Scientific scandal appears to rock climate change promoters

American Thinker ^ | Nov 20, 2009 | Clarice Feldman

[opentalk]

There's big news for climate change students. A hacker has gotten into the computers at Hadley CRU, Britain's largest climate research institute and a proponent of global warming, and seems to have uncovered evidence of substantial fraud in reporting the "evidence" on global warming; the unlawful destruction of records to cover up this fraud ,conspiracy,and deceit in the entire operation.

While hacking into the institute's records is inappropriate if not illegal, the activities disclosed appear illegal and damaging to science and the economies of the world.

At first many of us were inclined to dismiss the posted emails from the Institute as fraud, but the head of the institute admits the records were hacked and the emails seem genuine.

Here is a sample of the purportedly hacked material (1079 emails and 72 documents) available online:

From: Phil Jones To: ray bradley ,mann@XXXX, mhughes@XXXX Subject: Diagram for WMO Statement Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 13:31:15 +0000 Cc: k.briffa@XXX.osborn@XXXX

Dear Ray, Mike and Malcolm,

Once Tim's got a diagram here we'll send that either later today or first thing tomorrow.

I've just completed Mike's Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) amd from 1961 for Keith's to hide the decline. Mike's series got the annual land and marine values while the other two got April-Sept for NH land N of 20N. The latter two are real for 1999, while the estimate for 1999 for NH combined is +0.44C wrt 61-90. The Global estimate for 1999 with data through Oct is +0.35C cf. 0.57 for 1998.

Thanks for the comments, Ray.

Cheers Phil

Prof. Phil Jones Climatic Research Unit Telephone XXXX School of Environmental Sciences Fax XXXX University of East Anglia Norwich *******************************************

From: Kevin Trenberth To: Michael Mann Subject: Re: BBC U-turn on climate Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 08:57:37 -0600 Cc: Stephen H Schneider , Myles Allen , peter stott , "Philip D. Jones" , Benjamin Santer , Tom Wigley , Thomas R Karl , Gavin Schmidt , James Hansen , Michael Oppenheimer

Hi all

Well I have my own article on where the heck is global warming ? We are asking that here in Boulder where we have broken records the past two days for the coldest days on record. We had 4 inches of snow. The high the last 2 days was below 30F and the normal is 69F, and it smashed the previous records for these days by 10F. The low was about 18F and also a record low, well below the previous record low.

This is January weather (see the Rockies baseball playoff game was canceled on saturday and then played last night in below freezing weather).

Trenberth, K. E., 2009: An imperative for climate change planning: tracking Earth's global energy. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 1, 19-27, doi:10.1016/j.cosust.2009.06.001. [1][PDF] (A PDF of the published version can be obtained from the author.) ***

The fact is that we can't account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can't. The CERES data published in the August BAMS 09 supplement on 2008 shows there should be even more warming: but the data are surely wrong. Our observing system is inadequate.***

Thomas Lifson adds:

One interesting hacked email childishly insults American Thinker, by calling us "American Stinker."

It is distressing to read that American Stinker item. But Keith does seem to have got himself into a mess. As I pointed out in emails, Yamal is insignificant. And you say that (contrary to what M&M say) Yamal is *not* used in MBH, etc. So these facts alone are enough to shoot down M&M is a few sentences (which surely is the only way to go - complex and wordy responses will be counter productive). But, more generally, (even if it *is* irrelevant) how does Keith explain the McIntyre plot that compares Yamal-12 with Yamal-all? And how does he explain the apparent "selection" of the less well-replicated chronology rather that the later (better replicated) chronology? Of course, I don't know how often Yamal-12 has really been used in recent, post-1995, work. I suspect from what you say it is much less often that M&M say - but where did they get their information? I presume they went thru papers to see if Yamal was cited, a pretty foolproof method if you ask me. Perhaps these things can be explained clearly and concisely - but I am not sure Keith is able to do this as he is too close to the issue and probably quite pissed of. And the issue of with-holding data is still a hot potato, one that affects both you and Keith (and Mann). Yes, there are reasons - but many *good* scientists appear to be unsympathetic to these. The trouble here is that with-holding data looks like hiding something, and hiding means (in some eyes) that it is bogus science that is being hidden. I think Keith needs to be very, very careful in how he handles this. I'd be willing to check over anything he puts together. Tom.

[opentalk]

evidence of substantial fraud in reporting the "evidence" on global warming

[Snardius]

You mean to tell me that the science behind Global Warming/Climate Change has been made up...??? Next you’re going to tell me there is no Santa Claus...

[Spike Knotts]

Here are two places you can get the files. One by torrent and one a straight download, respectively.

http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5171206

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=75J4XO4T

[blues_guitarist]

Nothing to see here . . .

Just more haters, hating!

--MSM

[uncommonsense]

Must be Bush's fault for politicizing “science”. Why else would a large group of government funded scientists and industrialists conspire together on a grand scale over many years to deceive policy makers and the general public into thinking man is causing the earth to warm - concluding that factual evidence proves without a doubt that we will cease to exist unless Al Gore becomes a trillionaire?

[Catholic Canadian]

Aw, man, I love this. I love it!!

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

“Britain’s largest climate research institute”

Wonder what will happen, as it’s “across the pond?”

[opentalk]

The Copenhagen treaty was to be legally binding across all countries. It meant large transfer of wealth and control. Goldman Sachs was to handle the cap and trade, again large amounts of money. Sun light is needed on all of this. Seems mafia -like.

[Old Professer]

The mob was smarter in Capone’s time; they never wrote anything down in plain language.

But some of this looks like a plan to evade IRS rules and taxes:

http://motls.blogspot.com/2009/11/hacked-hadley-cru-foi2009-files.html

[Jenny217]

Well finally, confirmation of my long-held analysis of AGW - a crock.

[opentalk]

The files, which in total amount to 61MB of data, were first uploaded onto a Russian server, before being widely mirrored across the internet. The emails were accompanied by the anonymous statement: "We feel that climate science is, in the current situation, too important to be kept under wraps. We hereby release a random selection of correspondence, code, and documents. Hopefully it will give some insight into the science and the people behind it."

from Guardian UK :

Climate sceptics claim leaked emails are evidence of collusion among scientists

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

Thursday, November 19, 2009

The Blue-Dress Moment May Have Arrived   [Chris Horner]

I am not able to fully digest this at present, catching up with the boys from days away and then up at O-Dark-Thirty for a flight to California for a talk, but check out what Anthony Watts among others have posted.

Now, none of us can attest to the validity of what has been posted on a Russian server (nor can we even be sure of how it was obtained, though it purports to be non-classified data held by a purely public agency subject to freedom of information/transparency laws). But I'm told it's almost 61 megabytes of files, and after a few days of scrutiny appears (to the kind of people who would know) to be legitimate. And very revealing, both the data and what are represented to be comments and admissions by leading lights on Team Alarmist.

If legit, this apparently devastating series of revelations will be very hard for the media to ignore. I didn't say impossible — they're fully vested partners in the global warming industry, because catastrophism sells. But so does scandal, and this appears to be the makings of a very big one. Imagine this sort of news coming in the field of AIDS research. Then reflect that the taxpayer spends more on climate-related research than on the entire suite of AIDS programs, far beyond drug research.

11/19 06:00 PMShare

[Vanders9]

OMG - there’s no SANTA CLAUS??????

[Vanders9]

Shouldn’t make any difference - these guys are all in each others pockets.

[Vanders9]

Shouldn’t make any difference - these guys are all in each others pockets.

[paulycy]

OMG - there’s no SANTA CLAUS??????

Haven't you heard?

[Paladin2]

Hunh!

Zer0 shot the Sanity Clause. Who knew?

[Vanders9]

Dang it...he shot Santa, and now he’ll call for more gun control laws!

[paulycy]

Dang it...he shot Santa, and now he’ll call for more gun control laws!

He creates his own crises, which he and Rahm will never waste.