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.”