Posted on 12/08/2009 2:03:49 PM PST by Steelfish
Climate Chief Dismisses E-Mail Outrage
By Hilary Whiteman, CNN December 8, 2009
(Video) IPCC chairman talks to CNNSTORY HIGHLIGHTS
(CNN) -- One of the world's leading authorities on climate change has dismissed the contents of controversial e-mails leaked from the University of East Anglia as nothing more than friends and colleagues "letting off steam."
"Well, I can tell you, privately when I talk to my friends, I use language much worse than that. This was purely private communications between friends, between, colleagues, they were letting off steam. I think we should see it as nothing more than that," Rajendra Pachauri, the Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) told CNN.
In late November, a substantial file including more than 1,000 e-mails either sent from or to members of the University's Climatic Research Unit (CRU) in eastern England were allegedly hacked and leaked on the Internet.
They contained language seized upon by climate skeptics who say they offer evidence that scientists have manipulated climate data to exaggerate the threat of global warming.
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That’s kind of starnge. I can’t remember sitting around telling MY firends about all the unethical things I did and how I was going to waste millions in tax money and restrict theior lives because I had no scruples or business ethics.
These lying UN bastards get TAX-FREE salaries paid for by the likes of you and I.
People do let off steam and use a less appropriate vocabulary in private, but I would not as easily dismiss the behavior of a cop who sent emails about taking bribes from drug dealers, a teacher who sent emails about romantic encounters with students, or a politician who sent emails about acting like so many liberal politicians. Why is it okay in the tiny little mind of this man for a scientist to talk about scientific fraud? It’s not like these people dropped a few 4-letter-words, they “joked” about their methods for committing the worst possible crime against science and then followed through on the “jokes”.
It is not the e-mails so much as it is the source code that is the real smoking gun.
valadj=[0.,0.,0.,0.,0.,-0.1,-0.25,-0.3,0.,-0.1,0.3,0.8,1.2,1.7,2.5,2.6,2.6,2.6,2.6,2.6]*0.75 ; fudge factor
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