Posted on 05/08/2012 9:43:35 AM PDT by 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.
Ive always thought that with CRU, simple incompetence is a more likely explanation than malice and/or deception. For example, Phil Jones cant even plot trends in Excel. In this particular case, I dont 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 Ive witnessed and recalled from the history of the Yamal affair with Steve McIntyres latest investigation, Im 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, theyd be reprimanded and/or shown the door. But as weve seen with the handling of the Muir Russell sham investigation, key questions to key players werent even asked about key points of evidence. For example, Muir Russell didnt 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
(Excerpt) Read more at wattsupwiththat.com ...
Thanks Ernest. I’ll book mark this one for a in depth read later.
I know the feeling all too well. This one takes a while to digest.
Thanks for all you do.
These AGW clowns need to be exposed.
Their sponsors, on the other hand, belong in jail.
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