Climategate

Anthony,
The “Climategate” link on your main page needs to at least be in red, and preferably a lot larger. Just a suggestion.
Jerry

A history of GCM development which discusses the limitations of the early models and the time line of their development for reference.
http://www.aip.org/history/climate/GCM.htm
Larry

Another PDF :
Dr David Evans’
A Simple Proof that Global Warming Is Not Man-Made
http://sciencespeak.com/SimpleProof.pdf

“Lawrence Solomon: New Zealand’s Climategate”
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2009/11/26/lawrence-solomon-new-zealand-s-climategate.aspx
“An agency of the New Zealand government has been cooking the books…The chief cook? Dr. Jim Salinger, considered one of the country’s top scientists, who began the graph in the 1980s when he was at the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in the UK. CRU, of course, has become ground zero of Climategate at Dr. Salinger has maintained close relations with CRU since, as seen in the Climategate emails.”

Thanks for this resource. While there is a lot of fine work showing the lack of true scientific spirit coming from the alarmist camp, nothing has been so powerful for me as this graph that has shown up several times in WUWT, and an article by Frank Lansner that used that graph.
As Lansner pointed out:”When CO2 does not cause these big temperature changes, then what is then the reason for the big temperature changes seen in Vostok data? Or: “What is the mechanism behind ice ages???”
This is a question many alarmists asks, and if you can’t answer, then CO2 is the main temperature driver. End of discussion. There are obviously many factors not yet known, so I will just illustrate one hypothetical solution to the mechanism of ice ages among many:
First of all: When a few decades of low sunspot number is accompanied by Dalton minimum and 50 years of missing sunspots is accompanied by the Maunder minimum, what can for example thousands of years of missing sunspots accomplish? We don’t know.
What we saw in the Maunder minimum is NOT all that missing solar activity can achieve, even though some might think so. In a few decades of solar cooling, only the upper layers of the oceans will be affected. But if the cooling goes on for thousands of years, then the whole oceans will become colder and colder. It takes around 1000-1500 years to “mix” and cool the oceans. So for each 1000-1500 years the cooling will take place from a generally colder ocean. Therefore, what we saw in a few decades of maunder minimum is in no way representing the possible extend of ten thousands of years of solar low activity.”
Note that the warm period we are in, which included the Roman warm, the Little Ice Age, and the Midieval warm, has gone on far longer than any other warm period on the graph. Shouldn’t we be planning on how to survive the more probable cold spell that is coming?
As S. Fred Singer points out in “Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1500 Years”, “No one alive today, however, is able to recall the alarm that was felt when glaciers advanced. Alan Cutler…described what it must have been like during the Little Ice Age:
The year was 1645, and the glaciers in the Alps were on the move. In Chamonix at the foot of Mont Blanc, people watched in fear as the Mer de Glace (Sea of Ice) glacier advanced. In earlier years, they had seen the slowly flowing ice engulf farms and crish entire villages….Similar dramas unfolded throughout the Alps and Scandinavia during the late 1600s and 1700s as many glaciers grew farther down mountain slopes and valleys that they had in thoudands of years.”
“Humans worry (perhaps excessively) when glaciers shrink but suffer dreadfully when they advance. Picture a mile-thick glacier covering the area that is now the city of Chicago- something primitive human hunters might actually have seen during the 90,000 years of the last ice age.”

The leaker has been dubbed “Deep Climate” over at
American Thinker
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/11/cru_emails_were_leaked_before.html

BBC Radio 4: Quentin Cooper Talks to Philip Stott & Tom Crowley about CLIMATEGATE Scandal, and details of the emails revealed
http://www.neuralnetwriter.cylo42.com/node/2445
The ONLY good BBC coverage of this AFAIK.
I’ve typed in the transcript.

A crime against humanity
by Walter Starck
November 30, 2009
Climategate: Trivial break in or devastating break out?
http://www.quadrant.org.au/blogs/doomed-planet/2009/11/a-crime-against-humanity

Drudge’s +20 million hits a day front page has this—beneath all the Tiger Woods headlines of course :
” ‘Climate change’ data dumped…”
at link :
SCIENTISTS at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have admitted throwing away much of the raw temperature data on which their predictions of global warming are based…..The admission follows the leaking of a thousand private emails sent and received by Professor Phil Jones, the CRU’s director. In them he discusses thwarting climate sceptics seeking access to such data….Roger Pielke, professor of environmental studies at Colorado University, discovered data had been lost when he asked for original records.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6936328.ece

Hacker or whistlerblower? An in-depth analysis by a senior programmer, and why he can guess that there has been no violation of the mail server of the University of East Anglia, but rather that the mail and documents were made public by a CRU researcher, presumably American.
Hack Attack! (English language):
http://www.climatemonitor.it/?p=5632