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Climategate: the final nail in the coffin of 'Anthropogenic Global Warming'?
Telegraph Blogs (U.K.) ^ | November 20, 2009 | James Delingpole

Posted on 11/20/2009 7:25:07 AM PST by Schnucki

If you own any shares in alternative energy companies I should start dumping them NOW. The conspiracy behind the Anthropogenic Global Warming myth (aka AGW; aka ManBearPig) has been suddenly, brutally and quite deliciously exposed after a hacker broke into the computers at the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit (aka Hadley CRU) and released 61 megabites of confidential files onto the internet. (Hat tip: Watts Up With That)

When you read some of those files – including 1079 emails and 72 documents – you realise just why the boffins at Hadley CRU might have preferred to keep them confidential. As Andrew Bolt puts it, this scandal could well be “the greatest in modern science”. These alleged emails – supposedly exchanged by some of the most prominent scientists pushing AGW theory – suggest:

Conspiracy, collusion in exaggerating warming data, possibly illegal destruction of embarrassing information, organised resistance to disclosure, manipulation of data, private admissions of flaws in their public claims and much more.

One of the alleged emails has a gentle gloat over the death in 2004 of John L Daly (one of the first climate change sceptics, founder of the Still Waiting For Greenhouse site), commenting:

“In an odd way this is cheering news.”

But perhaps the most damaging revelations – the scientific equivalent of the Telegraph’s MPs’ expenses scandal – are those concerning the way Warmist scientists may variously have manipulated or suppressed evidence in order to support their cause.

Here are a few tasters. (So far, we can only refer to them as alleged emails because – though Hadley CRU’s director Phil Jones has confirmed the break-in to Ian Wishart at the Briefing Room – he has yet to fess up to any specific contents.) But if genuine, they suggest dubious practices such as:

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TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: globalwarming; hadleycru
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1 posted on 11/20/2009 7:25:09 AM PST by Schnucki
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To: Schnucki
American media will attempt to ignore this. So I guess the question is how can we get them to cover it?

I have doubts that even FOX will go after this.
2 posted on 11/20/2009 7:28:42 AM PST by mmichaels1970
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To: sauropod

read


3 posted on 11/20/2009 7:28:46 AM PST by sauropod (People who do things are people that get things done.)
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To: Schnucki
there should be even more warming: but the data are surely wrong. Our observing system is inadequate.

"Those damn observations don't match our predictions! Reality must be wrong."

These guys are loony.

4 posted on 11/20/2009 7:30:51 AM PST by FatherofFive (Islam is an EVIL like no other, and must be ERADICATED. Barack OBORTION is a close second.)
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To: Schnucki

ping!


5 posted on 11/20/2009 7:33:08 AM PST by vanilla swirl (Maranatha!)
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To: Schnucki

Is the torrent download still active?

http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5171206


6 posted on 11/20/2009 7:33:15 AM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (FreepMail me if you want on the Bourbon ping list!)
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To: Schnucki
In my opinion, Algore belongs in prison and his billions of dollars scammed from the public should be seized.
7 posted on 11/20/2009 7:34:12 AM PST by EggsAckley (There's an Ethiopian in the fuel supply. W.C. Fields)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

Yeah, and its coming down FAST!! Sweet.


8 posted on 11/20/2009 7:35:54 AM PST by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget (God punishes Conservatives by making them argue with fools.)
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To: mmichaels1970

Have you looked through the files? I’ve spent about 30 minutes and let me tell...they’re freaking dynamite. DYN-O-MITE.

Everyone should download the files and go through them with a fine tooth comb. Here is a link to the torrent containing the data.

http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5171206

Everything is there. All the embarrassing stuff you’d find on any small office server in America. A photoshop, a lot of memos, some personal data...etc etc. But the best I’ve found so far is a pdf entitled “RulesOfTheGame.pdf”

Here is rule #17, no doubt authored by an Alinsky disciple.

“17. Use emotions and visuals
Another classic marketing rule: changing behaviour by
disseminating information doesn’t always work, but emotions
and visuals usually do.”

That’s right...a manual describing how you should manipulate people’s emotions. Good stuff.


9 posted on 11/20/2009 7:36:34 AM PST by Spike Knotts
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To: Schnucki

Just a cursory look at what was released so far shows a couple of the people in these emails were some of the authors of the IPCC report.

We need real investigative journalism here to uncover the corruption and stench of criminality these scum have foisted upon us.


10 posted on 11/20/2009 7:36:38 AM PST by Brett66 (Where government advances, and it advances relentlessly , freedom is imperiled -Janice Rogers Brown)
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To: Schnucki

I’m sure the AP is assigning at least 11 “cracked” reporters to this right now. (;-)


11 posted on 11/20/2009 7:37:06 AM PST by 1776 Reborn (Test kids and politicians (bigger idiots) on the Constitution!)
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To: mmichaels1970
I have doubts that even FOX will go after this.

Actually I expect to see this show up on Fox. Might take awhile for the impact to really sink in. I've downloaded the data. There is a lot of it and I'm betting that the leaker has more. In any case, it will take some time to really absorb it. Some may be computer modeling code (don't quote me) and, if so, that would be very interesting to those who understand climate modeling.

12 posted on 11/20/2009 7:38:34 AM PST by InterceptPoint
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

Sorry, I must have been typing my post as you posted this, otherwise I wouldn’t have repeated the link.

I’m seeding away right now, as are hundreds of others. If you have broadband you’ll have it in a matter of minutes.


13 posted on 11/20/2009 7:38:39 AM PST by Spike Knotts
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To: Spike Knotts

THEY PREYED ON OUR FEARS!!!!!

LOLOL!!!!!


14 posted on 11/20/2009 7:38:49 AM PST by mozarky2 (Ya never stand so tall as when ya stoop to stomp a statist!)
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To: FatherofFive

It is extraordinarily tempting for even a (generally) ethical person to twist or “mislay” data when he KNOWS something is TRUE.

We see this in cops and prosecutors who frame up a person they KNOW is guilty.

The temptation is no doubt even greater when there is a religious level of belief, when they see the conflict not between accurate and inaccurate, but between Good and Evil.

Of course, scientists aren’t supposed to look at issues in this way, since when they do they by definition stop being scientists.

Perhaps this story will eventually play out to show that scientists are also people, and are as prone to human failings as anyone else. So we shouldn’t elevate a scientist’s opinion that much above anybody else’s.

Neat story.


15 posted on 11/20/2009 7:38:56 AM PST by Sherman Logan ("The price of freedom is the toleration of imperfections." Thomas Sowell)
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Bittorrent client Download this and click on the pirate bay link. Then Click on the pirate bay link. Took less than 5 minutes to download the 61 meg.
16 posted on 11/20/2009 7:39:37 AM PST by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget (God punishes Conservatives by making them argue with fools.)
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To: mmichaels1970

It’s not a hard story to tell; just a little long in the telling. Typical broadcast news won’t have 23 seconds out of the 23 minute half hour show to work this. Maybe Rush or Hannity will.


17 posted on 11/20/2009 7:40:19 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Impeachment !)
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To: Schnucki

These guys are apparently not computer geeks.

Emails never go away. One should never send an email you wouldn’t be happy to have published on the front page of every newspaper.

Not that I’ve always followed this rule myself.


18 posted on 11/20/2009 7:41:16 AM PST by Sherman Logan ("The price of freedom is the toleration of imperfections." Thomas Sowell)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel
Just download the zip file from:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=XD050VKY

Here it is as a link: FOI2009.zip

19 posted on 11/20/2009 7:42:10 AM PST by InterceptPoint
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To: Schnucki

bttt


20 posted on 11/20/2009 7:42:18 AM PST by kalee (01/20/13 The end of an error.... Obama even worse than Carter.)
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