How Wikipedia's Green Doctor Rewrote 5,428 Climate Articles
no ob
19 Dec 2009
The Climategate Emails describe how a small band of climatologists cooked
the books to make the last century seem dangerously warm.
The emails also describe how the band plotted to rewrite history as well as
science, particularly by eliminating the Medi�val Warm Period, a 400 year
period that began around 1000 AD.
The Climategate Emails reveal something else, too: the enlistment of the
most widely read source of information in the world - Wikipedia - in the
wholesale rewriting of this history.
The Medi�val Warm Period, which followed the meanness and cold of the Dark
Ages, was a great time in human history - it allowed humans around the world
to bask in a glorious warmth that vastly improved agriculture, increased
life spans and otherwise bettered the human condition.
But the Medi�val Warm Period was not so great for some humans in our own
time - the same small band that believes the planet has now entered an
unprecedented and dangerous warm period.
As we now know from the Climategate Emails, this band saw the Medi�val Warm
Period as an enormous obstacle in their mission of spreading the word about
global warming.
If temperatures were warmer 1,000 years ago than today, the Climategate
Emails explain in detail, their message that we now live in the warmest of
all possible times would be undermined.
As put by one band member, a Briton named Folland at the Hadley Centre, a
Medi�val Warm Period "dilutes the message rather significantly."
Even before the Climategate Emails came to light, the problem posed by the
Medi�val Warm Period to this band was known. "We have to get rid of the
Medi�val Warm Period" read a pre-Climategate email, circa 1995, as attested
to at hearings of the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works.
But the Climategate transcripts were more extensive and more illuminating -
they provided an unvarnished look at the struggles that the climate
practitioners underwent before settling on their scientific dogma.
The Climategate Emails showed, for example, that some members of the band
were uncomfortable with aspects of their work, some even questioning the
need to erase the existence of the Medi�val Warm Period 1,000 years earlier.
Said Briffa, one of their chief practitioners: "I know there is pressure to
present a nice tidy story as regards 'apparent unprecedented warming in a
thousand years or more in the proxy data' but in reality the situation is
not quite so simple. . I believe that the recent warmth was probably matched
about 1,000 years ago."
In the end, Briffa and other members of the band overcame their doubts and
settled on their dogma.
With the help of the UN IPCC, the highest climate change authority of all,
they published what became the icon of their movement - the hockey stick
graph. This icon showed temperatures in the last 1,000 years to have been
stable - no Medi�val Warm Period, not even the Little Ice Age of a few
centuries ago.
But the UN's official verdict that the Medi�val Warm Period had not existed
did not erase the countless schoolbooks, encyclop�dias, and other scholarly
sources that claimed it had. Rewriting those would take decades, time that
the band members didn't have if they were to save the globe from warming.
Instead, the band members turned to their friends in the media and to the
blogosphere, creating a website called RealClimate.org. "The idea is that we
working climate scientists should have a place where we can mount a rapid
response to supposedly 'bombshell' papers that are doing the rounds" in aid
of "combating dis-information," one email explained, referring to criticisms
of the hockey stick and anything else suggesting that temperatures today
were not the hottest in recorded time.
One person in the nine-member Realclimate.org team - U.K. scientist and
Green Party activist William Connolley - would take on particularly crucial
duties.
Connolley took control of all things climate in the most used information
source the world has ever known - Wikipedia.
Starting in February 2003, just when opposition to the claims of the band
members were beginning to gel, Connolley set to work on the Wikipedia site.
He rewrote Wikipedia's articles on global warming, on the greenhouse effect,
on the instrumental temperature record, on the urban heat island, on climate
models, on global cooling.
On Feb. 14, he began to erase the Little Ice Age; on Aug.11, the Medi�val
Warm Period. In October, he turned his attention to the hockey stick graph.
He rewrote articles on the politics of global warming and on the scientists
who were skeptical of the band. Richard Lindzen and Fred Singer, two of the
world's most distinguished climate scientists, were among his early targets,
followed by others that the band especially hated, such as Willie Soon and
Sallie Baliunas of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,
authorities on the Medi�val Warm Period.
All told, Connolley created or rewrote 5,428 unique Wikipedia articles. His
control over Wikipedia was greater still, however, through the role he
obtained at Wikipedia as a website administrator, which allowed him to act
with virtual impunity. When Connolley didn't like the subject of a certain
article, he removed it - more than 500 articles of various descriptions
disappeared at his hand.
When he disapproved of the arguments that others were making, he often had
them barred - over 2,000 Wikipedia contributors who ran afoul of him found
themselves blocked from making further contributions.
Acolytes whose writing conformed to Connolley's global warming views, in
contrast, were rewarded with Wikipedia's blessings. In these ways, Connolley
turned Wikipedia into the missionary wing of the global warming movement.
The Medi�val Warm Period disappeared, as did criticism of the global warming
orthodoxy. With the release of the Climategate Emails, the disappearing
trick has been exposed.
The glorious Medi�val Warm Period will remain in the history books, perhaps
with an asterisk to describe how a band of zealots once tried to make it
disappear.
Warmest Regards
B0n oz
"It is a remarkable fact that despite the worldwide expenditure of perhaps
US$50 billion since 1990, and the efforts of tens of thousands of scientists
worldwide, no human climate signal has yet been detected that is distinct
from natural variation."
Bob Carter, Research Professor of Geology, James Cook University, Townsville
Blue
> 19 Dec 2009
>
>
>
> The Climategate Emails describe how a small band of climatologists cooked
> the books to make the last century seem dangerously warm.
So on top of cooking their own books they burnt everyone elses.
What a fine up standing bunch of climate scientists they are.
James
> 19 Dec 2009
>
Connolley is a great example of an unethical scientist. He used to frquent this board before he left for the antarctic.
Wikipedia began being known for changing stuff. Several articles were written about Wikipedia deleting articles. They were shown here and alarmists pooh poohed it and still quote from Wikipedia. IOW it is their go to source for safe climate arguments. Anything climate was and is pretty much a joke if it comes from Wikipedia. Other subjects are also suspect on Wikipedia but not as bad as climate. History, politics and climate seem to be suspect all the time. I don't know if he still works for Wikipedia but he is a first class unethical person and is very good at making tjhings fit his point of view.
erschro...@gmail.com
> 19 Dec 2009
>
> The Climategate Emails describe how a small band of climatologists cooked
> the books to make the last century seem dangerously warm.
>
> The emails also describe how the band plotted to rewrite history as well as
> period that began around 1000 AD.
Data had already done that.
>
> The Climategate Emails reveal something else, too: the enlistment of the
> most widely read source of information in the world - Wikipedia - in the
> wholesale rewriting of this history.
>
> The Mediæval Warm Period, which followed the meanness and cold of the Dark
> Ages, was a great time in human history - it allowed humans around the world
> to bask in a glorious warmth that vastly improved agriculture, increased
> life spans and otherwise bettered the human condition.
>
> But the Mediæval Warm Period was not so great for some humans in our own
> time - the same small band that believes the planet has now entered an
> unprecedented and dangerous warm period.
>
> As we now know from the Climategate Emails, this band saw the Mediæval Warm
> Period as an enormous obstacle in their mission of spreading the word about
> global warming.
>
> If temperatures were warmer 1,000 years ago than today, the Climategate
> Emails explain in detail, their message that we now live in the warmest of
> all possible times would be undermined.
>
> As put by one band member, a Briton named Folland at the Hadley Centre, a
> Mediæval Warm Period "dilutes the message rather significantly."
>
> Even before the Climategate Emails came to light, the problem posed by the
> Mediæval Warm Period to this band was known. "We have to get rid of the
> Mediæval Warm Period" read a pre-Climategate email, circa 1995, as attested
> to at hearings of the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works.
Inhofe says so? THAT's your source?
>
> But the Climategate transcripts were more extensive and more illuminating -
> they provided an unvarnished look at the struggles that the climate
> practitioners underwent before settling on their scientific dogma.
>
> The Climategate Emails showed, for example, that some members of the band
> were uncomfortable with aspects of their work, some even questioning the
> need to erase the existence of the Mediæval Warm Period 1,000 years earlier.
>
> Said Briffa, one of their chief practitioners: "I know there is pressure to
> present a nice tidy story as regards 'apparent unprecedented warming in a
> thousand years or more in the proxy data' but in reality the situation is
> not quite so simple. . I believe that the recent warmth was probably matched
> about 1,000 years ago."
Which e-mail?
>
> In the end, Briffa and other members of the band overcame their doubts and
> settled on their dogma.
>
> With the help of the UN IPCC, the highest climate change authority of all,
> they published what became the icon of their movement - the hockey stick
> graph. This icon showed temperatures in the last 1,000 years to have been
> stable - no Mediæval Warm Period, not even the Little Ice Age of a few
> centuries ago.
>
> But the UN's official verdict that the Mediæval Warm Period had not existed
> did not erase the countless schoolbooks, encyclopædias, and other scholarly
> sources that claimed it had. Rewriting those would take decades, time that
> the band members didn't have if they were to save the globe from warming.
>
That's OK -- you fascists will burn any books you don't like, as you
did in the 1930s.
> Instead, the band members turned to their friends in the media and to the
> blogosphere, creating a website called RealClimate.org. "The idea is that we
> working climate scientists should have a place where we can mount a rapid
> response to supposedly 'bombshell' papers that are doing the rounds" in aid
> of "combating dis-information," one email explained, referring to criticisms
> of the hockey stick and anything else suggesting that temperatures today
> were not the hottest in recorded time.
>
> One person in the nine-member Realclimate.org team - U.K. scientist and
> Green Party activist William Connolley - would take on particularly crucial
> duties.
>
> Connolley took control of all things climate in the most used information
> source the world has ever known - Wikipedia.
>
> Starting in February 2003, just when opposition to the claims of the band
> members were beginning to gel, Connolley set to work on the Wikipedia site.
> He rewrote Wikipedia's articles on global warming, on the greenhouse effect,
> on the instrumental temperature record, on the urban heat island, on climate
> models, on global cooling.
>
> On Feb. 14, he began to erase the Little Ice Age; on Aug.11, the Mediæval
> Warm Period. In October, he turned his attention to the hockey stick graph.
> He rewrote articles on the politics of global warming and on the scientists
> who were skeptical of the band. Richard Lindzen and Fred Singer, two of the
Those clowns?
> world's most distinguished climate scientists,
Yeah, like George Bush was one of the world's most distinguished
liberals.
> were among his early targets,
> followed by others that the band especially hated, such as Willie Soon and
> Sallie Baliunas of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,
> authorities on the Mediæval Warm Period.
Wow, your pantheon of fools gets bigger.
>
> All told, Connolley created or rewrote 5,428 unique Wikipedia articles. His
> control over Wikipedia was greater still, however, through the role he
> obtained at Wikipedia as a website administrator, which allowed him to act
> with virtual impunity. When Connolley didn't like the subject of a certain
> article, he removed it - more than 500 articles of various descriptions
> disappeared at his hand.
>
> When he disapproved of the arguments that others were making, he often had
> them barred - over 2,000 Wikipedia contributors who ran afoul of him found
> themselves blocked from making further contributions.
>
> Acolytes whose writing conformed to Connolley's global warming views, in
> contrast, were rewarded with Wikipedia's blessings. In these ways, Connolley
> turned Wikipedia into the missionary wing of the global warming movement.
>
> The Mediæval Warm Period disappeared, as did criticism of the global warming
> orthodoxy. With the release of the Climategate Emails, the disappearing
> trick has been exposed.
>
> The glorious Mediæval Warm Period will remain in the history books, perhaps
> with an asterisk to describe how a band of zealots once tried to make it
> disappear.
See "National Academy of Sciences Validated Hockey Stick" you
blithering idiot.
>
> http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2009/12/18...
>
> Warmest Regards
Oh, sorry, a blog was your source. Obviously this refutes all
science.
Crow
>>
>> But the UN's official verdict that the Mediæval Warm Period had not existed
>> did not erase the countless schoolbooks, encyclopædias, and other scholarly
>> sources that claimed it had. Rewriting those would take decades, time that
>> the band members didn't have if they were to save the globe from warming.
>>
>
> That's OK -- you fascists will burn any books you don't like, as you
> did in the 1930s.
... and the socialist comrades burning Wikipedia articles they don't
like. Perfect analogy!
Flaps_50!
Connolley is very much alive and well controlling Wikipedia content.
He has a small band of like minded editors who will allow no evidence
to shake their hockey stick world. What's even more laughable is that
his sycophants think he's an expert on climatology when in fact he is
a failed scientist who could not hack the demands of science. He has
lots of time to work on Wikipedia thanks to his menial position -but
he would really like to get into politics on the green ticket and be
rewarded for his dishonesty (and lack of ability)...
Cheers
Marvin the Martian
Yeah. I agree. They are a disgusting, immoral, unethical and despicable
disgrace not just to science, but to the entire human race. What they
were helping to do to humanity was just evil!
bb
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On Dec 19, 12:28 am, "no ob" <a...@bbb.com> wrote:
> 19 Dec 2009
>
> The Climategate Emails describe how a small band of climatologists cooked
> the books to make the last century seem dangerously warm.
>
> The emails also describe how the band plotted to rewrite history as well
> as
> period that began around 1000 AD.
Data had already done that.
No the data didn't
>
> The Climategate Emails reveal something else, too: the enlistment of the
> most widely read source of information in the world - Wikipedia - in the
> wholesale rewriting of this history.
>
> The Medi�val Warm Period, which followed the meanness and cold of the Dark
> Ages, was a great time in human history - it allowed humans around the
> world
> to bask in a glorious warmth that vastly improved agriculture, increased
> life spans and otherwise bettered the human condition.
>
> But the Medi�val Warm Period was not so great for some humans in our own
> time - the same small band that believes the planet has now entered an
> unprecedented and dangerous warm period.
>
> As we now know from the Climategate Emails, this band saw the Medi�val
> Warm
> Period as an enormous obstacle in their mission of spreading the word
> about
> global warming.
>
> If temperatures were warmer 1,000 years ago than today, the Climategate
> Emails explain in detail, their message that we now live in the warmest of
> all possible times would be undermined.
>
> As put by one band member, a Briton named Folland at the Hadley Centre, a
> Medi�val Warm Period "dilutes the message rather significantly."
>
> Even before the Climategate Emails came to light, the problem posed by the
> Medi�val Warm Period to this band was known. "We have to get rid of the
> Medi�val Warm Period" read a pre-Climategate email, circa 1995, as
> attested
> to at hearings of the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works.
Inhofe says so? THAT's your source?
No, that was direct testamony from Daavid Deming.
>
> But the Climategate transcripts were more extensive and more
> illuminating -
> they provided an unvarnished look at the struggles that the climate
> practitioners underwent before settling on their scientific dogma.
>
> The Climategate Emails showed, for example, that some members of the band
> were uncomfortable with aspects of their work, some even questioning the
> need to erase the existence of the Medi�val Warm Period 1,000 years
> earlier.
>
> Said Briffa, one of their chief practitioners: "I know there is pressure
> to
> present a nice tidy story as regards 'apparent unprecedented warming in a
> thousand years or more in the proxy data' but in reality the situation is
> not quite so simple. . I believe that the recent warmth was probably
> matched
> about 1,000 years ago."
Which e-mail?
This e-mail
http://www.eastangliaemails.com/emails.php?eid=138&filename=938031546.txt
>
> In the end, Briffa and other members of the band overcame their doubts and
> settled on their dogma.
>
> With the help of the UN IPCC, the highest climate change authority of all,
> they published what became the icon of their movement - the hockey stick
> graph. This icon showed temperatures in the last 1,000 years to have been
> stable - no Medi�val Warm Period, not even the Little Ice Age of a few
> centuries ago.
>
> But the UN's official verdict that the Medi�val Warm Period had not
> existed
> did not erase the countless schoolbooks, encyclop�dias, and other
> On Feb. 14, he began to erase the Little Ice Age; on Aug.11, the Medi�val
> Warm Period. In October, he turned his attention to the hockey stick
> graph.
> He rewrote articles on the politics of global warming and on the
> scientists
> who were skeptical of the band. Richard Lindzen and Fred Singer, two of
> the
Those clowns?
> world's most distinguished climate scientists,
Yeah, like George Bush was one of the world's most distinguished
liberals.
> were among his early targets,
> followed by others that the band especially hated, such as Willie Soon and
> Sallie Baliunas of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,
> authorities on the Medi�val Warm Period.
Wow, your pantheon of fools gets bigger.
>
> All told, Connolley created or rewrote 5,428 unique Wikipedia articles.
> His
> control over Wikipedia was greater still, however, through the role he
> obtained at Wikipedia as a website administrator, which allowed him to act
> with virtual impunity. When Connolley didn't like the subject of a certain
> article, he removed it - more than 500 articles of various descriptions
> disappeared at his hand.
>
> When he disapproved of the arguments that others were making, he often had
> them barred - over 2,000 Wikipedia contributors who ran afoul of him found
> themselves blocked from making further contributions.
>
> Acolytes whose writing conformed to Connolley's global warming views, in
> contrast, were rewarded with Wikipedia's blessings. In these ways,
> Connolley
> turned Wikipedia into the missionary wing of the global warming movement.
>
> The Medi�val Warm Period disappeared, as did criticism of the global
> warming
> orthodoxy. With the release of the Climategate Emails, the disappearing
> trick has been exposed.
>
> The glorious Medi�val Warm Period will remain in the history books,
> perhaps
> with an asterisk to describe how a band of zealots once tried to make it
> disappear.
See "National Academy of Sciences Validated Hockey Stick" you
blithering idiot.
actually no they didn't, what they said was " It can be said with a high
level of confidence that global mean surface temperature was higher during
the last few decades of the 20th century than during any comparable period
during the preceding four centuries."
"Less confidence can be placed in large_scale surface temperature
reconstructions for the period from A.D. 900 to 1600. Presently available
proxy evidence indicates that temperatures at many, but not all, individual
locations were higher during the past 25 years than during any period of
comparable length since A.D. 900. The uncertainties associated with
reconstructing hemispheric mean or global mean temperatures from these data
increase substantially backward in time through this period and are not yet
fully quantified."
" Very little confidence can be assigned to statements concerning the
hemispheric mean or global mean surface temperature prior to about A.D. 900
because of sparse data coverage and because the uncertainties associated
with proxy data and the methods used to analyze and combine them are larger
than during more recent time periods."
now to me, that's not validating the hockey stick.
RayLopez99
>
> Wikipedia began being known for changing stuff. Several articles were written about Wikipedia deleting articles. They were shown here and alarmists pooh poohed it and still quote from
Yes, he's still at it--controlling the flow of information. I traded
emails with him online yesterday. He deleted most of my stuff that was
in the "Discussion" section of Wikipedia (found here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Little_Ice_Age#Who_is_minding_the_minder.3F_Climategate_and_Wikipedia)
but he did, after I protested, allow some of it to stay (what's posted
above), and directed me to his own blog--which he controls--for any
further discussion on Climategate and his role in it.
RL
Ouroboros Rex
> On Dec 19, 10:27 am, "James" <kingko...@iglou.com> wrote:
>> no ob wrote:
>>> 19 Dec 2009
>>
>> Connolleyis a great example of an unethical scientist. He used to
>> frquent this board before he left for the antarctic.
>>
>> Wikipedia began being known for changing stuff. Several articles
>> were written about Wikipedia deleting articles. They were shown here
>> and alarmists pooh poohed it and still quote from
>
>
> Yes, he's still at it--controlling the flow of information. I traded
> emails with him online yesterday. He deleted most of my stuff that was
> in the "Discussion" section of Wikipedia (found here:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Little_Ice_Age#Who_is_minding_the_minder.3F_Climategate_and_Wikipedia)
> but he did, after I protested, allow some of it to stay (what's posted
> above),
..a ridiculous opinion from a right wing lie blog. lol
No, that won't last long, as is only proper.
RayLopez99
>
> No, that won't last long, as is only proper.
What won't last long, Odorous Rex?
lol yourself you azz clown.
RL