Mohib Ebrahim, who has created timelines for professional exhibitions, has now produced one of the ClimateGate scandal, providing graphs, e-mails, history, and analysis of events. This is the second edition, thoroughly edited and revised.
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To print a poster, check-out the sizes below, each with reference pages. As needed, the timeline will be updated and expanded. This is its home, so check back here for new editions and comments. And please link to this page here so people will always get the updates and all the versions.
About the designer
A software architect, Mohib Ebrahim designs graphic timelines as a hobby. As an amateur astronomer, he has always been an AGW skeptic because of synchronous warming on neighbouring planets. A few years ago, he read Michael Chrichton’s State of Fear, and learning about many AGW issues, began his own investigation.
With the Internet release of the CRU e-mails last November, Ebrahim started work on a visual presentation setting out who, what, when, where, and how. Though this timeline was intended only for himself, he soon realized it could be of use to others, and decided to go public. The first on-line edition, a mostly unedited draft, was well received, and described by Rick Lippincott, an executive at the Society for Technical Communication, as possibly “one of the best visual representations of complex data since Charles Joseph Minard prepared [in 1861] a graphic charting Napoleon’s march to Moscow.”
Read more and get alternate printing formats at Jo Nova’s website
Hi,
I’ve updated my zoomable web copy of this great poster, located at http://www.andyhcoates.com/climategate/
Andy.
She has done a wonderful job. I have the full sized banner poster on our bathroom wall! Only place in the house where it’ll fit.
Browse in english,by clicking on union flag.
http://euro-med.dk/?p=11956
follow the trails.
Dennis Wingo (20:05:12) :
The underlying philosophy that underpins the mindset revealed in the climategate emails is the book “Limits to Growth”. This is the book that Gore used as his bible in writing “Earth in the Balance”
Yes, exactly, which stems from a failure to understand human development and economic activity. Bottom line, man does not and cannot “run out” of things provided by nature. Why? Because when something looks like it’s running out (e.g., oil or you-pick-it), the price goes up (i.e., it gets scarce/ expensive to find/ develop) and man’s technological ingenuity and free market economy finds subtitutes/ replacements. This happens through the, yes, “invisible hand.”
Does it make sense for government to intervene when there are externalities to the broad economy? Yes, on occasion, but rarely and only when the need is blatantly obvious. AGW does not yet qualify.
“Limits to Growth” was/ is a silly book. Go back and read it to see how silly. We have evidence in the last 50 years than reproduction rates go down with economic/ political development (security). We will not reproduce ourselves into oblivion unless those pushing AGW succeed in reducing growth (paradoxically, what they want is exactly the opposite of what they need — thanks, Mick J).
There always will be Malthusians and misanthropes among us. And people in modern society, to the extent they have turned away from traditional metaphyscial religion (mostly due to science), still need something to believe in that is bigger than themselves. Gaia is a pretty good substitute, and a powerful mixture when taken on by those with fundamental tendencies towards being Malthusian/ misanthropic. Too bad such folks gotten the upper hand WRT AGW.
Hopefully, sanity and science will survive to produce the correct answer for all of us: Do we really need to severely limit CO2, or is CO2 truly irrelevant, or something in-between? We don’t yet know.
Arrrgghhh, sorry about the missed