Post by GringoBob on Nov 25, 2009 7:02:15 GMT -5
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 reference to a plan to "hide the decline" in temperatures.
The University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit (Hadley CRU), has acknowledged the theft of 61MB of confidential data.
Climate change skeptics describe the leaked data as a "smoking gun," evidence of collusion among climatologists and manipulation of data to support the widely held view that climate change is caused by the actions of mankind. The authors of some of the e-mails, however, accuse the skeptics of taking the messages out of context, adding that the evidence still clearly shows a warming trend.
Phil Jones, the head of the Hadley CRU, confirmed that the leaked data is real - "It was a hacker. We were aware of this about three or four days ago," he said, noting that the center has yet to contact the police about the data breach.
Jones was asked about the controversial "hide the decline" comment from an e-mail he wrote in 1999: "I've just completed Mike's Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) and from 1961 for Keith's to hide the decline." - he said that there was no intention to mislead, but he had "no idea" what he meant by those words, stating "That was an e-mail from ten years ago. Can you remember the exact context of what you wrote ten years ago?"
"Mike" refers to Jones' colleague Michael Mann, who told the New York Times that the "trick" was simply a way of solving a data problem. In this case, the warming trend of the last century was detected in tree-ring samples only until 1960, but it continued in thermometer readings
Jones' word choice was poor, Mann told the Times, but the calculations were "not something secret."
The Telegraph has posted some of the more scathing excerpts from these emails, which the newspaper suggests points to manipulation of evidence and private doubts about the reality of global warming, though much of the scientific language in the e-mails is esoteric and hard to interpret.
Still, one notable e-mail from the hacked files clearly describes how to squeeze dissenting scientists from the peer review process:
"I think we have to stop considering Climate Research as a legitimate peer-reviewed journal. Perhaps we should encourage our detractors in the climate research community to no longer submit to, or cite papers in, this journal. We would also need to consider what we request of our more reasonable colleagues who currently sit on the editorial board…What do others think?"
Take a few minutes to watch this video on the Corbett Report with Dr. Tim Ball who is a world renowned climatologist and not part of the closed community of IPCC "warmers" .... Group912.org/gwarm.html
The University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit (Hadley CRU), has acknowledged the theft of 61MB of confidential data.
Climate change skeptics describe the leaked data as a "smoking gun," evidence of collusion among climatologists and manipulation of data to support the widely held view that climate change is caused by the actions of mankind. The authors of some of the e-mails, however, accuse the skeptics of taking the messages out of context, adding that the evidence still clearly shows a warming trend.
Phil Jones, the head of the Hadley CRU, confirmed that the leaked data is real - "It was a hacker. We were aware of this about three or four days ago," he said, noting that the center has yet to contact the police about the data breach.
Jones was asked about the controversial "hide the decline" comment from an e-mail he wrote in 1999: "I've just completed Mike's Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) and from 1961 for Keith's to hide the decline." - he said that there was no intention to mislead, but he had "no idea" what he meant by those words, stating "That was an e-mail from ten years ago. Can you remember the exact context of what you wrote ten years ago?"
"Mike" refers to Jones' colleague Michael Mann, who told the New York Times that the "trick" was simply a way of solving a data problem. In this case, the warming trend of the last century was detected in tree-ring samples only until 1960, but it continued in thermometer readings
Jones' word choice was poor, Mann told the Times, but the calculations were "not something secret."
The Telegraph has posted some of the more scathing excerpts from these emails, which the newspaper suggests points to manipulation of evidence and private doubts about the reality of global warming, though much of the scientific language in the e-mails is esoteric and hard to interpret.
Still, one notable e-mail from the hacked files clearly describes how to squeeze dissenting scientists from the peer review process:
"I think we have to stop considering Climate Research as a legitimate peer-reviewed journal. Perhaps we should encourage our detractors in the climate research community to no longer submit to, or cite papers in, this journal. We would also need to consider what we request of our more reasonable colleagues who currently sit on the editorial board…What do others think?"
Take a few minutes to watch this video on the Corbett Report with Dr. Tim Ball who is a world renowned climatologist and not part of the closed community of IPCC "warmers" .... Group912.org/gwarm.html