Climate change emails between scientists reveal flaws in peer review | Fred Pearce | Environment | guardian.co.uk

...a close reading of the emails hacked from the University of East Anglia in November exposes the real process of everyday science in lurid detail.

Many of the emails reveal strenuous efforts by the mainstream climate scientists to do what outside observers would regard as censoring their critics. And the correspondence raises awkward questions about the effectiveness of peer review – the supposed gold standard of scientific merit – and the operation of the UN's top climate body, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Climate scientists: who's who in the hacked email controversy | Environment | guardian.co.uk

[Phil Jones] Stepped aside as director of the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) after more than a thousand of its emails were published online. In charge of assembly of the past 160 years of global temperature records. "I know I'm on the right side and honest, but I seem to be telling myself this more often recently!"

[Michael Mann] Paleoclimatologist at Penn State University. Creator of the "hockey stick" graph of temperatures over past 1,000 years. Co-host at RealClimate.org. "This crowd of charlatans ... look for one little thing they can say is wrong, and thus generalise that the science is entirely compromised."

Controversy behind climate science's 'hockey stick' graph | Fred Pearce | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Mann and Briffa eventually settled their differences. And the hockey stick was given pride of place in the IPCC report, alongside the claim that "it is likely that the 1990s have been the warmest decade and 1998 the warmest year of the millennium". Most researchers, including Briffa, now believe that statement was correct. But the emails reveal how deeply controversial it was at the time. Something no reader of the IPCC report would have guessed.

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