Censorship - climate and skepticism
An interesting story over at
Bishop Hill:
In which I go beyond the pale
The Yale Climate Forum has a post up about Climategate - standard "move along now nothing to see here" fare. Perhaps attracted by the Yale name, I decided to make a small contribution to the debate there, picking up on some remarks by the piece's author Zeke Hausfather. Here's what he said about "hiding the decline":This may be somewhat dubious in that it gives the impression that proxy reconstructions match the observed temperature record better than they otherwise would.
My comment was that "somewhat dubious" is a remarkable way to describe what Jones did. I pointed out that if he had done this as part of a share issue he would be looking at a long jail term. This is factually correct, and was posted pretty much in the terms I've given here.
Unfortunately though, The Yale Climate Forum viewed the posting of a true statement in mild terms as being completely beyond the pale and they decided to delete my comment.
One of his commentors left this wonderful observation:
I suppose the burning of heretics would be carbon neutral...
I put up my own post and took a screencap:
It will be interesting to see if that gets censored as well. Some of the 1,073 emails are defensible; a lot of the 3,400+ (150MB+) files are not.
Posted by DaveH at December 19, 2009 11:31 AM
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