Hacked Emails Show Climate Science Ridden with Rancor

Wall Street Jounal ^ | NOVEMBER 21, 2009, 3:39 P.M. ET | KEITH JOHNSON

[dila813]

The picture that emerges of prominent climate-change scientists from the more than 3,000 documents and emails accessed by hackers and put on the Internet this week is one of professional backbiting and questionable scientific practices. It could undermine the idea that the science of man-made global warming is entirely settled just weeks before a crucial climate-change summit.

Researchers at the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, England, were victims of a cyberattack by hackers sometime Thursday. A collection of emails dating back to the mid-1990s as well as scientific documents were splashed across the Internet. University officials confirmed the hacker attack, but couldn't immediately confirm the authenticity of all the documents posted on the Internet.

The publicly posted material includes years of correspondence among leading climate researchers, most of whom participate in the preparation of climate-change reports for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the authoritative summaries of global climate science that influence policy makers around the world.

[narses]

The false religion of gloBull Warming exposed!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Thanks,....will be back l;ater.;...

[HardStarboard]

>>>The center of the earth is only estimated to be between 4000 and 6000 degrees.) :) <<<

I've heard 12,500 deg [F? or C?]. It was on a pretty solid anti-GW source so I tend to beleive it.

I have no plans to attempt to prove whose right in this little disagreement.

[bigheadfred]

be taken seriously

I'd tell ya, but since I is shirtless at the 7-eleven I amn't qualified to judge a Nobel Prize winner.

Besides, how can someone be taken seriesly who can't even spell seriesly?

I'm series.

:-))

[Old Professer]

If I could find that magic pill that I could drop in my gas tank, I would do it in a heartbeat; if it raised the outside temperature during the winter, I’d add two.

How we went, in my lifetime, from talking about the weather to making it, I’ll never know but I sure wish they would quit trying to freeze me to death.

[Old Professer]

Massive urbanization has done a remarkable job in warming the thermometers; the biggest problem to measuring the free atmosphere is that there is no place representative of the entire column average.

[VOA]

bump

[LomanBill]

"and make little mention of any doubts we may have...each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective, and being honest"

--Stephen Schneider

 

V.S.

"The right to search for truth implies also a duty; one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be true."
--Albert Einstein

 

FAIL

 

 

[Paladin2]

If only we could find the Earth’s rectum, then we could easily measure it’s temperature. Since the heat capacity of the atmosphere is not all that much compared to the oceans, this whole discussion of the Earth’s temperature is fairly bogus to begin with. That’s why I’d like the genius “Climate Scientists” to agree to a more rigorous system definition. Otherwise it is just more Hope and Change all over again.

[Paladin2]

Actually Jones and uu@W are the prime “performers” in the e-mails. I just searched for Hansen to see if he was at least mentioned (multiple times).

[prairiebreeze]

bump for read in AM

[SunkenCiv]

since I is shirtless at the 7-eleven

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"Oh! Ohhhh! Thanks for the visual!"

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[SunkenCiv]

/bingo

[Future Useless Eater]

Don't worry Al, and the rest of you at CRU and IPCC...

You will all get your global warming soon enough...