NCAR's Dr. Kevin Treberth's ugly intolerance of dissenting views from other scientists

And to think I almost wasted my time going to visit Dr. Trenberth at NCAR this fall. This is mind blowing intolerance in professional discourse. Here’s the email, bold mine.

email 3946

date: Thu Dec 9 08:28:11 2004

from: Phil Jones <REDACTED>

subject: Re: Correspondence with Chris Landsea

to: REDACTED

Kevin,

So you’ve heard. The other email may explain more and/or give details.

We will have to do without him. We still need to get a diagram, but we should

probably let this die down now.

Susan and Martin (and you can see the others) got the earlier email (which

you now have – if you’ve not got it from elsewhere). Keep me infomed.

By the way, still nothing from the Japanese contact, despite 2 reminders at

least. I’ll send an email to the first Japanese I contacted.

Cheers

Phil

At 02:24 09/12/2004, you wrote:

Martin

I have not seen any of this. I just heard today at the NCAR Xmas party from

Tim Killeen that this existed. So I feel blindsided. I understand he has

resigned from CA of our chapter.

I responded to his earlier message in a fairly low key fashion. I think he

has behaved irresponsibly and ought to be fired by NOAA for not have an open enough mind to even consider that climate change might be affecting

hurricanes. I am quickly becoming outraged by this and I hope it backfires on

him!!!!

Kevin

On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Martin Manning wrote:

> Dear Phil and Kevin

>

> Today Susan received a copy of some correspondence between Chris Landsea  and Dr Pachauri regarding coverage of hurricanes and global warming by the IPCC. Although we were aware that Dr Landsea was raising the issue

> generally, we were not aware of the approach to Dr Pachauri and it is

> perhaps unfortunate that this was not referred to Susan.

>

> However, Susan would now like to consider a further appropriate response to

> Dr Landsea and she has asked me to ask you to wait for that before you

> consider any possible response of your own (assuming that you have seen the

> correspondence anyway?).

>

> Thanks

> Martin

>

> —

> Dr Martin R Manning

> *** NEW EMAIL ADDRESS: REDACTED

> Director, IPCC WG I Support UnitREDACTEDPhone:REDACTED

> NOAA Aeronomy LaboratoryREDACTED Fax:REDACTED/ 5628

> 325 Broadway, DSRC R/AL8

> Boulder, CO 80305, USA

REDACTED

Kevin E. TrenberthREDACTED e-mail: REDACTED

Climate Analysis Section, NCARREDACTED[1]www.cgd.ucar.edu/cas/

P. O. Box 3000,REDACTEDREDACTED(303) 497 1318

Boulder, COREDACTEDREDACTED(303)REDACTED(fax)

Street address: 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, CO 80303

*******************************

Prof. Phil Jones

Climatic Research Unit Telephone +44 (0)REDACTED

School of Environmental Sciences Fax +44 (0)REDACTED

University of East Anglia

NorwichREDACTED Email REDACTED

NR4 7TJ

UK

REDACTEDREDACTEDREDACTEDREDACTED——–

============================================================

And for the record Dr. Trenberth, there appears to be no correlation between huricane frequency or hurricane intensity with global warming.

Global tropical cyclone activity, as measured by frequency and ACE is still at the lowest in 30 years, despite 2010 being claimed as the warmest year ever:

Global Tropical Cyclone ACE ( Dr. Ryan N. Maue )
date: Thu Dec  9 08:28:11 2004

from: Phil Jones <p.jones@uea.ac.uk>

subject: Re: Correspondence with Chris Landsea

to: trenbert@ucar.edu

    Kevin,

       So you've heard. The other email may explain more and/or give details.

    We will have to do without him. We still need to get a diagram, but we should

    probably let this die down now.

       Susan and Martin (and you can see the others) got the earlier email (which

    you now have - if you've not got it from elsewhere). Keep me infomed.

      By the way, still nothing from the Japanese contact, despite 2 reminders at

    least. I'll send an email to the first Japanese I contacted.

    Cheers

    Phil

   At 02:24 09/12/2004, you wrote:

     Martin

     I have not seen any of this.  I just heard today at the NCAR Xmas party from

     Tim Killeen that this existed.  So I feel blindsided.  I understand he has

     resigned from CA of our chapter.

     I responded to his earlier message in a fairly low key fashion.  I think he

     has behaved irresponsibly and ought to be fired by NOAA for not have an open

     enough mind to even consider that climate change might be affecting

     hurricanes. I am quickly becoming outraged by this and I hope it backfires on

     him!!!!

     Kevin

     On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Martin Manning wrote:

     > Dear Phil and Kevin

     >

     > Today Susan received a copy of some correspondence between Chris Landsea

     > and Dr Pachauri regarding coverage of hurricanes and global warming by the

     > IPCC. Although we were aware that Dr Landsea was raising the issue

     > generally, we were not aware of the approach to Dr Pachauri and it is

     > perhaps unfortunate that this was not referred to Susan.

     >

     > However, Susan would now like to consider a further appropriate response to

     > Dr Landsea and she has asked me to ask you to wait for that before you

     > consider any possible response of your own (assuming that you have seen the

     > correspondence anyway?).

     >

     > Thanks

     > Martin

     >

     > --

     > Dr Martin R Manning

     > *** NEW EMAIL ADDRESS: <REDACTED>@noaa.gov

     > Director, IPCC WG I Support Unit                Phone: <REDACTED>

     > NOAA Aeronomy Laboratory                        Fax: <REDACTED>

     > 325 Broadway, DSRC R/AL8

     > Boulder, CO 80305, USA

     ---------------

     Kevin E. Trenberth                           e-mail: <REDACTED>@ucar.edu

     Climate Analysis Section, NCAR               [1]www.cgd.ucar.edu/cas/

     P. O. Box 3000,                          Phone:  <REDACTED>

     Boulder, CO 80307                         Fax:   <REDACTED>

     Street address: 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, CO  80303

     *******************************

   Prof. Phil Jones

   Climatic Research Unit        Telephone <REDACTED>

   School of Environmental Sciences    Fax <REDACTED>

   University of East Anglia

   Norwich                          Email   <REDACTED>@uea.ac.uk

   NR4 7TJ

   UK

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ian middleton
December 2, 2011 3:04 am

What’s with this “Chapter” stuff, it’s beginig to sound like the Free Masons. Do they have a secret handshake?

December 2, 2011 3:47 am

ian middleton says:
December 2, 2011 at 3:04 am
What’s with this “Chapter” stuff, it’s beginig to sound like the Free Masons. Do they have a secret handshake?

I don’t know, but you had better check for missing rings and watches after handshaking with these characters.

Charles.U.Farley
December 2, 2011 3:49 am

Your mind is like a parachute Kevin, it only works when it’s open, which means giving due consideration to all the factors and either ruling stuff in or out based on the facts alone, not some conviction you personally hold based on what your precious models might say or what jones/mann et al might tell you is right.
Basking in the glow of adulation from the rest of your “team” for the amount of contrary views youve managed to supress, or other scientists youve gleefully smeared, or the number of bumpf papers youve had published wont make you any more right than youre currently wrong.
Since youre at the pinnacle of your field (apparently) theres only one way to go, dont break too many branches on the way down…..
Try looking up the definition of the word “objectivity” Kevin and see if what youre doing meets that definition, I dont think it comes even close.
A better word would be “corrupted”, fits perfectly.

son of mulder
December 2, 2011 3:51 am

Who is so open minded that they think it’s a travesty that the expected ocean heat is missing?

December 2, 2011 4:08 am

Mime conversion is MIME part of my page.
They have used also slightly diffrent formats, us. ascii, etc .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleprinter
Ilkka

December 2, 2011 4:18 am

This is my opinion of the whole holy scam!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

David Smith
December 2, 2011 4:19 am

“…and ought to be fired by NOAA for not have an open enough mind to even consider that climate change might be affecting
hurricanes. ”
The truth is that Chris Landsea never said that climate change (global warming) won’t affect hurricanes. What he did say is that the to-date effects of 20’th century warming are too small to be detected in the noisy data.

December 2, 2011 4:22 am

ian middleton says:
December 2, 2011 at 3:04 am
What’s with this “Chapter” stuff, it’s beginig to sound like the Free Masons. Do they have a secret handshake?

Perhaps a “butt bump” would be more appropriate?
🙂

Bill Illis
December 2, 2011 4:25 am

Yet Chris Landsea was right and Trenberth was wrong.
The science has even now accepted that the hurricanes may not change much at all with global warming.
So people are to be fired for having an “accurate” conclusion.

JPY
December 2, 2011 4:33 am

“And to think I almost wasted my time going to visit Dr. Trenberth at NCAR this fall.”
Did you ever explain why this never happened?

Brian Johnson uk
December 2, 2011 4:39 am

The BBC have spent many segments basically dissing Jeremy Clarkson [Top Gear is one of the Beeb’s most watched programmes – so I doubt they will sack him] and all he was doing was his usual tongue in cheek verbal banter. If you don’t like it – change channels – don’t get pathetic lefty Trade Unionists banging on when most of their members are getting above average pensions anyway. Delayed by 3 years or so but all of us are involved in paying more for fuel because our stupid politicians think wind power will save the planet and pensions are along way off for a lot of their inmates anyway.

December 2, 2011 4:59 am

The irony of the above is but a manifestation of Treberth’s hypocrisy and intolerance.

Andrew
December 2, 2011 5:16 am

Strongly suggest to change to BING climategate. Google climategate attemps to make it an old story by delaying the breaking events

Editor
December 2, 2011 5:34 am

> date: Thu Dec 9 08:28:11 2004
About a month or so later Landsea resigned from the IPCC, the full letter and more with communication with Pachauri is at http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/01/18/pachauri-used-corporate-teri-email-account-to-conduct-official-ipcc-business/ and is well worth the visit.
In part, he wrote:

After some prolonged deliberation, I have decided to withdraw from participating in the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). I am withdrawing because I have come to view the part of the IPCC to which my expertise is relevant as having become politicized. In addition, when I have raised my concerns to the IPCC leadership, their response was simply to dismiss my concerns.
F or the upcoming AR4, I was asked several weeks ago by the Observations chapter Lead Author – Dr. Kevin Trenberth – to provide the writeup for Atlantic hurricanes. As I had in the past, I agreed to assist the IPCC in what I thought was to be an important, and politically-neutral determination of what is happening with our climate.
Shortly after Dr. Trenberth requested that I draft the Atlantic hurricane section for the AR4’s Observations chapter, Dr. Trenberth participated in a press conference organized by scientists at Harvard on the topic “Experts to warn global warming likely to continue spurring more outbreaks of intense hurricane activity” along with other media interviews on the topic. The result of this media interaction was widespread coverage that directly connected the very busy 2004 Atlantic hurricane season as being caused by anthropogenic greenhouse gas warming occurring today.
It is beyond me why my colleagues would utilize the media to push an unsupported agenda that recent hurricane activity has been due to global warming. Given Dr. Trenberth’s role as the IPCC’s Lead Author responsible for preparing the text on hurricanes, his public statements so far outside of current scientific understanding led me to concern that it would be very difficult for the IPCC process to proceed objectively with regards to the assessment on hurricane activity.
I personally cannot in good faith continue to contribute to a process that I view as both being motivated by pre-conceived agendas and being scientifically unsound. As the IPCC leadership has seen no wrong in Dr. Trenberth’s actions and have retained him as a Lead Author for the AR4, I have decided to no longer participate in the IPCC AR4.

Chris Landsea’s career has been entirely above board and focused on getting the best data for his studies. He spearheaded a project to review past hurricane records (e.g. ship log’s records of swells from distant storms) to provide a much improve historical base for comparisons.
He was one of Bill Gray’s students before going to NOAA and brought a lot of knowledge and skill with him.

Wade
December 2, 2011 5:34 am

Like many on the extreme left, they preach tolerance but what they really mean is that you should agree with their viewpoint. That doublespeak is seen here by Kevin Treberth by these words “not have an open enough mind”. If Chris Landsea had said that global warming was causing more hurricanes and refused to listen to dissenting viewpoints, in Treberth’s mind that would be an “open mind”. The ones that say we should be tolerant are the most intolerant of all.

Richard S Courtney
December 2, 2011 5:42 am

Brian Johnson uk:
You provide a good attempt at troll disruption of this thread at December 2, 2011 at 4:39 am where you dangle a red-herring about Jeremy Clarkson with hooks concerning trades unionists, pensions, etc.
But this thread is about the disgraceful behaviour of Phil Jones.
I am a left-wing, socialist, trade unionist who refuses to bite on any of your hooks, and I call on all others of every political persuasion to ignore your trolling, too.
Address the subject of this thread or go away.
Richard

Richard S Courtney
December 2, 2011 5:45 am

Ooops, of course I meant to type Kevin Trenberth and not Phil Jones (but they are all much the same).
Sorry.
Richard

December 2, 2011 5:45 am

Does the MSM realize that people are beginning or have already figured out that they are not impartial and are politically biased (liars)? That they cannot be trusted to report the news and facts accurately?
You’d think that they would be somewhat concerned with their reputation and public trust in them. Alas, apparently NOT.

John Silver
December 2, 2011 5:51 am

Ilkka Mononen:
What do you mean?

Reply to  John Silver
December 2, 2011 6:31 am

Quess:

RockyRoad
December 2, 2011 5:54 am

In any sane world (or one where Climagegate 1 and 2 emails are widely disseminated), this Dr. Trenberth would be the one that would be terminated.

RockyRoad
December 2, 2011 5:55 am

Andrew says:
December 2, 2011 at 5:16 am

Strongly suggest to change to BING climategate. Google climategate attemps to make it an old story by delaying the breaking events

Or use http://www.dogpile.com. It isn’t owned by an organization that’s about as deceptive as the one who owns Bing.

December 2, 2011 6:00 am

I don’t see Landsea’s e-mail(s). Were they not quoted? Might he send them to WUWT?
I’m assuming that the bold face and Maue chart were inserted by Anthony, and were not due to Landsea.

Reply to  Hu McCulloch
December 2, 2011 6:58 am
openside50
December 2, 2011 6:25 am

“Yet Chris Landsea was right and Trenberth was wrong.
The science has even now accepted that the hurricanes may not change much at all with global warming.
So people are to be fired for having an “accurate” conclusion.”
This hits the heart of the matter, not only were they trying to sideline and have fired a man who being an expert on hurricanes would be more likely to know what was happening with them than almost anyone on the planet
But he was as you say actually right – to lie to make a theory (or cause) more plausible isnt science
But then we wll know that already

Pamela Gray
December 2, 2011 6:26 am

The back story will eventually be incredible. I do not believe it will turn out to be a criminal conspiracy to turn the world into some commy red government (maybe it will in the 007 movie version) but rather something much worse. We have in place a culture of blind faith mob behavior mixed with very poor science methodology crowned in our higher institutions. When the house of cards falls, and it will, there will be outrage and a call for both broad and deep scrutiny of graduate programs, dissertation committees, and grant departments in every Ivory tower that dipped into climate research funds. And with scrutiny comes regulations. One such regulation should stipulate (are you listening new president?) that all publicly funded research efforts, funded in whole or part, must be made available free and immediately to public scrutiny. No more pay-walled secret society pal journals. And every peer review panel should include unencumbered statisticians whose job is to screen out papers that cannot be supported statistically. These climate scientists are cooking their own stuffed and trussed goose and gander.

Jeremy
December 2, 2011 6:42 am

So sad to see that this bullying actually works. Soon after Chris Landsea disengages from the IPCC. This is exactly what these climate propagandists wanted. Get rid of the real experts and fill the positions with like minded Eco-fascists.
The MSM have some explaining to do, however, they control the witness so you can expect more silence about the travesty of the scam of man-made global warming.