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Some of the worst gaffes were committed by Phil Jones, who said (amongst
other things):
''And don't leave stuff lying around on anonymous download sites—you
never know who is trawling them. McIntyre and McKitrick have been after the
Climatic Research Unit
data for years. If they ever hear there is a Freedom of
Information Act now in the United Kingdom, I think I'll delete the file rather
than send it to anyone.''
''I've just completed Mike's Nature trick [Michael Mann's publication in
Nature where he replaced tree ring proxy data with measurement data because
the tree ring data went in the 'wrong' direction
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] of adding the measured
temperatures to each series for the last 20 years (i.e. from 1981 onwards) and
from 1961 for Keith's to hide the decline.''
''We have 25 or so years invested in the work. Why should I make the data
available to you, when your aim is to try and find something wrong with it?''
...
They refereed each other's papers before submitting them to journals,
communicated improperly in a mutual back-scratching environment subverting
the peer review process, pressured journal editors not to publish papers contrary
to the orthodoxy, conspired to write rebuttals to any papers that did slip through
their barrier to publication of contrary views, and conspired to act in partnership
to disparage and ridicule anyone with contrary findings. Several topics present
excerpts from the emails and provide interpretations of their implications, which
are generally referred to as ''Climategate'' (e.g., Mosher and Fuller, 2010). In
response to the many charges of malfeasance by the cabal members that appeared
on the blogs, several reviews were carried out by vested interests (e.g., the so-called
''Russell Report'').
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These generally provided a whitewash that was only to be
expected.
The entire set of pirated emails provides strong evidence that there is indeed a
cabal of climatologists, including both paleoclimatologists who seek to show that
the Earth's climate has been relatively constant for thousands of years prior to the
20th century and climate modelers who seek to use climate models to infer that
most of the 20th century warming was due to greenhouse gas buildup. The
members of this cabal are dedicated to their preconceived beliefs, conspire with
one another to prevent publication of dissenting views, conspire with one another
to oppose and rebut dissenting papers that slip through their net of referees for
major journals, and make frequent alarmist press releases to win over the public.
It seems likely that the motivation for all this is to create a climate of fear so that
governments will exponentially increase funding for climate research;
in that
respect they have been very successful.
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