Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 11/22/2011 12:08:17 PM PST by ConjunctionJunction
UPDATE: 8:20 AM PST These emails have not been verified yet, and this story was posted by one of my moderating staff while I was asleep. Until such time they are verified, tread lightly because without knowing what is behind the rest of the zip file, for all we know it’s a bunch of recipes and collection of ipsem lorem text files. I’m working to authenticate these now and will report when I know more – Anthony Watts
UPDATE2: 8:45AM PST The Guardian has a story up be Leo Hickman, and this excerpt suggests they may be the real deal:
Norfolk police have said the new set of emails is “of interest” to their investigation to find the perpetrator of the initial email release who has not yet been identified.
The emails appear to be genuine, but this has yet to be confirmed by the University of East Anglia. One of the emailers, the climate scientist Prof Michael Mann, has confirmed that he believes they are his messages.
UPDATE3: 9:25 AM PST – Having read a number of emails, and seeing this quote from Mike Mann in the Guardian:
When asked if they were genuine, he said: “Well, they look like mine but I hardly see anything that appears damning at all, despite them having been taken out of context. I guess they had very little left to work with, having culled in the first round the emails that could most easily be taken out of context to try to make me look bad.”
(Excerpt) Read more at wattsupwiththat.com ...
This was the original thread where “foia” ‘dropped the dox’. Hehe! I love his/her/their way of “I’ll just leave this here” way of doing things. ;-)
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/11/21/hurricane-kenneth-forms-southwest-of-baja/
My first language (computer) was FORTRAN and I can garan-damn-tee you the the *first* whistleblower core-dump proved CRU was fudging the numbers.
Are we really surprised they were/are trying to recover from that embarrassment?
Yes, I saw the previous threads, but not from this source.
ROFL. Kudos for the gratuitous Seinfeld, Terri Hatcher reference.
Thanks for the link/ping!
Since when do real scientists refer to their research as a “cause”???
True believers do - not real scientists. That’s for sure.
I posted your thread on the other one...
Thanks!
They're real and they're spectacular!
The’re only fake ‘till you touch ‘em!
When they find that their calling (and, more importantly, their funding) depends more on activism than on legitimate science. At that point, they're no longer "real scientists" and become "real activists" who are just pretending to be scientists.
Why not just post here? Unless you’re a blog pimp.
Because it’s not my blog. The blog and its content belong to Anthony Watts. And because the post is kind of long.
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