Even the NYT can't ignore or defend this:
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This whole concept of, Were the experts, trust us, has clearly gone by the wayside with these e-mails, said Judith Curry, a climate scientist at Georgia Institute of Technology.
And, brilliantly, Gavin A. Schmidt uses this thing as justifcation to
avoid releasing more information:
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Gavin A. Schmidt, a NASA climatologist involved in many of the e-mail exchanges, said that voluntarily disclosing more data would never satisfy the very hard-bitten, distraught core of climate skeptics. The number of attacks on our integrity will actually increase since there will be more ways to twist what it is we do to support some conspiracy theory or other, he said.
And the folks at CRU are merely concerned with prosecuting the whistle blower(s):
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Officials at the Climatic Research Unit of the University of East Anglia in Britain say the disclosed material was copied from computers there in a criminal breach. (Some e-mail exchanges involved or described this reporter and other journalists).
And the Telegraph:
Climate change: this is the worst scientific scandal of our generationQuote:
The reason why even the Guardian's George Monbiot has expressed total shock and dismay at the picture revealed by the documents is that their authors are not just any old bunch of academics. Their importance cannot be overestimated, What we are looking at here is the small group of scientists who have for years been more influential in driving the worldwide alarm over global warming than any others, not least through the role they play at the heart of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Professor Philip Jones, the CRU's director, is in charge of the two key sets of data used by the IPCC to draw up its reports. Through its link to the Hadley Centre, part of the UK Met Office, which selects most of the IPCC's key scientific contributors, his global temperature record is the most important of the four sets of temperature data on which the IPCC and governments rely not least for their predictions that the world will warm to catastrophic levels unless trillions of dollars are spent to avert it.
Dr Jones is also a key part of the closely knit group of American and British scientists responsible for promoting that picture of world temperatures conveyed by Michael Mann's "hockey stick" graph which 10 years ago turned climate history on its head by showing that, after 1,000 years of decline, global temperatures have recently shot up to their highest level in recorded history.
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Since 2003, however, when the statistical methods used to create the "hockey stick" were first exposed as fundamentally flawed by an expert Canadian statistician Steve McIntyre, an increasingly heated battle has been raging between Mann's supporters, calling themselves "the Hockey Team", and McIntyre and his own allies, as they have ever more devastatingly called into question the entire statistical basis on which the IPCC and CRU construct their case.
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There are three threads in particular in the leaked documents which have sent a shock wave through informed observers across the world. Perhaps the most obvious, as lucidly put together by Willis Eschenbach (see McIntyre's blog Climate Audit and Anthony Watt's blog Watts Up With That), is the highly disturbing series of emails which show how Dr Jones and his colleagues have for years been discussing the devious tactics whereby they could avoid releasing their data to outsiders under freedom of information laws.
They have come up with every possible excuse for concealing the background data on which their findings and temperature records were based.
\ Especially since you cannot seem to tell me what you feel is needing change on my part. Or what you believe that science tells you is needing change.
