As readers know, last week CEI scored a final court victory on the FOI request for GMU’s emails in the RICO20 case. In the final days, while GMU was prepared to release the emails under court order, the ringleader, Edward Maibach went off on his own and threw a volley of mud against the courtroom wall to see if anything would stick that would prevent the release. He failed miserably, and after just a couple of minutes hearing CEI’s counter-motion, directed that the emails be released “forthwith”.
The release consisted of boxes of paper that has the printed emails on them. This is a delaying tactic, one designed to make the petitioner jump through hoops to make former electronic documents electronic again so that they may be searchable. CEI had them scanned and has released them to me.
The result is one large PDF file of over 100 megabytes. There is a lot of information here, and thus it will benefit from a crowd sourced effort of examination, much as we did with the Climategate emails.
So here they are:
GMU-emails-20160527200127 (PDF 109 MB)
Note: if you can’t open/view this PDF, it probably has to do with your own computer not having enough memory, an updated PDF reader, etc.
UPDATE:
GOOD NEWS! Commenter “cbone” made a searchable version of the PDF using a text scanner.
searchable-gmu-emails-20160527200127 (PDF 65MB)
Those that read these are welcome to post comments/excerpts below.
UPDATE:
Tom Nelson finds this gem:
I’m surprised Trenberth didn’t go with 97%.
Here is another:
This one makes me laugh.
If you have Adobe Acrobat, run the OCR function on it to make the text searchable.
Poor folks like me only have Adobe Reader. Many such as myself would be indebted to anyone who can provide a word-searchable file here.
…Adobe Acrobat is free at Cnet.com
@Marcus
Good only for XP machines and lower. MAY run on Vista.
Free Online OCR
Convert JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP, TIFF, PDF, DjVu to Text
https://www.newocr.com/
I so wonder what goodies are in this document dump. There was enough resistance to releasing this information that is hopefully something there.
..My logic is, start from the bottom and work up…this may take a while LOL
..Hi Anthony..I received / downloaded 425 files via Adobe Reader at 112 MEGs..does that sound about right ?
Anthony, found immediately an awesome letter from Geoff Derrick to E. Mabach…Should I post it here or at “Tips” ??
post it here
…Page to 422 o425….has a great letter to E.Mabach, BUT . I can’t find a way to transfer to WUWT from Acrobat.. I keep getting messages of unsafe program ??
Marcus – Copy the text from Adobe and paste to Notepad first. Then copy from notepad and paste to here.
pulled pages 422 though 425
no way to actually post it here as attachments not allowed and the particular text and images do not copy paste well
https://www.dropbox.com/s/8zibdzmxit5rl9v/422-425.pdf?dl=0
stored in my dropbox account
Dropbox access works nicely. Thanks
That is beautiful. He even backs up his charges with data, rather than feelings or shady “facts”. Must have been very confusing to the recipients.
The climate whores seem so relieved that Lubos Motl didn’t refer to them as prostitutes.
Yes, because that would have denigrated prostitutes.
I am running them through Adobe OCR right now. Is there somewhere that I can send them back so you have a word searchable document to post?
sendspace.com is a file host you can use
you can also zip or rar the file to reduce the size
Sending isn’t an issue, where to send is my question.
http://WWW.SENDSPACE.COM IS A FILE HOST YOU CAN USE
There is no need to yell. It is posted. https://www.sendspace.com/file/zr8dz1
awesome!
Don’t you have a DropBox account? They’re free.
The first two pages of the pdf should actually be the last two pages, as they are the continuation of Geoff Derrick’s email which appears at the end.
..that was exactly what I was trying to copy/ send to this thread . but I kept getting ” unsafe file” messages ??
This is not unprecedented. Entities being investigated pull this stunt. Delay. Delay. Delay. Since the offending information is, in the end, likely to be ultimately uncovered this stunt exhibits both desperation and utter contempt for the investigating party. I say screw ’em.
Tom, all lawyers use delaying tactics like this in discovery. But the beauty of crowdsourcing on a heavily trafficked site is that thousands of eyeballs are available to investigate this email dump.
Lots of folks who should know better send emails containing incriminating admissions. Those highly educated scientists emailing each other in the Climategate email release seemed to believe that whatever they wrote would remain confidential forever. Ha! I suspect that these emails will be no different.
And anyone who discovers a juicy tidbit in the link here will surely be awarded bragging rights…
☺
Lots of folks who should know better send emails containing incriminating admissions….and even run for president
If he had set up a private server in his basement, he could have deleted all the files and claimed they never existed.
transparently contemptuous. ipso facto and prima facie. they need a B-slappin.
it may just shift the conversation off CO2 and 97% for a while
hey- a guy can dream…
This link should work for the OCR’d file. The process also shrunk the file to around 60mb. https://www.sendspace.com/file/zr8dz1
cbone on June 1, 2016 at 11:49 am
What did you make of the 6 large and 3 small ’empty’ objects in the email that started on pg 3 of the original PDF. They appeared to transfer as is into the OCR’ed version. Might they have been clippings from other media sources, or otherwise redacted or something else altogether?? Thanks in advance.
Seen enough to know they conspired to bully and infringe on First Amendment Rights . How much did the Board of George Mason University know about what these shut down free speech conspirators were doing ? Does the University have policies about lobbying while on the University payroll and using University computers to go on witch hunts designed to shut down free speech ?
The next FOI ‘s should be to release the audit trail of the University investigation into possible code of conduct breaches. What steps if any did the University take to sanction behavior that reflects badly on
the University .
O/T
How long do the comment threads stay open after a post opens?
As long as Anthony wants them to.
15 days, see upcoming post on the issue.
Cute. Mann on p136 calls Climate Audit a fringe site, and then refers Shukla to Climate Nexus.
Alexa global rank of ClimateAudit.org is 512,000 and ClimateNexus.org is 2,000,000.
And his email address is un-redacted on page 135.
Interestingly on 2 Oct, 2015 Edward Maibach appears to try and take further discussion beyond the reach of FOIA:
Dear fellow letter signers.
Shakla and I respectfully request that you send us your private email address.
If you prefer to leave it in a voice message, call me at (The number is there, not sure if I should post it here.)
Edward Maibach, MPH, Phd
Yada yada
On page 216. (I removed the phone number)
From: Edward W Maibach [emaibach@gmu.edu]
Sent: Friday, October 02, 2015 7:15PM
To: J Shukla
Cc: Professor Barry Klinger; Mike Wallace; Benjamin Kirtman; Dr. Kevin Trenberth; Dr. Robert Dickinson;
Dr. Michela Biasutti; Dr. Mark cane; Dr. Lisa Goddard; vmisra@fsu.edu
Subject: An important request
Dear fellow letter signers.
Shukla and I respectfully request that you send us your private email address.
If you prefer to leave it in a voice message, call me at {deleted}
Thank you,
Edward Maibach, MPH, PhD
University Professor, Department of Communication
Director, Center for Climate Change Communication
George Mason University, MS 6A8
Fairfax, VA 22030
http://www.climatechangecommunication.org
One of the filings in the case pointed out that the phone number for reporting private emails addresses is Maibach’s GMU office phone number. Not exactly demonstrating that GMU was not involved in the activities.
Interestingly. At least one of the “private” email addresses of the signing party’s is exposed. Is an FOIA request on that a possibility?
grep, with some sort and awk then sed in bash. Mix and match as need be. (y) 🙂
Ha ha
p89, Shukla apparently at least at one point wanted to retract the letter.
Have now skimmed the whole thing. Started in empathy to Whitehouse WaPo op. ed. They were stunned at the response. Shukla considered retracting at urging of Peter Webster, they settled instead on second explanation drafted by PR pro P Newell at climatenexus.org. Many, like Trenberth, disagreed with the second letter and refused to sign. (Never apologize. Never explain.)
GMU FOI officer Woodley specifically warned Maibach and Shukla to be honest in searching, as other universities could produce emails GMU did not. P 235. They ignored her explicit warning and got caught out by CEI.
Trenberth complained about the ‘vitriolic’ response directly to Whitehouse, who replied “Comes with the territory, I’m afraid.”
The GMU group was dismissive of Climate Audit’s exposure of Shukla’s IGES double dipping, until Lamer Smith began investigating. Then it appears everybody discussing this cut and ran leaving Shukla as the last rat on the IGES ship. Maibach did try unsuccessfully to get WaPo’s Chris Mooney to write an IGES apologia.
Already known that UCS declined to participate; already known separately they were secretly behind the forecoming AG stunt.
The #RICO20’s contempt for CEI, GMU, GMU FOI officer Woodley, truth, and the court seems limitless. They are probably grateful for the presence on deck of Shukla, who will become their scape-rat, if they can arrange it.
ristvan on June 1, 2015 at 12:57 pm
or Anthony
What did you make of the 6 large and 3 small ’empty’ objects in the email that started on pg 3 of the original PDF. They appeared to transfer as is into the OCR’ed version. Might they have been clippings from other media sources, or otherwise redacted or something else altogether?? Thanks in advance.
Dunno. On my OS, an image in an undigestible format produces the big empty with a small boxed question mark in the center. Possibly a cut and paste of a video or equivalent that won’t translate through .pdf. On other ocaisions, more digging proved that to be the case. CEI can sort it out, as they have the paper originals.
Did the second explanation “drafted by PR pro P Newell” ever get released or get any circulation? Here’s my transcription of an email from a “Mark Cane” disavowing any connection to the letter:
Transcription begins:
From: Mark Cane
To: Edward W Maibach
Cc: J Shukla; Professor Barry Klinger; Mike Wallace; Kirtman Ben; Dr. Kevin Trenberth
Dr Robert Dickinson; Biasutti Michela; Goddard Lisa; ymisra@fsu.edu
Subject: Re: Another important request
Date: Saturday, October 03, 2015 1:26:33 PM
I do not agree with this letter.
More to the point, I am sure that any such attempt to make things better, clarify, etc will backfire. It will provide a new opportunity for the climate doubters to launch a new round of blogs, attacks, etc.
Disraeli, who was a far better politician than any of us said “Never apologize, never explain.”
His advice should be followed.
Please take my name off this letter or any other. Please take me off this email list.
Mark
Transcription ends. My bolding.
And is there a handy list of the RICO 20?
Thanks!
At least they know they’re more politician than scientist.
It is nice to see someone use the term “doubter” rather than “denier”. A little less prejudiced and condescending.
Any need for text/document form of pages? I try to convert pages to text (with IRIS OCR etc). It is not perfect and there are now only about 99 first pages
https://roskasaitti.wordpress.com/temp/
More pages can produce if there is any need of that form.
I think the page wiht links is only temporary. A week or so.
There they are all. Last one is plain text version, no page breaks at correct places.
Now I see there is perfect PDF-text file for searching so in my folder there is only plain text version size of 232 kB. For some searching it may be faster?
Bernie, ClimateNexus is a Rockefeller Foundation funded organization that employs about a dozen people.
Sorry, a rockpa ‘sponsored project’
http://www.rockpa.org/about-us/about-us—sponsored-projects—climate-nexus
Interesting to find out about the climatebloggers group on Google Groups organising and deliberating cross-linking blog articles seemingly coordinated by climatenexus’ Jess Nesbit and Phil Newell including Greg Laden, Dana Nuccitelli and Aaron Huertas. Almost like a conspiracy…
antman: AKA in PR-speak as a “Coordinated Raising of Awareness Project”. Is that any different?
Rockefeller Oil Funded Foundation organization specifically
This far the most interesting:
From: Alex Bozmoski
To: Edward W Maibach
CC: Bob Inglis
Subject: Re: op-ed + a needlessly self inflicted headache.
Data: Monday, September 21, 2015 1:53:24 pm
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Eli is President of R Street. Eli will some day be shadow president of America and presumably when that happens Andrew will steer the ship without a president for a while.
—
On Sep 21, 2015, 1:46 PM, “Edward Maibach”……………wrote:
Re the op-ed, thanks for the kind words.
………………………………………………………………………….,but it is good to know that it isn’t going to be a problem for the republicEN.
————-
What does actually ” will steer the ship without a president” mean?????!
Especially when Edward Maibach seems so happy at such kind and assuring words…….
cheers
I saw that also. Who or what is “Eli” and what is “R Street”? And if they/it/them/whatever “…will some day be shadow president of America and presumably when that happens Andrew will steer the ship without a president for a while”, then why is it that I – an American (meaning US, I assume) citizen” – haven’t been informed of the Constitutional change?
R Street is a spinoff from Heartland that is pro-climate-lobby. It has mainly focused on insurance regulation issues. Eli is its president of the group. I’d need a lot more context to this conversation to interpret it adequately.
Fascinating and strange. And what does,
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” it is good to know that it isn’t going to be a problem for the republicEN.”
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mean? And why the strange spelling and what are the ……………………………… followed by a comma? There appears to be much context missing here.
Eli. Is great guy.
R STREET. Also great
Eli Lehrer is the President of R Street Institute (Libertarian think tank) whose mandate includes using the ‘social sciences’ (propaganda) to convince people of the need to act now on climate change. Eli believes that government is best positioned to save us from thermageddon through the use of carbon taxation schemes including carbon import/export taxation. Apparently he co-operates with ALL of the usual crackpot environmental organizations (see list below). This would not be so worrying if Eli wasn’t also politically connected at the highest levels.
As to what “shadow President” means I have some speculations but they don’t belong on a climate website
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2014-08-18/republicans-lukewarm-climate-warrior
http://www.skollglobalthreats.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/TakingStock-FINAL.pdf
Eli Lehrer is the President of the R Street Institute a supposedly ‘Libertarian’ think tank that advocates for the Republicans to pursue a carbon taxation strategy to save the planet from thermageddon. Eli believes it is critical to use the ‘social sciences’ (AKA propaganda) to make this dream a reality.
Eli works with ALL of the usual warmist agencies to help bring this about and is politically extremely well connected. As for ‘shadow president’ one can only speculate but clearly Alex Bozmoski possesses insight that Federal security services should be checking into.
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2014-08-18/republicans-lukewarm-climate-warrior
http://www.skollglobalthreats.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/TakingStock-FINAL.pdf
https://flic.kr/p/GPM3JQ
Linked is one snippet in which Mark Cane claims that the signers of a climate letter should heed the advice of a politician named Disraeli (Benjamin, no doubt) and “never apologize, never explain.” I have not heard scientists claim too often that they should avoid explaining themselves, nor that they should be thought of as “politicians” as in “better politicians than all of us.”
Universe Man June 1, 2016 at 1:48 pm
Perfect example for the Rico-20-mob, Benjamin Disraeli. Hmm wasn’t he the one who had a spot of trouble in Afghanistan? Then wasn’t there that inconvenience in Zululand in 1879 that caused him to lose his position to the Liberals? Yes, I would say a perfect role model, “never apologize, never explain.” Hope the philosophy works just as well with the warmist as it did for Disraeli.
Pyrrhus of Epirus would also make a splendid role model – mascot for the Rico 20 bunch.
michael
What strikes me after a bit of scanning through is the amount of travelling these guys are doing. For people worried about the climate they have a huge carbon footprint.
DiCaprio’s Disease
http://notrickszone.com/2016/05/29/dicaprios-disease-survey-initiated-by-munich-greens-show-theyre-the-biggest-abusers-of-airline-travel/
Travelling that is funded, FYIA, by charitable foundations. Read page 42.
I am reading the emails.
I am focused on how may have the AG’s become possibly interactive with the RICO20.
John
A super “ream” job of Malbach by Jeffrey on p.390.