Quite a lot of interest continues in the files from CRU that were leaked/hacked and placed on a Russian FTP server. Quite a number of other websites have been things with them ranging from commentary to evaluation of validity. With over 1000 emails, it is a bit of a task to wade through.
The Internet is an amazing place. Now there’s a website that has put all of the emails into a searchable database with a web engine interface.
The screencap below shows the engine at http://www.anelegantchaos.org/cru/
I have no idea who put this together, but it does seem to work quite well. For example, typing in the keyword “moron” yields an interesting email. So does typing in the name of a prominent climate “bulldog”.
Interesting stuff.
NOTE: Link updated to new website on 1/23/10
“Now if the the search word or phrase could be ‘cached’or highlighted (Google style) THAT would be a big help in searching.”
In Firefox, just use “control F” and type the searched word.
I just found this post at:
http://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2009/11/hadley-hacked-roundup-with-updates-and.html
I’m not a climate specialist so I’m not qualified to analyze much of CRU’s raw data and methods. But THIS comment, which I found in their scientific programming code after 2 minutes of searching, seems damning with regard to their methods:
; The calibrated (uncorrected) versions of all these data sets are used.
; However, the same adjustment is then applied to the corrected version of
; the grid Hugershoff data, so that both uncorrected and corrected versions
; are available with the appropriate low frequency variability. There is some
; ambiguity during the modern period here, however, because the corrected
; version has already been artificially adjusted to reproduce the largest
; scales of observed temperature over recent decades – so a new adjustment
; would be unwelcome. Therefore, the adjustment term is scaled back towards
; zero when being applied to the corrected data set, so that it is linearly
; interpolated from its 1950 value to zero at 1970 and kept at zero thereafter.
From Alan to Phil in the email archive:
“I’m doing fine. We have a new building with nice new offices. I’m going
to Australia next week with Sherri and Danny, and after the meeting, will
visit Cairns, Adelaide, and New Zealand. I’m looking forward to skiing
on a volcano, if it stops erupting.”
I wonder if he paid for all the side trips out of pocket?
Wall Street Journal has picked it up:
Hacked Emails Show Climate Science Ridden with Rancor
By KEITH JOHNSON
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125883405294859215.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLTopStories
The picture that emerges of prominent climate-change scientists from the more than 3,000 documents and emails accessed by hackers and put on the Internet this week is one of professional backbiting and questionable scientific practices. It could undermine the idea that the science of man-made global warming is entirely settled just weeks before a crucial climate-change summit. (continued online)…..
Bill Illis (17:02:18) : said:
1073 emails with one being the same as one already reported on: 1077829152.txt
So, it might not contain anything new.
Notice on Richard Black’s blog at the BBC, at the bottom of article entitled: Copenhagen Countdown: 17 days …
“……… I did get an email from the FOI person here early yesterday to tell me I shouldn’t be deleting emails – unless this was ‘normal’ deleting to keep emails manageable! ………”
Someone should try to file a legal request to stop any destruction of archived backup disks that might exist.
Negative; In my time w/cellular and paging service providers I have NEVER once see a “Carnivore” trunk provisioned for ‘backhaul’ to Langley (or anywhere!) that wasn’t stictly used for _our_ specific purposes of carrying traffic or signalling info.
CAN you imagine the REQUIREMENTS for a COMPLETE set of trunks for BACKHAUL of all telco trafic to Langley? It would rival the size/capacity of actual ‘plant’ in a system …
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I wonder if NBC–GE with its green peacock that was visible in two locations on the screen during the Notre Dame football game today is aware of this 62 mb?
Paul Vaughan: Regarding mark_d’s comments, and based on a later alleged Jones’ description, HADSST3 will actually enhance the early 1940s “blip”. That multiyear rise and fall was a result of a multiyear El Nino. The SST anomalies from the ~1945 to ~1960 will be raised to account for the “discontinuity” described in Thompson et al (2008), but this portion of it was expected. Refer to the illustration here:
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/case-against-climate-change-discredited-by-study-835856.html
Regards
My prediction is “The Yes Men” are responsible for the hack job. Nice going Yes Men.
I’m a swedish reader of your blog, Anthony, and I must say that this has made me almost walk on water these last three days. In my country the newspapers and other media are almost exclusively on the AGW side of things. The criticism is constantly being put down and/or ridiculed. But this seems to have changed now. Just this day, it is Sunday morning here in Sweden at this time, one of our biggest newspapers, Aftonbladet, has written an article about the CRU debacle. Maybe the tide is turning here in Europe as well.
I so hope that folks here where I live will read this article and come to your site as well because some know-it-alls are always keen on trying to shut me and others like me up.
Search for “mcintyre” (and misspelled variations of that name). Notice how the CRU folks privately admit his importance.
Aligner (16:34:08) :
Telegraph now gone mainstream with it …
The Telegraph story had this
One of the emails under scrutiny, dated November 1999, reads: “I’ve just completed Mike’s Nature [the science journal] trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie, from 1981 onwards) and from 1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/6619796/Climate-scientists-accused-of-manipulating-global-warming-data.html
Sorry to mess you about – the file is too large to e-mail. (62MB)
The file FOI2009.zip which contains the e-mails, various documents, temperature data, code to sort and process the data and a delightful “how to manipulate public opinion” tutorial may be found at;
http://www.gigasize.com/get.php?d=wblnbjd54wc
(Anyone concerned about virus etc. can be assured I have examined it on a linux machine and to the best of my skill it is “clean” )
[But why should you believe me – we are sceptics. Examine the raw data yourself.]
So what’s in Nic’s attachment?
Paul James (15:33:11) :
“My my my, what ugly things you find when you lift a rock.
“The investigation needs to be completed. Preliminary analysis indicates that their bunker mentality has lead them to commit serious errors.”
A very good term.
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Yes, I ‘ve read both of the commentaries at PowerLineblog. They really show what a good attorney can do with a stack of emails and a narrative.
Compelling stuff….both (so far) are a must read.
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2009/11/024996.php
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2009/11/024995.php
I agree.
If someone has little knowledge of the facts it’s because they effing HIDE THE FACTS!!!
It would seem some comments about “supporting criminal activity” were not upset with the NY Times for their illegal release of U.S. national security information – truly costing lives, but would get upset with uncovering the swindling of the world.
Shurley Knot said:
“Folks, I have to say, as an impartial average person, though of uncommon beauty, that reading this archive … to be honest, I think you’ve shot yourselves in the collective foot.”
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Surly naught,
Beauty lies in the eye of the beholder. I think you should let us be the judge.
Are you drifting over to the dark side, or am I just confused by your pronouns?
Juraj V. (08:44:03) : “Thank you again, Mr Gore, for inventing the internet.”
Brilliant, Juraj!
i think it is of immediate upmost importance not to allow phil jones to access to his computers.
given the evidence of breach of FOI laws, given him saying in one of his emails to have deleted massive amounts of files and emails, the imminent danger exists, that a recovery of these files is made impossible.
This “McIntyre” character certainly looms large in their nightmares with his impertinent requests for taxpayer-funded data and code so that their claims can be independently verified. Sometimes the clique’s emails reveal anger, and other times nervous, giggling bravado.
What manner of man could he be, this “McIntyre”? ‘Seven feet tall he was, with arms like tree trunks. His eyes were like steel, cold, hard. Had a shock of hair, red like the fires of Hell.’
Perhaps the most significant revelation is the way they seek to manipulate the peer-review process and then disingenuously use that to dismiss skeptical analyses out of hand.
Mann to NYT journalist Revkin: “if McIntyre had a legitimate point, he would submit a comment to the journal in question. of course, the last time he tried that (w/ our ’98 article in Nature), his comment was rejected….I’m sure you are aware that McIntyre and his ilk realize they no longer need to get their crap published in legitimate journals”. He continues with this classic: “All they have to do is put it up on their blog, and the contrarian noise machine kicks into gear…Fortunately, the prestige press doesn’t fall for this sort of stuff, right?”
Oh Mike, you silver-tongued old smoothie, buttering up the NYT journalist like that.
Revkin, would you buy a used car from these people? Oh come now. Surely the prestige press would?
And I especially like how they nominate each other for medals.
Oh this one? That’s the ‘Shredding of Evidence, First Class’. Got it overseas. Hawaii, actually.
Now you nominate me.
Releasing material that embarrasses “the left” – stealing.
Releasing material that embarrasses “the right” – whistle blowing.
The emails have been discussed to death.
Watt’s Up with the data and or program files that supposedly were included in the zip file?
I’d love to hear from someone looking into that portion of the treasure trove.