Unsolicited Climate Change Email

American Physical Society Statement ^ | December 10, 2009 | Cherry Murray

[Publius6961]

Cherry Murray ?
APS President?

One would hope that the president of a science organization would not be limited to the same intellectual horsepower as Barbara Boxer.

Her grasp of the problem is identical; and her disdain for the underlying critical and ultimately more relevant issue non-existent.

"Stolen" emails.
Right.

[InterceptPoint]

You need to stay on message. The real scandal here is who leaked the APS mailing list. That is the story that has legs and will sell newspapers.

They are trying that of course but it isn't working.

What is surprising to me is how little actual investigative journalism has went into attempting to identify the identity of the leaker. The Russians apparently have some insight into the source IP address of the the person who posted the files to a Russian server. Where is the curiosity in the media about that? Methinks maybe they really don't want to know. Maybe they know in their heart it was grad student at CRU and identifying him/her would open up a can of worms that even the mighty MSM could not stuff back in the bottle.

[AndyJackson]

From what I can see about the collation of the emails, the CRU data was pretty carefully leaked. It would appear to have been collated and edited by someone focused on the issue at hand with careful avoidance of shopping lists, kids with runny noses and sexual partner problems that must permeate the email repositories of any large organization of people, all of whom have personal lives.

[SunkenCiv]

Instead of using the resources of the physics profession to understand and evaluate the serious question of whether climate change is real, her response is a witch hunt into who stole the APS mailing list and gave it to five prominent members of the society to mail their concerns to other physcists.

thanks AndyJackson.

[Bernard Marx]

ALL of us now have to ask ourselves every single time we hear a “scientist” speak, “Is this a scientist that collects data and theorizes, or is this a “scientist” that looks for data to support a very UNscientific socio-political agenda?”

I've been doing that for at least 30 years, ever since Carl Sagan, National Geographic and others went over to the political Dark Side. Sagan's "Nuclear Winter" was the 1970s anti-Reagan equivalent of AGW, and N.G. sold its soul to the Greens. Political Correctness has placed a Marxist stranglehold on free scientific inquiry in the U.S.