive thing, isn't it? Thanks to James Delingpole at the London TELEGRAPH, it appears Russia is continuing to be a thorn in the side of the Allegory crowd, especially if the rumors that the release of the CRU emails were the result of Russia protecting its oil interests.

Delingpole quotes from a Russian press release:

Climategate has already affected Russia. On Tuesday, the Moscow-based Institute of Economic Analysis (IEA) issued a report claiming that the Hadley Center for Climate Change based at the headquarters of the British Meteorological Office in Exeter (Devon, England) had probably tampered with Russian-climate data.

The IEA believes that Russian meteorological-station data did not substantiate the anthropogenic global-warming theory. Analysts say Russian meteorological stations cover most of the country’s territory, and that the Hadley Center had used data submitted by only 25% of such stations in its reports. Over 40% of Russian territory was not included in global-temperature calculations for some other reasons, rather than the lack of meteorological stations and observations.

Now it appears Russia views what CRU might have done with its data as an affront and may be willing to go to the mat over it.

Great news if you are a "denier". Not good news if you support Allegory.

h/t to AT