In the trenches on climate change, hostility among foes - washingtonpost.com

Christopher Horner, a senior fellow at the libertarian Competitive Enterprise Institute who has questioned whether climate change is human-caused, blogged that the e-mails have "the makings of a very big" scandal. "Imagine this sort of news coming in the field of AIDS research," he added.
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Kevin Trenberth, who heads the Climate Analysis Section at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., and wrote some of the pirated e-mails, said it is the implications rather than the content of climate research that make some people uncomfortable.

"It is incontrovertible" that the world is warming as a result of human actions, Trenberth said. "The question to me is what to do."

Statement by Marc Morano of Climate Depot

'The ClimateGate scandal exposes man-made global warming fears as quite simply the best science that agenda driven activists can manufacture. Claims that the UN IPCC is the 'gold standard' of scientific research have been forever tarnished.'

Wong tightens climate vote deadline - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says the Government is acting in good faith.

"We are among the hottest and driest continents on Earth. We will feel the effects of climate change fastest and hardest," he said.

"Therefore we must act this week, and the Government will be doing everything possible to make sure that that can occur."

Flashback: Australia, UK, US 'least at risk from climate change' « Asian Correspondent

Countries that are being asked to contribute billions of dollars a year as part of a climate treaty to be signed at Copenhagen next month are least at risk from climate change, according to a new study.

The study, released to Asian Correspondent by international risk consultancy firm, Maplecroft, shows that out of 166 nations, the United States (152nd), United Kingdom (156th), Australia (157th), New Zealand (162nd), Canada (163rd) and Japan (164th) are among the 15 countries expected to be least affected by climate change. Listed in 166th place is Norway. Maplecroft rates the risk for all of these nations as low.

YouTube - Global Warming Alarmist Emails Hacked

Hacked E-Mails Heat Up Global Warming Dispute

The University of East Anglica said that information published on the Internet had been selected deliberately to undermine "the strong consensus that human activity is affecting the world's climate in ways that are potentially dangerous."
"The selective publication of some stolen e-mails and other papers taken out of context is mischievous and cannot be considered a genuine attempt to engage with this issue in a responsible way," the university said in a statement.

Hacked Emails Show Climate Science Ridden with Rancor - WSJ.com

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.
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A partial review of the emails shows that in many cases, climate scientists revealed that their own research wasn't always conclusive. In others, they discussed ways to paper over differences among themselves in order to present a "unified" view on climate change. On at least one occasion, climate scientists were asked to "beef up" conclusions about climate change and extreme weather events because environmental officials in one country were planning a "big public splash."

Latin American Herald Tribune - Central America: Rich Nations Should Pay for [Climate Hoax]

Juana Argueñal, Nicaragua’s environment minister, said that out of a sense of “environmental justice,” wealthy, industrialized countries should pay poor nations for provoking climate change with their greenhouse-gas emissions.

Scoop: Climate Change Research "Scandal" Breaks

The gist of the leaked emails is that they disclosed IPCC scientists discussed manipulating scientific data to minimize evidence that did not fit the official global warming position of the UN IPCC.

Despite repeatedly claiming to the media that no peer-reviewed studies exist that challenge global warming, and that skeptics can’t get published in peer reviewed journals because their work is not good enough, the emails disclose IPCC scientists have actually been colluding behind the scenes to lobby journals not to publish articles by skeptical scientists.

In one case, they even discussed blacklisting and boycotting one climate journal if it ever dared to publish a peer reviewed paper from a skeptical scientist again.

Quick Fact: WSJ 's Freeman claims "there hasn't been any warming since 1998"; climate experts disagree | Media Matters for America

FREEMAN: $800 billion is a lot of money. The cost is huge, and that's probably an underestimate. But, you know, there's also that little detail that there hasn't been any warming since 1998, so.

STUART VARNEY (host): But what really killed it here? Was it economics, was it the cost that killed it, or something else?

FREEMAN: Well, what is the argument for it? If you're saying this is a massive cost, even bigger than this crazy stimulus, even bigger than the TARP, and by the way, there's no proof that this is happening as a result of man's activities, in fact, lately, it's not even happening anymore. So it basically has no premise right now.

A brief history of climate change and conflict | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Enter the "little ice age"--a period marked by abnormally cooler temperatures. Scholars differ on the exact duration of this period; some researchers believe it started as early as 1000 in certain northern regions, whereas other historians, such as noted scholar Brian Fagan, believe it lasted from 1300 to 1850. Regardless, when the climate turned cold, the Viking colonies that had flourished in the warmth of the medieval climate optimum collapsed in Newfoundland (which they had abandoned because of ongoing conflict with the Native Americans). The western Greenland colony was the next to collapse, and around 1350, coinciding with the time of the Black Death, the eastern colony also began to decline. It survived only into the early 1500s.

India questions Western data linking climate change, Himalayan melt - washingtonpost.com

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/21/AR2009112102010.html

NEW DELHI -- As countries around the world prepare to flex their negotiating muscles at next month's climate-change summit in Copenhagen, India has begun to question the Western model of computing global warming statistics.

Sydney Morning Herald runs Hadley story | Australian Climate Madness

The only news organisation in Australia so far to run a story on the CRU leaked emails (apart from the great work of Andrew Bolt on this) is, surprisingly, the Herald. All I can say is that the rest had better catch up. And again, “hackers” are suspected, but it is reasonably balanced (for the SMH)...

The Global Warming Conspiracy: today’s best emails | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Protect the cash! Suppress the doubts!

Twitter / Andy Revkin [blames trace amounts of CO2 for heavy rain.   Can you plausibly also blame droughts for the alleged extra H2O in the allegedly warmer atmosphere?]

More H20 in warmer atmosphere = > epic downpours: http://j.mp/SuperRain #climate #cop15

Twitter / Andy Revkin [links to me from Twitter]

Skeptic: stolen private email shld be just as public as altered U.S. gov't climate docs? http://j.mp/USdocs More: http://j.mp/dotEmails

What's up with the weather - South Africa

# Wonderboom Airport, Pretoria, recorded its coldest November temperature with 9.6ºC on Friday, almost four degrees cooler than the coldest day in November last year;
# In Belfast, Mpumalanga, the temperature plummeted to 7.9ºC on Tuesday, while its previous coldest day in November was 12.8º in 2005

A scandal too big for these words | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

On one thing, however, all should agree. This is not a case of “hacking” or “data theft” as several news outlets of the Left insist. This is whistleblowing, almost certainly by an insider.

Systems At Top Global Warming Research Unit Hacked, E-Mail Exchanges Posted Online - cbs3.com

At the center of the story is the claim that scientists at the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit (CRU) in Britain were attempting to fudge temperature data to help bolster the theory that humans are to blame for global warming.

Hacked e-mails highlight climate dispute - UPI.com

NORWICH, England, Nov. 21 (UPI) -- E-mails stolen by hackers prove some leading British climate change scientists falsified information to prove their case, skeptics of global warming say.

The Associated Press: Hackers leak e-mails, stoke climate debate

LONDON — Computer hackers have broken into a server at a well-respected climate change research center in Britain and posted hundreds of private e-mails and documents online — stoking debate over whether some scientists have overstated the case for man-made climate change.

It’s spreading | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

...Stephanie, here’s a thought: maybe, just maybe, the Government doesn’t actually have an answer to our arguments. Hence this “weird” reappearance of scepticsm that has you mystified.

Proof that the unexamined assumption is one of the greatest perils in journalism.

Power Line - When In Doubt, Delete

These emails appear to show that, when faced with a legitimate request under Britain's Freedom of Information Act, these global warming alarmists preferred to delete their emails with one another about the crucially important IPCC report--the main basis for the purported "consensus" in favor of anthropogenic global warming--rather than allow them to come to light. This is one of many instances in the East Anglia documents where the global warming alarmists act like a gang of co-conspirators rather than respectable scientists.

The Heartland Institute - IPCC Email Scandal

In late 2009, the credibility of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) took a serious hit when email exchanges between some of its senior authors and editors revealed deliberate efforts to falsify data and silence dissenting scientists. The IPCC's reputation was already waning in the wake of scandals concerning Michael Mann's "hockey stick" temperature diagram and the role of government officials and environmental activists in its so-called "peer review" process. The IPCC Email Scandal of November 2009 meant the IPCC could no longer claim to represent the "scientific consensus" on global warming.

The American Spectator : In Sum, IPCC Discredited

My colleagues at the Heartland Institute have posted their succinct summary of the implications from Climategate, and it is very simple: The UN IPCC gatekeepers have lost all credibility, and consequently their disciples no longer have it as an authority.

Power Line - The Alarmists Do "Science": A Case Study

As far as I can tell from the email archive, Briffa never did respond to the plant scientist. Jones's email warning Briffa to be "very wary about responding to this person now having seen what McIntyre has put up" was written just three weeks ago. It, along with the rest of the email archive, makes an utter mockery of the alarmists' claim that the science of global warming is settled in their favor.

On the contrary, the conclusion an observer is likely to draw from the CRU archive is that the climate alarmists are making up the science as they go along and are fitting facts to reach a predetermined conclusion rather than objectively seeking after truth. What they are doing is politics, not science. When I was in law school, this story was told about accountants: A CEO is going to hire a new accountant and summons a series of candidates. He asks each applicant, "What is two plus two?" The first two candidates answer, "Four." They don't get the job. The third responds, "What do you want it to be?" He gets hired. The climate alarmists' attitude toward data appears to me much the same as that fictional accountant's attitude toward arithmetic.

Van Rompuy wants the EU to run on CO2 - Telegraph

Unfortunately for the President, this has come to pass at just the moment when the scare over global warming is beginning to run out of steam. The science behind it looks increasingly shaky as the world heads for a Copenhagen conference which, as even its organisers admit, is unlikely to produce anything resembling the much tougher successor to Kyoto that they have striven for so long.

The Reality Check » Blog Archive » The Global Carbon Footprint Scam

The “carbon footprint”, along with “global warming”, should be consigned to the dustbin of failed and false economic and social schemes known as socialism and communism. They are a synonym for suffering and death.

Big Government » Blog Archive » Manipulating Climate Change: Warming to RICO?

The plain reading of what has been revealed so far, if the documents are indeed authentic as a blanket admission yesterday seemed to make clear, does give the appearance of a conspiracy to defraud, by parties working in taxpayer funded agencies collaborating on ways to misrepresent material on which an awful lot of taxpayer money rides. In fact, their centers and careers and reputations ride on there being a “global warming” crisis, or at least there being some semblance of acceptance thereof.

I am not yet drawing conclusions on this, but all of the above is food for thought. I will look into this further when I’m back from travel and able to give it some attention, as will some colleagues. We also must confront the truth hinted at by the jibe about the massive email deleting that has surely taken place in the past 72 hours. The ability to permanently delete such material, and codes and other files, is not something I am at all expert in, but an issue on which the viability of pursuing any such actions would hinge. So, hopefully more later.

Bishop [who hasn't yet read the CRU emails] says climate change is spiritual matter

Extreme weather, rising sea levels, and drought are taking an awful toll on the poorest of people, while leaving no one unaffected. From Alaska to Georgia to Kenya, the bill for global warming pollution is coming due.

Climate Audit Mirror Site « the Air Vent

For those of us who have been experiencing Climate Audit withdrawal, Steve has decided to run a mirror site on WordPress.

Baby Steps « the Air Vent

For those who would sweep this under the rug — not so fast. There are serious issues brought to the foreront by the emails which need to be addressed. Global warming affects everyone. Whether it’s through massive taxation and regulation or more storms. We do have a right to know where the conclusions come from and how they are arrived at.

For instance:

* I want to know what they mean when Mann says – “don’t think that the entire AGU hierarchy has yet been compromised!”
* I want to know why it’s ok to ignore “certain” FOIA requests but not others.
* I want to know why it’s ok to cover up alleged temperature data extracted from trees when the data doesn’t agree with temperature.
* How did Saiers get removed from the GRL?

There are a thousand questions which remain unanswered.

Al Fin: Collusion, Corruption, Manipulation, and Obstruction

If you are at all curious about how a relatively small group of "researchers" managed to bring the world to the brink of a fake apocalypse -- and why they did it -- read the whole thing including comments.

These "scientists" have received hundreds of millions of dollars in grants between them, and appear to believe that the entire world revolves around them personally. If you want to see firsthand what utterly corrupt science looks like, follow the link.

BBC sells the wind farm scam to farmers - Telegraph

The BBC loves to talk about wind farms, but not about the glaring matter of their costly inefficiency, says Christopher Booker.

Sarah Palin Causing Global Warming - The Oregon Catalyst

Oprah has Sarah – ratings go through the roof – that’s a lot of evil, big screen TVs burning a lot of power for no reason.

Fact checkers assigned to work around the clock – to only find 6 “errors” while AlGore’s book of lies goes unchecked for years. A lot power being used to burn that midnight oil.

CRU’s Climate Tricksters–Context is Everything | GlobalWarming.org

What does Professor Jones mean, then, by “to hide the decline”? I’m not sure, but I expect he’s just doing what Professor Mann did. He’s got some obviously misleading data, which he doesn’t want people to see so they won’t get confused and draw the wrong conclusion. So he’s hiding it for our own good. This just shows what a chivalrous and deeply caring man Professor Jones is.

There you have it. Context is everything. And you’ve got to hand it to Professor Michael E. Mann. He sure knows his context. Pennsylvania State University can be just as proud of him as the University of East Anglia undoubtedly is of their Climatic Research Unit and its head, Professor Phil Jones.

Hey, Michael Mann: We've got tens of megabytes of "context" right here: Alleged CRU Emails - Searchable

...Worryingly this same group of scientists are very influential in terms of economic and social policy formation around the subject of climate change.

Kevin Grandia | Stolen CRU emails: Who are the criminals behind the conspiracy theorists?

This cabal of climate deniers seems to think that 12 year-old [or maybe 10 day old?] emails between climate scientists somehow refutes the thousands of research papers produced over decades by thousands of researchers at some of the best scientific institutions in the world.

While Morano is the master of right-wing spin and is using these emails for his political agenda, the bigger question here is:

Who stole all this private data from the University in the first place?

The folder of information contains over 3,800 separate files and it is clear that someone has taken a lot of time to pull together what they thought would be the most damaging. This is not the work of a hacker, unless that hacker is extremely well-versed in climate science, and specifically the conspiracy theories of the climate denial movement.

This package of stolen data and emails would have taken hundreds of hours to compile and someone out there knows exactly how all this went down.

The Blackboard » Enemies caught in action!

“The IPCC report has served a useful purpose in removing the last ground from under the sceptics’ feet, leaving them looking marooned and ridiculous.”

– Thomas C. Peterson

Those Hacked E-mails

In the end, I fear that, if and when the ‘global warming’ grand narrative collapses, as I judge it surely must, it could well seriously damage trust in science itself, and that would be a most dreadful tragedy for all of us.

Evidence of a desperate push to pump global warming up... and up

But for The Team, frantically trying to retain a sense of urgency, trying to influence policy makers and major media outlets, drastic measures were needed. The released emails show clearly that political necessity caused them to cut displays of data series to eliminate evidence of a pause in global warming. A sense of paranoia (clearly shown in many of the emails) caused them to conspire to influence the scientific peer-review process, boycotting scientific journals and trying to get more skeptical editors replaced and urging colleagues not to submit to journals that didn't toe their party line.

SBVOR link roundup: The Watergate of Global Warming?

Essential updates (LOTS more in the commentary section)

In case you missed it: Skeptics Handbook II! Global Bullies Want Your Money « JoNova

It’s unthinkable. Big Government has spent $79 billion on the climate industry, 3000 times more than Big Oil. Leading climate scientists won’t debate in public and won’t provide their data. What do they hide? When faced with freedom-of-information requests they say they’ve “lost” the original global temperature records. Thousands of scientists are rising in protest against the scare campaign. Meanwhile $126 billion turned over in carbon markets in 2008 and bankers get set to make billions.

Al Gore Wishes He Never Invented The Internet - Minnesotans For Global Warming

The Global Warming Extremists had a good thing going for a while. All it took was one U.N. entity, a few scientists, a few scientific journals, one chart based on one tree, one politician and the main stream media, and Voilà! you have a worldwide crisis that requires a worldwide tax and a worldwide government. But all it took to bring it down was one post on one little blog. Even the New York Times is talking about it.

NC Media Watch: CRU E-mails now in search engine

Thanks to Al Gore we have the Internet to bring about the destruction of his global warming hoax.

ClimateGate emails provide unwanted scrutiny of climate scientists

Tom Wigley, a senior scientist in the Climate and Global Dynamics Division at NCAR, felt though that they could deal with Saiers by getting him removed from the AGU. “If you think that Saiers is in the greenhouse skeptics camp, then, if we can find documentary evidence of this, we could go through official AGU channels to get him ousted.”

The Migrant Mind: CRU hacked emails and Peer Review Corruption

62 mb of data is 62 books worth of information, a book being about 1 meg worth of writing.  [How did Nate Silver read all of those books so fast?]
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NOPE, skeptics need to try to publish because they won't be allowed to. And then when they are denied access to publishing, they are then criticized for not publishing. Phil Jones even went so far as to try to talk to an editor about not publishing anything skeptical. This isn't how science is supposed to work.

Did the CRU emails come from an insider?

Who leaked the Hadley CRU files and why

In all that time, the original poster of the Russian FTP link never made another comment in any forum. As discussed above, this is not typical of a hacker. A hacker would be boasting about his act, and loudly. Instead, his file sat in that anonymous FTP account for more than forty-eight hours, and the poster never made any further attempt to publicize his find. Hence the conclusion, by this Examiner and a host of other commenters, including IP security professionals, that this unknown user was one who had had access to CRU computers, in accordance with his duties at the CRU. [Via Flopping Aces]

Hacked U.K. climate researcher files expose bias

Stay tuned. This may be just the tip of the iceberg exposing the biggest scientific and political fraud in the history of mankind.

The Devil's Kitchen: [Now has Bishop Hill's list with links to Shug Niggurath's database]

Shug Niggurath's database has been updated to read the references that Bishop hill quotes: I shall be going through the list and applying links.

Bishop Hill has been trawling the communications and come up with some basic pointers

Shug Niggurath's database - Searchable

I really just made this because I really couldn't see me going through the sheer number of text files in any realistic fashion. This will help me find emails that are being discussed on forums and blogs I read.

But this page is now being hit a lot, so I feel it only fair that I tell you what I am hoping to get done - and for you to send me suggestions or ideas (or tips). I'm hoping to get the time tomorrow to also make the various Word and Excel files online and searchable, and also to do what I can with the text from the PDF files (some might be easier than others). I am also hoping to get some improvements done to the overall search box to make the results weighted to number of hits for main keywords / filter out unimportant words (you, me and I) and make the tool more useful.

Chicago News Bench: Climate Research Fraud and Fakery Revealed by Computer Hacker (Updated)

We've been saying for years that the gurus of climate change fall into one of two categories: (1) Frauds who deliberately fudge the data (e.g., Al Gore), and (2) Incompetent science quacks who parrot the global warming/climate change mumbo-jumbo in a pitiful attempt to be in with the in crowd. In addition to those false priests of the Church of Climate Change, of course, are the billions of morons who have swallowed whole the wafers of global warming. Perhaps some will be swayed by this revelation, but not many will be. It takes a lot to sway somebody away from their religion, which is exactly what the belief in Global Warming has become.

Nate Silver: Yet another left-wing speed-reader

FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right: I Read Through 160,000,000 Bytes of Hacked Files And All I Got Was This Lousy E-Mail

The conservatives are mainly zeroing in on one particular e-mail [are they?]

Actually, Nate, you didn't read through those hacked files.  Here's just some of the stuff you missed: Bishop Hill blog - Climate cuttings 33

...here are some summaries of the CRUgate files.

The American Spectator :  Presto! Alarmist Emails Not Such a Big Deal

Revkin has authored two global warming books and so has a lot to lose himself from this controversy, as his reputation is just as much at stake as the scientists.' Therefore his defense mechanisms are fully engaged. In his blog post yesterday about the revelations, he states that repercussions "continue to unfold" and "there’s much more to explore," but do you really think he can be counted on for follow-up stories about it this week?

No global warming at Norfolk showground for livestock farmers

Although a big space heater was at work, almost deafening the speaker at times, it managed to lift the temperature to just above 10C. Then, as the temperature fell through the 40-minute presentation, the heater automatically came back on - several times. And the topic under discussion - climate change and global warming!

Major climate change conference in Winchester (From Hampshire Chronicle)

Today Peter Harper, of the Centre for Alternative Technology, said very few people were fully aware of the problem while most others don't yet care.

"There are still lots of sceptics, most people are sceptical to the point of being ostriches. They don't want to know."

He said most were wedded to the pillars of bourgeois life: homes heated to 20 degrees; a car; eating meat and dairy products and a foreign holiday every year.

NYT Environmental Writer Confirms Probable Authenticity of Hacked Climate Change Messages | NewsBusters.org

Baby steps, Andrew. Correct me if I'm wrong but it sure sounds like Revkin is more shaken by this scandal than he is letting on. Perhaps he is not yet ready to give up the global warming ghost but the newly released hacked information seems to be loosening his moorings to a widely accepted liberal belief.

[Damn the kidney stones, full speed ahead: Minnesotans jet towards warmth on fossil-fueled planes] | StarTribune.com

As winter approaches, the Minnesota travel agency is seeing a rise in bookings and hiring back workers.

The Death Blow to Climate Science: Tim Ball

Global Warming is often called a hoax. I disagree because a hoax has a humorous intent to puncture pomposity. In science, such as with the Piltdown Man hoax, it was done to expose those with fervent but blind belief. The argument that global warming is due to humans, known as the anthropogenic global warming theory (AGW) is a deliberate fraud. I can now make that statement without fear of contradiction because of a remarkable hacking of files that provided not just a smoking gun, but an entire battery of machine guns.
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Dominant names involved are ones I have followed throughout my career including, Phil Jones, Benjamin Santer, Michael Mann, Kevin Trenberth, Jonathan Overpeck, Ken Briffa and Tom Wigley. I have watched climate science hijacked and corrupted by this small group of scientists. This small, elite, community was named by Professor Wegman in his report to the National Academy of Science (NAS).

I had the pleasure of meeting the founder of CRU Professor Hubert Lamb, considered the Father of Modern Climatology, on a couple of occasions. He also peer reviewed one of my early publications. I know he would be mortified with what was disclosed in the last couple of days.

Jones claims the files were obtained illegally as if that absolves the content. It doesn’t and it is enough to destroy all their careers.

Climate Research News » New Book: The Hockey Stick Illusion; Global Warming and the Corruption of Science

Part scientific history and part detective story, The Hockey Stick Illusion tells the extraordinary tale of the iconic global warming graph (created by the US climatologist Michael Mann), the global panic about climate change that it has helped to feed, and the tireless efforts of a lone amateur researcher, Steve McIntyre, that have comprehensively discredited it.

The global warming conspiracy: its silencing of the sceptics | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

This time we’ll focus on the sheer thuggery of the “The Team” - how this conspiracy of powerful alarmist scientists tried to drive sceptics and non-allies out of their jobs, and even succeeded.

ClimateGate and the Elitist Roots of Global Warming Alarmism « Roy Spencer, Ph. D.

Year after year, the evidence keeps mounting that most climate research now being funded is for the purpose of supporting the IPCC’s politics, not to find out how nature works. The ‘data spin’ is increasingly difficult to ignore or to explain away as just sloppy science. If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck…

Climategate: how the MSM reported the greatest scandal in modern science – Telegraph Blogs

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100017451/climategate-how-the-msm-reported-the-greatest-scandal-in-modern-science/

So don't expect this scandal to be written up in the MSM any time soon. But why would you want to anyway? It's all here, where the free spirits and independent thinkers are, on the Blogosphere.

The Blackboard » Who is “Unpredictable Andy”?

Hmmm… Who is this not very predictable Andy?

Andy Revkin confirms that he is indeed "Andy" above - NYTimes.com

The emails I've seen that mention me appear accurate. As for me being "captive," not sure how you explain this message, in which one climatologist warns another to be careful what he shares with me because I'm "not as predictable as we'd like": http://www.anelegantchaos.org/cru/emails.php?eid=1062 Does that strike you as a description of a captive?

Scholars and Rogues » Climategate? Not likely.

Second, it might be unpolitical to say that you’ll be happy when someone died, or that Steve McIntyre and Anthony Watts are pricks and assholes, but that doesn’t make the statements a scandal. I personally was happy when former Senator Jesse Helms died, and I will probably enjoy a drink of expensive scotch when Marc Morano, James Inhofe, and Steve Milloy kick the bucket. And I’ve got no problem calling someone like Joe D’Aleo a liar or Steve Milloy an oxygen thief. If that makes me a bad person, well, I’m OK with that. I expect that most people hold enough contempt for some of their enemies to relish it when they die.

Significant Michael Mann email

Alleged CRU Emails - Searchable

From: "Michael E. Mann" ,,,Subject: RE: IPCC revisions Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 12:35:24 -0400
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Walked into this hornet's nest this morning! Keith and Phil have both raised some very good points. And I should point out that Chris, through no fault of his own, but probably through ME not conveying my thoughts very clearly to the others, definitely overstates any singular confidence I have in my own (Mann et al) series.
...I had been using the entire 20th century, but in the case of Keith's, we need to align the first half of the 20th century w/ the corresponding mean values of the other series, due to the late 20th century decline.

So if Chris and Tom (?) are ok with this, I would be happy to add Keith's series. That having been said, it does raise a conundrum: We demonstrate (through comparining an exatropical averaging of our nothern hemisphere patterns with Phil's more extratropical series) that the major discrepancies between Phil's and our series can be explained in terms of spatial sampling/latitudinal emphasis (seasonality seems to be secondary here, but probably explains much of the residual differences). But that explanation certainly can't rectify why Keith's series, which has similar seasonality *and* latitudinal emphasis to Phil's series, differs in large part in exactly the opposite direction that Phil's does from ours. This is the problem we all picked up on (everyone in the room at IPCC was in agreement that this was a problem and a potential distraction/detraction from the reasonably concensus viewpoint we'd like to show w/ the Jones et al and Mann et al series.

So, if we show Keith's series in this plot, we have to comment that "something else" is responsible for the discrepancies in this case. Perhaps Keith can help us out a bit by explaining the processing that went into the series and the potential factors that might lead to it being "warmer" than the Jones et al and Mann et al series?? We would need to put in a few words in this regard. Otherwise, the skeptics have an field day casting doubt on our ability to understand the factors that influence these estimates and, thus, can undermine faith in the paleoestimates. I don't think that doubt is scientifically justified, and I'd hate to be the one to have to give it fodder!

Alleged CRU Emails - Searchable

[J Shukla] Is "model democracy" a valid scientific method? The "I" in the IPCC desires that all models submitted by all governments be considered equally probable.

Alleged CRU Emails - Searchable

From: Phil Jones To: Tom Wigley , Ben Santer Subject: Re: help please Date: Tue Oct 6 13:35:34 2009
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GISS is inferior - not just because it doesn't use back data. They also impose some
urbanization adjustment which is based on population/night lights which I don't think is
very good.
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I think you can say that GISS is inferior to CRUTEM3. In Ch 3 of AR4 I put the station number counts in.

GISS and NCDC have more, but almost all of this is more data in the US. Their non-use of a
base period (GISS using something very odd and NCDC first differences) means they can use
very short series that we can't (as they don't have base periods) but with short series it
is impossible to assess for homogeneity.

Editorial Advisory Board: Boulder goes to Copenhagen - Boulder Daily Camera

Some Boulder residents understandably object to City Council members using their tax dollars to attend an overseas conference. We can debate whether global climate issues is an appropriate concern of a city government, or whether a physical presence at the conference is worthwhile. But would there be much hubbub if the council members were not traveling on the taxpayers’ dime? As CU Professor Roger Pielke Jr. suggested on his blog, a “more politically savvy Council would have...secured external sponsorship” to fund the trip.

Al Gore fuels climate change skeptics with cover of new book

Sea level rises are something which is of great concern in a warming climate. The cover of “Our Choice” depicts the effects of rising oceans but does so in a manner that is impossible.

In the modified image, Cuba appears to be completely submerged. That would require a sea level rise of more than 6580 feet as that is the height of Pico Turquino on the island. Much of Florida as well is now under water as is a great deal of Central America.

Bogus BLM bidder reacts to exclusion of 'global warming' defense - ABC 4.com - Salt Lake City, Utah News

But, as much as DeChristopher wants to slow down climate change, he also wants to stay out of prison. Becker asked him why not just accept a prison sentence, write a book and make your point. He said with a laugh "I guess that's kinda the last case option for me....I thought about the consequences and decided it was worth it and I still believe that but obviously I have no desire to be a martyr."

He and his lawyer say the fight goes on to expose the climate change crisis, but he also says he feels betrayed by one of the world's major promoters of the global warming issue, Al Gore. DeChristopher says Gore is getting too political and compromising too much by supporting a new bill in Congress that asks for smaller decreases in greenhouse gases that he did last year. Last year Gore was advocating civil disobedience, he said, to stop global warming. Now Gore is backing off and DeChristopher says that's wrong.

Global Warming Crisis? Oprah Begs to Differ!

Listen up Al Gore, Barbara Boxer, Barack Obama and all other left-wing extremists practicing the new age religion of Global Warming, Inc.: Ain’t no such thing, according to the queen of Chicago, Oprah Winfrey.

Fear and Loathing in Global Warming

What if a small cabal at the center of the data has been perpetrating a huge fraud on the rest of us?
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GW always had the potential to be the eco-Vietnam, the quagmire that drags down the whole environmental movement. We have just had its Watergate. Time for the GW Plumbers to go to jail: Phil Jones, Michael Mann, Gavin Schmidt, James Hansen, Keith Briffa, Malcolm Hughes and Kevin Trenberth. They were the ones circulating the emails, they were the co-conspirators of the fraud, and they deserve to be treated as the self-righteous con men they have been shown to be.

If Al Gore were President, he would have to resign.

A global warming meltdown | StarTribune.com

[Featured comment] No, nothing sinister there.......as the Lamestream media will hide its head in the sand. AGAIN (ie recovery.gov,AIG-Goldman etc) The … read more climate hoax is perpetrated by artisans, not scientists: There is no scientific method to climate modeling, it is devoid of sensitivity, specificity, p values, etc etc Yet, who with an IQ above 60 really believes an increase in CO2 of only 1 part per 10,000 is going to trigger some catastrophe? Gore, Hanson, etc are simply charlatans.

The hacked climate science email scandal that wasn't : The Island of Doubt

The hacking of the data is a worthwhile story, insofar as IT security goes, but the content is just plain banal [unless you actually read it]. All we learn is that scientists are humans after all.

Strong Storm Dumps Heavy Snow on Sierra | News10.net | Sacramento, California | News

SACRAMENTO, CA - Snow started falling in the Sierra shortly before 1 p.m. Friday and continued well into the night. When all was said and done, as much as two feet of new snow was reportedly at some of the higher elevations.

Climate [hoax] crunch | From the Guardian | The Guardian

Unless they end in promises, and a treaty within months, Ed Miliband believes the Copenhagen talks will be a disaster. But can the British energy secretary, in Denmark for a frantic round of pre-summit diplomacy, win the argument?
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Among them is Britain's own Ed Miliband, who will turn 40 six days after the summit closes, and has the road-worn air of man who has been travelling far too much. In the build up to December, he has been to China, Brazil, India, Mexico, South Africa and Bangladesh, as well as Poland, Russia, and France (before anyone asks, he and his team offset their flights).

Collusion, Corruption, Manipulation and Obstruction « the Air Vent

Despite what RC says, there are several glaring problems in these emails which Gavin Schmidt is working feverishly to gloss over. Here are the items I have a problem with.

* Discussion of interference with IPCC procedures to block low-warming reasonable and published papers.
* Discussion of removal of climate reviewers who are open minded to low-warming papers. The fact that in GRL this apparently occurred after these discussions is a problem.
* Discussion with the government about denial of FOIA to any climate audit blogger. FOIA is not meant to be for non-controversial topics it’s SPECIFICALLY for the contriversial ones. Free speech doesn’t protect nice words, it protects strong words.
* Data manipulation discussions. These are mostly hinted at except for a few instances but they are real and directed only toward strong warming.

SCIENTISTS ARE HUMANS | Daily Telegraph Tim Blair Blog

...One small issue with that: most peoples’ inboxes don’t concern the multi-billion dollar restructuring of international economies to counter predicted climate change. Harrabin’s contacts at the CRU are quite literally seeking to change our world, yet they whine about us looking through mere email. At the NYT, Andrew Revkin clings to religion:

The evidence pointing to a growing human contribution to global warming is so broad and deep that the hacked material is unlikely to erode the overall argument.

It’s true but fake, in other words. Pejman Yousefzadeh sums up:

We know this: The language used in many of the e-mails is offensive, crude, disparaging towards climate skeptics (including a disgusting statement made in the aftermath of the death of one global warming skeptic), and against the spirit of scientific inquiry on multiple levels. If these scientists had the doubts they appear to have had concerning global warming, they should have gone public with those doubts. That way, they would have lost neither their integrity, nor their ability to state that the weight of the evidence supports the theory of anthropogenic global warming. Instead, they engaged in . . . this.

Hackers 'expose global warming con': Claims that leaked emails reveal research centre massaged temperature data | Mail Online

The CRU, which plays a leading role in compiling UN reports and tracks long-term
changes in temperature, has repeatedly refused to provide detailed information about the data underlying the temperature records.

It is thought that this could have triggered the theft.
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Spokesman Dave Britton said the two organisations had to turn down numerous Freedom of Information requests because they did not hold the copyright to the data.

‘There is a feeling we are hiding something,’ he said. ‘But we are not, we just can’t
release the data.’

Alleged CRU Emails - Searchable

From: Phil Jones To: Tom Wigley Subject: Re: FOIA Date: Fri Jan 21 15:20:06 2005 Cc: Ben Santer
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I wouldn't worry about the code. If FOIA does ever get
used by anyone, there is also IPR to consider as well.
Data is covered by all the agreements we sign with people,
so I will be hiding behind them. I'll be passing any
requests onto the person at UEA who has been given a post to
deal with them.

Twitter / [What's Andy Revkin saying here?]

@tboggia Way worse than computer fraud. But it's not up to me to catch them or "let them get away." http://j.mp/dotEmails

In pictures: Behind the scenes in Copenhagen with Ed Miliband | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Ed Miliband talks to a Swiss delegate in the conference hall. Miliband describes the difficulty of reaching an agreement in Copenhagen: 'Imagine if you knew 189 people, and you got them all together and said, "Here’s how we want you to run a significant part of your lives in the next 30 or 40 years – and by the way, you have to have unanimously agree that that’s how you want to do it".'

Power Line - Global Warming Bombshell

The biggest news story of the day is one that has barely begun to break and will continue to reverberate for months or years to come.
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This and many other emails convey the impression that these theorists are making the "science" up as they go along, with data being manipulated until it yields the results that have been predetermined by political conviction.

Left-wing politics is a common theme of the emails.

Hacking at climate science | Alarmist Tom Yulsman - CEJournal

A bunch of hacked emails is not going to weaken the overwhelming [but nonexistent] body of scientific evidence supporting anthropogenic climate change. Neither is any amount of bloviating by the likes of Morano (not to mention alleged journalists like James Delingpole of the U.K.’s Telegraph, who writes, “If you own any shares in alternative energy companies I should start dumping them NOW”).

American Thinker: The Evidence of Climate Fraud

After all, the names of the email exchangers represent a who's who of the world's leading climate alarmism scientists, including Stephen Schneider, Gavin Schmidt and James Hansen. And the words within seemingly betray an organized apparatus of deception.
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Criminal?  Oh yes, indeed.  As this mock-science serves as justification for Trillions of dollars in imposed and proposed new taxes, liens, fees and rate hikes, not to mention the absurd wealth-redistribution premise of international climate debt “reparations,” such manipulation of evidence should be treated as exactly what it is – larceny on the grandest scale in history.

Idiotic Comment of the Day: Phillip Adams | Australian Climate Madness

In almost every aspect the escalating campaign to save Big Coal from its critics, to confuse the issue and the voters, comes straight from Big Tobacco. Now the planet has lung cancer, emphysema and asthma, among a lengthening list of respiratory problems. Soon we’ll be gasping for breath, like terminal smokers reaching for the oxygen tanks. And the chances of it getting better diminish every day as sociopathic CEOs of obscenely powerful and obese corporations do everything they can to derail Copenhagen as they did Kyoto.

Read All About it! Climate Depot Exclusive - Continuously Updated 'ClimateGate' News Round Up | Climate Depot

MSM Catchin’ on. « the Air Vent

Are there any other MSM links around?

FOX, Telegraph, Wall St Journal, BBC, Nature, Register, NPR, Guardian, New Scientist, National Review

ClimateGate: The genesis of a hack/leak | GORE LIED

It all started right here – The Air Vent blog on comment #10 [dated Nov 17, 2009]on a November 13, 2009 post titled, blandly enough, Open Letter on Climate Legislation:

Global warming research exposed after hack - Network World

The RealClimate Web site, a forum for climate change scientists, disputed skeptics' claims that the e-mails showed any attempt to manipulate results. "More interesting is what is not contained in the emails," the site noted. "There is no evidence of any worldwide conspiracy, no mention of George Soros nefariously funding climate research, no grand plan to ‘get rid of the MWP’ [Medieval Warm Period], no admission that global warming is a hoax, no evidence of the falsifying of data [are they seriously claiming that they've already verified this by looking carefully at all 61MB of leaked files?], and no ‘marching orders’ from our socialist/communist/vegetarian overlords."

Judging from the data posted, the hack was done either by an insider or by someone inside the climate community who was familiar with the debate, said Robert Graham, CEO with the consultancy Errata Security. Whenever this type of incident occurs, "80 percent of the time it's an insider," he said.

Alleged CRU Emails - Searchable

Kevin

[July '08] /> dear all, > re-sending because of a glitch. > > finally got round to posting on an earlier inquiry I made to some of > you about whether there was a 'clean' graph of multi-decades > temperature trends with ENSO wiggles removed -- thanks to gavin (and > david thompson) posting on realclimate. > here's Dot Earth piece with link to Realclimate etc.. > http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/07/climate-trends-with-some-noise-removed/?ex=1216094400&en=a57177d93165cba3&ei=5070 > > next step is PDO. has anyone characterized how much impact (if any) > PDO has on hemispheric or global temp trends, and if so is there a > graph showing what happens when that's accounted for? > > as you are doubtless aware, this is another bone of contention with a > lot of the anti-greenhouse-limits folks and some scientists (the post > 1970s change is a PDO thing, etc etc). hoping to show a bit of how > that works. > > thanks for any insights. > and i encourage you to comment and provide links etc with the current > post to add context etc. > > -- > Andrew C. Revkin

Alleged CRU Emails - Searchable

...I certainly don't want to spend years of my life interacting with the likes of Steven McIntyre.

I hope LLNL management will provide me with their full support. If they do not, I'm
fully prepared to seek employment elsewhere.

With best regards,
Ben [Santer]

Alleged CRU Emails - Searchable

Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 15:52:53 -0500
To: Andy Revkin
From: "Michael E. Mann"
Subject: Re: FW: "hockey stock" methodology misleading

Hi Andy,
The McIntyre and McKitrick paper is pure scientific fraud. I think you'll find this
reinforced by just about any legitimate scientist in our field you discuss this with.

Possible Conspiracy To Falsify Temperature Data Uncovered | NewsBusters.org

*****Update: Readers are STRONGLY encouraged to watch the scrambling going on at RealClimate.

Alleged CRU Emails - Searchable

At 17:07 27/10/2009, Michael Mann wrote:

p.s. be a bit careful about what information you send to Andy [Revkin] and what emails you copy
him in on. He's not as predictable as we'd like

Don't miss this: Bishop Hill blog - Climate cuttings 33

In the circumstances, here are some summaries of the CRUgate files. I'll update these as and when I can. The refs are the email number.
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Tim Osborn discusses how data are truncated to stop an apparent cooling trend showing up in the results (0939154709). Analysis of impact here. Wow!
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Phil Jones encourages colleagues to delete information subject to FoI request.(1212063122)
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# Letter to The Times from climate scientists was drafted with the help of Greenpeace.(0872202064)
# Mann thinks he will contact BBC's Richard Black to find out why another BBC journalist was allowed to publish a vaguely sceptical article.(1255352257)
# Kevin Trenberth says they can't account for the lack of recent warming and that it is a travesty that they can't.(1255352257)
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# Mann tells Jones that it would be nice to '"contain" the putative Medieval Warm Period'. (1054736277)
# Tom Wigley tells Jones that the land warming since 1980 has been twice the ocean warming and that this might be used by sceptics as evidence for urban heat islands.(1257546975)
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# Briffa is funding Russian dendro Shiyatov, who asks him to send money to personal bank account so as to avoid tax, thereby retaining money for research.(0826209667)
# Kevin Trenberth says climatologists are nowhere near knowing where the energy goes or what the effect of clouds is. Says nowhere balancing the energy budget. Geoengineering is not possible.(1255523796)
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Tom Wigley discusses how to deal with the advent of FoI law in UK. Jones says use IPR argument to hold onto code. Says data is covered by agreements with outsiders and that CRU will be "hiding behind them".(1106338806)
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Briffa says he is sick to death of Mann claiming his reconstruction is tropical because it has a few poorly temp sensitive tropical proxies. Says he should regress these against something else like the "increasing trend of self-opinionated verbiage" he produces. Ed Cook agrees with problems.(1024334440)
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Jones says he's found a way around releasing AR4 review comments to David Holland.(1210367056)
[and much more]

The Devil's Kitchen: Lots of coverage on the CRU emails

Your humble Devil has constantly pointed out that climate scientists may not be in a conspiracy to deceive mankind—but they do need money for research. A lot of money.

And creating a massive scare and then doing some research on it is a very good way to get that money.

Whistler Smashes November Snowfall Record « Where’s my Global Warming Dude? By Global Freeze

Vancouver Sun
Via ICECAP, November 18, 2009

“Whistler Blackcomb ski resort has reported 98” the last seven days and 165” November. This makes it the snowiest November on Record at Whistler Blackcomb.
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This record Whistler Blackcomb ski resort November snowfall is occurring in spite of the National Weather Service predictions in No Need to go to the Desert for the Winter, in the October 1 Tacoma News Tribune link, that begins as follows,

“Skiers may want to hold off on buying that new set of snow skis for the coming winter. Umbrellas still will come in handy but there may not be enough rain to seriously challenge river levees. El Nino is back and that usually means a mild Northwest winter with less rain and higher temperatures than normal, one of the National Weather Service’s top climatologists said Wednesday.”

FOIA for Me But Not For Thee | Climate Skeptic

I thought this was one of the more interesting quotes unearthed so far from the Hadley CRU emails:

“When the FOI requests began here, the FOI person said we had to abide by the requests. It took a couple of half hour sessions – one at a screen, to convince them otherwise showing them what CA [Climate Audit] was all about. Once they became aware of the types of people we were dealing with, everyone at UEA (in the registry and in the Environmental Sciences school – the head of school and a few others) became very supportive. I’ve got to know the FOI person quite well and the Chief Librarian – who deals with appeals.”

CLIMATE SCIENCE CORRUPTED by John McLean | Climate Realists

For the first time that I can recall, I am forced to conclude that Houghton is a scientist driven more by belief and religious conviction than by evidence. How can it be otherwise when he is so adamant that human activity has a significant influence on climate and yet the scientific evidence to support that claim is appallingly weak? Correlations are not evidence of a cause, nor are the output from inaccurate climate models or the opinions of people who work with those models, but all the so-called evidence that the IPCC report of 2007 presented.

Data breach at climate research center in U.K - Juliet Eilperin - washingtonpost.com

Michael E. Mann, who directs the Earth System Science Center at the Pennsylvania State University, said in a telephone interview from Paris that skeptics are "taking these words totally out of context to make something trivial appear nefarious."
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Neither Jones nor Santer could be reached for comment.

Alaska record cold and Thanksgiving snow

Bettles, Alaska is known for cold temperatures but even they smashed some records in the last few days.

Possible Conspiracy To Falsify Temperature Data Uncovered | NewsBusters.org

Should we expect investigative television programs like "60 Minutes" and "20/20" to be all over this story interrogating the scientists allegedly involved in these e-mail exchanges?

Will America's press be as eager to find out the truth of this matter as they were in fact-checking former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's new book?

A Tale of Two Revkins

Private Climate Conversations on Display - Staunch privacy advocate Andy Revkin - NYTimes.com

The documents appear to have been acquired illegally and contain all manner of private information and statements that were never intended for the public eye, so they won’t be posted here.

[Flashback]: BUSH AIDE EDITED CLIMATE REPORTS - Whistle-blowing, document-obtaining hero Andy Revkin - New York Times

In handwritten notes on drafts of several reports issued in 2002 and 2003, the official, Philip A. Cooney, removed or adjusted descriptions of climate research that government scientists and their supervisors, including some senior Bush administration officials, had already approved. In many cases, the changes appeared in the final reports.
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The documents were obtained by The New York Times from the Government Accountability Project, a nonprofit legal-assistance group for government whistle-blowers.

Canadians find shame in status as climate change dawdlers - The Globe and Mail

But Hoggan also did a second survey of a group of about 1,000 people it termed “thought leaders,” or top members of business, universities, government and the media, and found that for these people, the environment was the most important issue, followed by the economy. The tracking of elite opinion was done because it often foreshadows views that eventually spread to the general public.

Lawrence Solomon spars with Anna Maria Tremonti - FP Comment

Lawrence Solomon, National Post columnist and author of The Deniers, appeared on CBC's The Current on Thursday morning, to comment on a book by James Hoggan, a public relations executive, that claims corporations are running a "denial machine" on global warming. Solomon argues that Hoggan has it backwards: The big money to be made lies in gaming the system, leading corporations to lobby for global warming legislation. Hear Anna Maria Tremonti's interview of Solomon here.

Skeptics claim global warming is fake after top scientists’ emails hacked at CRU | Grist

# Climate change skeptics have always been looking for an excuse to declare peer-review scientific data a “fraud.”
# How ironic—and convenient—that this should occur in the weeks leading up to the biggest international climate talks to date.

Sceptics publish climate e-mails 'stolen from East Anglia University' - Times Online

E-mails allegedly written by some of the world’s leading climate scientists have been stolen by hackers and published on websites run by climate change sceptics.

How to search inside the warmist conspiracy | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Feel free to post results to me right here. Tens of thousands of readers around the world would like to share what you find.

BBC News - Harrabin's Notes: E-mail arguments

The scientific establishment is likely to support the CRU. Despite continuing uncertainties in some areas of climate science, they say officially that their overall confidence that humans are warming the climate is now more than 90%.

One leading figure told me unofficially that confidence was now at 99%.

Moonbat media plays down Hadley leak | Australian Climate Madness

Of course we could rely on the lefty media, in thrall to the global warming bandwagon, to trivialise the significance of the leaked emails and documents.

Scandal Rocks Global Warming Establishment | CEI

Statement by Myron Ebell, CEI Director of Energy and Global Warming Policy

The posting of private data files from the Climatic Research Unit in England reveals the sleazy, unseemly side of a number of the leading scientific proponents of global warming alarmism, including CRU Director Phil Jones, Michael Mann, Ben Santer, and Kevin Trenberth. It is clear that some of the “world’s leading climate scientists,” as they are always described, are more dedicated to promoting the alarmist political agenda than in scientific research. Some of the e-mails that I have read are blatant displays of personal pettiness, unethical conniving, and twisting the science to support their political position.

Anyone who assumed that these so-called scientific authorities in the debate were providing the straight scientific facts is going to have to think again. We have argued for many years that much of the scientific case for global warming alarmism was weak and some of it was phony. It now looks like a lot of it may be phony.

The Global Warming Establishment Uncovered

On Oct 14, 2009, at 5:57 PM, Tom Wigley wrote:

Mike (Mann),

The Figure you sent is very deceptive. As an example, historical runs with PCM look as though they match observations — but the match is a fluke. PCM has no indirect aerosol forcing and a low climate sensitivity — compensating errors. In my (perhaps too harsh) view, there have been a number of dishonest presentations of model results by individual authors and by IPCC. This is why I still use results from MAGICC to compare with observed temperatures. At least here I can assess how sensitive matches are to sensitivity and forcing assumptions/uncertainties.

Lawrence Solomon: What she didn't ask - FP Comment

CBC’s Anna Maria Tremonti had tough questions for me this week, but none for a global warming propagandist

MercatorNet. A voice for human dignity. Our focus is parenting and family issues, bioethics, religion, philosophy and entertainment.

The United Nations is using false logic to claim that fewer people in the developing world will help fight climate change.

Devastation on a ‘Biblical’ scale: is this a glimpse of the future for the UK? - Herald Scotland | News | Home News

Dr Richard Dixon, director of WWF Scotland, said the flooding underlined the need for a strong deal at the Copenhagen conference on climate change in December.

“In England this is being called a thousand-year flood, but climate change will make that much more common,” he said. “It’s now just a question of how bad it will get. If we don’t get good reduction measures, it will get worse.”

BBC dispatches 35 staff to climate [scam] talks - creating as much carbon as an African village does in a year | Mail Online

The BBC is sending 35 people to next month's climate change talks in Copenhagen - creating as much carbon dioxide as an African village does in a whole year.

The corporation said its delegation of 12 presenters, along with a backup team of researchers, producers and camera crews, will spend up to two weeks in the Danish capital on expenses to cover the global summit.

Critics said the numbers were 'absolutely staggering' and accused the BBC of playing fast and loose with licence payers' money.

[Don't miss this]: The warmist conspiracy: the emails that most damn Jones | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Makes you wonder very strongly what Jones is trying to hide, doesn’t it?

Checking sick Rudd’s temperature | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

In summary: Rudd lies again. He is indeed the leader of the most deceitful government in my memory.

Kevin Grandia | Climate contrarians spinning hard with stolen email files

I'll admit, as someone who spends most days looking for leaked documents, the package of stolen emails and documents from the Climate Research Unit at East Anglia University is pretty juicy. Anything that provides insight into the inner-workings of your opponents is pretty much manna from heaven in this line of work.
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What people like Malkin and others don't understand is that the evidence for climate change is based on decades of research that builds and builds into a solid foundation from which conclusions can be drawn.

It is not the house of cards they want us to think it is. And while these emails don't look great, they are in no way "proof" that climate change is not happening. It just isn't the grand conspiracy they think it is.

Bob Ward: This climate email-hacking episode is generating more heat than light | Environment | guardian.co.uk

It is inevitable as we approach the crucial meeting in conference in Copenhagen in December that the sceptics would try some stunt to try to undermine a global agreement on climate change. There is no smoking gun, but just a lot of smoke without fire.

• Bob Ward is Policy and Communications Director at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science

Slashdot Politics Story | Climatic Research Unit Hacked, Files Leaked

Reader aretae characterized the emails as revealing "...lots of intrigue, data manipulation, attempting to shut out opposing points of view out of scientific journals. Almost makes you think it's a religion. Anyone surprised?"

Instapundit » CLIMATE RESEARCH DATA UNIT HACKED, embarrassing data leak out

CLIMATE RESEARCH DATA UNIT HACKED, embarrassing data leak out.

UPDATE: Tim Blair: “If true . . . the phrase ‘hide the decline’ may mark something of a turning point.”

Hacked E-Mails Fuel Climate Change Skeptics - Andy Revkin - NYTimes.com

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,” said Patrick J. Michaels, a climatologist who has long faulted evidence pointing to human-driven warming and is criticized in the documents.
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The revelations are bound to inflame the public debate as hundreds of negotiators prepare to hammer out an international climate accord at meetings in Copenhagen next month, and at least one scientist speculated that the timing was not coincidental.

The documents will undoubtedly raise questions about the quality of research on some specific questions and the actions of some scientists. But the evidence pointing to a growing human contribution to global warming is so broad and deep that the hacked material is unlikely to erode the overall argument.

This is not good, the CRU computer hack « Greenfyre’s

This is going to be politically costly no matter what. No matter how trivial the actual ‘in context’ revelations turn out to be, the public will remember the initial Denier spin. People like Inhofe and Morano will make sure that the most fraudulent version is constantly put forward as the “true, unspun” version.

It will definitely influence the undecideds of the general public. I suspect more than a few lay supporters will feel profoundly betrayed as well. This will be seen as a significant breach by the entire scientific community, and even misinterpreted as somehow discrediting the basic science itself.

Eco Factory - Climategate: Leaked climate scientist emails expose manipulation

Mainstream media is yet to weigh in on the implications of climategate, which encompass some of the most prominent scientists, organizations, and universities in the world. Containing hundreds of emails, it may take days for pro-global warming commentators and climate skeptics to extract what bits of useful information are contained within. Green groups like Treehugger were quick to point out the illegality of the way this research was obtained, though the CRU publicly stated that they are investigating that this may have not been hacked from their server, but leaked by a researcher. Greenpeace released a statement in defense of climate change, saying "if you looked through any organization's emails from the last 10 years you'd find something that would raise a few eyebrows. Contrary to what the skeptics claim, the Royal Society, the US National Academy of Sciences, NASA and the world's leading atmospheric scientists are not the agents of a clandestine global movement against the truth."

ClimateDepot.Com: Substantial Fraud in Climate Change Hoax?

RUSH: By the way, folks, I want to give you a website to go to when you get a chance. It's called ClimateDepot.com. Something fascinating has happened, and I was first alerted to this today by our official climatologist, Dr. Roy Spencer. "A hacker has gotten into the computers at Hadley CRU." That is Britain's largest climate research institute. They're a huge proponent of global warming. The hacker "seems to have uncovered evidence of substantial fraud in reporting the 'evidence' on global warming; the unlawful destruction of records to cover up this fraud" to keep it away from Freedom of Information Act requests, for example. Deceit in the entire operation. And the best place to get all the detail is Mark Morano, our former "man in Washington" on my TV show, who runs ClimateDepot.com. All the details are there. It's a great place to keep up on the global warming debate. He's probably single-handedly, in a civilian sense, the guy (other than me, of course) doing a better job of ringing the bells alarming people of what's going on here.
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By the way, thank you for shutting down Mark Morano's website, ClimateDepot.com.  We love doing that.  I love shutting down people's websites. It doesn't last long, but a lot of people flooded his server at ClimateDepot.com.

Errors in IPCC climate science » Blog Archive » Selection of Prof Phil Jones and CRU emails from over a decade now searchable online

It could have been released by a process as simple as a CRU staffer mistakenly leaving the file in a public part of the CRU FTP site.

Global warming promotes kidney stones - COP15 United Nations Climate Change Conference Copenhagen 2009

By 2050 more than half of the US population will live in high-risk zones for kidney stones, and by 2095 this share will reach up to 70 percent. Risk of kidney stones is linked to temperature, as strong heat may decrease a person’s urine volume.

Belmont Club » The CRU Hack

Even if the Global Warming industry were to die today, a lot of “Green” investment is already out there and unless the band keeps playing the music will stop. For that reason the bandmaster, however weary his arms will be prodded to keep waving the baton. He must protect the investment. “After 2012, when the Kyoto Protocol expires, Mr. Rau said, the value of the investments in developing countries will be uncertain, and if the uncertainty is prolonged, it can hurt investment.” Keep playing, bandmaster.

Wonk Room » ClimateGate: Hacked Emails Reveal Global Warming Deniers Are Crazed Conspiracy Theorists

Evidently due to this e-mail conspiracy, Arctic sea ice is at historically low levels, Australia is on fire, the northern United Kingdom is underwater, and the world’s glaciers are disappearing.

DailyTech - Climategate: Stunning Deception and Misconduct at UK Warming Research Center Revealed

The admissions of falsification of data and supression of counter opinions run contrary to everything that the scientific community should stand for. One can only hope that a thorough investigation is conducted and at the very least the center's director, Phil Jones is dismissed for academic misconduct, if the emails are confirmed. After all, how can we tell our college students not to cheat, when the director of a prominent research institution is advocating such fraud?

The global warmist conspiracy - and the Australian link | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

The leaked emails from the Unirversity of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit indicate an astonishing conspiracy of the world’s leading warmist scientists, involving collusion, rigged evidence, suppression of dissent, the possibly illegal destruction of evidence under FOI request, and the smearing of sceptical scientists.
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...here’s another Jones email in which the CRU boss actually hopes the world is warming disastrously - against his colleagues’ real predictions...

Global warming: Intent to deceive

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.

CRU files scandal reaches print media

...that characterization ignores the actual tone of those e-mails: of a group of scientists desperately wishing their theory to be true, figuratively wringing their hands when the data suggest otherwise, and certain unscientific behavior that no one can defend. This demonstrably includes manipulation of data and a conspiracy to conceal unfavorable data from other scientists who express skepticism of their theories. Furthermore, Jones' use of the phrase "to hide the decline" does indeed suggest falsification of data.

Climate Skeptics See 'Smoking Gun' in Researchers' Leaked E-Mails - FOXNews.com

Hackers broke into the servers at a prominent British climate research center and leaked years worth of e-mail messages onto the Web, including one with a mysterious reference to a plan to "hide the decline" in data about temperatures.

MSM Catchin’ on. « the Air Vent

The Examiner has had it for a while, as has the Guardian and the Telegraph. Rush Limbaugh carried it and the Drudge Report ran a piece.

Lies About Climate Change Emerge After Research Center is Hacked

This scandal is the most damaging evidence against the lies that are man-made global warming. Some of the emails suggest collusion in exaggerating warming data, manipulation of data, private admissions of flaws in their public claims, and conspiracy. The emails contain a wide range of discussions, including what appear to be concerted efforts to withhold data. What's worse, though, are the conversations that mention potentially manipulating the data to "hide the decline" of temperatures seen in the last decade.

Briffa on problems with tree-ometers

Alleged CRU Emails - Searchable

Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 11:57:09 +0000
From: Keith Briffa
Subject: Re: Mitrie: Bristlecones
...
...The main one is an ambiguity in the nature and consistency of their sensitivity to
temperature variations.
...The bottom line though is that these trees likely represent a mixed temperature and moisture-supply response that might
vary on longer timescales.
...
This is also related to the "strip bark" problem , as these types of trees will have unpredictable trends as a consequence of aging and depending on the precise nature of each tree's structure .
...
 At this point , it is fair to say that this adjustment was arbitrary and the link between Bristlecone pine growth and CO2 is ,
at the very least, arguable. Note that at least one author (Lisa Gaumlich) has stated that the recent growth of these trees could be temperature driven and not evidence of CO2 fertilisation.

The point of this message is to show that that this issue is complex , and I still believe the "Western US" series and its interpretation in terms of Hemispheric mean temperature is perhaps a "Pandora's box" that we might open at our peril!

Alex Jones’ Prison Planet.com » CLIMATE BOMBSHELL: Hacker leaks thousands of emails showing conspiracy to “hide” the real data on manmade climate change

A hacker has leaked thousands of emails and documents from the Climate Research Unit at East Anglia University that appear to show how climate change data was fudged and the peer review process skewed to favor the manmade climate change hypothesis.

Alleged CRU Emails - Searchable

If the issue is that Exxon have lobbied and pressured Bush, then OK, this is regrettable
but to be honest is anyone really surprised? All these decisions about IPCC chairs and
co-chairs are deeply political (witness DEFRA's support of Martin Parry for getting the
WGII nomination).

Mike