From Climategate.tv – see video report below.
This week marks the one year anniversary of the release of emails and documents from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia that we now know as Climategate.
Sitting here now, one year later, it’s becoming difficult to remember the importance of that release of information, or even what information was actually released. Many were only introduced to the scandal through commentary in the blogosphere and many more came to know about it only weeks later, after the establishment media had a chance to assess the damage and fine tune the spin that would help allay their audience’s concern that something important had just happened. Very few have actually bothered to read the emails and documents for themselves.
Few have browsed the “Harry Read Me” file, the electronic notes of a harried programmer trying to make sense of the CRU’s databases. They have never read for themselves how temperatures in the database were “artificially adjusted to look closer to the real temperatures” or the “hundreds if not thousands of dummy stations” which somehow ended up in the database, or how the exasperated programmer resorts to expletives before admitting he made up key data on weather stations because it was impossible to tell what data was coming from what sources.
Few have read the 2005 email from Climategate ringleader and CRU head Phil Jones to John Christy where he states “The scientific community would come down on me in no uncertain terms if I said the world had cooled from 1998. OK it has but it is only 7 years of data and it isn’t statistically significant.” Or where he concludes: “As you know, I’m not political. If anything, I would like to see the climate change happen, so the science could be proved right, regardless of the consequences. This isn’t being political, it is being selfish.”
Or the email where he broke the law by asking Michael Mann of “hockey stick” fame to delete a series of emails related to a Freedom of Information request he had just received.
Or the email where he wrote: “If they ever hear there is a Freedom of Information Act now in the UK, I think I’ll delete the file rather than send to anyone. We also have a data protection act, which I will hide behind.”
Or the other emails where these men of science say they will re-define the peer review process itself in order to keep differing view points out of the scientific literature, or where they discuss ousting a suspected skeptic out of his editorial position in a key scientific journal, or where they fret about how to hide the divergence in temperature proxy records from observed temperatures, or where they openly discuss the complete lack of warming over the last decade or any of the thousands of other emails and documents exposing a laundry list of gross scientific and academic abuses.
Of course, the alarmists continue to argue—as they have ever since they first began to acknowledge the scandal—that climategate is insignificant. Without addressing any of the issues or specific emails, they simply point to the “independent investigations” that they say have vindicated the climategate scientists.
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Regardless of what one thinks of the veracity or independence of these so-called investigations into the climategate scandal itself, what has followed has been a catastrophic meltdown of the supposedly united front of scientific opinion that manmade CO2 is causing catastrophic global warming.
In late November of 2009, just days after the initial release of the climategate emails, the University of East Anglia was in the hotseat again. The CRU was forced to admit they had thrown away most of the raw data that their global temperature calculations were based upon, meaning their work was not reproducible by any outside scientists.
Complete transcript to the video here
The place where all the emails can be searched and read: http://eastangliaemails.com/
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John Blake,
Your well-stated long range view on when we might know the story of the email release has merit.
If an internal UAE/CRU person ultimately (in the remote future) takes or is given responsibility . . . . then the current modus operandi of the UEA/CRU (and their associates internationally) should remain essentially unchanged until that time. That appears to be the case in the past year. Then it is also true that the critical media (mostly blogs like CA/WUWT/many others) need to keep the spotlight on the issues revealed in the emails . . . . which appears to be happily continuing : )
The variable in the near term is another release of additional emails, if any, taken at the same time last year but which (if they exist) are being held in reserve by the original releaser.
Maybe I read way to many mystery/thriller novels, but there is a whisper thought in my mind, is the UEA/CRU with the aid of the UK police setting up a sting for when (if) the releaser does another release? Will the supposedly soon press release by the UK authorities on their investigation be phrased to entice an additional release in an effort to trap the releaser? Far-fetched idea? Probably so. However, it has some probability of being correct given that if any additional emails were taken last November then the UEA/CRU and UK police must know that they are helpless to prevent them from coming out eventually; so they have nothing to lose by baiting the releaser to do an addition release in order to catch him/her.
Robb WillerUC Berkeley social psychologist and coauthor of a study to be published in the January issue of the journal Psychological Science:
Despite the mounting evidence, a Gallup poll conducted earlier this year found that 48 percent of Americans believe that global warming concerns are exaggerated, and 19 percent think global warming will never happen. In 1997, 31 percent of those who were asked the same question in a Gallup poll felt the claims were overstated.
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Despite the mounting evidence! Despite the mounting evidence!!
The students probably had healthy BS detectors – which is more that what Robb Willer seemed to possess.
But I am more concerned about the use of psychology as demonstrated by Futerra in the UK http://www.futerra.co.uk/revolution/leading_thinking which is redolent of Dr. Goebbels’ technique. These things are truly sinister and demonstrate a cynical approach to manipulating people’s minds. To me these techniques border on criminal behaviour especially where they are misleading or blatantly untruthful.
Douglas
johnnythelowery says:
November 20, 2010 at 8:30 am
There are only three references, but they show up multiple time dues to quoting:
tux:mail> grep -i travesty *
1148577381.txt:>> Also, I think it is an absolute travesty that figure 6.10 isn’t being
1148592899.txt: Also, I think it is an absolute travesty that figure 6.10 isn’t being shown in the SPM.
1255352257.txt: travesty that we can’t. The CERES data published in the August BAMS 09 supplement on 2008
1255496484.txt:warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can’t”. I do not
1255496484.txt:> and it is a travesty that we can’t. The CERES data published in the
1255523796.txt: we will never be able to tell if it is successful or not! It is a travesty!
1255523796.txt: and it is a travesty that we can’t”. I do not
1255523796.txt: travesty that we can’t. The CERES data published in the August BAMS 09 supplement on
1255530325.txt: we will never be able to tell if it is successful or not! It is a travesty!
1255530325.txt: and it is a travesty that we can’t”. I do not
1255530325.txt: travesty that we can’t. The CERES data published in the August BAMS 09 supplement on
1255532032.txt: we will never be able to tell if it is successful or not! It is a travesty!
1255532032.txt: and it is a travesty that we can’t”. I do not
1255532032.txt: travesty that we can’t. The CERES data published in the August BAMS 09 supplement on
1255550975.txt:> travesty!
1255550975.txt:>> warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can’t”. I do not
1255550975.txt:>>> moment and it is a travesty that we can’t. The CERES data published
1255553034.txt:>>>>> of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can’t”. I
1255553034.txt:>>>>>> the moment and it is a travesty that we can’t. The CERES data
1255558867.txt:> > > > of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can’t”. I
1255558867.txt:> > > > > the moment and it is a travesty that we can’t. The CERES data
1148577381.txt, from Michael Man, around 2006 May 25:
>> Also, I think it is an absolute travesty that figure 6.10 isn’t being
>> shown in the SPM. I think that is unforgiveable, and there should be
>> an effort to over-ride that decision (I would suspect that is Susan
>> Solomon’s doing?),
1255352257.txt, from Kevin Trenberth on 12 Oct 2009 08:57:37 -0600 [largeish excerpt & reformatted for readability]
Cc: Stephen H Schneider, Myles Allen, peter stott, “Philip D. Jones”, Benjamin Santer, Tom Wigley, Thomas R Karl, Gavin Schmidt, James Hansen, Michael Oppenheimer
Hi all
Well I have my own article on where the heck is global warming? We are asking that here in Boulder where we have broken records the past two days for the coldest days on record. We had 4 inches of snow. The high the last 2 days was below 30F and the normal is 69F, and it smashed the previous records for these days by 10F. The low was about 18F and also a record low, well below the previous record low. This is January weather (see the Rockies baseball playoff game was canceled on saturday and then played last night in below freezing weather).
Trenberth, K. E., 2009: An imperative for climate change planning: tracking Earth’s global energy. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 1, 19-27, doi:10.1016/j.cosust.2009.06.001. [1][PDF] (A PDF of the published version can be obtained from the author.)
The fact is that we can’t account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can’t. The CERES data published in the August BAMS 09 supplement on 2008 shows there should be even more warming: but the data are surely wrong. Our observing system is inadequate.
1255523796.txt, from Kevin Trenberth on Oct 14, 2009, at 10:17 AM, in response to a Tom Wigley comment of the above:
Hi Tom
How come you do not agree with a statement that says we are no where close to knowing where energy is going or whether clouds are changing to make the planet brighter. We are not close to balancing the energy budget. The fact that we can not account for what is happening in the climate system makes any consideration of geoengineering quite hopeless as we will never be able to tell if it is successful or not! It is a travesty!
Kevin
Alluring until closer inspection!
And closer inspection shows there is really only one significant use of the term. A very important one, but I suggest you look elsewhere (like the Cc: list) in your search for secret societies.
OK, I don’t read SA, I voted in that poll, I found a link to the poll through probably this blog, or some other skeptic blog – like undoubtedly the majority of those who participated in that poll. But you already knew that. Promoting that SA poll as an indication of anything is just the kind of BS which gives skeptics a bad name.
All,
Sorry for the double entry of text within my post of:
John Whitman says:
November 20, 2010 at 10:09 am
I think I will stop posting for a while and go have lunch . . . . duh.
John
[Double posed fixed. ~dbs]
Sandbag and its founder Bryony Worthington are deeply tied into the whole carbon trading fiasco. She was an Eng. Lit. student and Sandbags’ staff and directors barely have a true scientific qualification between them. Their career biogs make interesting reading, beginning as outsiders and now residing in the very heart of the establishment. It’s all about power in the end and truth, as ever, is the victim. Console yourself with this thought as the years roll out. History will deal with them most unkindly.
Jack Savage says:
November 20, 2010 at 8:59 am
Following the orthodoxy still has it’s rewards.
http://www.sandbag.org.uk/blog/2010/nov/19/sandbag-founder-appointed-house-lords/
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oh for goodness sake, she is also a board member of the 10:10 Campaign.
Probably thought the 10:10 ‘no pressure’ video was hysteriacally funny
“First on her agenda will be the energy market reform planned by the coalition government, “unfinished business” from the Climate Change Act which she was instrumental in writing, such as setting stronger carbon caps in the UK, and how to boost investment in green projects.”
“While at SSE, she was seconded to government to take part in writing the climate change bill, which is now law and binds the UK to cutting its carbon emissions. ”
Will noboby spare us these people in the UK?
That Climate Change Bill – 80% reduction in CO2 by 2050.
The supposedly ‘independent’ inquiry cleared those involved of any wrong-doing, http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jul/07/climategate-review-clears-scientists-dishonesty, but is it at all likely that there will be a proper, thorough investigation? Not if UK and EU politicians are likely to fall off the ETS gravy train.
Sandbag – campaigning for carbon trading, etc
Also has Mike Mason on board..
Founder of Climate Care (carbon offsets)
Now owned by JP Morgan Chase bank..
So a nice vested interest, mates in the lords, to push through climate legislation, to enable carbon trading..
Ed Gillspie also, Sandbag – Co founder of Futerra, pr/green media company since 2001, advicing UN and UK on ‘selling Climate Change, and how to communicate climate change.
Ed Gillspie – Guardian newspaper environment consultant editor, Guardian used push climate change to the masses..
Are there NO Investigative reporters left in the world?!!!
It is almost too easy.
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dbs,
Hey thanks!!
Take care,
John
Along with John Blake (9:06), I think Ken Briffa is the most likely visible candidate as the “whistle blower.” There he was, shambling along, minding his own business, in his dendro studies and suddenly, his work is being touted as exhibit A for global warming and Mann’s hockey stick.
Responsibly enough, he pointed out that the late 20th Century results of his research didn’t support the conclusions and- it was published anyway. If I were he, I’d be PO’ed enough to start tearing down the curtains too. If so, he has performed a truly great service for humankind and should take credit for having done so. L
Bryony Worthington, Sandbag’s founder, has been appointed as a Labour peer in the UK Parliament’s House of Lords, recognising over a decade of work for effective action on climate change.
I forgot, as she is also a 10:10 Board member…
she can get Duncan Clark – 10:10 Strategy Director to push thins along a bit as well..
Duncan Clark can also get the Guardian to push ‘climate change ‘ in the Guardian, where he also works.
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A lot can change in one year, also in Germany.
http://notrickszone.com/2010/11/20/climate-models-not-worth-the-paper-theyre-printed-on/#comment-4011
Mother Nature celebrates ClimateGate sending a message to Cancun
http://www.accuweather.com/video.asp?channel=vbbastaj
Bryony has some good connections..
Now in the House of Lords to help push the ‘Climate Change Act’ she helped create.
“she was seconded to government to take part in writing the climate change bill, which is now law and binds the UK to cutting its carbon emissions. The idea of national carbon budgets, now in law, was hers”
Damian Carrington, writes a nice cozy peice about her in the Guardain.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2010/nov/19/labour-peer-bryony-worthington
Damian is the Environment Editor for the Guardian:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/damiancarrington?page=2
Damian also splsahed the 10:10 ‘No Pressure’ video as a ‘sccop’
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2010/sep/30/10-10-no-pressure-film
That must have been a hard scoop to get, as:
Duncan Clark – Guardian Enivironment
Duncan Clark – 10:10 Strategy Director –
Bryony Worthington 10:10 board member
Bryony Worthington Sandbag Board member
Ed Gilspie – Sandbag director, carboon trading emmision lobby group
Ed Gillspie – Guardian environment
Ed Gillspie – Futerra climate change green pr – co-founder
Mike Mason – Sandbag
Mike Mason – JPMorgan Chase (bank) Climate Care (carbon offsets)
A nice little group who over a decade or more, have moved in their own little green circle, helped create the UK Climate Change Act, with a mindest that allowed the ‘no Pressure’ video to be made, without anybody thinking that it was a bad idea.
A nice bit of green groupthink, fingers in Mainstream Media, Climate change PR advicing the UN Environment Program, lobby groups, campaign groups and business, and that is just 4 people.
Pullitzer for an investigative reporter going spare?
Inhofe reminding us to watch the backdoor for EPA introducing Cap & Trade despite ClimateGate
http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.PressReleases&ContentRecord_id=6110a2c2-802a-23ad-458e-4f4d6b1b9415&Region_id=&Issue_id=
I downloaded and retained the whole of the leaked CRU documents two days after the news broke. I’ve read and re-read them since then. I have also copied them to DVDs and have given copies to my friends, both AGW believers and sceptics alike.
Many are the seeds of doubt this course of action has sown in the minds of hitherto avid believers, causing them to question further the basic tenets of their belief system. Scepticism then finds fertile soil in which to flourish.
I do not have to lecture nor harass continually as the AGWers do, I let the believers find out for themselves. The results are always so much more positive when the believer “converts” him- or herself.
The leaked e-mails emanating from the heart of the AGW “priesthood” have done more to destroy their carefully crafted belief system than any number of external “attacks” could possibly have been.
I don’t think that many people actually paid attention to this.
Their bigger problem is trying to convince the average Joe the plumber that
glorified weathermen can predict the future weather, and that 1 degree warmer,
in their kids and grand kids lifetime maybe, is a catastrophe.
Most people would say “one degree, bring it on”……………
Climategate has had a tremendous impact in Canada. The very liberal CBC here in Canada has been a cheerleader in the CAGW cause along with CBC’s David Suzuki. Yet this weeks CBC political affairs program virtually does not mention our un-elected Senates killing of this ridiculous bill, before Climategate this action would have resulted in the MSM CBC bombarding us with this topic !
http://www.cbc.ca/thehouse/ CBC weekly Political affairs program (barely a mention of the Senate killing the AGW bill)
L says:
Many of these peer reviewed articles, promoting the theory of “Anthropogenic Global Warming” have professional looking citations. There are thousands of articles by somebody et al. It is humanly impossible to begin to cover a fraction of them. Every time I’ve chased these musical “et al.s“; I find somebody et al. cited somebody else et al. who cited somebody who made an assumption about something they could not possibly know and had no physical reason as to why it should be so. (i.e. 100 year half life for co2 persistence in the atmosphere)
I find links that go nowhere, IR absorption spectra that tells me nothing, a lack of historical data and criticisms of those who question AGW that completely miss the point of what these people are saying. It is this deliberate miss direction that makes me so completely dismissive of some of there claims. It takes hours just to follow a couple of “et. als” and I don’t have that kind of time.
johnnythelowery, I think they would call themselves travesticians, it’s more sciency-sounding.
Amino Acids in Meteorites says:
November 20, 2010 at 9:47 am
American politician Inhofe, 11/18/10:
Declares 2010 “Year of Vindication”. Also talks about the EPA Endangerment CO2 regulation which begins enforcement on January 2, 2011 without approval of Congress
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Thanks for posting, AAIM! I hadn’t seen this yet!
This was my favorite Climategate email targeting Sen. Inhofe (from M. Mann to Salinger, Jones et. al, 2003)
It was on the night before before the notorious “James Inhofe”, Chair of the Senate “Environment and Public Works Committee” attempted to provide a public stage for Willie Soon and David Legates to peddle their garbage (the Soon & Baliunas junk of course, but also the usual myths about the satellite record, 1940s-1970s cooling, “co2 is good for us” and “but water vapor is the primary greenhouse gas!”).
http://www.climate-gate.org/email.php?eid=348&s=tag526
R. de Haan says:
November 20, 2010 at 11:38 am
Mother Nature celebrates ClimateGate
I see Joe Bastardi is saying the models show 1 – 2 feet of snow for France and Germany next week. Like he said, awareness is being raised!!
;o)
Bryoney Worthington (see above)
has also written dozens of articles for the Guardian.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/bryony-worthington
and is now in a position where she can lobby and VOTE for climate change legislation in the House of Lords, supporting her positions as board member of Sandbag – lobbying for carbon trading in europe, and 10:10 lCampaign lobbying for emmision cuts.
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CRU emails the gift that keeps on giving, its a ticking bomb ,a growing cancer and slow decay, create your own metaphor. Remember it was govt that brought us the catastrophic climate BS and it built up over 20 plus years to the great balloon, in just 2-3 years it has imploded. That is light speed for govt action. The zombie climate bedwetters just don’t know that yet, but their moneyed masters do. The rewards for this deception and terror attack upon the paying public, reason and science are yet to come. I am all for ensuring the fools get what is coming to them. And I am pretty sure its not the reward they imagine is their due. We have given them enough rope, its time to snub em down and put the packsaddle on. What reward is fair for theft, treason and or stupidity? There is reason for the fear and hysteria emulating from the alarmist crowd as they project their insanity onto all others and they know how they planned to behave when they gained the power. In some ways it would be justice if we taxpayers where as stupid and vindictive as they imagine we will be, after all climate clown gulags in the high arctic and hug a polar bear TV would be fair by their playbook. That we will wean the worst of these over educated fools from the public teat, laugh at their past and future utterances and call that wave of human stupidity another historical fad and move on with our lives does not occur to the deluded ones, as they could not concieve of doing the same. Its typical of the type, that if we played by their rules they would not last a week world wide, but that never seems to occcur to those who call for punishment of the unbelievers. Hopefully the scientific method and the tools necessary to use it will be taught in schools again and AWG will be a lesson in the absurdity of claiming science for unreplicatible dogma. Of course the violence of the betrayed true believer has yet to be avoided some how, but the Al Gore types can afford to hire armies of private security so I feel thats somebody elses problem.