Given the volume of posts here on the issue and elsewhere, I’ve decided to start a repository for reference purposes.
I’ve added a “Climategate” page on WUWT and put all relevant WUWT posts in it. But I need help in adding more. Here are the details:
- We need additional outside links. You can add these in comments to the Climategate page which is here: http://wattsupwiththat.com/climategate/ You can also see it on the menu bar below the masthead.
- I need a librarian volunteer to help with populating this page. My workload and that of the moderators is getting excessive. I can’t get regular work done as it is. The requirements for anyone who wishes to volunteer are full disclosure to me of who you are, along with email exchanges and a telephone interview. I don’t take the task of giving edit access to WUWT lightly. Its all work and no pay, but it has its rewards.
- I think we need a climategate logo – submissions welcome in comments, just post it up on tinypic or flickr or some web image sharing service and put the URL in comemnts. Please stay away from anything derogatory. Here’s your chance to make an interesting artful contribution.
Thank you for your consideration.
Anthony
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It doesn’t say awaiting moderation, I’m not sure if my post went through.
Peter S (18:45:20) :
When you’re done cleaning the coke off Clive (18:54:21)’s monitor, I’m next in line.
Hilarious!
I’ll try again.
Here are a few from tAV which I would suggest:
The original link noticed by Steve Mosher.
http://noconsensus.wordpress.com/2009/11/19/leaked-foia-files-62-mb-of-gold/
Ryan’s comments to Andy Revkin
http://noconsensus.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/the-perspective-of-a-scientific-skeptic/
Initial criticism of media coverage. Not sure if this matters but historically it has meaning.
http://noconsensus.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/hidden-in-plain-sight-a-criticism-of-media-coverage/
Briffa’s hand waiving explanations of hide the decline
http://noconsensus.wordpress.com/2009/11/27/sesame-street-science/
John Pittman’s explanation of why yamal matters
http://noconsensus.wordpress.com/2009/11/28/context-2/
A comprehensive collection of the FOIA emails.
http://noconsensus.wordpress.com/2009/11/29/global-temperature-records-above-the-law/
Of course I don’t care which make the list but some do have significance WRT the release of climategate.
Here;s a great epitaph for under the cemetary gate pic.
Here lies the IPCC CRU
DIED – Dec-2009-
Aged-… NO LESS NO MRE
Plus some poem’s to spread
The IPCC CRU shall grow not old, as we who exposed them are left grow old,
Age shall surely weary them and for years will be condemned,
At the calming down of the sun and in the cold mornings to come,
We will remember them.
Make a stick, make a stick, Michael Mann,
Choose the proxies as only you can,
Flip them and smooth them and take the PC,
Do a >TRICK<and HIDE for IPCC clan,
Copenhagen’s not far off you see,
But better watch out for the hacker man,
Delete those e-mails on the one fir tree,
Oop’s too late,sh*t’s hit fan.
Quick make excuse as fast as you can.
Last logo … (I’ve a “letter to the editor” to get out tonight! ☺)
http://photoshare.shaw.ca/image/2/d/8/63987/scales4500-0.jpg
So, if AGW has always been dead, why can’t we kill it already?
Clive (20:27:15) :
How about the IPCC side of the scale outweighing real open science, and doing so with an entire hockey team in the balance?
Yeah, I know, everyone’s a critic.
yonason ..ah….good concept…we could use the hockey stick as the scale lever…hummm…..I have a busy day tomorrow..shall see…needs to be KISS.
DadVinci’s hockey stick concept is very good… I like his logo…iI was just messing…
I also like Reed Coray’s idea of “Oh I am so sorry Mr. Pachauri, my dog ate the data..” ☺ ☺ ☺
I gotta get some sleep….will muse on this overnight.
If there’s a budding graphics expert about perhaps they’d like to cook up a suitable graphic logo titled- ‘You can’t make ice hockey sticks from tree rings’
Leif, good to see you here again.
Chilly Bean (14:19:17) : “I think a very good way to rake in some extra funding for your site and promote the dispersal of the truth would be to release a pack of cards as in the Iraq war. Climate Liars most wanted 52 with a brief description of each persons part in the conspiracy…”
I suggested something similar to Anthony this year and got no response. I still think it’s a good idea, only I’m against the idea of putting people on the cards, ala Iraq. This is not a manhunt. I prefer a refutation (e.g., actual climate graphs, temperature vs CO2 lag, equations, valid statements of facts about AGW, etc.) on each card. These decks should be designed to be broken and passed out to neutral parties, a card at a time. Or leave them in lunch rooms, libraries, etc.
Google is back to not suggesting Climategate.
Clive (21:46:19) :
Lots of good stuff. I didn’t see anything I didn’t like.
I just woke up and now I noticed that many people like my design 🙂
There are also some suggestions made to “manipulate” the hockeystick.
A logo usually works best when it’s kept fairly simple without putting to much symbolism in it. A logo doesn’t have to explain all the details.
The key words are: ClimateGate and Hockeystick. Those together sums up the big picture in a symbolic way. The logo is in cool colors, but the end of the hockeystick is in a very warm color and that symbolise the altering of data.
If it happens that Anthony like the design, i will of course make any adjustments he wishes for. I can also provide the logo in different sizes (also print version).
Off topic: Im very annoyed about the fact that my country’s, Finland, big media is very quiet about ClimateGate. They just reported that some mean hackers stole emails from important climate scientist. People are getting mad here… It seems that these days the best source for information are blogs & internet, not mass media. And I dont mean just climategate.
Do we need TV & newspapers anymore?
“Please stay away from anything derogatory.”
Okay. But to really capture the essence of Climategate in a simple logo, in my opinion, requires that it reflect to some degree the fact that the Warmist willies have been secretive, deceptive, and malicious.
I do like “The Emperor,” though. If it’s original artwork, I think it meets all requirements except simplicity. And it’s definitely not derogatory to the IPCC, relatively speaking. Rather flattering, actually.
I’ll hold onto my logo for some other time. Keep up the good work.
Leif Svalgaard (17:58:12) : Craig Loehle’s reconstruction looks good to me.
There are some good ones for central Europe here: http://members.casema.nl/errenwijlens/co2/europe.htm
Thanks Dr. Svalgaard, It is so good to have you back here at WUWT! I agree with rbateman that we all miss the solar topic.
Yours Sincerely
Invariant
Follow the Money
I Just googled “grants site:cru.uea.ac.uk” and up popped the following.
http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/research/grants.htm.
This is a link to a web page titled “Recent CRU grants-Grants active since 1 January 2007,” which breaks down the distribution of roughly £3 million of grant money. The following information is provided: “Project title/Contractor,” “Investigator(s),” “Value,” and “Start/End” dates. Among the dozen investigators named are Jones and Briffa.
Nothing necessarily sinister here. In this era £3 million distributed among a dozen investigators is probably not unreasonable. Nevertheless, this information might be useful to someone trying to understand where some of the money was coming from.
I haven’t read the comments, but I’m sure you’ll get loads of volunteers.
It’s good idea!
Logo:
How about superimposing Mann’s face on this graphic, next to Ticky Dick’s?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/watergate/images/watergate_montage_2.gif
Instead of the tape recorder – use tree rings
I’m getting an Error 492 when trying to post here. Anyone else?
logo?
http://www.proveit.isgreat.org/climategate.gif
…with apologies to the obvious…
Leif Svalgaard (17:58:12)
Leif: Exceptional and objective as usual.
please come back
To me DadVinci’s hockeystick looks a bit like a rifle or a gun. Maybe by adding some smoke it could be turned into a smoking gun or a hockeystick firing back.
DadVinci’s logo and explanation say it all.
” . . . works best when it’s kept fairly simple without putting to much symbolism in it. A logo doesn’t have to explain all the details.”
(Most other suggestions are good, too – Loved the IPCC as naked emperor!)