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From Andrew Bolt’s blog at the Herald Sun:
Professor John Quiggin complains of smears by sceptics:
In recent years, science and scientific institutions have come under increasingly vociferous attack, with accusations of fraud, incompetence and even aspirations to world domination becoming commonplace… Scientists have been constrained in fighting back by the fact that they are ethically constrained to be honest, whereas their opponents lie without any compunction.
Ethically unconstrained, Professor John Quiggin smears a sceptic:
In writing my previous post on the “Climategate” break-in to the University of East Anglia computer system, I remained unclear about who was actually responsible for the break-in theft of the emails, which were then selectively quoted to promote a bogus allegation of scientific fraud. Looking over the evidence that is now available, I think there is enough to point to Steven McIntyre as the person, along with the actual hacker or leaker, who bears primary moral responsibility for the crime…
So, to sum up, McIntyre organised the campaign which led to the creation of the file, obtained information from the CRU file system by means he declined to reveal, received the stolen emails shortly after the theft and made dishonest and defamatory use of the stolen information. Whether or not he was directly involved in the theft, or merely created the opportunity and benefited from the proceeds is impossible to determine, and essentially irrelevant.
OK professor, let’s see your evidence beyond this missive.
Somebody needs to educate Quiggin on the CRU ftp security blunder that was “the mole”. He doesn’t get it, and then proceeds to use that as “evidence” against McIntyre. It’s comical.
Here’s Professor Quiggin’s page at the University of Queensland:
http://www.uq.edu.au/economics/johnquiggin/
http://www.uq.edu.au/economics/index.html?page=15898
FOI in the UK? No one was suppose to tell there was one!
opps, forgot to say
/sarcoff/
I just read the comment about not feeding the troll.
Too late for the comment I just posted.
My apologies.
[we don’t allow Hitler parodies as funny as some of them are. At least I don’t in case there’s been inconsistency. ~ ctm]
R. Gates (16:39:05) :
You complain about cherrypicking, yet you turn right around and cherrypick only the one miniscule period in which the sea ice is decreasing during only one part of its most recent longer cycles. You then hold out the excuse, a false one at that, claiming its the only period of “TIME THAT ACCURATE MODERN RECORDS HAVE BEEN KEPT.”
You deny the most recent months and years in which the sea ice is increasing.
You deny the years preceding the satellite period in which the sea ice waxed and waned even more than the satellite period.
You deny the millenia time spans in which humans inhabited the Earth without an industrialized civilization and without perennial sea ice at the North Pole.
You deny the millions of years in which there was little or no perennial sea ice in the Arctic.
You deny the millions of years when it was normal for the Arctic to have no sea ice at all.
Then you have the audacity to accuse other commentators of “cherrypicking” the sea ice data before and after your choice of only a handful of years! Really?
You also describe the references to sea ice extents of the pre-satellite period as “absurd” and “ridiculuous.” Are they? How can they possibly be so absurd, ridiculous, or irrelevant to the most recent fluctuations during the satellite era, given the fact such sea ice extents normally do not exist through most of the last 550 milion years?
Perhaps you can enlighten us as to why we need to be concerned about the current relatively minor flucuations of perennial sea ice when the Arctic did not have perennial sea ice at the North Pole during tens of thousands of years of early human existence on the Earth? It was perfectly natural to have little or no perennial sea ice in the Arctic then, so why isn’t also natural to have much more sea ice now even at its lowest extents? In other words, what reason is there to be so tremendously and immediately alarmed about having more sea ice now, at its greatest and least extents, than our early human ancestors often had for tens of thousands of years in their day?
Here are most of the differences in three copies of Quiggan’s statement:
http://johnquiggin.com/index.php/archives/2010/03/12/climategatethe-smoking-gun/
now that I have an earlier copy made by Jonathan Baxter.
Inserted after first paragraph:
“It seems unlikely at this point that the hacker/leaker wll be identified, so as far as criminal liability is concerned, we will probably never know.”
Original text:
“Looking over the evidence that is now available, I think there is enough to point to Steven McIntyre as the person, along with the actual hacker or leaker, who bears primary moral responsibility for the crime.”
Replaced with:
“Looking over the evidence that is now available, however, I think there is enough to point to Steven McIntyre as the person (along with the actual hacker or leaker of course) who bears primary moral responsibility for the crime.”
And that was further replaced with:
“Looking over the evidence that is now available, however, I think there is enough to point to Steven McIntyre as the person (apart of course from the actual hacker/leaker) who bears primary moral responsibility for the crime.”
Original text:
“(unsurprisingly, his supporters ignored the request to stick to new countries, and sent multiples of the same request)”
Replaced with:
“(unsurprisingly, his supporters ignored the request to stick to new countries, and sent multiples of the same request). In the end, CRU got over 100 FOI requests, all essentially identical, but different enough to pose a huge burden.”
Original text:
“25 July 2009: The next day McIntyre announced that he had got a mass of CRU data, essentially all that sought in the harassment campaign, from “a mole”. Note that this may be true or may be misdirection to protect external hackers.”
Replaced with:
“25 July 2009: The next day McIntyre announced that he had got a mass of CRU data, essentially all that sought in the harassment campaign, in a post headed “a mole”. McIntyre stated in comments that he had received the data from a person in the UK.”
Original text:
“Over the next few months, CRU started preparing a response to McIntyre which resulted in the creation of a file called FOIA.zip. Over the weekend beginning Friday 13 November, someone located and copied this file from a back-up server at the university’s Climatic Research Unit, and distributed it widely among anti-science blog sites, including McIntyre’s. It’s unclear whether the extraction of the file required sophisticated hacking, simple illegal entry to a poorly protected site, or McIntyre’s “mole”. What is clear, as this report notes is that going after FOIA.zip indicates that someone in McIntyre’s circle of supporters was responsible.”
Replaced with:
“Over the next few months, CRU started preparing a response to McIntyre. Over the weekend beginning Friday 13 November, someone located and copied files associated with this effort from a back-up server at the university’s Climatic Research Unit, and attempted to load it on to the RealClimate site under the name FOIA.zip (the files were in a directory called FOI2009). It’s unclear whether the extraction of the file required sophisticated hacking, simple illegal entry to a poorly protected site, or McIntyre’s “mole”. What is clear, as this report notes is that the name FOi2009 indicates that someone in McIntyre’s circle of supporters was responsible.”
And that was replaced with:
“Over the weekend beginning Friday 13 November, someone located and copied files (apparently associated with the CRU response to this effort, although this is unclear) from a back-up server at the university’s Climatic Research Unit, and attempted to load it on to the RealClimate site under the name FOIA.zip (the files were in a directory called FOI2009). That attempt failed and the files were then widely circulated to anti-science sites. It’s unclear whether the extraction of the file required sophisticated hacking, simple illegal entry to a poorly protected site, or McIntyre’s “mole”. What is clear, as this report notes is that the name FOi2009 indicates that someone associated with the campaign was responsible.”
Original text:
“Having received the stolen emails, McIntyre played a prominent role in disseminating dishonest and misleading claims about their contents, focusing on the phrases “trick” and “hide the decline” which were used to suggest a conspiracy to commit scientific fraud.”
Replaced with:
“Having been advised of the stolen emails, McIntyre linked to them and played a prominent role in disseminating dishonest and misleading claims about their contents, focusing on the phrases “trick” and “hide the decline” which were used to suggest a conspiracy to commit scientific fraud.”
Original text:
“So, to sum up, McIntyre organised the campaign which led to the creation of the file, obtained information from the CRU file system by means he declined to reveal, received the stolen emails shortly after the theft and made dishonest and defamatory use of the stolen information. Whether or not he was directly involved in the theft, or merely created the opportunity and benefited from the proceeds is impossible to determine, and essentially irrelevant.”
Replaced with:
“So, to sum up, McIntyre organised the campaign which led to the creation of the file, obtained information from the CRU file system by means he declined to reveal, linked to the stolen emails shortly after the theft and made dishonest and defamatory use of the stolen information. Whether or not he was directly involved in the theft, or merely created the opportunity and benefited from the proceeds is impossible to determine, and essentially irrelevant in moral terms.”
And that was further replaced with:
“So, to sum up, McIntyre, having earlier obtained information from the CRU file system by means he declined to reveal, linked to the stolen emails shortly after the theft and made dishonest and defamatory use of the stolen information. The excuse that he was not personally involved in the hack/leak, but merely benefited from the proceeds is essentially irrelevant in moral terms.”
Professor Quiggins wrote:
In recent years, science and scientific institutions have come under increasingly vociferous attack, with accusations of fraud, incompetence and even aspirations to world domination becoming commonplace…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Strong
[edit] Carbon Taxation Involvement
Jesse Ventura cited Maurice Strong as being a primary developer of global warming [16], with the goal of creating a global carbon credit taxation. Additionally, there are numerous claims that Edmund de Rothschild, a member of the well-known Rothschild family, was working with Strong as well. In essence, Strong has been promoting global warming since the 1980’s with the long term goal of helping the United Nations create a carbon tax [17] [18], potentially a trillion dollar business, mainly via carbon credit trading. In 1987, Strong and Rothschild presented the Brundtland Commission at the 4th World Wilderness Congress for a World Conservation Bank (or Global Environment Facility) which would provide a banking system for carbon taxation [19]. The Global Environment Facility (or GEF) is an existing multi-billion dollar fund through which green projects are created in 3rd world countries (the largest of its kind), while keeping a portion of the funds for management and administrative fees. Additionally, it hopes to trade the world’s debt for wilderness lands as collateral.
I haven’t seen this yet, but hmmm.
Rothschild Regrets Global Governance Tough To Activate
http://www.disclose.tv/action/viewvideo/35275/Rothschild_regrets_Global_Governance_tough_to_acti/
That picture of Professor Quiggins, he looks just like my Uncle Delmarr at his age. Bear hunter and fur trapper, he was, sorry.
Weren’t you afraid the rats or cockroaches were going to chew off your fingertips as you slept; or a snake would bite you? The families of soldiers like Patton and Eisenhower lived on Army posts where it was necessary to put each foot of the bed in a pan filled with kerosene. There was, of course, no smoking in bed.
I think that amounts to libel unless he has some hard evidence
Put this guy in a witless protection program.
jaymam @ur momisugly 4:08:39
Thank you for that demonstration. It shows the March of the Psychometers very revealingly.
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Thank you for the great story.
Well he will be off steves christmas card list for sure.