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To: FromLori
Well this is interesting...from the thread on him:

I am all powerful (part 2)

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Posted on: December 19, 2009 4:30 PM, by William M. Connolley

Actually it turns out that this is part 3! But I'm not going to revise the title now. Part 1 and Part 2 refer, as does some digging.


So, Lawrence "beany" Solomon does me the honour of a full-out assault. I'm a bit puzzled as to why, perhaps more study will reveal this. It looks like he is trying to get some kind of linkage between the [[Climatic Research Unit e-mail hacking incident]] and my on-wiki activities. But although Solomon states directly The Climategate Emails reveal something else, too: the enlistment of the most widely read source of information in the world -- Wikipedia -- in the wholesale rewriting of this history I don't see any actual support for this anywhere. I find two refs to wiki in the emails, one of which miss-spells my name, thereby convincingly demonstrating a clear intent to hide their tracks, ha ha, and the other is an apparently uninteresting whinge.

So that all looks like twaddle - presumably, just the peg for Beany to hang his story on. He then continues with some confused stuff that is reasonably well explained in [[Description of the Medieval Warm Period and Little Ice Age in IPCC reports]] (and you can find traces of that in the emails if you look hard, I won't spoil your fun by telling you how to search, but if you find it feel free to put it into the comments).

Then there is some bizarre ahistorical stuff about wiki and RC. I started editing wiki in 2003. It isn't hard to discover that RC started in late 2004 [1]. Beany says He rewrote Wikipedia's articles on global warming, on the greenhouse effect, on the instrumental temperature record, on the urban heat island, on climate models, on global cooling and all of that is true enough. The bit about erasing the LIA and MWP is twaddle though.


41 posted on 12/21/2009 4:56:46 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach ( Support Geert Wilders)
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To: Brugmansian; theBuckwheat; FromLori
Thanks for that link...at post #82 on the thread:

Lawrence Solomon: Wikipedia’s climate doctor-Wikipedia’s green doctor rewrote 5,428 climate articles

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See post #39.

This is starting to get complicated in a nice way!

We need some more dominoes to fall,...Maybe like Hansen and Mann!

42 posted on 12/21/2009 5:02:02 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach ( Support Geert Wilders)
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