A longstanding non-scientist skeptic about the anthropogenic global warming (AGW) fraud, in November 2009 his was one of the first mainstream media voices breaking the story of Climategate, a supposed "hacking" of the servers of the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit in order to put before the world at large the materials lawfully requested by inquirers under the U.K. Freedom of Information statutesand criminally stonewalled by the administration of the C.R.U.