The “Climategate” Hockey Stick « Climate Audit – mirror site

If anyone’s keeping a tab on “climategate” hits, they have a very Hockey-Stick shaped pattern. A couple of days ago, someone observed that “climategate” hits on Google hit the 10 million mark. They’ve now hit 10.8 million. [Note: I got 94.5 million a couple of minutes ago. Dunno why I got a different answer when I did it again. 10.8 million makes more sense.]

Armed and Dangerous » Blog Archive » Hiding the Decline: Part 1 – The Adventure Begins

This, people, is blatant data-cooking, with no pretense otherwise. It flattens a period of warm temperatures in the 1940s 1930s — see those negative coefficients? Then, later on, it applies a positive multiplier so you get a nice dramatic hockey stick at the end of the century.

All you apologists weakly protesting that this is research business as usual and there are plausible explanations for everything in the emails? Sackcloth and ashes time for you. This isn’t just a smoking gun, it’s a siege cannon with the barrel still hot.

In case you missed it: "Malice, mischief and Machiavellian manoeuverings"

"The malice, mischief and Machiavellian manoeuvrings revealed in the illegally hacked megabytes of emails from the University of East Anglia’s prestigious Climate Research Unit, for example, offers a useful paradigm of contemporary scientific conflict. Science may be objective; scientists emphatically are not. This episode illustrates what too many universities, professional societies, and research funders have irresponsibly allowed their scientists to become. Shame on them all.

The source of that shame is a toxic mix of institutional laziness and complacency. Too many scientists in academia, industry and government are allowed to get away with concealing or withholding vital information about their data, research methodologies and results. That is unacceptable and must change. ...

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Another classic moment in government interventions

Now it looks as though we have a glut of ethanol coming, and your catalytic converters might be sacrificed on the altar of Congressional foolishness