Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 11/21/2009 10:11:37 AM PST by Presbyterian Reporter
In this posting John at Powerline takes us thru a series of email exchanges to show that ALGORE'S army of inconvenient truthers do all sorts of things to hide and obscure and deflect those who are challenging the authenticity of the conclusions reached by them.
This is probably best read at the powerline source as the formatting is better.
The bloggers are the new Free Press, as in First Amendment.
I spent 4 hours last night reviewing the e-mails and found much of what is mentioned in this article.
The whole tone of e-mails dating back to 1996 is routinely defensive, strategic, accusatory and collusionous. These scientists get in endless feedback loops re-explaining several topics. The missing data associated with Mann's original studies of the 80’s is explained many different ways over the years until finally, it was suggested that the data was insignificant and couldn't be found because it was so old.
The the Brita study that tried to replicate what Mann did by some “updated” means exposed the same flaw and he got caught.
(As I understood it reading until I collapsed last night at 2:45 AM)
Excellent. This is probably the best single article yet, because the writer understands that the basic methodologies of science are being violated in every direction, and puts it all together beautifully.
No question that this whole thing was a fraud, which was performed deliberately and followed by a deliberate coverup, in the interests of fame, fortune, and lots of government gravy.
Sure, it’s ideological as well. The perps are all leftists. But it’s ideological in the same way that Lenin was ideological. They did it in order to acquire power and control and wealth, with a thin veneer of doing it all “for the people” or “for the planet.”
Do you have a url for these emails? If I am insomniac some evening I may want to read some of the emails to get my own take vs. reading what others deem significant.
I highly advise it. I have been doing the same thing since yesterday. My wife is about ready to kill me. She insists there must be something illegal about what I am doing. It’s sneaky reading other people’s privat e-mails. I told her I was “investigating” a crime.
When she went to bed last night, she said, “If they happen to come to pick you up tonight, please make sure you wake me up before going to jail.” Thanks, sweety.
Megaupload.com.....I will go find the link and post here for you. Give me a minute.
The one gnawing problem I still have with this hacking of computer files is the small number of emails over a ten year period.
“”More than a decade of correspondence between leading British and U.S. scientists is included in about 1,000 e-mails and 3,000 documents posted on Web sites following the security breach last week.””
My own explanation for such a few number of emails is that this was an inside job and the person who blew the whistle had collected the most damaging emails and only made those public.
If that is not the case, then there should have been 10,000 to 100,000 emails during the past 10 years-—not 1,000.
This is the scary result of pot-smoking, long-haired, bespectacled, sandaled, scruffy-bearded ‘professors’ and their issue taking over academia by means of the committee system in the sixties. It’ll probably take a dark age after a huge catastrophe before the adversary peer-review system of science is rediscovered. Will the West still be there?
BM
The person that released this made it sound like this is just the first installment. I think more is about to be released.
The story began when Steve McIntyre, the same researcher who was largely responsible for destroying Michael Mann's "hockey stick" graph purporting to show unprecedented warming in the 20th century, turned his attention to a famous article published by Keith Briffa of East Anglia's CRU in 2000. This article analyzed the diameters of tree rings, including rings from an area called Yamal in Siberia, and conveniently generated another hockey-stick shaped graph. You can read an account of the ensuing controversy here. McIntyre's work appeared to show that Briffa had cherry-picked trees in order to get the result he was looking for. One fact that this story highlights is that global warming alarmists publish their results in scientific journals, but refuse to make the underlying data publicly available so that the validity of their analyses can be checked. McIntyre's revelations caused a firestorm of controversy, in response to which the alarmist community circled its wagons to fend off the threat from an outsider. This process can be clearly seen in the East Anglia emails.Thanks SteveH!
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One of the best treatments of the e-mail scandal that I have read so far. Thanks for posting it.
That’s exactly my thought. My inbox at work gets about 100 a day, about a third of them addressed directly to me. Over ten years that would be about a quarter million emails with over 50,000 addressed to me.
By the way, has anyone sent these to the white house? All these emails look fishy to me.
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