CLIMATEGATE CHAOS by Will Alexander, S. African UN Scientist. December 9, 2009
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CLIMATEGATE CHAOS by Will Alexander, S. African UN Scientist.
Via Climate Realists, December 7, 2009
Today is D-Day for Copenhagen. The organizers could not possibly have foreseen so much unfavourable publicity. Thirty million Google hits in three weeks!
The international stakes are monumental.
Never in the history of science has a single issue generated so much interest and controversy.
Looking closer, never in the history of science has there been such a flagrant disregard for the fundamental requirements of scientific endeavour. These are clearly described in the UNESCO/ICSU Declaration on science and the use of scientific knowledge (1999).
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‘Climategate’ at centre stage as Copenhagen opens December 8, 2009
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‘Climategate’ at centre stage as Copenhagen opens
Times Online, December 7, 2009
The “Climategate” row took centre stage on the opening day of the Copenhagen climate summit today as the world’s leading oil exporter intervened to question the scientific consensus on man-made global warming.
As 15,000 delegates from 192 nations began what was billed as the “last, best chance” to avert a catastrophic rise in sea and air temperatures, Saudi Arabia’s chief climate negotiator, Mohammed al-Sabban, spoke from the floor to say that e-mails hacked from a UK research centre had shaken trust in the work of scientists.
He was not the first to mention the Climategate scandal. In his opening address to the conference, Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the Nobel prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), said the hackers had been trying to undermine the work of his organisation.
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Lawrence Solomon: Climategate gang is writing the script for Copenhagen December 7, 2009
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Lawrence Solomon: Climategate gang is writing the script for Copenhagen
Financial Post, December 7, 2009
The Copenhagen Diagnosis, a year-long study to be unveiled at the Copenhagen climate change meetings that begin today, was designed to dramatize how little time we have left to save the planet from catastrophic climate.
But the Copenhagen Diagnosis, which is billed as an update to the last report of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, has a credibility problem. The Climategate gang – the same crew now discredited by emails that emerged showing a conspiracy to cook the books – had a dozen of its members in charge of producing the Copenhagen Diagnosis. More credibility problems: The Copenhagen Diagnosis relies on data from the Hadley Centre of the UK meteorological office and the Climate Research Unit of East Anglia University – two bodies that may now need to set aside the data altogether and start over.
The suspect data — known as HADCRUT – is a merged dataset comprised of marine temperatures provided by the Hadley Centre and land-based temperatures from the Climate Research Unit. Because the CRU portion of the data is so suspect with so much of the public, the Met Office has announced a three-year year investigation in which it will re-examine 160 years of temperature data. The Met took this step, which makes official the view that the world has been relying on suspect data, over the objections of the UK government, which fears waiting until 2012 before having solid data. UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown is among the most vocal of global warming advocates, having said that Copenhagen is the last chance to save the world from environmental disaster and characterizing those who disagree as “behind-the-times, anti-science, flat-earth climate sceptics.”
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Climategate Pty Ltd December 6, 2009
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Climategate Pty Ltd
Quadrant Online, December 2, 2009
Scientists trade their lab coats for pin stripes
Writing in The Daily Telegraph, David Penberthy reduced his belief in climate change to a simple proposition. “[W]hen it comes to the basic questions of science,” he wrote, “forgive me for sticking with the guys in the lab coats.” Whether or not this coincides with majority opinion, as he assumes, it reflects a quaint view of scientific practice.
Does Penberthy hold to the romantic image of scientists depicted in Hollywood classics like Madame Curie? Is he thinking of ascetics in white coats, toiling over test tubes in dingy laboratories, ruining their health for truth and human progress? If so, he needs to broaden his perspective. For one thing, he needs to catch up with the transformed higher education landscape of recent times.
The media’s groupthink on climate change suppresses some natural questions. What should we make of the near-unanimity of opinion among a cohort of scientists in such a complex and dynamic field? Is there more to it than consistent measurements, experimental results and interpretations?
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Don’t let ‘Climategate’ melt down your portfolio December 5, 2009
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Don’t let ‘Climategate’ melt down your portfolio
By Avner Mandelman
The Globe and Mail, December 4, 2009
I’ve said before that you are more vulnerable to skillful rhetoric than you think. Well, the past week proved it.
You’ve probably read about “Climategate” – how thousands of hacked e-mails from climate scientists revealed that they colluded to fudge their conclusions about global warming, told each other to destroy incriminating e-mails and perhaps even dumped raw data to mask the fraud.
Why did it work? Because the falsified conclusions appealed to people’s good nature, and because the conspirators co-opted above-average rhetoricians to deliver their message.
Now why am I going on about this? For two reasons: First, because global warming is an investment theme that a few brokers are pushing; so, if you are a theme investor, be careful. Second, this sort of revelation is a perfect teaching moment of the madness of crowds.
Similar irrational manias included global cooling in the 1970s (when investors were urged to invest in thermal insulation, and the like); the Club of Rome’s fear that we’re running out of resources; the Internet dot-com bubble, when insane stock prices for companies without revenues were the norm; and others of the same ilk: mass hysterias that allowed a few media-savvy promoters to take the money of the many, by preying on their credulity, their emotions or both. Like global warming now.
If you think that calling global warming an irrational mania is a bit harsh, consider this: Say that a pharmaceutical company’s researchers were caught fudging their tests to make their drug look effective; then, when found out, conveniently lost the non-fudged data. If a doctor prescribed for your child the fraudsters’ drug, would you let her take it? If you said yes, would we not be justified in saying you are acting irrationally?
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UN panel promises to investigate leaked ‘climategate’ e-mails December 4, 2009
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UN panel promises to investigate leaked ‘climategate’ e-mails
Times Online, December 4, 2009
The United Nations panel on climate change has promised to investigate claims that scientists at a British university deliberately manipulated data to support a theory of man-made global warming.
The controversy – dubbed “climategate” or “warmergate” – was sparked by the publication two weeks ago of hundreds of hacked e-mails to and from the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit (CRU).
Climate change sceptics took the e-mails as proof of a conspiracy to skew the science of global warming. Green campaigners say that the row was contrived to undermine global negotiations on carbon emissions due to start in Copenhagen next week.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the UN body responsible for reaching a scientific consensus on the science of warming, initially defended its procedures in the face of the leaked e-mails.
But now its head, Dr Rajendra Pachauri, has admitted that the claims were serious and warranted proper investigation.
“We will certainly go into the whole lot and then we will take a position on it,” he told BBC Radio 4′s Today programme. “We certainly don’t want to brush anything under the carpet. This is a serious issue and we will look into it in detail.”
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Friday Fun: Global Warming Hoax Weekly Round-Up, Dec. 3rd 2009 December 4, 2009
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Global Warming Hoax Weekly Round-Up, Dec. 3rd 2009
Via The Daily Bayonet, December 3, 2009
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Where is Al Gore’s secret climategate-proof bunker? Has Heinz saved the planet? Does Hopenchangen have a chance of achieving anything? Dive and discover the answers to these questions, and more.
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VICTORY AND THE CLIMATEGATE AFFAIR by Will Alexander December 3, 2009
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VICTORY AND THE CLIMATEGATE AFFAIR by Will Alexander
Via Climate Realists, December 2, 2009
This has been a thrilling two weeks observing the climate change battle. The ‘enemy’ is in full retreat. The war has yet to be won but they have run out of ammunition.
If you are interested in thrillers I strongly recommend that you relax in your armchair with your favourite refreshment at hand. Then read the attached documents plus the latest developments in the climategate scandal.
Also, keep an eye on the developments leading up to the critical Copenhagen discussions starting next week. Their objective is to produce a binding international agreement to replace the Kyoto Protocol that expires in 2012. It has become clear that major developed nations are retreating from their bold plans to prevent our planet from becoming uninhabitable within the next 100 years.
Two days ago the four major developing nations China, India, Brazil and South Africa issued a joint statement to the effect that they would walk out of the Copenhagen conference if the developed nations try to force their own terms on the developing world.
An unrelated development is that California has announced plans for actions in preparation for the possibility of a continuing drought.
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Climategate Used to Settle ‘Vendetta,’ Says Mann December 2, 2009
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Climategate Used to Settle ‘Vendetta,’ Says Mann
AccuWeather.com, December 2, 2009
Michael Mann in an Exclusive
Interview with AccuWeather.com
Michael Mann, Penn State University meteorology professor, said Climategate is an attack on man-made global warming scientists.
“I think it is unfortunate that some scientists out there are using this situation to settle personal scores, to settle a vendetta,” Mann said, in an exclusive interview with AccuWeather.com’s Katie Fehlinger.
Mann said that the e-mail leak happened just in time for the Dec. 7, 2009, United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, where world leaders, including President Obama, hope to come to an agreement on a framework for future international climate change mitigation.
“It is not a coincidence… that this event happened in the weeks leading up to the summit in Copenhagen,” said Mann. “They’ve taken scientists’ words and phrases and quoted them out of context, completely misrepresenting what they were saying.”
Despite skepticism, Mann insisted that global warming is real.
“My main interest right now is to make sure that this manufactured controversy does not distract policy makers,” said Mann.
Ultimately, Mann feels that scientists are not holding climate change data back from the public.
“The community is doing a good job at putting the data out there… there really is nothing to hide,” Mann said.
Phil Jones, director of the Climate Research Unit (CRU) from which questionable global warming e-mails were leaked, temporarily stepped down from his position yesterday to allow investigation to continue without disruption.
Mann protected his work and the work of his peers as Penn State launched an investigation into what critics call a fabrication of global warming data.
“Phil Jones is a very honest scientist,” Mann said. “He was probably talking about getting rid of measurements that they didn’t consider reliable.”
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BBC News: ‘Show Your Working’: What ‘ClimateGate’ means December 2, 2009
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‘Show Your Working’: What ‘ClimateGate’ means
BBC News, December 1, 2009
The “ClimateGate” affair – the publication of e-mails and documents hacked or leaked from one of the world’s leading climate research institutions – is being intensely debated on the web. But what does it imply for climate science? Here, Mike Hulme and Jerome Ravetz say it shows that we need a more concerted effort to explain and engage the public in understanding the processes and practices of science and scientists.
As the repercussions of ClimateGate reverberate around the virtual community of global citizens, we believe it is both important and urgent to reflect on what this moment is telling us about the practice of science in the 21st Century.
In particular, what is it telling us about the social status and perceived authority of scientific claims about climate change?
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