Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 11/21/2009 9:04:07 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The University of East Anglia mail server was hacked earlier in the week and a string of private correspondences between esteemed climate scientists were published. In addition to some juicy internecine gossip becoming embarrassingly public, a few of the messages seem to reveal doubts about the evidence for global warming and at least one refers to a statistical “trick” being used to hide lower-than-predicted surface temperatures in recent years. James Delingpole dubs this “Climategate” and pronounces it “the final nail in the coffin of ‘Anthropogenic Global Warming.’” Andrew Bolt calls it evidence of a scandal involving most of the most prominent scientists pushing the man-made warming theory – a scandal that is one of the greatest in modern science. Michelle Malkin terms it “The global warming scandal of the century.”
Andrew Revkin of the NYT — himself a subject of some of the emails in question — summarizes the controversy:
The e-mail messages, attributed to prominent American and British climate researchers, include discussions of scientific data and whether it should be released, exchanges about how best to combat the arguments of skeptics, and casual comments — in some cases derisive — about specific people known for their skeptical views. Drafts of scientific papers and a photo collage that portrays climate skeptics on an ice floe were also among the hacked data, some of which dates back 13 years.
In one e-mail exchange, a scientist writes of using a statistical “trick” in a chart illustrating a recent sharp warming trend. In another, a scientist refers to climate skeptics as “idiots.”
Some skeptics asserted Friday that the correspondence revealed an effort to withhold scientific information. “This is not a smoking gun; this is a mushroom cloud,”(continued)
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Global warming quit being a science a long time ago and facts just get in the way of the movement.
“Climate scientists”—code-speak for grifters.
The real item of interest here...is if everything is displayed and the public comes to believe the fraud...then tens of thousands of climate scientists...with degrees in this field...are going to find projects and programs as targets for funding cuts. They will be unemployed. Where exactly can you employ a global warmer? Where can you hire a guy whose chief occupation yesterday...was fraud? Where can you put a guy who was pulling in $130k a year with some university...but the best you arrange now is a Channel Nine news staff slot in Boise that makes $55k a year?
If this whole thing falls apart...there are thousands of these guys left without ample employment.
Then toss in alternate energy businesses...the solar panel crowd. Why would I waste $15k fixing up my house with solar panels....when it’s not necessary to save anything?
Looks like their scam is getting busted.
It’s another cash cow, no doubt. And the conceit that the weather can actually be changed if mankind changes behavior in accordance with UN resolutions...
Never mind.
>>Where can you hire a guy whose
>>chief occupation yesterday...was fraud?
You mean like the techie folks who Empower(tm)ed Enron and then went on to Empower(tm) the sub-prime mortagage industry?
Conveniently for the fraudsters, LEO is busy chasing terrorists....
Warminggate
The party’s over. They burst your pretty balloon...
Most all scams eventually fall apart, some more quickly than others.
Its a bit like watching the old Amway and Quixtar scams unravel again...
Good.
Or both?
I am looking to see where the connection lies that cause the decision to hold off on this supposed earth saving treaty. Maybe somebody decided they could not economically live UP to cutting emissions because the data says this is going to be one ‘energy’ requiring winter.
To me a ‘if’ this started with a hacker, given how much data there was to get through to find the ‘goodies’, the hacker had to be hacking for a while.
I do not know where the beginning or the end of this yarn is.
Politics seems the obvious choice.
As another Freeper said on a different thread--the emails are irrelevant (though they provide juicy gossip, which is all that interests the "news" media). What matters is the DATA and computer methodologies which were also released, and which the CRU folks have vehemently refused to release to other scientists, despite attempts to use the British equivalent of the Freedom of Information laws to force them to. The data will FINALLY enable a REAL peer review of the scientific evidence based on data that hasn't been "cherry-picked" to build up the AGW case.
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