Steve McIntyre makes a point about Lewandowsky’s duplicity in the emerging “Lewgate”
Lewandowsky made a huge fuss about people being unable to locate emails. The only reason why people were unable to locate emails was because Lew had concealed his association with the survey and then used the concealment to score points.
Source: http://climateaudit.org/2014/03/24/lewandowsky-ghost-wrote-conclusions-of-uwa-ethics-investigation-into-hoax/#comment-523285
He also has another point worth mentioning. In dealing with University types who tend to circle the wagons at the first hint of trouble, the best offense might be bureau-speak rather than succumbing to the natural tendency to want to unload on the bureaucratic stupidity on display:
In earlier incidents, readers of various blogs piled onto early criticism of Lewandowsky and submitted a number of complaints that generally were too angry and poorly focused. These were easily dismissed by the University and built up resistance, diminishing the effectiveness of my own complaint.
Unless readers feel that they are in a position to file documents that are at least as good as mine, I would prefer that they not contact the University. This would be worth conveying to WUWT readers as well.
Source: http://climateaudit.org/2014/03/24/lewandowsky-ghost-wrote-conclusions-of-uwa-ethics-investigation-into-hoax/#comment-523113
Since my complaint to UWA was included in the recent FOIA release, I plan to publish it here, un-redacted, so that readers can see it in full context.
Steve also reports he was in an auto accident yesterday:
I was in a car accident yesterday. I’m OK but was very lucky. Hadn’t been in an accident for years.
We join thousands of others in breathing a sigh of relief and wishing him well.
Johanna, Well, we all know that a minister is reliant on his/her workers to take or make an opinion and judgement on a particularly curly case. Yes I did have another example, but unfortunately both sides were at fault so the Minister agreed with her department. Actually I was in the forefront of objecting to this decision, but I found out the info I had been given was faulty and I was lied to by the people I was supporting. That’s why I am wary now getting involved with any committee or lobby group and supporting what I feel was a bad decision. But in this case, I have been aware from the time that Al Gore started his rant, and this government or rather the previous one, started their campaign against CO2. They were wrong. However, some of my dealings with bureaucracy have generally eventually gone my way but I always had evidence to prove I was right and them wrong. Interestingly, I worked for the Southern Health Commission, and in the seventies there was concerns that after the Vietnamese war ended we would be inundated with refugees from South Vietnam. I happened to open a letter to all the State Health commissioners from the Northern Territory commissioner who was stating they expected up to 27,000 refugees and he had not enough quarantine facilities to cope.(9,000 a year at least) A political announcement was made and the minister stated only 9,000 were expected over 3 years. Well that was a real porky and underestimation.
PS. Oh, Johanna, sometimes the only way to get any result is to go through your State or Federal member. There is a 30 day turn around for any letter a member has sent on behalf of their constituents.