Odd things are going on at the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia.
Widely available data, existing in the public view for years, is now disappearing from public view.
For example this link to Keith Briffa’s Yamal data:
http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/people/briffa/yamal2009/
Now redirects to a generic page of UEA. Try it yourself.
Now here is what that page says:
Climatic Research Unit
Due to the present high volume of visitors to this page, you will shortly be directed to the latest news about CRU on the main University of East Anglia website, or you can go there immediately by clicking on this link.
The cached page at Google is still available here, though none of the links to data or papers works there either.
I’ll point out that if indeed “traffic” is a concern, redirecting to another page on the UEA server system doesn’t do much for the load, it just moves it around. The data files are mostly text, and not that large, they don’t have that much more impact that some wab pages with graphics.
The news page that you get redirected to hasn’t much to say, and has not been updated since December 3rd.
And it’s not just subfolders with data, it is the entire Climate Research Unit website that is shielded from public view. Try the main link which has been functional for years:
In the last press release issued by UEA we read:
Professor Edward Acton, Vice-Chancellor said: “The reputation and integrity of UEA is of the upmost importance to us all.
So now apparently, in this newly pledged period of “openness and transparency”, with the promise of releasing new data access, such as the Met office has done here:
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climatechange/science/monitoring/subsets.html
The access to important CRU data is simply denied?
That’s a hell of a way to build public trust.
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hadcrut3 data was also taken down but is now back up in a very different and harder to use, format:
http://hadobs.metoffice.com/hadcrut3/data/download.html
Ryan Underdown (12:51:07) :
“Try this link:”
And with the other, I get the same. Looks like someone’s reworking the whole site?
If you want any of the old stuff that may still be available, I suggest you use the wayback machine as I indicated above, via the “text only.”
They are cleaning house, it seems. You snooze, you lose.
Ryan Underdown (12:51:07) :
On trying your first link to uea, Firefox tells me
This Connection is Untrusted
Even my browser’s heard about them!
I like this link on the “text only” site.
The IPCC Data Distribution Centre Seems they still have techs on duty.
Actually, this is the real link (no real difference, though, IMO)
http://web.archive.org/web/20080111154921/www.ipcc-data.org/
And when I search at that link on the term “Briffa” I get the following msg.
because open and transparent is only a slogan.
ASIDE – It’s no accident that their climate model program is called “MAGICC.”
lol @view
That interstitial firefox page just means the server’s secure certificate isnt signed – not a big deal. You can click through – just dont give them your social or credit card info 😉
@Yonason – thats definitely possible – but I’d wait a day or so before getting too riled up… as others noted there are lots of possible explanations at the moment. Although the 404’ing of all things Briffa does look odd.
Ryan Underdown (13:21:24) :
“I’d wait a day or so before getting too riled up… as others noted there are lots of possible explanations at the moment.”
Oh, I’m not “riled up.” A bit amused. But not upset, or surprised.
It looks like they are redoing their site, and it’s taking a while before all the bells and whistles work the way they want them to. All I’m saying is that if anyone wants to find anything, now’s the time to do it, before they give it the Briffa treatment.
I doubt you’ll see Briffa’s stuff anymore. I could be wrong, but I’ve seen material “disappeared” that way before on other sites, never to be seen again. Time will tell, and at the rate they seem to be going, I think it won’t be long.
LAST CALL?
E.M.Smith (10:53:29) :
FWIW, we actually had a paper printer attached to the main systems console of a couple of our key machines and printed the console log. Why? One of the ‘key tricks’ when you ‘get root’ is to erase your ‘footprints’ in the console log on the disk… can’t do that with paper inside the locked computer room… Caught a couple of folks that way.
Sometimes it’s the simple things 😉
I found ‘The Cuckoos Egg’ a good read too. 😉
I just had a vision of CRU’s army of techs hurriedly reworking the site. I hope you don’t mind my sharing?
Honestly, if I had Soros-size wallets I’d have a comfortable estate somewhere, outside the reach of the UK authorities, ready for the UEA whistleblower to step forward.
And if I were in Downing Street I’d put the person up for a knighthood.
I’m anxious to see the next chapter in the “Russian hackers” story. Too bad we’re apparently dependent on “Russian hackers” to save Western democracy.
Mike Ramsey (12:50:17) :
Interestingly, the IPCC. Perhaps the identity of the ‘hackers’ or ‘leakers’ or whatever you want to call them would be damaging to the IPCC somehow? Nobody will know for sure until the investigation is completed (how is that going?) but I am just reading between the lines on these things. That comment from the Russians I quoted above did sound like it was directed to somebody. Briffa leaking information could be viewed as damaging to the IPCC and he did seem to have reservations, so it seems possible.
“The computer hack, said a senior member of the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change, was not an amateur job, but a highly sophisticated, politically motivated operation. And others went further. The guiding hand behind the leaks, the allegation went, was that of the Russian secret services.”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/was-russian-secret-service-behind-leak-of-climatechange-emails-1835502.html
Simple explanation:
People are crawling back through EACH data point (station, core, tree) and finding out all the games that have been played. Removing the “action item list” from the net slows that process.
These guys are crooks.
yonason (13:30:23) :
Ryan Underdown (13:21:24) :
“I’d wait a day or so before getting too riled up… as others noted there are lots of possible explanations at the moment.”
Oh, I’m not “riled up.” A bit amused. But not upset, or surprised.
It looks like they are redoing their site, and it’s taking a while before all the bells and whistles work the way they want them to.
I don’t think so, unless they are really incompetent. The usual practice for a major change is to build the next version on a test machine and test it before switching out the old and switching in the new. One just wouldn’t wing it this way espcially with the availability of virtual machine technology. If EAU’s computer science department is any good at all there should be plenty of students to draw from who would want a sys admin job and who would know enough not to botch it this badly.
Hurry, now.
http://web.archive.org/web/20071128074307/www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/temperature/HadCRUT3_accepted.pdf
http://web.archive.org/web/20080109054508/http://hadobs.metoffice.com/crutem3/data/download.html
http://web.archive.org/web/20080110145028/http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/temperature/ftpdata/crutem3.zip
Can you row faster than CRU?
Here is another stink-bomb from the propaganda mills that lines up with the emails in a way that does not make climatology look good:
http://www.eastangliaemails.com/emails.php?eid=1016&filename=1254108338.txt
The climatologist worked to remove the high temps in the ’40s from the temperature record, then this paper comes out and says that even though the melting was fastest in the ’40s, based on the work of the climate cabal, it was cooler then, so there must be some other explanation.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.d1adbaecf2f1d58fb3880c64655e52ea.151&show_article=1
Dave F (13:50:32) :
Interestingly, the IPCC.
The Russians are net energy exporters so one could argue that they would have something to lose if the scammers, err, I mean the IPCC, succeeded with their agenda. Maybe the FSB has gathered more intelligence about things that the IPCC would not want publicized. They would potentially have access to much, much more than just e-mails. Some of it might be quite personal and blackmail-able.
This is a typical move if:
1. Forensics investigation in response to a security breach is going on.
2. Criminal investigation has taken the systems into custody.
Prison Planet has copied your blog post word to word. They seem to have a link at the top to the post leading here though. Odd.
r (07:56:09) :
I have taken to saving interesting websites because I have noticed how often web sites disappear. I like to have proof. Web sites disappearing are not unlike the disappearing of information and rewriting of history in Orwell’s 1984.
This is one of the things that scares me about the Internet. As more and more people get their information from the internet, a government, like China, could do exactly what George Orwell warned us all about. Free people must be vigilent about keeping the Internet free. Go WUWT!
I suppose that is one way of hiding the decline.
You have to wonder about Google – and Google bias! Take a look at this. Just appeared on the google.co.uk homepage “New! Explore impact of climate change on Google Earth”, which links to http://www.google.co.uk/landing/cop15/ and shows a typical Al Gore video. Where’s the link to WUWT to give the other side of the story? How can Google be allowed to get away with such bias! Will Google be placing links on it’s home page for just the democrats now?
Considering:
1) The trillions of taxes planned to be taken from prosperous nations
2) The multiple statements of “The science is settled on this!”
3) The mockery they spewed forth against reasonable skeptics
3) The sheer weight of regulations they planned to dump upon an unsuspecting world
4) The power that could be acquired through these regulations
5) The amount of profits to be had for the purveyors of Global Warming
…you would think they would gladly let the data out to everyone…to PROVE what they were saying was true. They would have trumpeted it from the rooftops. Instead, they are attempting to hide the data from the public, because they cannot afford a real analysis of it.
Too late for excuses. This is no “data failure”. No “overloaded servers” This is a cover-up! And but by the grace of God and a whistleblower, they would have gotten away with it. The Climate Change gang are simply thieves, liars and fraudsters
Is there still a hole in thr ozone ring that will kill us all?
In high school, we were all getting ready for the coming ice age…
I wouldn’t trust the current “peer-reviewed journals” to line a bird cage without poisoning the bird or being accused of animal cruelty…
Any file I try, I get “Not Found” redirect to main page