From a University of East Anglia Press Release
Professor Phil Jones has today announced that he will stand aside as Director of the Climatic Research Unit until the completion of an independent Review resulting from allegations following the hacking and publication of emails from the Unit.
Professor Jones said: “What is most important is that CRU continues its world leading research with as little interruption and diversion as possible. After a good deal of consideration I have decided that the best way to achieve this is by stepping aside from the Director’s role during the course of the independent review and am grateful to the University for agreeing to this. The Review process will have my full support.”
Vice-Chancellor Professor Edward Acton said: “I have accepted Professor Jones’s offer to stand aside during this period. It is an important step to ensure that CRU can continue to operate normally and the independent review can conduct its work into the allegations.
“We will announce details of the Independent Review, including its terms of reference, timescale and the chair, within days. I am delighted that Professor Peter Liss, FRS, CBE, will become acting director.”
An AP story is here
h/t to Jeff Id of The Air Vent
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“noted that the conclusions of the IPCC reports are based on several data sets in addition to the CRU, including data from NOAA, NASA and the United Kingdom Met Office. Each of those data sets basically show identical multi-decadal trends, Karl said.”
Including computer climate programs.
If it’s true that CRU destroyed most of the raw data when they moved to their new building in 1980 = thirty years ago.
Then it is true that the only data available since 1980 is the corrupted data.
Most all computer climate programs were designed after that.
Then the only data available to program computer climate models was the fudged, manipulated, false, and fraud data.
These climate models are checked for accuracy against how well they predict the past.
If their only record of the past was the corrupted data………..
Didn’t NOAA send their raw data to CRU, then CRU sent it back ‘adjusted’?
Has anybody seen this yet on Fox. Amazing.
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2009/12/01/research-scandal-changed-views-global-warming/
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geo (13:34:47) :
you’ve got it spot on.
the review will find the science and Jones’ methods sound, but Jones was guilty of bad leadership and management (hey he got caught) so a more proficient manager is installed, and Jones is free to continue his ‘good works’.
The Canadian way…
Not only the Globe and Mail in Canada obfuscated the climategate news on their website, but now they try to intimidate me to even comment on the subject:
GlobeandMailgate is next!!!
—–Original Message—–
From: “Lxxxxxxxx
To: “xxxxxxxxx
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 15:48:56 -0500
Subject: Your comment on the globeandmail.com
> Please do not post the same comment on multiple stories. Also, please make sure that your comment is relevant to the story it is posted in.
>
> I’ve removed your three comments on Phil Jones stepping down. Two of them were posted on stories that had nothing to do with climate change. The third comment was on a relevant story, but for legal reasons, we can not allow you to reproduce large segments of an AP story on our comment board.
>
> In the future, if you want to draw attention to an ent on another site that is relevant to the story, a short summary and a link will work.
>
> Thank you,
>
> SxxxxLxxxx
> GlobeandMail.com
Considering the AP story was about 10 lines…
Subject: FOIA Request – “Climategate”
From: ntsa@*****************
Date: Tue, December 1, 2009 9:39 pm
To: dpa.officer@bbc.co.uk
Cc: ntsa@**************
Priority: High
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Dear Sir/Madam —
Pursuiant to the Freedom of Information Act 2000:
I would be most grateful if you could please send me the minutes of any
editorial meetings pertinant to the BBCs decision not to cover the
“Climategate”* story and any reports, papers or internal correspondence
dealing with this issue.
*For the purposes of disambuguation “Climategate” in this context refers
to the recent release of emails and documents by a whistleblower at the
University of East Anglia and the subsequent suspension of the Phil Jones,
lead author of the IPCC findings and the Director of Climate Research for
the above institution, pending investigation into allegations of
scientific fraud.
Please address all correpondance in relation to this matter either to
ntsa@************ or to the following postal address:
Hansen did an interview with Eric Berger of the Houston Chronicle (Hansen is speaking in Houston). More comments regarding nazism and slavery. Here’s the link (probably deserves its own topic heading).
http://blogs.chron.com/sciguy/archives/2009/12/james_hansen_the_interview_in_its_entirety.html#more
I just had a thought that would greatly help with this leak, release, or data dump.
The HCRU historical data has been destroyed supposedly; but we have the computer code now. Lets put in the data set that we do have and see what the results are. Now that would be fun to publish wouldn’t it. Lets see what their computer model says with trusted data.
JimB (12:37:09) :
“Professor Jones said: “What is most important is that CRU continues its world leading research with as little interruption and diversion as possible.”
I couldn’t make it past there.
Me neither.
That’s usually where I tab out and run over to WUWT for instant brain rescue before I throw up.
Glen Beck would say, “That made blood shoot out of my EYES!”
Climategate is no longer a suggest search topic on Bing or Google now. Hmm.
re: Invariant (11:56:30) :
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By all means, this is good news, but let us show that we also have a warm and human side here at WUWT – we all do mistakes!
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yep, but fortunately we have our good operators here, snipping it when it’s
way off appropriate. Poor ol’ sod Jones didn’t have one to correct him.
” John Whitman (12:56:40) :
Question in my mind is if Phil Jones is faced with criminal charges due to any ongoing investigation, will he cut a deal with authorities to help them pursue others criminally?”
…If he does that, his reputation and career are over. He has not, at the moment, been charged with any criminal offense. But he is facing a criminal investigation because of his handling of the CRU data and the attempts to frustrate the workings of the Freedom of Information Act. These are potential criminal charges, but at the moment we are at the stage of complaints being made by various parties which must be investigated to see what, if any, charges are brought against him.
The civil suits, some of which have already been filed, are also related to the handling of the data and attempts to circumvent the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act. Significant damages are being sought.
In Canada the Globe and Mail did not mention Climategate on their website. Yet the gatekeepers do not hesitate to intimidate in order to keep Climategate quiet:
Here is the emai I just received:
—–Original Message—–
From: “xxxxxx, Scott”
To: “xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 15:48:56 -0500
Subject: Your comment on the globeandmail.com
> Please do not post the same comment on multiple stories. Also, please make sure that your comment is relevant to the story it is posted in.
>
> I’ve removed your three comments on Phil Jones stepping down. Two of them were posted on stories that had nothing to do with climate change. The third comment was on a relevant story, but for legal reasons, we can not allow you to reproduce large segments of an AP story on our comment board.
>
> In the future, if you want to draw attention to an ent on another site that is relevant to the story, a short summary and a link will work.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Scott xxxxxxxx
> GlobeandMail.com
The AP article was 10 lines long…
Strong words softly spoken by Viscount Monckton
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Vice-Chancellor Professor Edward Acton said: “I have accepted Professor Jones’s offer to stand aside during this period. It is an important step to ensure that CRU can continue to operate normally and the independent review can conduct its work into the allegations.
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Hummh, speculation, did they get his offer by point of a gun, literally?
If yes, “Hasta la vista, baby”.
Good riddance.
However, the fraudulent manipulation of science and fact is an absolutely atrocious scandal that goes to the very heart of IPCC organization. After all, Phil Jones at al are the very basis upon which an entire belief system of “man-made” climate change has been built by the IPCC.
This must only be the start…
Keep fighting and keep writing to the ignorant media and your local politicians…
Spenc BC (13:42:08) :
Yes, and I voted in it.
And also this:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,578368,00.html
Others have had the distinct displeasure of finding thier scientific questioning fall under the heels of the cabal.
The rebuttal at the end, well… not exactly a professional argument that one would expect from a scientist.
Scientists who had their work suppressed are not going to accept a whitewash. In addition, initial investigations will lead to investigations of others … this is the beginning of the end for the individuals who were driven mostly by politics rather than science.
If you are a political animal and a crook does that mean you get to have your work peer-reviewed by political animals and crooks?
A victory, but a small one. I’m afraid that this will be all that comes from this scandal. I’m probably just being cynical, but the media is still trying to bury this story and they figure this will appease some people and make the story fade. I even checked google news for this story and it didn’t show up on the main news page. The suggestion fill in for had no auto suggest for “phil jones” no matter how many letters you put in.
The MSM is just sitting with their fingers in their ears chanting LA LA LA hoping for enough time to get the Compenhagen treaty done and Cap and Tax passed. We’re not reaching enough people to be effictive and, while I should be happy, I’m just getting more depressed. I guess feeling powerless to stop the insanity does that to you 🙁
Anthony, you’ve been keeping something from us! Please will you tell us when you won the Jackpot. This is what one idiot submitted to a BBC thread:
“The hacking episode being discussed was part of an absurdly selective extraction of minor presentational discussions. what it demonstrates is how far so-called ‘sceptics’ will go to create doubt about climate science in the in the public perception. These people are well-funded professionals in manipulative PR, playing with the public’s human tendency towards denial, ie, their psychological defence mechanisms.”
So, your secret is out. You are a well-funded professional! Lucky you.
So, finally there is some real acceptance of the light being shown upon this travesty:
BBC News: December 1, 2009
“It is also possible that the institutional innovation that has been the IPCC has now largely run its course.
Perhaps, through its structural tendency to politicise climate change science, it has helped to foster a more authoritarian and exclusive form of knowledge production – just at a time when a globalising and wired cosmopolitan culture is demanding of science something much more open and inclusive.”
Mike Hulme – School of Environmental Sciences at the U of East Anglia
Dr Jerome Ravetz, Institute for Science, Innovation and Society (InSIS) at Oxford University
We must not be afraid to point to the nefarious actions of the culpable academics. Nor their associates’ concerted attempt to use false science to extort funds from industrialized nations. The IPCC is smack in the center of this, confirming it is a purely political organization. As such it cannot and has not done science for the past twenty years. It is time to scrap the institution and start again. Without the pathetic injection of politics from either spectrum.
A review conducted much like the methods the Team has used in it’s climate machinations is no review.
I am not holding my breath when it’s not just Dr Jones at issue, but the corporate climate – no pun intended – that has allowed this behavior to exit in the first place.
Wanna get your flesh pressed by a vice president?
Get your wallet out and flash the cash…
http://ow.ly/HCtK
Phil Jones = Sacrificial lamb
I only hope the review is *actually* independant and they dont just hire someone from the “team” to confirm everything is OK
Sorry to talk Politics, but that is what this news is about …
“Stepping aside” is UK Public Sector-speak for “fired”, he wont be coming back. People at his level are rarely sacked outright, they are usually “invited to step down”
Whatever we may think here about the science issues, I’ll lay odds that is was the Information Commissioner investigation into the FOI stuff and the security breach that allowed internal emails to be leaked that did it.
For any senior public sector manager that sort of stuff is “throw the book at them” territory. The only suprise is that its taken them so long. My guess is pressure from Whitehall to try and keep the lid on it until after Copenhagen delayed it, but the viral spread of the story on the net had forced their hand.
Play the game of politics, and you have to live with the consequences when it goes pear shaped Im afraid.
The Wall Street Journal
WSJ Blogs
By Russell Gold
December 1, 2009
Excerpt: “On the other side of the pond, Penn State climate scientist Michael Mann, who was included in some of the 1,000 emails, is also subject of an internal “inquiry” by the university that will determine whether a full investigation is warranted.
http://blogs.wsj.com/environmentalcapital/2009/12/01/climategate-update-internal-investigations-at-cru-penn-state/