24.1.10

Report: Canada's former ambassador to Iran was CIA spy - Nova Scotia News - TheChronicleHerald.ca

Report: Canada's former ambassador to Iran was CIA spy - Nova Scotia News - TheChronicleHerald.ca: "TORONTO — A report says the Canadian diplomat praised for sheltering Americans during the Iranian Revolution was a CIA spy."

David Kelly post mortem to be kept secret for 70 years as doctors accuse Lord Hutton of concealing vital information | Mail Online

David Kelly post mortem to be kept secret for 70 years as doctors accuse Lord Hutton of concealing vital information | Mail Online: "Vital evidence which could solve the mystery of the death of Government weapons inspector Dr David Kelly will be kept under wraps for up to 70 years.

In a draconian – and highly unusual – order, Lord Hutton, the peer who chaired the controversial inquiry into the Dr Kelly scandal, has secretly barred the release of all medical records, including the results of the post mortem, and unpublished evidence.

The move, which will stoke fresh speculation about the true circumstances of Dr Kelly’s death, comes just days before Tony Blair appears before the Chilcot Inquiry into the Iraq War.

It is also bound to revive claims of an establishment cover-up and fresh questions about the verdict that Dr Kelly killed himself."

Climate change chief says sorry for hot air claim over melting glaciers | Mail Online

Climate change chief says sorry for hot air claim over melting glaciers | Mail Online: "The head of the UN's climate change body has been forced to make a humiliating apology over claims the Himalayan glaciers could vanish within 25 years.
Last week it emerged there was no evidence for the warning from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
After a global outcry, Dr Rajendra Pachauri - chairman of the IPCC - has issued an unprecedented apology."

UN climate panel blunders again over Himalayan glaciers - Times Online

UN climate panel blunders again over Himalayan glaciers - Times Online: "Taxpayers are funding research into a scientific claim about glaciers that any ice researcher should immediately recognise as bogus. The revelation comes just a week after The Sunday Times highlighted serious scientific flaws in the IPCC's 2007 benchmark report on the likely impacts of global warming."