Jones Says Climate Change Data Not Well Organized, BBC Reports (Bloomberg) Feb. 15 (Bloomberg) -- Phil Jones , the professor at the center of a scandal over hacked e-mails on climate change, said his data wasn’t well organized and the period since 1995 hasn’t seen statistically significant global warming, British Broadcasting Corp. [News Source]

Climate change doubters say UN data has been tampered to grossly overstate global warming (Daily Mail) The United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change faces a fresh challenge with scientists casting doubt on its claim that the evidence for global warming is 'unequivocal'. [News Source]

Is Climate Change Plan Just Hot Air? (Fox News) Critics rip White House for plan to boost funding for global warming research amid Climate-gate scandals • Climate Debate Heats Up in Wake of Record Snow [News Source]

Global Warming Skeptics Lambaste Plan to Increase Funding for Climate Change Research (Fox News) Global warming skeptics are agog that President Obama is seeking to dramatically increase federal funding for global warming research in the wake of the Climate-gate scandals that have emerged during the last three months.  [News Source]

Feinstein seeks to ease curbs on water delivery to farmers. Her legislation would for two years loosen Endangered Species Act restrictions on pumping from the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta designed to protect salmon and delta smelt. [News Source]

New leader looks to fire up Sierra Club. Michael Brune has gained a reputation for embarrassing some of America's high-powered corporate chieftains into doing the environmental "right thing." Now he is about to become executive director of the Sierra Club, the nation's oldest and largest environmental organization. [News Source]

Astonishment as scientist at centre of global warming email row admits data not well organised. The academic at the centre of the "Climategate" affair, whose raw data is crucial to the theory of climate change, has admitted that he has trouble "keeping track" of the information. [News Source]

The professor’s amazing climate change retreat. Thanks to the row over leaked emails from the Climatic Research Unit, we now learn that this body’s director, Phil Jones, works in a disorganised fashion amid chaos and mess. [News Source]

A look at ‘cap and trade’ vs. ‘cap and dividend.’ Congress is considering several proposals to cap greenhouse gas emissions in an attempt to slow global warming and climate change and move the country away from reliance on fossil fuels like oil and coal. [News Source]

U.N. climate panel admits Dutch sea level flaw. The U.N. panel of climate experts overstated how much of the Netherlands is below sea level, according to a preliminary report on Saturday, admitting yet another flaw after a row last month over Himalayan glacier melt. [News Source]

UN panel will give $126b for climate. United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon has set up a high-level advisory panel to mobilise more than $US112 billion ($126.2 billion) in funding to help developing nations battle climate change. [News Source]