Climategate II explodes like an incoming Trident missile

My thanks to 'DM', my regular commentator, for the nod and wink that Climategate II has just exploded!  The first release of 'private' e-mails between the so-called 'scientific' HAFs (Hot Air Fanatics) was enough to hole them beneath the water-line and the subsequent rise in scepticism amongst both governments and people has been perceptible.  Now a second tranche has been released by some mysterious internet site in Russia.  At a quick glance it looks to be even more damaging than the first.  I will give you just a few examples to indicate the grossly unscientific attitudes of the 'scientists' involved but to keep track of the ongoing situation go to either of these two sites:

 http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/11/22/climategate-2-0/#more-51549

http://noconsensus.wordpress.com/2011/11/22/climategate-2-0/#comments

<3373> Bradley: I’m sure you agree–the Mann/Jones GRL paper was truly pathetic and should never have been published. I don’t want to be associated with that 2000 year
“reconstruction”.

<3115> Mann:  By the way, when is Tom C going to formally publish his roughly 1500 year
reconstruction??? It would help the cause to be able to refer to that
reconstruction as confirming Mann and Jones, etc. [Michael Mann is a leader of the AGW movement] (Emphasis added, I think)

<2440> Jones: I’ve been told that IPCC is above national FOI Acts. One way to cover yourself and all those working in AR5 would be to delete all emails at the end of the process  [Jones is the principle AGW 'scientist' at East Anglia UNiversity whose activities were cleared after an 'enquiry' conducted after the first release of e-mails.

<1939> Thorne/MetO: Observations do not show rising temperatures throughout the tropical troposphere unless you accept one single study and approach and discount a wealth of others. This is just downright dangerous. We need to communicate the uncertainty and be honest. Phil, hopefully we can find time to discuss these further if necessary [...] (Thorne, presumably, is from the Met Office - which you and I pay for!) 

Perhaps the most interesting knock-on, or knock-out, effect will be to the slippery codgers who conducted those so-called investigations.

"It's only just begun", as the old song has it!

 

Comments

[A K Haart]

I've been walking on air all day. If genuine, i's a lovely antidote to all the Euro-gloom. A stonking great nail in the coffin of "we know best". Not that I'm crowing or anything - I'm above things like that.

[David Duff]

Of course you are, AK, just as I am, too! (Bites down hard on hankie to stifle giggles)

[david morris]

Shurely this info is available from the BBC ?

Oh hang on..........

No, so it can't be correct. Can it ?

Kind regards

[Whyaxye]

I'm coming a bit late to this one, so could anyone please refer me to an "idiot's guide" to the climategate story? Where does one start?

(AKH, I post on your blog as Sam Vega)

[David Duff]

Well, 'W', most people reckon this site is an idiot's guide written by an idiot! Nearly 2 years ago someone, identity unknown, hacked into the e-mails at East Anglia University and released them through one of those anonymous sites in Russia. It indicated, putting it mildly, that the HAFs were cooking the books, although sundry enquiries staffed by the 'Great and the Good' found absolutely nothing wrong, nothing to worry about, let's all move along.

However, the sly, crafty, wee sod obviously held back a whole tranche more of these e-mails waiting for the HAFs to dig a hole for themselves. Now he's released them and - equally important - has let it be known that he has several thousand more held back, so the HAFs will need to be careful how they respond.

Go to either of the links above and just read some of the e-mails - but have a sick bag to hand!

[Whyaxye]

Many thanks DD. Just goes to show that there is a hierarchy among idiots, what with me thinking you were a genius and all that!

Always nice to find another set of lying liars, but soon there will be nobody left I can trust. I'll get stuck into them later today - I have to earn a crust first.

[dearieme]

"someone, identity unknown, hacked into the e-mails": actually, no-one seems to know whether it was a hacking jobbie. It might have been an insider sickened by the misbehaviour. It's a mystery.

[David Duff]

Quite right, DM, although I seem to remember reading somewhere that for technical computer reasons it was more likely that they had been hacked. But bless his/her cotton socks anyway!

[Lawrence Duff]

My favourite so far: -

<4241> Wilson:

I thought I’d play around with some randomly generated time-series and see if I
could ‘reconstruct’ northern hemisphere temperatures.
[...] The reconstructions clearly show a ‘hockey-stick’ trend. I guess this is
precisely the phenomenon that Macintyre has been going on about.

Priceless.

SoD