Posted on 11/30/2009 11:06:01 AM PST by FromLori
It would appear that the Climategate scandal, the hacked emails from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in the U.K. revealing that scientists distorted climate change data, is not going to cool off anytime soon.
Climate change skeptics are fired up about the "accidental" deletion of temperature data by head of the CRU Phil Jones and the bogus data aggregation procedure used by scientists that "renders the [temperature readings] totally meaningless," but what gets some people's goats the most is the fact that the University of East Anglia is still denying that there was any wrong doing.
The Washington Times: We read and reread these CRU documents in stunned amazement. But rather than investigating all the evidence of so much academic fraud and intellectual wrongdoing, the University of East Anglia is denying there is a problem. Professor Trevor Davies, the school's pro vice chancellor for research, issued a defensive statement on Tuesday claiming: "The publication of a selection of the emails and data stolen from the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) has led to some questioning of the climate science research published by CRU and others. There is nothing in the stolen material which indicates that peer-reviewed publications by CRU, and others, on the nature of global warming and related climate change are not of the highest-quality of scientific investigation and interpretation."...
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
My dogma ate my homework.
There was a caller to Rush this morning who accused him of lying about the ‘real threat’ of GW.
Perhaps they need to read a few more of the emails.....
Excerpts from some of the emails in the “HARRY_READ_ME.txt
QUOTE
- “But what are all those monthly files? DON’T KNOW, UNDOCUMENTED. Wherever I look, there are data files, no info about what they are other than their names. And that’s useless ...” (Page 17)
- “It’s botch after botch after botch.” (18)
- “The biggest immediate problem was the loss of an hour’s edits to the program, when the network died ... no explanation from anyone, I hope it’s not a return to last year’s troubles ... This surely is the worst project I’ve ever attempted. Eeeek.” (31)
- “Oh, GOD, if I could start this project again and actually argue the case for junking the inherited program suite.” (37)
- “... this should all have been rewritten from scratch a year ago!” (45)
- “Am I the first person to attempt to get the CRU databases in working order?!!” (47)
- “As far as I can see, this renders the (weather) station counts totally meaningless.” (57)
- “COBAR AIRPORT AWS (data from an Australian weather station) cannot start in 1962, it didn’t open until 1993!” (71)
- “What the hell is supposed to happen here? Oh yeah — there is no ‘supposed,’ I can make it up. So I have : - )” (98)
- “You can’t imagine what this has cost me — to actually allow the operator to assign false WMO (World Meteorological Organization) codes!! But what else is there in such situations? Especially when dealing with a ‘Master’ database of dubious provenance ...” (98)
- “So with a somewhat cynical shrug, I added the nuclear option — to match every WMO possible, and turn the rest into new stations ... In other words what CRU usually do. It will allow bad databases to pass unnoticed, and good databases to become bad ...” (98-9)
- “OH F-— THIS. It’s Sunday evening, I’ve worked all weekend, and just when I thought it was done, I’m hitting yet another problem that’s based on the hopeless state of our databases.” (241).
- “This whole project is SUCH A MESS ...” (266)
They’re sitting on a global diamond mine with an inexhaustible supply of monies from around the world if they can keep the lid down on this scandal. I find it comical that they are going to these lengths to quiet the storm when all signs point to complete and total fraud on the part of these “researchers.”
For all of the plagiarism stuff I have to digest in my graduate degree program, I am shocked that these academicians are allowed to just say that the data is “missing” with no hope for recovery. That answer would likely be met with a denial of degree in the real world!
This strikes me as being a little like Hillary Clinton going into the bowels of the State Dept and destroying a cabinet of microfiche.
1) It's not something that happens by accident.
2) There really have to be backups. I can't imagine any serious enterprise not having backups. If these are gone, then the data destruction is done thoroughly and deliberately.
3) The Head guy doesn't do this stuff. He delegates. If he DID do it (and Phil Jones seems to have done so) then it is an admission that the data destruction is too sensitive to delegate to anyone and can only be performed by people who will keep their mouth shut.
This is so totally dirty.
I can just imagine how that went over lmao
Climate Climax = Fake Gorebasm
Unfortunately, I figure, as many people are as familiar with the concept of document control as they are about the scientific method. Which is to say, not very many...JFK
LOL! Accidental?...yeah right, just like it was “accidental” when Rosemary Woods deleted 20 minutes of the Nixon tapes. These people are such jokes, yet they are in power. God help us.
Rush ripped the guys entire arse off of his body too!!!
LLS
One of the emails stated that they’d delete the data rather than comply with an FOI request.
It’s pretty obvious that that’s what happened.
Time to think of getting Carbonite.com on the phone. "Hey, yea, this is Bob at the University? I was wondering what your starter package ran. It seems, you'll think this is funny, it seems I have accidentally deleted proof the world is gonna fry. Kind of embarrassing you can guess when the data was kind of needed to institute a one world government. Look, I'm getting a little heat over the whole thing, no pun intended. I was wondering if I could use the online coupon?..."
My karma ran over your dogma.
“accidental” my a**. They did it deliberately so that the REAL information would never be known. Only their doctored meaningless crap would be left.
I think that is why they had quotes around “accidental” they were being sarcastic or lets hope anyway but I see it as good that sites are talking about it now.
Tagline.
I sure hope that investigation will consider criminal charges.
“One of the emails stated that they’d delete the data rather than comply with an FOI request.”
Gee, I wonder why they would do that?? Like a crooked business keeping 2 books to defraud the IRS.
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