From a story in The Melbourne Age:
Professor Trenberth is a bruised survivor of the so-called ”climategate” scandal, which involved the theft and publication of thousands of emails that had been sent between some of the world’s most influential climate researchers.
While he and his colleagues were cleared by a series of investigations, the people who hacked the email system at Britain’s University of East Anglia have never been caught, and the case was closed, unsolved, earlier this year.
Professor Trenberth believes it had a big impact on public debates about climate science. ”It made an immense difference – the level of vitriol and hate we received,” he said. ”Not only do we have waves of attacks when we publish and it ends up on a denialist website, but it has affected politicians.”
The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration recently had its climate change-related research budget slashed by a fifth, affecting Professor Trenberth’s peers, as a result of online campaigns against climate scientists, he said. He believes uncertainties in climate change models scientists rely upon is being falsely inflated as a general uncertainty about the status of climate science.
”With the links between weather and climate for instance – we know they are there, but the specific numbers need work,” Professor Trenberth said.
h/t Old Ranga from Oz
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I thought weather was not climate :o)
Hmmm, its always been about the specific numbers as I see it. I don’t see many skeptics attacking the fact that CO2 absorbs IR. Maybe Dr Trenberth is finally beginning to open his eyes.
Reblogged this on pindanpost.
Climate scientists only have themselves to blame.
Remember the old saying, do nothing on a works E-Mail / Computer you wouldn’t be happy on the front page of the press.
This is a direct consequence of their own actions towards other people, with bullying and intimidation.
It seems that the poor Professor Trenberth is now a victim, and the evil perpetrators have never been found. What about the billions of people throughout the world who will and are the real victims of this scam. Remember Professor Trenberth that everything in the Climategate release was authored by you and your compatriots.
Good to see you are approaching this with an open mind, Kevin.
Ignore all evidence to the contrary and please make sure you work the numbers to show just how bad us gas guzzling, SUV driving, flat earther deniers are making the weather.
Here’s more from Trenberth.
http://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/too-many-researchers-spoil-climate-studies-20121011-27fpm.html
Trying to back away from all the alarmist tripe?
Climategate may not have received much exposure in the mainstream media but decision makers, politicians and the smarter end of the media understood that it had delivered a small but ultimately fatal blow to ‘the cause’.
For many of these people it was simply to late to recant, their income, investments and reputations were tied up with the Warmist narrative.
For those with no stake in the game however, the blatant corruption, the ‘fudge’ and the doomster mindset of the key players like Hansen and their media cronies was a major turn off.
The true believers are a shrinking band found only in the safety of segregated green sanctuaries or echo chambers as they’re known.
Climategate gave us the big stick we needed to hammer these people…I use it all the time with great gusto but how I long for the revelation of the final encrypted batch of documents – given the shakey nature of edifice one more blow might just bring the whole thing crashing down.
Waa-Waaa-Waaaaa!
And the taxpayers gave thanks….
I’m ready for Climategate 3.0
His team were falsifying their results. It is right and proper that funding should be withdrawn.
Perhaps we should pay them in Monopoly money: phony results should attract phony money.
When South Australia was hit by a spring snow storm yesterday, in jest at Jo Nova’s site I asked if Al Gore was visiting. Since then the snow has moved east into New Souh Wales, could it be Trenberth has the gift of Gore to bring unseasonal cold wherever he goes.
http://iceagenow.info/2012/10/snow-october-australia-100-years/
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/breaking-news/snow-falls-in-nsw-and-act/story-e6frf7kf-1226494110975
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/8547140/snow-falls-cause-nsw-traffic-chaos
Dommage, n’est-ce pas?
Repost. The Age article is the same as the Brisbane one, both Fairfax.
”With the links between weather and climate for instance – we know they are there, but the specific numbers need work,” Professor Trenberth said.
Of course he knows. He has Faith.
“”With the links between weather and climate for instance – we know they are there, but the specific numbers need work,” Professor Trenberth said.”
Defund him completely.
Attn. FOIA! This is your cue for Climategate 3.0!
“He (Trenberth) believes uncertainties in climate change models scientists rely upon is being falsely inflated as a general uncertainty about the status of climate science.”
Disagree – The climate change models have demonstrated NO predictive skill whatsoever. The models predicted runaway global warming when in fact there has been NO net global warming for 10-15 years.
The models produce nonsense and global warming alarmists like Trenberth have NO scientific credibility.
I hope he genuinely ‘feels’ the hate and dislike for the ‘climate team’ practises that have been ongoing for the last couple of decades. Maybe he will realise that ‘conned’ layfolk are much more angry than layfolk that have simply been lead by honest mistakes. The CO2 scam in no way can ever be seen as a simple scientific mistake, or collection of mistakes – such as genuine misinterpretation of data,etc.
The CO2/CAGW meme has been carefully constructed and all associated science works designed or slanted to ‘prove’ the construct. There is absolutely NO excuse for this kind of behaviour in science. Science should be pure and truthful and completely self questioning – and one would think that a science supposedly playing with mankinds actual ‘destiny’ would be cleaner and more truthful than any other. Climategate demonstrated, above all else, that there is no such purity, truth or honesty in the climate science circles and NO amout of weaseling by the team will hide that now. They should all do the honourable thing and resign……….at the very least……….
“With the links between weather and climate for instance – we know they are there, but the specific numbers need work,” Professor Trenberth said.
How is this different to saying “stick with us, we just need to massage the numbers to match our preconceptions”? OK, I know that’s not what he said but, really …
“..the level of vitriol and hate we received”
Gee, I wonder why that happened? Sarcasm is all Kevin deserves from that remark.
”With the links between weather and climate for instance – we know they are there, but the specific numbers need work,” Professor Trenberth said.
We “know” the results but data don’t support what we know …. yet.
If those with this sort of “anti-science” attitude and those openly engaged in political eco-activism while supposedly being paid for doing climate research were defunded they could probably cut another fifth and improve the quality of climate science at the same time.
The problem is these idiots are causing climate science funding to be cut but are being allowed to stay in place. This can only be damaging those engaged in real science to improve understanding of climate.
“the specific numbers need work,” Hide the decline ?
Unless we get more funding we won’t be able to make the data fit what we knew to be happening before we looked at the data . It’s a travesty.
“The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration recently had its climate change-related research budget slashed by a fifth”
JK—-Only 80% to go!
Thanks
JK