Posted on 11/20/2009 12:59:25 PM PST by Red Badger
The files leaked Wednesday that are spreading around the world at the speed of Internet are genuine files from the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia--and should they prove to be accurate, they paint a clear picture of a group of scientists intent on message discipline, enforcing the party line--to the point where they changed presentations, colluded on peer review and tried to get uncooperative editors fired and boycott journals which didn't adopt a sufficiently alarmist position.
If you're just coming to this story, Part 1 and Part 2 are here. Examiner.com has examined these documents and independently confirmed their origin--although the accuracy of each individual document and email has not yet been established. We have adopted a policy of publishing exact quotes from the documents while removing names and email addresses.
The correspondence leaked through a Russian proxy server starts in 1996 and continues through to last week. It consists of over 1,000 emails, their attachments and some computer code. The correspondence was largely between members of The Team, a group of climate scientists and paleoclimatologists that evidently had a mission to convince the world that global warming was happening faster than the IPCC has predicted, and that the results would be worse than, again, the IPCC forecast.
The leaked correspondence does not call into question the science behind global warming--but it certainly casts into doubt the 'revisionist warmism' this team has pushed so strongly since the IPCC's last report, including at the weblog Real Climate, where many are contributors and which is subject to the same strict message discipline as they tried to establish and enforce elsewhere.
Many of the emails regard adopting a unified communications strategy to exploit recent data--but also to perform damage control when the data didn't support their political positions. This exchange is illustrative:
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 09:02:00 +1300
"Yeah, it wasn’t so much 1998 and all that that I was concerned about, used to dealing with that, but the possibility that we might be going through a longer – 10 year – period of relatively stable temperatures beyond what you might expect from La Nina etc.
Speculation, but if I see this as a possibility then others might also. Anyway, I’ll maybe cut the last few points off the filtered curve before I give the talk again as that’s trending down as a result of the end effects and the recent cold-ish years.
Enjoy Iceland and pass on my best wishes to *****."
Another email clearly advocates the destruction of correspondence to avoid complying with Freedom of Infomation requirements:
"Can you delete any emails you may have had with ***** re AR4? &&&&& will do likewise. He’s not in at the moment – minor family crisis. Can you also email $$$$$ and get him to do the same? I don’t have his new email address. We will be getting %%%%% to do likewise."
Another email shows a discussion on how to frustrate the spirit of Freedom of Information, while complying with the letter of the act:
"Options appear to be: 1.Send them the data 2.Send them a subset removing station data from some of the countries who made us pay in the normals papers of Hulme et al. (1990s) and also any number that **** can remember. This should also omit some other countries like (Australia, NZ, Canada, Antarctica). Also could extract some of the sources that Anders added in (31-38 source codes in J&M 2003). Also should remove many of the early stations that we coded up in the 1980s. 3.Send them the raw data as is, by reconstructing it from GHCN. How could this be done? Replace all stations where the WMO ID agrees with what is in GHCN. This would be the raw data, but it would annoy them."
Next: A Global Warming Enemies List
Watch these guys spin this one. Is there enough popcorn to go around?
I predict a one day story in the MSM, followed by a complete media black-out.
The late Michael Crichton really had these wankers nailed in his book, “State of Fear”. If you haven’t read it, stop by your local library and check out a copy.
The New York Times won’t touch the truth with a ten foot pole - this won’t be in the paper tomorrow... or the next day... or the next.
It’s now on page one of foxnews.com!!!!
Bump
Well which is it? genuine files......if they prove to be accurate.!!!
I am going to leave my truck running all night in celbration of the end of MMGW.
So they didn't read the emails? From another part of the email:
The fact is that we can’t account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can’t. The CERES data published in the August BAMS 09 supplement on 2008 shows there should be even more warming: but the data are surely wrong. Our observing system is inadequate.
How would that not cast doubt on the science?
You’d be lucky if you even get one day. I just checked the Communist News Network and nary a word about the discovery.
May some of these “scientists” should be on suicide watch. One can hope.
“a group of climate scientists and paleoclimatologists that evidently had a mission to convince the world that global warming was happening faster than the IPCC has predicted, and that the results would be worse than, again, the IPCC forecast.”
If they managed to get legislation and world-wide regulations passed, and the world didn’t heat up, (which it ain’t gonna) they would be declared Heros of Science!”
So let’s not depend on the New York Times to spread the word: let’s do it ourselves, through e-mails and links.
umm, I don’t think you heard. FOX is not a “real” news orgainzation... /sarcasm
And everyone at MSNBC/NBC is in New Orleans doing the Happy Dance. Oh, well.
Is this the story that broke earlier on FR about some Russian hackers that discovered this?
Si............
Well, then those are some Russian sumbitches that I will toast with....(with apologies to Gen. George Patton)....
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