BotCast #43 TestDummy et Botrax exposent plusieurs facettes de la fraude climatique du ClimateGate et l'agenda des élites qui veulent taxer la population sous de faux prétextes. . (19 janvier 2010) 2h37 DOWNLOAD: BotCast-0043-Surround.mp3 STREAM: BotCast-0043-Surround.m3u Break:
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Epic Media Fail: Will
CBC Cover Climategate?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gg8I9VAIqqM (cache)
Hide The Decline -
Climategate
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEiLgbBGKVk (cache)
Glenn Beck on
"ClimateGate" Man-Made Global Warming Climate Scam-Actual Proven
Conspiracy 11-23-09
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F668j1vfhRQ (cache)
Rex Murphy on
Climategate
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgIEQqLokL8 (cache)
Al Gore Sued Over
Climategate Fraud
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ah6EE8AZIlw (cache)
Climategate - Chris Horner - Red Hot Lies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5iNWUILCag (cache)
Global Governance - EU
President Admits One-World Government is Here - NWO - New World Order
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEqFtVrAgSo (cache)
Climategate - Alex
Jones on Climategate - New World Order BUSTED!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id9nG3LXamI (cache)
Al Gore Talks about
Global Governace and the NWO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6GgCecikqI (cache)
ClimateGate - Climate
center's server hacked revealing documents and emails
The emails contain an array of discussions including what appear to be
concerted efforts to withhold data. Just as troubling is conversations that
allude to potentially manipulating climate data to “hide the
decline” of temperatures seen in the last decade.
http://www.examiner.com/x-25061-Climate-Change-Examiner~y2009m11d20-ClimateGate--Climate-centers-server-hacked-revealing-documents-and-emails
Forget The Emails,
Code Discusses "Artificially Adjusted" Temperatures
Forget The Emails, Code Discusses "Artificially Adjusted"
Temperatures The real smoking gun behind ClimateGate Paul Joseph Watson Prison
Planet.com Tuesday,
http://www.prisonplanet.com/forget-the-emails-code-discusses-artificially-adjusted-temperatures.html (cache)
Unearthed Files
Include “Rules” for Mass Mind Control Campaign
The document included within the climategate treasure-chest is called ‘
Rules of the Game’ and shows deliberate deception on the part of this
agency to ensure that the debate would indeed be perceived as being settled.
When facts do not convince, they reasoned, let us appeal to emotions in order
to get the job done.
Outlining the ‘rules of the game’ in regards to climate change
communication strategies, Futerra considers these rules as a “first step
to using sophisticated behaviour change modelling and comprehensive evidence
from around the world to change attitudes towards climate change.”
http://www.infowars.com/unearthed-files-include-rules-for-mass-mind-control-campaign/ (cache)
CLIMATEGATE - IPCC
ADMITTED IN 2001 THAT CLIMATE PREDICTION IS IMPOSSIBLE
In climate research and modelling, we should recognise that we are dealing with
a coupled non-linear chaotic system, and therefore that the long-term
prediction of future climate states is not possible.
http://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/tar/wg1/505.htm (cache)
__Climategate: five Aussie MPs lead the way by resigning in disgust over carbon
tax
__ABC news reports that five frontbenchers from Australia’s opposition
Liberal party have resigned their portfolios rather than follow their leader
Malcolm Turnbull in voting with Kevin Rudd’s Government on a new
Emissions Trading Scheme.
The Liberal Party is in turmoil with the resignations of five frontbenchers
from their portfolios this afternoon in protest against the emissions trading
scheme.
Tony Abbott, Sophie Mirabella, Tony Smith and Senators Nick Minchin and Eric
Abetz have all quit their portfolios because they cannot vote for the
legislation.
Senate whip Stephen Parry has also relinquished his position.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100018003/climategate-five-aussie-mps-lead-the-way-by-resigning-in-disgust-over-carbon-tax/ (cache)
__CLIMATEGATE - Just how much of the "Greenhouse Effect" is caused by
human activity?
__It is about 0.28%, if water vapor is taken into account-- about 5.53%, if not.
http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/greenhouse_data.html (cache)
CLIMATEGATE - Forget
the emails, the real evidence of Climategate is in the code
Here’s the code. The programmer has written in helpful notes that us
non-programmers can understand, like this one: “Apply a very artificial
correction for decline”. You get the feeling this climate programmer didn’t
like pushing the data around so blatantly. Note the technical comment:
“fudge factor”.
; Apply a VERY ARTIFICAL correction for decline!!
;
yrloc=1400,findgen(19)*5.+1904
valadj=0.,0.,0.,0.,0.,-0.1,-0.25,-0.3,0.,-
0.1,0.3,0.8,1.2,1.7,2.5,2.6,2.6,$
2.6,2.6,2.6*0.75 ; fudge factor
if n_elements(yrloc) ne n_elements(valadj) then message,’Oooops!’
http://joannenova.com.au/2009/11/cru-data-cooking-recipe-exposed/ (cache)
NASA Climategate Cover
Up
The recent release of the Climategate papers from the Climate Research Unit
isn’t the first time those pushing to global warming scam have been
caught suppressing information.
Miklós Zágoni was Hungary’s most outspoken supporter of the Kyoto
Protocols until he came across the work of Ferenc Miskolczi, a NASA whistle
blower who discovered a major flaw in the equations that have been used to
predict catastrophic global warming. http://www.blog.speculist.com/archives/001668.html
Miskolczi eventually resigned from NASA because the agency chose to suppress
the study that discussed the error. Miskolczi has revised the equations and
they no longer indicate the type of catastrophe suggested by NASA bureaucrats.
http://neighbors.denverpost.com/blog.php/2009/11/30/nasa-climategate-cover-up/ (cache)
CLIMATEGATE - Global
Warming on Mars, Pluto, Triton and Jupiter
From National Geographic:
“Habibullo Abdussamatov, head of the St. Petersburg’s Pulkovo
Astronomical Observatory in Russia, says the Mars data is evidence that the
current global warming on Earth is being caused by changes in the sun.“
From MIT on Pluto
“the average surface temperature of the nitrogen ice on Pluto has
increased slightly less than 2 degrees Celsius over the past 14 years.”
Since Pluto is moving further away from the Sun and continuing to warm despite
that fact, it indicates that something doesn’t fit into “Solar
Constant” dismissal theories.
http://seoblackhat.com/2007/03/04/global-warming-on-mars-pluto-triton-and-jupiter/ (cache)
Stimulating
climategate
Climategate scientist Michael Mann received a $541,000 National Science
Foundation grant under the stimulus bill passed by Congress in February.
http://online.worldmag.com/2009/12/04/stimulating-climategate/ (cache)
CLIMATEGATE -
Himalayan glaciers melting deadline 'a mistake'
The UN panel on climate change warning that Himalayan glaciers could melt to a
fifth of current levels by 2035 is wildly inaccurate, an academic says.
J Graham Cogley, a professor at Ontario Trent University, says he believes the
UN authors got the date from an earlier report wrong by more than 300 years.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8387737.stm (cache)
CLIMATEGATE -
Greenhouse gas carbon dioxide Ramps up Aspen growth
The study, by scientists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the
University of Minnesota at Morris (UMM) and published today (Dec. 4) in the
journal Global Change Biology, shows that elevated levels of atmospheric carbon
dioxide during the past 50 years have boosted aspen growth rates by an
astonishing 50 percent.
http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=161904 (cache)
CLIMATEGATE - SCAM
ALERT Only '30% of carbon offsets' spent on reducing emissions
Less than 30 pence in every pound spent on some carbon offset schemes goes
directly to projects designed to reduce emissions, according to a new report.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8399740.stm (cache)
CLIMATEGATE -
Pro-warmist Temperature Measuring Stations in very suspect locations!
Air conditioner blowing on temperature sensor. Gee, I wonder if they are
getting higher temperature readings?
http://www.surfacestations.org/odd_sites.htm (cache)
CLIMATEGATE - Rise of
sea levels is 'the greatest lie ever told'
Although the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) only
predicts a sea level rise of 59cm (17 inches) by 2100, Al Gore in his
Oscar-winning film An Inconvenient Truth went much further, talking of 20 feet,
and showing computer graphics of cities such as Shanghai and San Francisco half
under water. We all know the graphic showing central London in similar plight.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/5067351/Rise-of-sea-levels-is-the-greatest-lie-ever-told.html (cache)
CLIMATEGATE -
Bombshell Poll on Climate Change – 77% don’t believe!
A nationally televised 'debate' on global warming followed by a viewers' poll
has delivered a landslide result: 77% don't believe global warming is man made.
http://briefingroom.typepad.com/the_briefing_room/2009/12/bombshell-poll-on-climate-change-77-dont-believe.html (cache)
CLIMATEGATE - Top
scientists coerced into defence of the Met Office
One scientist said that he felt under pressure to sign the circular or risk
losing work. The Met Office admitted that many of the signatories did not work
on climate change.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6951029.ece (cache)
CLIMATEGATE - Media
admits Polar Bear "cannibalism" their nature, not caused by global
warming.
The gory photos of male polar bears devouring cubs, dragging shredded carcasses
around and creating a bloody mess on the white snow of Canada's North have
caused a stir on the Internet and in reports that link the activity to climate
change.
But cannibalism among the species is a natural occurrence, says one expert,
disputing what is just the latest story to put the polar bear in the debate
over man-made global warming.
"Both Inuit and scientific knowledge show that cannibalism in polar bears
happens, and it probably always has," said Steve Pinksen, director of
policy and legislation for Nunavut's Department of Environment.
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=2323083 (cache)
CLIMATEGATE - Payoff!
U.N. climate chief cashes in on carbon scheme
A story emerging out of Britain suggests "follow the money" may
explain the enthusiasm of the United Nations to pursue caps on carbon
emissions, despite doubts surfacing in the scientific community about the
validity of the underlying global warming hypothesis.
A Mumbai-based Indian multinational conglomerate with business ties to Rajendra
K. Pachauri, the chairman since 2002 of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change, or IPCC, stands to make several hundred million dollars in
European Union carbon credits simply by closing a steel production facility in
Britain with the loss of 1,700 jobs.
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=118659 (cache)
WND Exclusive HEAT OF THE MOMENT
U.N. climate chief cashes in on carbon
Tied to conglomerate that stands to make hundreds of millions in emissions
scheme
Posted: December 11, 2009
12:10 am Eastern
By Jerome R. Corsi
© 2010 WorldNetDaily
Rajendra K. Pachauri
NEW YORK – A story emerging out of Britain suggests "follow the
money" may explain the enthusiasm of the United Nations to pursue caps on
carbon emissions, despite doubts surfacing in the scientific community about
the validity of the underlying global-warming hypothesis.
A Mumbai-based Indian multinational conglomerate with business ties to Rajendra
K. Pachauri, the chairman since 2002 of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change, or IPCC, stands to make several hundred million dollars in
European Union carbon credits simply by closing a steel production facility in
Britain with the loss of 1,700 jobs.
The Tata Group headquartered in Mumbai anticipates receiving windfall profits
of up to nearly $2 billion from closing the Corus Redcar steelmaking plant in
Britain, with about half of the savings expected to result from cashing in on
carbon credits granted the steelmaker by the European Union under the EU's emissions-trading
scheme.
Corus has accumulated 7.5 million European Union surplus carbon allowances,
given the company free by the EU, after corporate officials lobbied EU
officials aggressively in Brussels.
'Help! Mom! Radicals Are Ruining My Country!' Will kids' swing-set business
stay afloat despite 246 czars, regulations, huge taxes?
The Corus-owned 7.5 million allowances are estimated at up to $650 million; the
company also anticipates "saving" 6 million tons of carbon dioxide by
closing the plant and not producing the plant's capacity of 3 million tons of
steel. The 6 million tons of carbon dioxide is worth an estimated $130 million
at current rates and possibly as much as $325 million at expected market
levels.
(Story continues below)
The British government also announced Wednesday it would auction off rather
than cancel the millions of carbon permits resulting from the Corus Redcar
steel-plant closing. The Corus Redcar facility is scheduled to be closed in
January, and if the facility is to be closed more than 50 days, Corus would not
be entitled to receive the permits, worth about $147.5 million per year at
current market rates.
How does the closing of a steelmaker in Britain tie to the chairman of the
U.N.'s global-warming science committee?
In 1974, the Tata Group provided the financial resources to found the Tata
Energy Research Institute, or TERI, a policy organization headquartered in New
Delhi, India, of which Pachauri has been chairman since the group was formed.
Continued business ties between TERI and Tata are demonstrated by a press
announcement on the TERI website dated Feb. 4 in which Jairam Ramesh, the
Indian minister of state for commerce and industry as well as minister of state
for power, announced a joint venture with TERI and Tata power to extract and
use carbon dioxide for the propagation of microalgae.
On Dec. 10, 2007, Pachauri shared with Al Gore the Nobel Peace Prize for his
work on global warming. At the Nobel ceremonies, Pachauri in his Nobel lecture
openly represented the U.N.'s IPCC.
The Tata Group decision to close the Corus steelmaking plant has caused the
Labour government of Prime Minister Gordon Brown political difficulties.
Manufacturing accounted for 22.5 percent of Britain's economic output when
Labour came to power in 1997, while it accounts for little more than 11 percent
today, according to the London Times.
Arguing that the Brown government needs to provide financial assistance to
manufacturing in Britain, Kirby Adams, the chief executive officer of Corus,
told the newspaper, "Jobs paying £30,000 ($50,000) a year are only in
manufacturing sectors or sectors where you are adding value – you are not
going to make that flipping burgers."
He added: "In some way I hope that this decision to
close Corus Redcar will be the final wake-up call or alarm bell to get
things across to people in Whitehall and Westminster – we need to help
other sectors of the economy, not just the columns of the Bank of
England."
In July, thousands of steelworkers marched in Redcar, North Yorks, England,
protesting the proposed closing of the Corus steelmaking facility.
The European Union Greenhouse Gas Emission Trading System began operations in
January 2005, billing itself as "the largest multi-country, multi-sector
Greenhouse Gas Emission Trading system worldwide."
Note: If you're a member of the media and would like to interview Jerome Corsi,
e-mail WND.
CLIMATEGATE - Phil
Jones ADMITS Earth is getting cooler in CRU email!
"The scientific community would come down on me in no
uncertain terms if I said the world had cooled from 1998. OK it has but it is
only 7 years of data and it isn't statistically significant."
http://www.eastangliaemails.com/emails.php?eid=544&filename=1120593115.txt (cache)
CLIMATEGATE - Ice at
the North Pole in 1958 and 1959 – not so thick
US Navy photos show ice-free North Pole in 1959.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/04/26/ice-at-the-north-pole-in-1958-not-so-thick/ (cache)
CLIMATEGATE - IPCC
Scientists Caught Producing False Data To Push Global Warming
Al Gore-linked Goddard Institute claimed “hottest October on
record” after using temperature figures from September
http://www.prisonplanet.com/ipcc-scientists-caught-producing-false-data-to-push-global-warming.html (cache)
CLIMATEGATE - Arctic
Sea Ice since 2007
According to the World Meteorological Organization, Arctic sea ice has
increased by 19 percent since its minimum in 2007.
http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/2009/12/arctic-sea-ice-since-2007.html (cache)
CLIMATEGATE -
FLASHBACK - In 1975, Climate Scientists were predicting an ICE AGE!
http://denisdutton.com/newsweek_coolingworld.pdf
CLIMATEGATE -
Copenhagen climate summit negotiations 'suspended'
Negotiations at the UN climate summit have been suspended after developing
countries withdrew their co-operation.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8411898.stm (cache)
CLIMATEGATE - Plankton
is able to thrive in acidic oceans
Scientists have discovered that some plankton can thrive in acidic oceans,
which are a result of increased levels of carbon dioxide.
http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/india-news/plankton-is-able-to-thrive-in-acidic-oceans-re-issue_10039954.html (cache)
CLIMATEGATE - Dutch
aubergine grower pipes carbon dioxide into greenhouses to make plants grow
BIGGER!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/expat/expatnews/6808988/Dutch-aubergine-grower-pipes-carbon-dioxide-into-greenhouses.html (cache)
CLIMATEGATE - Fire
Under Arctic Ice: Volcanoes Have Been Blowing Their Tops In The Deep Ocean
A research team led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) has
uncovered evidence of explosive volcanic eruptions deep beneath the ice-covered
surface of the Arctic Ocean. Such violent eruptions of splintered, fragmented
rockwere not thought possible at great ocean depths because of the intense
weight and pressure of water and because of the composition of seafloor magma
and rock.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080625140649.htm (cache)
CLIMATEGATE -
Physicist Explains Benefits Of Carbon Dioxide
A physicist from Colorado State University and his colleagues from the North
American Carbon Program (NACP) have discerned and confirmed the unforeseen
advantages of rising carbon dioxide levels. Through the processes of
photosynthesis and respiration, scientists have been able to elucidate why
plants are growing more rapidly than they are dying.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/videos/2007/0603-can_carbon_dioxide_be_a_good_thing.htm (cache)
CLIMATEGATE -
Inconvenient truth for Al Gore as his North Pole sums don't add up
In his speech, Mr Gore told the conference: “These figures are fresh.
Some of the models suggest to Dr Wieslav
Maslowski that there is a 75 per cent chance that the entire north polar ice
cap, during the summer months, could be completely ice-free within five to
seven years.”
“It’s unclear to me how this figure was arrived at,” Dr
Maslowski said. “I would never try to estimate likelihood at anything as
exact as this.”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/copenhagen/article6956783.ece (cache)
CLIMATEGATE - SOLAR
FLARE EFFECTS ON WEATHER
This data provides the longest direct measurement of the sun's activity, and
reveals the 11-year sunspot activity cycle, as well as other longer-term solar
changes.
Also, these records show a notable period of almost non-existent sunspot
activity that occurred between 1645 and 1715, known as the Maunder Minimum and
named after the English astronomer who studied it.
This period was also dubbed the "Little Ice Age" because of the
prolonged period of low temperatures that happened during that same time.
http://www.truth-it.net/solar_flare_effects.html (cache)
CLIMATEGATE - New
Little Ice Age Instead of Global Warming?
Analysis of the sun's varying activity in the last two millennia indicates that
contrary to the IPCC's speculation about man-made global warming as high as
5.8° C within the next hundred years, a long period of cool climate with its
coldest phase around 2030 is to be expected.
http://bourabai.narod.ru/landscheidt/new-e.htm (cache)
__Climategate goes SERIAL: now the Russians confirm that UK climate scientists
manipulated data to exaggerate global warming
__On Tuesday, the Moscow-based Institute of Economic Analysis (IEA) issued a
report claiming that the Hadley Center for Climate Change based at the
headquarters of the British Meteorological Office in Exeter (Devon, England)
had probably tampered with Russian-climate data.
The IEA believes that Russian meteorological-station data did not substantiate
the anthropogenic global-warming theory. Analysts say Russian meteorological
stations cover most of the country’s territory, and that the Hadley
Center had used data submitted by only 25% of such stations in its reports.
Over 40% of Russian territory was not included in global-temperature
calculations for some other reasons, rather than the lack of meteorological
stations and observations.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100020126/climategate-goes-serial-now-the-russians-confirm-that-uk-climate-scientists-manipulated-data-to-exaggerate-global-warming/
(cache)
CLIMATEGATE - UN
Chief: We Will Impose Global Governance
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has again publicly admitted that
the agenda behind the Copenhagen summit and the climate change fraud is the
imposition of a global government and the end of national sovereignty.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/un-chief-we-will-impose-global-governance.html (cache)
CLIMATEGATE - 1991: A
Bad Year For The Global Warming Cult
1991 was an eventful year when it comes to CO2 being thrown into the
atmosphere.
http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/co2_1991.html (cache)
CLIMATEGATE - Is a New
Ice Age Under Way?
“Watch out, Al Gore. The glaciers will get you!” With that appended
note, my friend, retired field geologist Jack Sauers, forwarded to me a report
that should have been a lead item in every newspaper in the world. It was the
news that the best-measured glacier in North America, the Nisqually on Mount
Rainier, has been growing since 1931.
http://21stcenturysciencetech.com/articles/Ice_Age.html (cache)
CLIMATEGATE - Earth's
Upper Atmosphere Cooling Dramatically
When the sun is relatively inactive — as it has been in recent years
— the outermost layer of Earth's atmosphere cools dramatically, new
observations find.
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/091217-agu-earth-atmosphere-cooling.html (cache)
CLIMATEGATE - Stranger
and Stranger
The fallout from the IPCC Himalayan glacier situation gets stranger and stranger.
Now an IPCC lead author has stepped forward claiming that the error has been
known by the IPCC all along.
http://rogerpielkejr.blogspot.com/2010/01/stranger-and-stranger.html (cache)
Blizzard in Copenhagen
during Climate change conference
http://blogs.dailymail.com/donsurber/archives/6064 (cache)
CLIMATEGATE - Snow in
Houston Texas Earliest Snowfall in City’s History; Closes Schools
Houston this morning broke a record with the earliest snowfall ever recorded in
the city’s history.
http://www.dailyworldbuzz.com/snow-in-houston-texas-earliest-snowfall-in-citys-history/5112/ (cache)
CLIMATEGATE - Record
cold in San Fransisco - People shiver, birds drop dead
Tuesday inflicted the coldest morning of the year on the Bay Area - a record-setter
in some parts - and any living thing breathing frosty air was either miserable
or an unusually enthusiastic fan of the brisk outdoors.
"I don't know how we can take another night like last night," said
57-year-old Eddie Hensley, huddled under a blanket in an alley near Sixth
Street in San Francisco in the still-chilly afternoon. "That was the
coldest I can remember. Thought I would freeze solid right here on the
sidewalk."
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/12/09/BA1F1B11C6.DTL (cache)
CLIMATEGATE - Records
fall as temperatures plunge to single digits
Seattle's proximity to Puget Sound, which is near 50 degrees most of the year,
helps keep us a little warmer, but even more of a factor is what's called the
"urban heating effect." In essence, just by being a big city, we
generate a lot of heat on our own. All the asphalt and concrete from roads and
buildings to a better job of absorbing the day's warmth and then radiating it
back out into the city at night, where as vegetation and forests in rural areas
don't keep the heat in as well.
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/78891067.html (cache)
CLIMATEGATE - 50% of
the U.S. is covered in snow already
It didn’t take long for half of the United States to get slammed with
snow (December 11, 2009), last year on December 11, 2008 the U.S. was only
covered in 29% of snow. Next week will be even more snow-packed and
temperatures even more miserable then last year.
http://noworldsystem.com/2009/12/11/50-of-the-u-s-is-covered-in-snow-already/ (cache)
CLIMATEGATE - Edmonton
coldest place on earth?
The Edmonton International Airport saw a record low of -46.1 C and -58.4 C with
the windchill, outfreezing even the Arctic.
http://www.edmontonsun.com/news/edmonton/2009/12/13/12141366.html (cache)
CLIMATEGATE -
Snowstorm in US Midwest causes chaos to roads and power
Blizzards in the Midwest of the US have brought record snowfalls, burying cars,
closing schools and causing power cuts.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8406683.stm (cache)
CLIMATEGATE - Edmonton
shatters cold record BY TEN DEGREES C!!!
At -46.1 C, coldest city on the continent beats previous benchmark low by 10
degrees
http://www.canada.com/technology/Edmonton+shatters+cold+record/2336460/story.html (cache)
CLIMATEGATE - Harshest
winter in 15 years shuts down Channel Tunnel
Eurostar trains modified to better cope with snow are being tested, as services
were suspended for a third day.
More than 55,000 travellers had journeys cancelled after six trains broke down
in the tunnel.
Eurostar said the reason was unprecedented winter weather in France.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8423851.stm (cache)
CLIMATEGATE - Coldest
winter in China in six decades
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2010-01/05/content_9263331.htm (cache)
ClimateGate - Climate center's server hacked revealing documents and emails
http://www.examiner.com/x-25061-Climate-Change-Examiner~y2009m11d20-ClimateGate--Climate-centers-server-hacked-revealing-documents-and-emails
Britain’s Climate Research Unit, University of East Anglia, suffered a
data breach in recent days when a hacker apparently broke into their system and
made away with thousands of emails and documents. The stolen data was then
posted to a Russian server and has quickly made the rounds among climate
skeptics. The documents within the archive, if proven to be authentic, would at
best be embarrassing for many prominent climate researchers and at worst, damning.
The electronic break in itself has been verified by the director of the
research unit, Professor Phil Jones. He told Britain’s Investigate
magazine's TGIF Edition "It was a hacker. We were aware of this about
three or four days ago that someone had hacked into our system and taken and
copied loads of data files and emails."
* Climategate - Complete coverage from Examiner.com
Complete Climategate Coverage
The Climate Change Examiner is following the developing Climategate story.
Click here for all the latest on the topic.
The file that has been making the rounds was initially brought to light by the
website The Air Vent. The 61mb file contains thousands of documents and emails.
As the archive was just discovered within the last 24 hours, its authenticity
has not been determined and as such readers should cast a skeptical eye on the
contents. It should also be noted that it appears the emails were illegally
obtained by whoever originally posted them.
* File download: The archive is available on FileDropper.com here
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At least one person that was included in some of the correspondence, Steve
McIntyre of the website Climate Audit, verified the authenticity of at least
some of the messages. McIntyre said, “Every email that I’ve
examined so far looks genuine. There are a few emails of mine that are 100%
genuine. It is really quite breathtaking.”
The contents of the archive contain documents and email correspondence from a
veritable who’s who in climate science. Among those included in the
emails are Phil Jones, Keith Briffa, his assistant, Michael Mann of Penn State,
Malcolm Hughes at the University of Arizona, Kevin Trenberth at the National
Center for Atmospheric Research, James Hansen of NASA’s Goddard Institute
of Space Studies and others.
The emails contain an array of discussions including what appear to be
concerted efforts to withhold data. Just as troubling is conversations that
allude to potentially manipulating climate data to “hide the
decline” of temperatures seen in the last decade.
Some of the excerpts of emails within the archives (edited for brevity,
emphasis added):
From Michael E. Mann (witholding of information / data):
Dear Phil and Gabi,
I’ve attached a cleaned-up and commented version of the matlab code that
I wrote for doing the Mann and Jones (2003) composites. I did this knowing that
Phil and I are likely to have to respond to more crap criticisms from the
idiots in the near future, so best to clean up the code and provide to some of
my close colleagues in case they want to test it, etc. Please feel free to use
this code for your own internal purposes, but don’t pass it along where
it may get into the hands of the wrong people.
From Nick McKay (modifying data):
The Korttajarvi record was oriented in the reconstruction in the way that
McIntyre said. I took a look at the original reference – the temperature
proxy we looked at is x-ray density, which the author interprets to be
inversely related to temperature. We had higher values as warmer in the
reconstruction, so it looks to me like we got it wrong, unless we decided to
reinterpret the record which I don’t remember. Darrell, does this sound
right to you?
From Tom Wigley (acknowleding the urban effect):
We probably need to say more about this. Land warming since 1980 has been twice
the ocean warming — and skeptics might claim that this proves that urban
warming is real and important.
From Phil Jones (modification of data to hide unwanted results):
I’ve just completed Mike’s Nature trick of adding in the real temps
to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) amd from 1961 for
Keith’s to hide the decline.
From Kevin Trenberth (failure of computer models):
The fact is that we can’t account for the lack of warming at the moment
and it is a travesty that we can’t. The CERES data published in the
August BAMS 09 supplement on 2008 shows there should be even more warming: but
the data are surely wrong. Our observing system is inadequate.
From Michael Mann (truth doesn't matter):
Perhaps we'll do a simple update to the Yamal post, e.g. linking Keith/s new
page--Gavin t? As to the issues of robustness, particularly w.r.t. inclusion of
the Yamal series, we actually emphasized that (including the Osborn and Briffa
'06 sensitivity test) in our original post! As we all know, this isn't about
truth at all, its about plausibly deniable accusations.
From Phil Jones (witholding of data):
The skeptics seem to be building up a head of steam here! ... The IPCC comes in
for a lot of stick. Leave it to you to delete as appropriate! Cheers Phil
PS I’m getting hassled by a couple of people to release the CRU station
temperature data. Don’t any of you three tell anybody that the UK has a
Freedom of Information Act !
From Michael E. Mann (using a website to control the message, hide dissent):
Anyway, I wanted you guys to know that you’re free to use RC RealClimate.org
- A supposed neutral climate change website Rein any way you think would be
helpful. Gavin and I are going to be careful about what comments we screen
through, and we’ll be very careful to answer any questions that come up
to any extent we can. On the other hand, you might want to visit the thread and
post replies yourself. We can hold comments up in the queue and contact you
about whether or not you think they should be screened through or not, and if
so, any comments you’d like us to include.
From Phil Jones (witholding of data):
If FOIA does ever get used by anyone, there is also IPR to consider as well.
Data is covered by all the agreements we sign with people, so I will be hiding
behind them.
If the emails and documents are a forgery, it would be an extremely large one
that would likely have taken months to setup. No doubt much more will be coming
out about these emails and their possible authenticity. Stay tuned to the
Climate Change Examiner for updates as more information becomes available.
Update, 10:30am – Since the original publication of this article, the
story is gaining steam and now the BBC is reporting on it. They report that a
spokesman for the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit (CRU),
"We are aware that information from a server used for research information
in one area of the university has been made available on public websites.”
Analysis of the emails and documents in the archives continues. We must stress
that the authenticity has not been proven however there have been no denials of
such by the climate center. Some of the more recent revelations include:
From Phil Jones (destroying of emails / evidence):
Mike, Can you delete any emails you may have had with Keith re AR4? Keith will
do likewise. He’s not in at the moment – minor family crisis. Can
you also email Gene and get him to do the same? I don’t have his new
email address. We will be getting Caspar to do likewise.
From Tom Wigley (data modification):
Phil, Here are some speculations on correcting SSTs to partly explain the 1940s
warming blip. If you look at the attached plot you will see that the land also
shows the 1940s blip (as I’m sure you know). So, if we could reduce the
ocean blip by, say, 0.15 degC, then this would be significant for the global
mean — but we’d still have to explain the land blip. I’ve
chosen 0.15 here deliberately. This still leaves an ocean blip, and i think one
needs to have some form of ocean blip to explain the land blip (via either some
common forcing, or ocean forcing land, or vice versa, or all of these). When
you look at other blips, the land blips are 1.5 to 2 times (roughly) the ocean
blips — higher sensitivity plus thermal inertia effects. My 0.15
adjustment leaves things consistent with this, so you can see where I am coming
from. Removing ENSO does not affect this. It would be good to remove at least
part of the 1940s blip, but we are still left with “why the blip”.
Let me go further. If you look at NH vs SH and the aerosol effect
(qualitatively or with MAGICC) then with a reduced ocean blip we get continuous
warming in the SH, and a cooling in the NH — just as one would expect
with mainly NH aerosols. The other interesting thing is (as Foukal et al. note
— from MAGICC) that the 1910-40 warming cannot be solar. The Sun can get
at most 10% of this with Wang et al solar, less with Foukal solar. So this may
well be NADW, as Sarah and I noted in 1987 (and also Schlesinger later). A
reduced SST blip in the 1940s makes the 1910-40 warming larger than the SH
(which it currently is not) — but not really enough. So … why was
the SH so cold around 1910? Another SST problem? (SH/NH data also attached.)
This stuff is in a report I am writing for EPRI, so I’d appreciate any
comments you (and Ben) might have. Tom.
From Ben Santer * (witholding data) :
We should be able to conduct our scientific research without constant fear of
an "audit" by Steven McIntyre; without having to weigh every word we
write in every email we send to our scientific colleagues. In my opinion,
Steven McIntyre is the self-appointed Joe McCarthy of climate science. I am
unwilling to submit to this McCarthy-style investigation of my scientific
research. As you know, I have refused to send McIntyre the "derived"
model data he requests, since all of the primary model data necessary to
replicate our results are freely available to him. I will continue to refuse
such data requests in the future. Nor will I provide McIntyre with computer
programs, email correspondence, etc. I feel very strongly about these issues.
We should not be coerced by the scientific equivalent of a playground bully. I
will be consulting LLNL's Legal Affairs Office in order to determine how the
DOE and LLNL should respond to any FOI requests that we receive from McIntyre.
From Tom Wigley (ousting of a skeptic from a professional organization):
Proving bad behavior here is very difficult. If you think that Saiers is in the
greenhouse skeptics camp, then, if we can find documentary evidence of this, we
could go through official AGU channels to get him ousted.
From Phil Jones (forging of dates):
Gene/Caspar, Good to see these two out. Wahl/Ammann doesn't appear to be in
CC's online first, but comes up if you search. You likely know that McIntyre
will check this one to make sure it hasn't changed since the IPCC close-off
date July 2006! Hard copies of the WG1 report from CUP have arrived here today.
Ammann/Wahl - try and change the Received date! Don't give those skeptics
something to amuse themselves with.
From a document titled "jones-foiathoughts.doc" (witholding of data):
Options appear to be:
1. Send them the data
2. Send them a subset removing station data from some of the countries who made
us pay in the normals papers of Hulme et al. (1990s) and also any number that
David can remember. This should also omit some other countries like (Australia,
NZ, Canada, Antarctica). Also could extract some of the sources that Anders
added in (31-38 source codes in J&M 2003). Also should remove many of the
early stations that we coded up in the 1980s.
3. Send them the raw data as is, by reconstructing it from GHCN. How could this
be done? Replace all stations where the WMO ID agrees with what is in GHCN.
This would be the raw data, but it would annoy them.
From Mick Kelly (modifying data to hide cooling):
Yeah, it wasn’t so much 1998 and all that that I was concerned about,
used to dealing with that, but the possibility that we might be going through a
longer – 10 year – period of relatively stable temperatures beyond
what you might expect from La Nina etc. Speculation, but if I see this as a
possibility then others might also. Anyway, I’ll maybe cut the last few
points off the filtered curve before I give the talk again as that’s
trending down as a result of the end effects and the recent cold-ish years.
Update, 3:45pm MDT: In regards to the authenticity, not one report disputing
the veracity of the emails has come out. Many sources have talked to some of
the email authors and they have not disputed the messages.
* RealClimate, a website on which many of the scientists in the emails actively
write has posted a response and does not deny their authenticity.
* According to TIGF, a New Zealand new magazine, “The director of
Britain's leading Climate Research Unit, Phil Jones, has told Investigate
magazine's TGIF Edition tonight that his organization has been hacked, and the
data flying all over the internet appears to be genuine.”
* A spokesman for the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit (CRU)
told the BBC, “We are aware that information from a server used for
research information in one area of the university has been made available on
public websites.”
* Wired reports that Kevin Trenberth from NCAR “acknowledged the e-mail
is genuine.”
* Nature reports quotes Michael Mann of Pennsylvania State University as
saying, "I'm not going to comment on the content of illegally obtained
e-mails."
It would appear at this point that there is little doubt that the emails are
authentic. If they were not, the principle players would certainly have said so
by now.