Category Archives: Climategate

An example of a different ethos when you have access to private documents

Posted on February 23, 2012 by

While many websites are deriding me for my mentions in the Fakegate emails distributed by Dr. Peter Gleick, and many now (including Dr. Gavin Schmidt) are coming down on Dr. Gleick for his lack of ethics, I thought it might … Continue reading →

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McIntyre catches the University of East Anglia in a web of lies

Posted on February 6, 2012 by

Some excerpts from McIntyre’s full broadside: —————————————————————————————— In today’s post, I’m going to discuss an important obiter in the ICO decision, an obiter in which the university unsuccessfully attempted to reconcile unequivocal declarations by both Acton and Muir Russell to … Continue reading →

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CRU’s Phil Jones plays Wheel of Fortune “Before and After”

Posted on February 5, 2012 by

I was looking through some CG2 emails today for something else, and I came across this one. Email #3538. It is funny. For those who don’t know what the “before and after” portion of the game is about, this Yahoo … Continue reading →

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FOI victory against Phil Jones, CRU, and UEA

Posted on January 23, 2012 by

Excerpts from Bishop Hill: A major FOI victory This post is a jointly written effort by myself and Don Keiller. Readers may remember the Information Commissioner’s ruling last year that UEA had to release the CRUTEM data sent by Phil Jones … Continue reading →

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Regulatory Czar wants to use copyright protection mechanisms to shut down rumors and conspiracy theories

Posted on January 20, 2012 by

Guest Post by Alec Rawls As Congress considers vastly expanding the power of copyright holders to shut down fair use of their intellectual property, this is a good time to remember the other activities that Obama’s “regulatory czar” Cass Sunstein … Continue reading →

Posted in Climategate, Government idiocy | Tagged , , , , , , , | 256 Comments

Mann of the people

Posted on January 19, 2012 by

Tom Nelson spots another Climategate zinger. Email 2743, Sept 2009, Michael “Robust Debate” Mann: “So far, we’ve simply deleted all of the attempts by McIntyre and his minions to draw attention to this at RealClimate.”

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Phil Jones demonstrates that math is hard

Posted on January 17, 2012 by

Sure, we’ve all made some doozies (me included) but you have to admit this exchange between top climate scientists Tom Wigley and Phil Jones is downright hilarious. No wonder he has trouble with Excel. Tom Nelson nails the decadal scale … Continue reading →

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The behind the scenes bumbling of the hockey stick

Posted on January 16, 2012 by

Mann oh Mann. Tom Nelson continues to wade through the 5000+ Climategate 2 emails. I’ve selected a few he’s highlighted in the vein of behind the scenes discussion of Dr. Michael Mann’s infamous “hockey stick” which claimed we were living … Continue reading →

Posted in Climategate, Michael E. Mann, paleoclimatology | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 93 Comments

Reading every one of the 5000+ Climategate 2 emails

Posted on January 14, 2012 by

Gotta love the dedication. Tom Nelson writes: Just FYI: I’m reading all of the ClimateGate 2.0 emails For a while, I was looking at the ClimateGate 2.0 emails by searching them for certain names and keywords. Now, my plan is … Continue reading →

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Over 250 noteworthy Climategate 2.0 emails

Posted on January 6, 2012 by

Tom Nelson has been busy slogging through the over 500o emails in CG2, kudos to him. Here’s what he has collected so far: A list of my last 250+ ClimateGate postings:

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AGU Fellowships are easy… “With a Little Help from My Friends”

Posted on January 2, 2012 by

…with apologies to the Beatles and Sgt. Pepper. Most people don’t see how small and cliqueish climate science is, perhaps this perfect illustration courtesy of Climategate 2.0 will enlighten a few people. Thanks to Tom Nelson for ferreting this one … Continue reading →

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Oh, this is rich. BBC’s Harrabin asks CRU for programming advice

Posted on December 27, 2011 by

Roger Harrabin and Joe Smith write to UEA warmist Mike Hulme, ask: “What should the BBC be doing this time in terms of news, current affairs, drama, documentaries, game shows, music etc?”  

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Mann hockey stick co-author Bradley: “it may be that Mann et al simply don’t have the long-term trend right”

Posted on December 24, 2011 by

Tom Nelson spots a gem in the Climategate 2 emails: Hockey stick co-author Ray Bradley: “it may be that Mann et al simply don’t have the long-term trend right”; “I hedge my bets on whether there were any periods in … Continue reading →

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UK police seize computers of skeptic blogger in England

Posted on December 23, 2011 by

UPDATE: 12/21/11 4PM  -BBC covers Tallbloke, finally, Richard Black still silent-  Norfolk constabulary to share hand-off Climategate investigation, and  Greg Laden caves – see below Dec 14th -The first blogger to break the Climategate2 story has had a visit from … Continue reading →

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NYT reporter engages in zany conspiracy theory – suggests bloggers “knew” FOIA emails were coming

Posted on December 22, 2011 by

This is almost as clueless as the raid on Tallbloke by the police looking for scraps. But it does underscore one thing – investigators are clueless and so is the major press. For the record, I don’t know who “FOIA” … Continue reading →

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Tallbloke to take to torts

Posted on December 17, 2011 by

I’ve received this email from Roger Tattersall’s attorney (known as a solicitor in England) with the request that I post it. I’m happy to do so. Please see in the letter where the legal fund is being setup. – Anthony … Continue reading →

Posted in climate ugliness, Climategate, Uncategorized | Tagged , , | 328 Comments

Who gets the most access to network data (like emails at CRU)?

Posted on December 6, 2011 by

Post updated – see below. Climategate – whodunnit? Well, according to this story in Help Net Security, the Information Technology people might be good candidates to see what has been going on behind the scenes at UEA’s Climate Research Unit, … Continue reading →

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Tim Barnett on the hockey stick- “statistics were suspect”–the rest of the team knew of problems with Mann’s reconstruction

Posted on December 5, 2011 by

  Bishop Hill Writes: Email 2383 contains further evidence that everyone in the world of paleoclimate knew the Hockey Stick was a duffer. From: Tim Barnett [[2]mailto:XXXXXXXXXXX@ucsd.edu] Sent: 11 October 2004 16:42 To: Gabi Hegerl; Klaus Hasselmann Cc: Prof.Dr. Hans … Continue reading →

Posted in Climategate, Uncategorized | 87 Comments

The contextual collection of ClimateGate 2.0 quotes

Posted on December 4, 2011 by

One of the first whines out of RealClimate ( a Fenton Communications/ Environmental Media Services production) was that they were “out of context” saying: “Indeed, even the out-of-context quotes aren’t that exciting, and are even less so in-context.” That’s typical … Continue reading →

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WUWT – helping to educate UEA students on climate

Posted on December 4, 2011 by

This is curious and amusing. A few days back it was reported that there was a CG2 email from Phil Jones where he laments some skeptical slides being used in a powerpount lecture at UEA. Turns out that wasn’t the … Continue reading →

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Friday Funny – Bonus Edition

Posted on December 2, 2011 by

Josh was amused by the caveman reference I made to the Geico commercial Hockey stick falsification – so easy a caveman kid can do it. Here’s his take on it:

Posted in Climategate, Humor, satire | 14 Comments

Team ugliness – a call to get a skeptics PhD thesis revoked

Posted on December 2, 2011 by

Guest post by Dr. Patrick Michaels – originally on Forbes, reposted here at the request of the author. Climategate II: An Open Letter to the Director of the National Center for Atmospheric Research To: Dr. Roger Wakimoto Director, National Center … Continue reading →

Posted in climate ugliness, Climategate | 199 Comments

Climate Science and “The Cause”

Posted on December 2, 2011 by

One of the very first things noticed on WUWT about the Climategate 2.0 emails is the use of the phrase “The Cause” by writers of the emails. Science is supposed to be about cause and effect, causality, etc, not an … Continue reading →

Posted in Climategate, Humor, satire | 48 Comments

NCAR’s Dr. Kevin Treberth’s ugly intolerance of dissenting views from other scientists

Posted on December 2, 2011 by

And to think I almost wasted my time going to visit Dr. Trenberth at NCAR this fall. This is mind blowing intolerance in professional discourse. Here’s the email, bold mine. email 3946 date: Thu Dec 9 08:28:11 2004 from: Phil … Continue reading →

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Steve McIntyre on the Bolt report

Posted on December 1, 2011 by

Andrew Bolt interview with Steve McIntyre from the Climate Audit blog, who exposed the infamous “hockey stick”, talking about the leaked emails that expose the warming scare. Watch below:

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