Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 11/24/2009 10:25:48 AM PST by Red Badger
British climate centre reeling over Internet posting of sensitive material.
The online publication of sensitive e-mails and documents from a British climate centre is brewing into one of the scientific controversies of the year, causing dismay among affected institutes and individuals. The tone and content of some of the disclosed correspondence are raising concerns that the leak is damaging the credibility of climate science on the eve of the United Nations climate summit in Copenhagen in December.
The Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia (UEA) in Norwich confirmed on 20 November that it had had more than 1,000 e-mails and documents taken from its servers, but it has not yet confirmed how much of the published material is genuine. "This information has been obtained and published without our permission," says Simon Dunford, a spokesman for the UEA, adding that the university will undertake an investigation and has already involved the police.
Many scientists contacted by Nature doubt that the leak will have a lasting impact, but climate-sceptic bloggers and mainstream media have been poring over the posted material and discussing its contents. Most consist of routine e-mail exchanges between researchers. But one e-mail in particular, sent by CRU director Phil Jones, has received attention for its use of the word "trick" in a discussion about the presentation of climate data. In a statement, Jones confirmed that the e-mail was genuine and said: "The word 'trick' was used here colloquially as in a clever thing to do. It is ludicrous to suggest that it refers to anything untoward."
"If anyone thinks there's a hint of tweaking the data for non-scientific purposes, they are free to produce an analysis showing that Earth isn't warming," adds Michael Oppenheimer, a climate scientist and policy researcher at Princeton University in New Jersey. "In fact, they have been free to do so for decades and haven't been able to."
"There are apparently lots of people who really do think that global warming is an evil socialist plot, and that many scientists are part of the plot and deliberately faking their science," adds Tom Wigley, a senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, and former director of CRU.
Alleged e-mails containing critical remarks about other climate scientists are merely proof of lively debate in the community, adds Gavin Schmidt, a climate researcher with NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City.
The title of the uploaded file containing the leaked e-mails — 'FOIA.zip' — has led to speculation that the affair may be linked to the deluge of requests for raw climate data that have recently been made under the UK Freedom of Information Act to Jones (see Nature 460, 787; 2009). The source of many of those requests is Steve McIntyre, the editor of Climate Audit, a blog that investigates the statistical methods used in climate science. "I don't have any information on who was responsible," McIntyre told Nature.
Nevertheless, e-mails allegedly sent by Jones seem to illustrate his reluctance to comply with these requests. "All scientists have the right to request your data and to try to falsify your results," says Hans von Storch, director of the Institute for Coastal Research in Geesthacht, Germany. "I very much respect Jones as a scientist, but he should be aware that his behaviour is beginning to damage our discipline." In a statement, the UEA said: "The raw climate data which has been requested belongs to meteorological services around the globe and restrictions are in place which means that we are not in a position to release them. We are asking each service for their consent for their data to be published in future."
However, von Storch believes that, at least until the affair is resolved, Jones should cease reviewing climate science for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Where does this leave Quisling Newt?
Call your DC and demand an investigation NOW.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18192-hacked-archive-provides-fodder-for-climate-sceptics.html
Under a rock, where newts belong................
We The People must demand an investigation NOW.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18192-hacked-archive-provides-fodder-for-climate-sceptics.html
Meanwhile, Zero ignores facts:
US President Barack Obama said Tuesday the world has moved “one step closer” to a “strong operational agreement” on climate change at next month’s Copenhagen summit after his talks with Indian and Chinese leaders.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2393596/posts
Oh Algore - you have some ‘splainin to do ......
I DO I DO!
why don’t these Malthusians eugenicists just off themselves if they so believe this COMMUNIST lie
Hey, Mikey! How about proving that "warming" is anthropogenic and catastrophic?
"In fact, you have been free to do so for decades and haven't been able to."
Add me to the list that thinks they're starting with the conclusion and picking or manufacturing the "facts" to suppport their conclusion.
LOL! Newt is worse than Quisling. I guess the alimony for 4 (?) ex-wives is a heavy burden.
Anyone who believed in human caused global warming is a fool.
Human activity will not cause climate change on a global level long term level.
Short term local changes maybe.
These GW liars were suggesting that people who disagree with them be jailed or even executed. Now they try to pretend they were just engaged in some sort of debate. I know evil when I see it. Treat them exactly they way that wanted to treat others, I say.
>> Many scientists contacted by Nature doubt that the leak will have a lasting impact...
They’ve been taking “unnamed sources” lessons from the NYT.
“Many say...” isn’t appropriate for what passes itself off as a scientific journal.
By the way — that’s a nice set of paragraphs you have there, Mr. Badger. ;-)
He’ll have to go on parade again with Pelosi?
Thursday, December 03, 2009
Energy and Environment Subcommittee – Hearing
Thursday, December 03, 2009
Marine and Hydrokinetic Energy Technology: Finding the Path to Commercialization
Witnesses:
Mr. Roger Bedard, Ocean Energy Leader, Electric Power Research Institute
Mr. Craig Collar, Senior Manager, Energy Resource Development, Snohomish County Public Utility District
Mr. Jacques Beaudry-Losique, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Renewable Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, U.S. Department of Energy
Mr. James Dehlsen, President, Ecomerit Technologies, LLC
Ms. Gia Schneider, Chief Executive Officer, Natel Energy, Inc.
10:00a.m. – 12:00p.m.
2318 Rayburn House Office Building (WEBCAST)
Investigations and Oversight Subcommittee and Space and Aeronautics Subcommittee – Joint Hearing
Thursday, December 03, 2009
Independent Audit of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Witnesses:
Hon. Thomas Howard, Acting Inspector General, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Mr. Daniel Murrin, Partner, Assurance and Advisory Business Services, Ernst & Young LLP
Hon. Elizabeth Robinson, Chief Financial Officer, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
2:00p.m. – 4:00p.m.
2318 Rayburn House Office Building (WEBCAST)
Nature is playing CYA here.
It’s still uncertain whether the emails are genuine. Well, at this point, I’d say the statistical odds against any fake emails being added by the whistleblowers is about a thousand to one. Many of the emails have been confirmed, and NONE has been proved a fake—even though the global warmers would absolutely JUMP at the chance to do so. Not one.
And to say that the word “trick” stands out is kind of like saying that one of Stalin’s murders was worse than the others. No, sorry, there are HUNDREDS of incriminating emails in this bunch. They reveal falsification of evidence, cover up of evidence, conspiracy to commit fraud, ganging up to bully anyone who disagrees with them, abuse of the peer review process, and many other frauds and, yes, crimes.
Nature was not totally on board, I don’t believe. But they were very helpful to the global warmist conspirators and leaned heavily in their direction. So they try to downplay the evidence of this criminal conspiracy.
Come on, Nature. Your reputation is at stake. It’s time for you to side with science, apologize for any involvement on your part, conscious or unconscious, and repudiate fraud.
“”There are apparently lots of people who really do think that global warming is an evil socialist plot,”
This is the standard approach of AGW advocates. The issue isn’t whether the world has warmed relative to the past: it is whether and how much of it can be attributed to human activity in general (anthropogenic global warming), and CO2 emissions in particular. If the answer is little or none, then it is bone-headed to squander trillions of dollars in global output in a futile effort to reduce CO2.
AGW may well be an evil socialist plot: certainly these emails give some credence to that claim.
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