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.

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.

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!

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
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...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.
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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 .
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 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

Big Hollywood » Blog Archive » NBC’s ObamaVision: ‘30 Rock’ Offers Up An Appealing Al Gore

Don’t be fooled by the self-effacing humor or Gore’s willingness to engage in gentle self-mockery. As the leader and symbol of this socialist-wolf-in-sheep’s-clothing movement, GE/NBC understands that Gore’s popularity can only aid in the passing of legislation beneficial to GE. And Gore’s “30 Rock” enablers also understand that the more appealing he is, the more appealing his leftist ideas seem…

“Gee, why would such a nice guy want to hurt America?”

Hacked E-Mails Fuel Global Warming Debate | Threat Level | Wired.com

Another e-mail from Jones dated last year with the subject line “IPCC and FOI” is a request to Michael Mann, director of the Earth System Science Center at the University of Pennsylvania, asking him to delete certain e-mails. Bloggers allege that Jones was trying to destroy data that had been requested under the Freedom of Information law.

Neither the Climate Research Unit nor Mann, who is currently out of the country, responded to a request for comment.

Global warming alarmists exposed? « Sister Toldjah

...this scandal has the potential to eclipse past agw scandals, to the point where the MSM will have no choice but to report on it. That said, when – if – the reports start filtering in, expect the angle on the stories not to be about the damaging information in the emails – information that, to my layman’s eyes, appears to show “scientists” trying to hide data that would hinder their pro-alarmist agenda, but instead about how it was an “invasion of privacy” with quotes from “scientists” and those in related fields expressing “outrage” that the hard work of their colleagues has been “compromised.” The same MSM – and many of the same lefties – who yawned back when Sarah Palin’s personal email account was hacked into last year, will rise up in favor of stronger laws that would allow for tougher punishment for hackers.

Have Hackers Unearthed Climate Change's Real Inconvenient Truth? - Geoff Fox - My Permanent Record

It looks like some well publicized global warming evidence is the product of the books being cooked! It's possible the loudest voices in this fight have been playing fast-and-loose with the truth when it doesn't serve their purpose.

Even though I disagree with these people I am seriously shocked to hear this might be true. I expected the debate was educated and legitimate.

Cap and Trade Hits Manufacturing, Farming and Small Business » The Foundry

Two bills, one in the Senate and one in the House, were crafted by politicians from California and Massachusetts. No state is going to escape the economic pain of cap and trade, but the Midwest is right to be concerned as they will bear much of the brunt.

Breaking News - ClimateGate: Britain's University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit Hacked; Damning Emails Call Into Question The Integrity of Climate Science

From Phil Jones (destroying of emails / evidence):

Mike, Can you delete any emails you may have had with Keith re AR4? Keith will do likewise. He’s not in at the moment – minor family crisis. Can you also email Gene and get him to do the same? I don’t have his new email address. We will be getting Caspar to do likewise.
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From Thomas R Karl (witholding data) :

We should be able to conduct our scientific research without constant fear of an "audit" by Steven McIntyre; without having to weigh every word we write in every email we send to our scientific colleagues. In my opinion, Steven McIntyre is the self-appointed Joe McCarthy of climate science. I am unwilling to submit to this McCarthy-style investigation of my scientific research. As you know, I have refused to send McIntyre the "derived" model data he requests, since all of the primary model data necessary to replicate our results are freely available to him. I will continue to refuse such data requests in the future. Nor will I provide McIntyre with computer programs, email correspondence, etc. I feel very strongly about these issues. We should not be coerced by the scientific equivalent of a playground bully. I will be consulting LLNL's Legal Affairs Office in order to determine how the DOE and LLNL should respond to any FOI requests that we receive from McIntyre.

American Thinker Blog: Scientific scandal appears to rock climate change promoters

There's big news for climate change students. A hacker has gotten into the computers at Hadley CRU, Britain's largest climate research institute and a proponent of global warming, and 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 ,conspiracy,and deceit in the entire operation.

Hadley Climate Research Unit -- Scandal Brewing? - Hit & Run : Reason Magazine

The blogosphere is hopping with reports that the Hadley Centre's computers have been hacked and possibly embarrassing internal emails and other documents are now circulating on the web. Earlier this year, the Hadley Centre rejected accusations that it had destroyed original temperature data making it difficult for outside scientists to evaluate their adjustments to the datasets.

Leading British climate [scam] centre hacked : Nature News

With less than three weeks to go until the start of the United Nations' climate negotiations in Copenhagen, [fraudster Michael] Mann doubts that the timing of the attack is a coincidence. "The deniers will probably do anything they can to distract the public from the reality of the problem [of climate change], and the threat that it poses," he says. "Cherry-picked, out-of-context quotes, stolen from private e-mails, is the best they've got."

The Daily Bayonet » The Rules of the Game

From the Hadley files, a rulebook for promoting the global warming hoax and keeping the populace on message

The Daily Bayonet » More Inconvenient Hadley

It’s regular who’s who of scaremonger scientists in on this email:

      From: Kevin Trenberth

To: Michael Mann
Subject: Re: BBC U-turn on climate
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 08:57:37 -0600
Cc: Stephen H Schneider , Myles Allen , peter stott , “Philip D. Jones” , Benjamin Santer , Tom Wigley , Thomas R Karl , Gavin Schmidt , James Hansen , Michael Oppenheimer...

The Reference Frame: Hacked: Hadley CRU FOI2009 Files

So far, the most interesting file I found in the "documents" directory is

pdj_grant_since1990.xls (Google preview, click)

which shows that since 1990, Phil Jones has collected staggering 13.7 million British pounds ($22.6 million) in grants. The major amounts came from HEFCE (6.6 million pounds) and NERC (2.7 million pounds). Later, we will get some idea whether he has used the money to do proper science and whether the truth and objectivity was kept as the key principle, beating a possibility to double the amount. ;-)

[Now linked on Drudge]: Climate sceptics claim leaked emails are evidence of collusion among scientists | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Climate change sceptics who have studied the emails allege that they provide "smoking gun" evidence that some of the climatologists colluded in manipulating data to support the widely held view that climate change is real and is being largely caused by the actions of mankind.

RealClimate: The CRU hack

We were made aware of the existence of this archive last Tuesday morning when the hackers attempted to upload it to RealClimate, and we notified CRU of their possible security breach later that day.
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Since emails are normally intended to be private, people writing them are, shall we say, somewhat freer in expressing themselves than they would in a public statement.
...if cherry-picked out-of-context phrases from stolen personal emails is the only response to the weight of the scientific evidence for the human influence on climate change, then there probably isn’t much to it.

RealClimate: The CRU hack

[comment] “Clearly no-one would have gone to this trouble if the academic object of study was the mating habits of European butterflies.”

That depends on whether or not people were trying to re-order the global economy on the basis of those butterfly studies. And whether or not some folks had tried to substitute the odd moth in order to “hide the decline.”

RealClimate: The CRU hack

[comment] Asking people to delete emails, in an email, with the SUBJECT: line containing FOI is indeed a serious problem.

Alleged CRU Emails - Searchable

On 20 November 2009, emails and other documents, apparently originating from with the Climate Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia.

If real, these emails contain some quite surprising and even disappointing insights into what has been happening within the climate change scientific establishment. Worryingly this same group of scientists are very influential in terms of economic and social policy formation around the subject of climate change.

Michelle Malkin » The global warming scandal of the century

First things first: The alleged hackers need to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

That said: The crimes revealed in the e-mails promise to be the global warming scandal of the century — and have massive bearing on the climate change legislation being considered by our lawmakers here at home.

From the hacked Hadley CRU files: Climate scientist changes graphs to eliminate cooling?

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.

Wrecking CRU: hackers cause massive climate data breach • Andrew Orlowski - The Register

In August, Phil Jones admitted CRU had failed to keep the raw data, which would permit outside parties to create their own temperature reconstructions. More recently, CRU dendroclimatologist Keith Briffa defended his sampling methodology which saw the inclusion of one tree core from the Yamal Peninsula create a Hockey Stick shaped graph, dubbed the "hottest tree in the world".

The documents also appear to highlight a chummy relationship between sympathetic journalists - particularly the New York Times Andrew Revkin - and activist scientists.

Whistle blowing documents on global warming are genuine

Examiner.com is preparing to analyse the data that has been disclosed in an orderly manner, but material already released over the Internet has shown at least one email that could have legal implications, where a scientists asks colleagues to delete all emails related to a certain topic.

[Email contents online: Now you can link to a set of ten emails]

Shug Niggurath said...

Raw content of the emails available (in 10 to a page) to read here - hopefully have them online in a keyword searchable format later this evening.  [These are the copied transcripts of emails allegedly from within the CRU at the University of East Anglia, reproduced purely for anyone interested to see the contents of these.]

Breaking: Hadley computers allegedly hacked – exposing warming “conspiracy” @ Coalblog

If true, it would seem that being “effective” will have taken precedence over being honest. If true, this could be one of the largest scientific frauds ever perpetrated. Given the impact that this and related climate research has had on climate policy, the world economy, energy generation, and specifically the coal industry, such a revelation would be devastating for climate research as a whole.

The great coverup – Hacker exposes climate science conspiracy | Tony's Rants

Skeptics of manmade climate change may very well have found their Holy Grail. A hacker apparently broke into the computer systems of the UK’s Hadley Climate Research Unit and made off with over 1,000 emails and dozens of files. The contents of the archive, if proven to be authentic, would expose nothing less than a conspiracy amongst some of the world’s leading climate scientists.

As told on the Climate Change Examiner, the emails detail discussions taking place that include the modification of climate data, preventing access to data by those who disagree, deleting data that does not fit the global warming theory and so much more. This would be nothing less than one of the biggest scandals to have occurred in science.

Climategate: the final nail in the coffin of ‘Anthropogenic Global Warming’? – James Delingpole - Telegraph Blogs

[from an email] Next time I see Pat Michaels at a scientific meeting, I’ll be tempted to beat the crap out of him. Very tempted.
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And, perhaps most reprehensibly, a long series of communications discussing how best to squeeze dissenting scientists out of the peer review process. How, in other words, to create a scientific climate in which anyone who disagrees with AGW can be written off as a crank, whose views do not have a scrap of authority.
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Unfortunately, we’ve a long, long way to go before the public mood (and scientific truth) is reflected by our policy makers. There are too many vested interests in AGW, with far too much to lose either in terms of reputation or money, for this to end without a bitter fight.

But if the Hadley CRU scandal is true,it’s a blow to the AGW lobby’s credibility which is never likely to recover.

By the way, as of this moment, I see no mention of Climategate on Dot Earth, RealClimate, or Climate Progress.

Climate Change Skeptics Pounce On E-Mails Hackers Got From U.K. Scientists' Files : NPR

There's a storm brewing on the Web over e-mails that hackers got hold of in which some scientists at one of the world's leading research centers say things such as the need to "hide the decline" in data about temperatures. Skeptics who have doubts about whether humans are contributing to global warming are pouncing on the revelations.

The Daily Bayonet » Hadley CRU: Hack or Leak?

I think a leaker is more likely than a hacker, but find out who to thank in due course. For now, the folks at Hadley (and Michael Mann) are trying to deflect attention from what they wrote to each other by focusing on the legality of how the papers were obtained.

Tony soprano had some excellent words of wisdom for the motley CRU: “You can’t put the shit back in the donkey.”

Pajamas Media » Hacker Releases Data Implicating CRU in Global Warming Fraud

Several people have already corroborated a number of the emails as being ones they wrote or received. The package also includes substantial data and computer programs, which are being explored as this is being written.

The best we can say right now is that we should keep our eyes on this. If these files are eventually corroborated and verified, it is a bombshell indeed — evidence that there has been a literal conspiracy to push the anthropogenic climate change agenda far beyond the science.

It will mean the end of some scientific careers, and it might even mean those careers will end in jail.

Hacked Emails Show Climate Scientists Manipulating Data To Support Global Warming Theories

And not just manipulating data, but also plotting with one another to keep data inconvenient for their global warming alarmism crusade out of the publics’ hands.
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Just to illustrate how influential this research center is, the work that won the IPCC its co-Nobel Prize with Al Gore was laced with work done by the Hadley Climatic Research Centre.

This is major.  Remember that our nation is poised to pass policy, cap and trade, that would significantly impact our economy and our day-to-day lives based on the idea that human activity and production is significantly impacting global climate change.  And yet, the very scientists (I should maybe put quotations marks around “scientists” when referring to these guys now) at the heart of the theories those policies are based on have been caught manipulating their work fraudulently and trying to hide inconvenient data from the public.

Hacked: Sensitive Documents Lifted from Hadley Climate Center - Environmental Capital - WSJ

The whole affair has much of the blogosphere alight. Blogs skeptical of man-made global warming see blood in the water.

Breaking: Hackers Infiltrate World's Leading Climate Research Unit : TreeHugger

Plenty of facts remain to emerge before we go spinning our climate change denier conspiracy theories, so stay tuned--things could get interesting.

Infosecurity (UK) - Hackers hit leading UK climate research unit

The big question, the Cyber-Ark director noted, is why the University's CRU hadn't installed some form of security on the potentially explosive data held on its servers.

And, he explained, with references to the US government's apparently negative stance on climate change - which former vice president Al Gore has been trying to publicise for years - the data breach could cause ructions on Capitol Hill.

"Once the political fall-out from this data breach incident has settled, questions will undoubtedly be asked by those in charge about why better IT security systems weren't installed on the University CRU's servers", he said.

"I find it astonishing that politically sensitive data like this wasn't kept under highly encrypted protection."

"This data leak has the potential to add weight to the climate change cause, as well as acting as a case study on the need for secure collaborative data working."

[Fraudsters say the darndest things] | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Obviously, under no circumstances should any of this get back to Pielke.
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So, if we could reduce the ocean blip by, say, 0.15 degC, then this would be significant for the global mean – but we’d still have to explain the land blip.
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[Bolt] Keeping sceptic Chris de Freitas out of the IPCC reports:

The other paper by MM is just garbage – as you knew. De Freitas again. Pielke is also losing all credibility as well by replying to the mad Finn as well – frequently as I see it. I can’t see either of these papers being in the next IPCC report. K and I will keep them out somehow – even if we have to redefine what the peer-review literature is !

Climate Pentagon Papers | Climate Skeptic

The ethics of the folks who grabbed this material are also seriously in question, though if it turns out to be real I have no problem using the material as it is public / government material that should have been in the public domain anyway (which is why I use the Pentagon Papers analogy).

[Climate fraudster Al Gore takes fossil-fueled trip to San Jose]

SAN JOSE, CA -- 11/20/09 -- Nobel Laureate and former Vice President Al Gore today received the 2009 James C. Morgan Global Humanitarian Award given by The Tech Museum as part of its international program, The Tech Awards.

Top 25 reasons to give a damn about climate change | Grist

3. Because you think it’s depressing when little kids die. It’s happening. Now. According to Save the Children, 9 million kids die before their fifth birthday each year from diseases that are occurring more frequently because of climate change, which is also affecting access to food and water. What are you, completely heartless?

Skeptics Handbook II! Global Bullies Want Your Money « JoNova

Finally, Part II in the Skeptics Handbook series – the bluster and bluff, the deceit, and the money. Enjoy & Share.

BBC News - Hackers target world's leading climate [fraud] unit

The e-mail system of one the world's leading climate research units has been breached by hackers.

Global Warming’s Blue Dress Moment? The CRU EMail Hack Scandal « Roy Spencer, Ph. D.

In reading these e-mails from the ‘other side’ of the scientific debate I am particularly amazed at the mindset of a few of these scientists. I exchange e-mails with other like-minded (read ‘skeptical’) scientists, as do the IPCC scientists with their peers. But never do I hear of anyone manipulating climate data to achieve a certain end. I must say that I am pleased to see that NCAR scientist Kevin Trenberth admits that it is a “travesty” that no one can explain the lack of global warming in recent years.

I think there is a good chance that this was an inside job…either a disgruntled employee at CRU, or someone who is simply getting fed up with the politicization of the IPCC’s science and wanted to reveal some of the inner workings of the IPCC process. I’m sure that further revelations will arise in the coming days.
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...If the hacked e-mails — with incriminating content — just happened to be Sarah Palin’s, does ANYONE believe that news reports would avoid disclosing the content of those e-mails?

ill and ancient

Professor Phil Jones - Head of the CRU at the University of East Anglia - thought that the death of climate change sceptic John L Daly is 'cheering news'

[Wait a minute--I'm not being blamed for this particular drought?!]: El Niño intensifies Latin American drought - Telegraph

From a devastating food crisis in Guatemala to water cuts in Venezuela, El Niño has compounded drought damage across Latin America this year.

Icy winds kill 8 on Rohtang Pass in Himachal | My Himachal

Shimla: Eight persons were reported to have been killed when high speed winds blowing over the 13,050 feet high Rohtang Pass, near Manali had trapped about 70 people who were attempting to cross it on foot on Friday afternnon.

Early winter snow had closed the pass, a fortnight ago, and the people stranded on either side of the pass which connects Kullu valley with the landlocked Lahaul valley were attempting to cross over the snow tracks on the pass.

Big Government » Blog Archive » Will Cap and Trade Resurrect ACORN?

In June, the U.S. House passed the American Clean Energy and Security Act (better known as Waxman-Markey), ostensibly to alleviate global warming by mandating an 83% reduction in U.S. carbon emissions by 2050. A similar bill, introduced in the Senate by Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and John Kerry (D-MA), has been approved by the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. Buried in both bills are provisions that would allocate vast amounts of federal money to community development organizations such as ACORN.

Sound Politics: Craig Welch Should Have Asked Al Gore Better Questions

The Seattle Times reporter had a chance to ask the former vice president, and current climate change guru, a few questions, and this is all Welch came up with. It would be unfair, but not terribly unfair, to sum up that brief interview by saying that Welch asked Gore how news organizations can help sell Gore's message.

Positively Green Becomes Latest Eco-Mag To Fold « ecorazzi.com :: the latest in green gossip

PG follows in the footsteps of such great green-themed mags as PLENTY and Domino. Is anyone else ready for this year to be over?

Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: CRU-Gate: Climate Conspiracy or Much Ado About Nothing?

Here is an interview just published by TGIF (PDF)

Climate change denial MEP attacks church | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Roger Helmer says Anglican hierarchy has dropped the gospel in favour of 'the new religion of climate alarmism'

R.I.P.: Warming bill runs out of gas

...everyone knows the cap-and-trade bill crafted by Sens. Barbara Boxer of California and John Kerry of Massachusetts is deader than dead, because no one wants to face the voters next November having voted for an economy restricting, jobs-killing bill. Reid, facing a tough re-election race in Nevada, knows this better than most.

Climate sceptics claim leaked emails are evidence of collusion among scientists | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Climate change sceptics who have studied the emails allege that they provide "smoking gun" evidence that some of the climatologists colluded in manipulating data to support the widely held view among the world's climatologists that climate change is real and is being largely caused by the actions of mankind. So far the veracity of the emails has not been confirmed and the scientists involved have declined to comment on the story which broke on a blog called The Air Vent.

The files, which in total amount to 61Mb of data, were first uploaded onto a Russian server, before being widely mirrored across the internet. The emails were accompanied by the anonymous statement, "We feel that climate science is, in the current situation, too important to be kept under wraps. We hereby release a random selection of correspondence, code, and documents. Hopefully it will give some insight into the science and the people behind it."

A spokesperson for the University of East Anglia said: "We are aware that information from a server used for research information in one area of the university has been made available on public websites. Because of the volume of this information we cannot currently confirm that all of this material is genuine. This information has been obtained and published without our permission and we took immediate action to remove the server in question from operation. We are undertaking a thorough internal investigation and we have involved the police in this enquiry."
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Professor Michael E Mann, director of Pennsylvania State University's Earth System Science Centre and a regular contributor to the popular climate science blog Real Climate, is another prominent climatologist who features in many of the email exchanges. He said: "I'm simply not going to comment on the content of illegally obtained emails. However, I will say this: both their theft and, I believe, any reproduction of the emails that were obtained on public websites, etc, constitutes serious criminal activity. I'm hoping that the perpetrators and their facilitators will be tracked down and prosecuted to the fullest extent the law allows."

Wong saves half a million houses in a week | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Hey, how did more than 450,000 properties manage to get saved from rising seas in just one week? Are Rudd and Wong simply pulling figures out of thin air, or are the seas not rising so fast any more?

I kind of opt for the “l” word again, and repeat: this is the most dishonest government in my memory.

PG&E Struggles Against Customer Anger Over Smart Meters - WSJ.com

SAN FRANCISCO (Dow Jones)--PG&E Corp.'s (PCG) utility is rushing to give customers a crash course in digital utility meters as the company works to diffuse mounting public anger over allegations that some customer utility bills jumped as a result of the utility's rollout of digital, or "smart", meters.

Never mind the science, just watch the politics | The Australian

Climate change does not lend itself to a battle between television soundbites and Mr Abbott should not have left himself exposed to the label of denialist.

It may be that in a decade, the climate change debate of 2009 will look as dated as the Y2K dramas of 2000. But for now, it is not an astute move for politicians to try to reverse the widespread public belief that global warming is man-made.

DAWN.COM | Sci-Tech | Melting sea ice dilutes water, endangers sea life: experts

HONG KONG: Melting of the Arctic sea ice due to global warming is diluting surface waters and this is endangering some species of shellfish which need minerals in the water to form their shells and skeletons, scientists have found.

What’s to say « the Air Vent

These emails are amazing. Look at how they collude to eliminate people they don’t agree with.

 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.

There is an absolute ton of dirty laundry in these emails. It never ends.

India tells West to stop eating beef - Telegraph

India has urged the West to give up eating beef to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions responsible for global warming.

William M. Briggs, Statistician & Consultant » The University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit Hacking

...I see conviction in these emails, and strained attempts to tame and fix their creations, the models, so that the models’ outputs fall in line with what they believe. This sort of “experimenter’s bias” is fair game, and should be noted. It is the main story, I think.

EU president wants Copenhagen to give us “global management” | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Sure, this talk of the warmists at Copenhagen planning a new “world government” is crazy. I just wish the warmists wouldn’t talk of it themselves. Take the new and first president of the European Union, Herman Van Rompuy...

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Do hacked e-mails show global-warming fraud?

Jones told Investigate that he couldn’t remember the context of “hide the decline,” and that the process was a way to fill data gaps rather than mislead. But when scientists talk about “tricks” in the context of hiding data, it certainly seems suspicious.

Busted- Phil Jones Doesn’t Recall Divergence « the Air Vent

...in my firm and educated opinion, Dr. Jones claims of forgetting are flat and really really obvious – lies. I dislike collusion, I don’t mind global warming but most of all I hate lies.

[Lack of global warming causes Oprah to cancel her TV show?]

She explained to insiders, "Why would anybody stay in Chicago? It's freezing here, and I have a mansion in Montecito that I haven't been able to enjoy."

Flashback: Leo, Oprah Voted Greenest Celebs

(Newser) – Oprah Winfrey was voted the greenest female celebrity in an Earth Day poll, the New York Daily News reports.

ClimateGate - Climate center's server hacked revealing documents and emails

From Michael Mann:

Perhaps we'll do a simple update to the Yamal post, e.g. linking Keith/s new page--Gavin t? As to the issues of robustness, particularly w.r.t. inclusion of the Yamal series, we actually emphasized that (including the Osborn and Briffa '06 sensitivity test) in our original post! As we all know, this isn't about truth at all, its about plausibly deniable accusations.

From Phil Jones:

The skeptics seem to be building up a head of steam here! ... The IPCC comes in for a lot of stick. Leave it to you to delete as appropriate! Cheers Phil
PS I’m getting hassled by a couple of people to release the CRU station temperature data. Don’t any of you three tell anybody that the UK has a Freedom of Information Act !

From Michael E. Mann:

Anyway, I wanted you guys to know that you’re free to use RC [RealClimate.org - A supposed neutral climate change website] Rein any way you think would be helpful. Gavin and I are going to be careful about what comments we screen through, and we’ll be very careful to answer any questions that come up to any extent we can. On the other hand, you might want to visit the thread and post replies yourself. We can hold comments up in the queue and contact you about whether or not you think they should be screened through or not, and if so, any comments you’d like us to include.

Copenhagen Climate Change summit: do businesses need to be there? - Telegraph

Many big players are privately indicating that they need to be there for political reasons rather than business reasons and that the whole thing is, ahem, a load of hot air.

NY Times Pushes Anti-Chamber Storyline for Resisting Climate Alarmism

Article trots out left-wing critics of organization president's opposition to 'impose a mandatory cap on greenhouse gas emissions.'

HOLD YOUR FIRE | Daily Telegraph Tim Blair Blog

As Andrew Bolt notes – amid a welter of other information – the believers at Real Climate are now real silent.
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The fun is officially underway.

Misrepresentation Of Scientific Consensus By The Leadership Of Professional Organizations « Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr.

The reason that these professional organizations claim there is a consensus is that the very limited individuals who make these policy statements do not permit their membership to vote, or to present alternative viewpoints. The Senators to whom this letter were addressed should reach out for a broader range of inputs with respect to the role of humans in the climate system.

The Most Costly Scientific Blunder In History? by William Hartston, Daily Express | Climate Realists

Please click to download PDF file to read this very good article by William Hartson.

Duke’s Rogers: Why Nuclear Power Will Probably Trump Coal - Environmental Capital - WSJ

Now, Mr. Rogers has been amping up his support for nuclear power since the summer, including a big op-ed in the WSJ. He’s often mentioned the jobs angle before, but rarely with such detail:

In an operation of a nuclear plant, there [are] .64 jobs per megawatt. The wind business–and we have a very large wind business–is .3 jobs per megawatt. In the solar business–and we’re installing solar panels–it’s about .1. But the difference in the jobs is quite different, because if you’re wiping off a solar panel, it’s sort of a minimum wage type of job, [with] much higher compensation for nuclear engineers and nuclear operators. If our goal is to rebuild the middle class, nuclear plays a key role there, particularly if coal is out of the equation.

Why would we want to maximize the number of jobs per megawatt?  If that's the goal, why not power our cities with massive farms of hand-cranked generators?

CRU hacked – appears to show major fishiness « Diary of a Madman

What’s most interesting is the email correspondence, as there are a number of emails which seem to imply deliberate manipulation of data in order for it to show a predetermined outcome. They also appear show a clear unwillingness to comply with FOI requests for their data (indeed, they show contempt for the process, as well as for those who disagree with their results) – which to me suggests they have something to hide. Moreover it shows how interested in ‘peer review’ these scientists really are.

Hadley hacked: Roundup with updates and hundreds of comments

Hadley hacked: warmist conspiracy exposed? | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

So the 1079 emails and 72 documents seem indeed 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. I’ve been adding some of the most astonishing in updates below - emails suggesting conspiracy, collusion in exaggerating warming data, possibly illegal destruction of embarrassing information, organised resistance to disclosure, manipulation of data, private admissions of flaws in their public claims and much more. If it is as it now seems, never again will “peer review” be used to shout down sceptics.

This is clearly not the work of some hacker, but of an insider who’s now blown the whistle.

Update: See and search the emails here.

15 people worth watching in Copenhagen (a slideshow!) | Grist

And two you can safely ignore

Al Gore Endorses Bill Bradbury For Governor of Oregon

Today in front of over 400 of my enthusiastic supporters Al Gore endorsed my candidacy for Governor.

Minister urges family planning to help climate change

If climate change is to be negated women in developing countries must be empowered to have means and right to family planning, says minister

Family planning and access to contraception are key proponents of fighting climate change, according to Minister for Development Cooperation Ulla Tørnæs.

Tørnæs was speaking at the University of Copenhagen on Tuesday in connection with the launch of the latest ‘State of World Population’ report from the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).

Biased BBC: Hadley Hacked

Hadley has confirmed that it has been hacked and it has cancelled all existing passwords. If you see or hear any mention of this on the BBC please point it out in the comments so we can monitor how this story is spun, both by Hadley and the BBC.

YouTube - Outside the Box TV covers the AL GORE Protest in Portland, Oregon on 11-18-09 - www.alexansary.com

Al Gores lies on global warming were confronted by a wide variety of protestors armed to the teeth with facts.

Locals in ‘green’ Tennessee town ‘disappointed’

TENNESSEE. Answering allegations that he led a $30 million scam, Mantria CEO Troy Wragg challenged anyone that didn't believe progress was being made on plans for a green community in rural Tennessee to go see for themselves.

So, we did.

Harbor Light Newspaper: 'Green' riders brave white winters to try year round cycle commuting

Riding in the winter can also be more dangerous, not just because of the snow and ice, but because of darkness.

MEP complains about Plane Stupid polar bear TV ad - advertising news - Campaign

The paper also reported comments by climate change sceptic Lord Monckton of Brenchley, who called the ad "a fraudulent piece of scaremongering".

A load of Hoggan-wash

...the public is growing increasingly skeptical, and the shrill desperation of the warmists is obvious in their bully-boy tactics against anybody who dares to stand up for free speech.

The Associated Press: Russian ship frees itself from ice in Antarctic

MOSCOW — A Russian cruise ship that has been struggling through a huge mass of sea ice for days has finally reached clear water off Antarctica.

The Captain Khlebnikov icebreaker carrying 101 passengers got stuck in the ice earlier this week near Snow Hill Island in the Weddell Sea off Antarctica. It has taken the ship five days to free itself, Fareastern Shipping Co. spokeswoman Tatyana Kulikova said Friday.

Who's the dude with John Kerry? - thestar.com

Most Canadians, let alone Americans, are unaware just how significant an energy player Saskatchewan has become – and as a big emitter of carbon pollution, it is very nervous about the climate cap-and-trade bill working its way through the Senate.

Wall, unlike Inhofe, is no flat-earther. He accepts the science and recognizes a climate law of some kind is inevitable.

But he's here to tell Washington "we need to rag the puck a bit" so that "cap-and-trade doesn't end up taking a pipe wrench to the parts of our economy that are still comparatively strong ..."

WORLD Magazine | The deal's off

Hopes grow cold for a landmark climate treaty at Copenhagen

Show leadership: Reject Copenhagen

As Mr. Harper and his Cabinet colleagues deliberate, they should understand that any effort to impose yet more energy taxes in Canada would redistribute scarce resources from productive to unproductive activities, reduce wages, kill jobs and leave families shivering in the dark with their budgets running on empty. Mr. Harper can show leadership by taking a stand against all this.

Communicating Climate Change in the Media

The way in which the media communicates climate change to the public has come under scrutiny in the past, with controversies over the media providing an equal platform for both climate scientists and climate sceptics. A free event next week at the Science Museum’s Dana Centre will explore this and other issues in asking, ‘How do the UK media report climate change?’.

Twitter / Andy Revkin

Hacked climate emails all the rage w/ skeptics tonite, including at least 1 email to some journo Revkin > http://j.mp/41MPbs #climate #agw

Industrialized Nations Unveil Plans to Rein in Emissions - NYTimes.com

Despite the steady stream of new pledges, representatives of many of the world’s poorest countries have expressed frustration over a recent decision by world leaders to defer a binding agreement until next year.

“This is a major setback — we should not pretend otherwise,” Abdalmahmood Abdalhaleem Mohamad, Sudan’s United Nations representative, said Thursday, speaking for a coalition of developing nations.

Dr Ego vs The Elements in climate change video - Climate Change, Environment - The Independent

A video explaining climate change by presenting it as a good versus evil battle of superheroes is being released ahead of the Copenhagen summit to try to educate people about the problem.

Guardian Daily podcast: The road to Copenhagen | World news | guardian.co.uk

George Monbiot, Nicholas Stern and Greg Clark contribute to our discussion on the need to reach a deal at next month's crucial climate change summit in Copenhagen

Breaking!: Hadley Climate Research Unit Hacked; Hundreds Of Compromising Files Found

If this is true what some of he leaked emails are stating, we might have the smoking gun in the biggest scam the world has ever seen.
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But if this is the truth, the Goracle and his Carbon Credit business will be in free fall.

The Decline of Climate Alarmism (Will the Left rethink an increasingly futile crusade?) — MasterResource

My ‘Left’ friends are mad at me now that the climate debate/discussion has shifted, at least temporarily, from Save the World to Why Did We Fail? Here is what a former Enron executive (his name will remain confidential) emailed me a few days ago...

Give that poor man a free rental on his BlackBerry | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

The poor will always be with us - if we now acept as poor a beggar who can still afford to snap Michelle Obama on his BlackBerry as she spoons out his free food:

Twitter / Tom Asiseeitnow

I laughed when I heard Al Gore's alarmist claims described as "Big Al's 7-Up bubbles crisis."

Marooned! | Australian Climate Madness

This is what that $50 billion of global warming research funding is spent on – photoshopping spoof images of climate sceptics (from the Hadley Files). Entitled “Marooned”...

Al Gore Makes Surprisingly Non-Wooden Appearance on "30 Rock" - Al Gore - Gawker

"30 Rock" often uses serious, "real-world" issues as fodder for their very silly plots. Tonight it was global-warming, and Al Gore stopped by to change all the light-bulbs!

In the segment above, Gore actually says "There's an old African proverb that I made up".  He then quotes this proverb, which he apparently did make up!

Australia: Less than half of Liberal voters believe human activity causes climate change

The surveys show considerable partisan polarisation on climate change in both countries, but the partisan divide is more pronounced in the US.

Among Australian respondents, Labor voters were considerably more likely to attribute a warming climate to human activity than Liberal voters. Of the 90% of Labor voters who agreed that the world's climate is warming, 83% attributed this to human activities, meaning that 78% of Labor voters accepted that global warming is anthropogenic. Among Liberal voters the corresponding figure is 48%, an inter-party difference of 30 percentage points.

Harvard Finds Kidney Stones, Malaria Among Global-Warming Risks - Bloomberg.com

Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Kidney stones, malaria, Lyme disease, depression and respiratory illness all may increase with global warming, researchers at Harvard Medical School said.

Antarctic temperatures between ice ages '6C warmer than today' - Telegraph

Until now temperatures during the warm periods between ice ages - known as interglacials - were thought to be only slightly warmer than those of the present day, British Antarctic Survey (BAS) scientists explained.

But the findings, published this week in journal Nature, show brief spikes in temperature, which recur roughly every 100,000 years and last a few thousand years, seem to have been a lot warmer.

Polar bears suffer brutal deaths in a new advert by climate change campaigners Plane Stupid - Telegraph

The advert, which aims to raise awareness of the carbon emissions associated with short-haul flights, has been criticised as “distasteful” and “distressing”.

Opening on what at first appear to be unidentified objects descending from the heavens, the viewer eventually can see that the objects are in fact dead polar bears plummeting to the ground as a plane is heard overhead.

As the advert continues, the computer generated bears meet their deaths, crashing against buildings, leaving a trail of blood, and landing on cars.

No Consensus « the Air Vent

These emails have been incredibly revealing. We who are skeptical will hear no more criticism of our points that top quality skeptical papers cannot pass through review after these emails. There is widespread evidence here of active collusion to prevent papers which could be interpreted as skeptical from being published.
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This is a scandal with proportions that reach past all of the imaginations of a skeptics mind. Now I’ve never claimed global warming to be false here at tAV, and this provides absolutely zero evidence either way. However, regardless as to whether the “scientists” or polyscienticians are right or wrong about global warming, the disservice they have done to humanity through this collusion and manipulation approaches criminal. It will be impossible to convince people that this globalization effort is about warming. These many emails demonstrate that climate science is absolutely not a natural consensus but a forced one with leftist governmental goals, manipulated from the IPCC on downward to give the impression of certainty of knowledge.

I Love CO2: BREAKING: Hadley CRU has apparently been hacked – hundreds of files released

Watch out, Al Gore. Run for the hills, Obama. Better stick your head back in the sand, Suzuki.
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If these turn out to be real and accurate files, it will be a massive blow to the alarmists and a major victory for all of us realists.

The Reference Frame: Hacked: Hadley CRU FOI2009 Files

Read it. The conclusion looks pretty clear. These people should be put in jail as soon as possible. You know, these are not just small tricks in an academic discussion. These people have acquired millions if not billions of taxpayers' money by methods that seem to be provably fraudulent.

McCain doesn't love climate bill - Lisa Lerer - POLITICO.com

McCain has emerged as a vocal opponent of the climate bill — a major reversal for the self-proclaimed maverick who once made defying his party on global warming a signature issue of his career.

Now the Arizona Republican is more likely to repeat GOP talking points on cap and trade than to help usher the bill through the thorny politics of the Senate.

McCain refers to the bill as “cap and tax,” calls the climate legislation that passed the House in June “a 1,400-page monstrosity” and dismisses a cap-and-trade proposal included in the White House budget as “a government slush fund.”

Former aides are mystified by what they see as a retreat on the issue, given McCain’s long history of leadership on climate legislation.

Hong Kong shivers in coldest November in over 120 years

Hong Kong recorded its coldest Nov 18 in 120 years as a winter monsoon continued to send temperatures falling, authorities said Thursday.

The Daily Mash - Spoof: FEMINISM CAUSES GLOBAL WARMING, SAY EXPERTS

WOMEN who know their place emit less carbon dioxide than uppity madames with so-called careers, it was confirmed last night.