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From the website:

http://www.anelegantchaos.org/cru/emails.php?eid=1037
Two words. Holy sh!t. Especially note the last sentences :-)

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CCNet 153/2009 - 2 October 2009 — Audiatur et altera pars

CRU’S HIDDEN DATA AND THE IPCC: A SCIENTIFIC SCANDAL UNFOLDS

A scientific scandal is casting a shadow over a number of recent

peer-reviewed climate papers. The scandal has serious

implications for

public trust in science. The IPCC’s mission is to reflect the

science,

not create it. As the IPCC states, its duty is “assessing the

scientific, technical and socioeconomic information relevant for the

understanding of the risk of human-induced climate change. It

does not

carry out new research nor does it monitor climate-related

data.” But as

IPCC lead author, Briffa was a key contributor in shaping the

assessment. When the IPCC was alerted to peer-reviewed research that

refuted the idea, it declined to include it. This leads to the more

general, and more serious issue: what happens when peer-review

fails -

as it did here?

—Andrew Orlowski, The Register, 29 September 2009

Over the next nine years, at least one paper per year appeared in

prominent journals using Briffa’s Yamal composite to support a

hockey

stick-like result. The IPCC relied on these studies to defend

the Hockey

Stick view, and since it had appointed Briffa himself to be the IPCC

Lead Author for this topic, there was no chance it would

question the

Yamal data. Despite the fact that these papers appeared in top

journals

like Nature and Science, none of the journal reviewers or

editors ever

required Briffa to release his Yamal data. Steve McIntyre’s repeated

requests for them to uphold their own data disclosure rules were

ignored.

—Ross McKitrick, Financial Post, 1 October 2009

The official United Nation’s global warming agency, the

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, is a four-legged

stool that

is fast losing its legs. To carry the message of man-made global

warming theory to the world, the IPCC has depended on 1) computer

models, 2) data collection, 3) long-range temperature

forecasting and 4)

communication. None of these efforts are sitting on firm ground.

—Terence Corcoran, National Post, 1 October 2009

Media reaction to the Yamal story has been rather limited so

far. I’m

not sure whether this is because people are trying to digest what it

means or whether it’s “too hot to handle”. None of the global

warming

supporters in the mainstream media have gone near it. The

reaction of

the Guardian - to delete any mention of the affair from their

comment

threads - has been extraordinary.

—Bishop Hill, 1 October 2009

Britain will have to stop building airports, switch to electric

cars and

shut down coal-fired power stations as part of a ‘planned

recession’ to

avoid dangerous climate change. A new report from the Tyndall

Centre for

Climate Change Research says the only way to avoid going beyond the

dangerous tipping point is to double the target to 70 per cent

by 2020.

This would mean reducing the size of the economy through a “planned

recession”.

—Louise Gray, The Daily Telegraph, 30 September 2009