A list of the more outrageous emails
A. W. Montford posts a great list of 33 of the more outrageous emails from the Climatic Research Institute over at
Bishop Hill Blog. Here are the first ten:
Climate cuttings 33
Welcome Instapundit readers! Hope this is useful for you. If you are interested in more on global warming material, check out Caspar and the Jesus Paper and The Yamal Implosion, or check out the forthcoming book.
General reaction seems to be that the CRUgate emails are genuine, but with the caveat that there could be some less reliable stuff slipped in.
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.
- Phil Jones writes to University of Hull to try to stop sceptic Sonia Boehmer Christiansen using her Hull affiliation. Graham F Haughton of Hull University says its easier to push greenery there now SB-C has retired.(1256765544)
- Michael Mann discusses how to destroy a journal that has published sceptic papers.(1047388489)
- Tim Osborn discusses how data are truncated to stop an apparent cooling trend showing up in the results (0939154709). Analysis of impact here. Wow!
- Phil Jones describes the death of sceptic, John Daly, as "cheering news".
- Phil Jones encourages colleagues to delete information subject to FoI request.(1212063122)
- Phil Jones says he has use Mann's "Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series"...to hide the decline". Real Climate says "hiding" was an unfortunate turn of phrase.(0942777075)
- 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)
- Tom Wigley says that Lindzen and Choi's paper is crap.(1257532857)
23 more at the website -- the numbers represent the individual file names of the emails and are chronological (higher numbers -- more recent)
This is going to make for some interesting fallout once the data included in the archive gets analysed. I know that a few people have shoved everything else off their plates for the next couple weeks.
The two links posted above:
Caspar and the Jesus Paper and The Yamal Implosion
are really worth checking out. Caspar is the history of the (in)famous Hockey Stick graph from Mann, et. al. that was torn to shreds. Yamal is a story about using tree rings as a temperature proxy (good) and cherry picking and misrepresenting data (bad)
Posted by DaveH at November 21, 2009 3:32 PM
