East Anglia Climatic Research Unit shown to be liars by ... latest FOIA ruling and investigation

watts up with that? ^ | Anthony Watts

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

This will be a top sticky post for a day or two – new stories appear below this one.

In the over 7,000 published stories here on WUWT, I have never used the word “liar” in the headline to refer to CRU and the Yamal affair. That changes with this story.

I’ve always thought that with CRU, simple incompetence is a more likely explanation than malice and/or deception. For example, Phil Jones can’t even plot trends in Excel. In this particular case, I don’t think incompetence is the plausible explanation anymore. As one commenter on CA (Andy) said

“I suspect the cause of all this is an initial small lie, to cover intellectual mistakes, snowballing into a desire not to lose face, exacerbated by greater lies and compounded by group think. “

Given what I’ve witnessed and recalled from the history of the Yamal affair with Steve McIntyre’s latest investigation, I’m now quite comfortable applying the label of “liar” to the CRU regarding their handling of data, of accusations, and of FOIA.

In my opinion, these unscrupulous climate scientists at CRU deserve our scorn, and if UEA had any integrity, they’d be reprimanded and/or shown the door. But as we’ve seen with the handling of the Muir Russell sham “investigation”, key questions to key players weren’t even asked about key points of evidence. For example, Muir Russell didn’t even bother attending the one interview (April 9) in which Jones and Briffa were supposed to be asked about paleoclimate. So UEA/CRU will probably just try to gloss this over with another lie too. – Anthony Watts

McIntyre: Yamal FOI Sheds New Light on Flawed Data

[Marine_Uncle]

Thanks Ernest. I’ll book mark this one for a in depth read later.

[Carry_Okie]

Thanks for the reply...I was beginning to think I was talking to myself....

I know the feeling all too well. This one takes a while to digest.

Thanks for all you do.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Thanks for the kind words.

These AGW clowns need to be exposed.

[Carry_Okie]

These AGW clowns need to be exposed and defunded.

Their sponsors, on the other hand, belong in jail.