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The [[Climatic Research Unit email controversy]] (aka '''Climategate''') began in November 2009 with the hacking of a server at the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the [[University of East Anglia]] (UEA) by an external attacker, copying thousands of emails and computer files to various internet locations several weeks before the Copenhagen Summit on [[climate change]].<ref>''[https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/228975/7934.pdf "Government Response to the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee 8th Report of Session 2009-10: The disclosure of climate data from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia"]''</ref>
 
  
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The story was first broken by climate change denialists, with columnist [https://twitter.com/JamesDelingpole James Delingpole] popularising the term "Climategate" to describe the controversy. They argued that the emails showed that global warming was a scientific conspiracy and that scientists manipulated climate data and attempted to suppress critics. The CRU rejected this, saying that the emails had been taken out of context. Fact-checkers confirmed that climate change deniers misrepresented the contents of the emails.<ref>''[https://web.archive.org/web/20131203205308/http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=climategate-redux "Climategate Redux"]''</ref>
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In 2009 [[Wikileaks]] published <1000 emails from the United Nations' [[Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change]] (IPCC) scientists. Most of these emails are not spectacular, but some mention how easy it is to deceive [[peer review]]ers and the public alike.  
  
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The [[mainstream media]] picked up the story, as negotiations over [[climate change]] mitigation began in Copenhagen on 7 December 2009. Because of the timing, scientists, policy makers and public relations experts said that the release of emails was a smear campaign intended to undermine the climate conference. In response to Climategate, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the American Meteorological Society (AMS) and the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) released statements supporting the scientific consensus that the Earth's mean surface temperature had been rising for decades, with the AAAS concluding: "based on multiple lines of scientific evidence that global [[climate change]] caused by human activities is now underway... it is a growing threat to society".<ref>''[https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2019/nov/09/climategate-10-years-on-what-lessons-have-we-learned "Climategate 10 years on: what lessons have we learned?"]''</ref>
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Several referenced emails contain joking remarks about how they massaged statistics, i.e.
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* truncating the temperature and time axis on diagrams
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* omitting data from measurement stations that were "too cold to be included"
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* failing to mention contradicting information, i.e.
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** polar ice data from [[Patagonia]] (the other pole, where ice is increasing)
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** failing to report standard deviations or volatility measures
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** failing to mention conflicts of interest, explicit joking about easy available grants and salaries
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* omitting a decent timeline of several thousand years
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A condensed version is found on WS: [https://wikispooks.com/wiki/File:Climategate-emails.pdf Climategate E-mails].
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In sum [[IPCC]] scientists admit to fraudulent activity, not by outright falsehoods but by distortion,  omission and selective attention. Moreover they admit that plenty of money is available for the "easy job" of doing so.
  
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Eight committees investigated the allegations and published reports, finding no evidence of fraud or scientific misconduct. The scientific consensus that [[global warming]] is occurring as a result of human activity remained unchanged throughout the investigations.<ref>''[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2011/nov/23/climate-scientists-hacked-emails-uea "Climate scientists defend work in wake of new leak of hacked emails"]''</ref>
 
 
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What if it's a big hoax and we create a better world for nothing?
account of corrupt science practice

In 2009 Wikileaks published <1000 emails from the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) scientists. Most of these emails are not spectacular, but some mention how easy it is to deceive peer reviewers and the public alike.

Several referenced emails contain joking remarks about how they massaged statistics, i.e.

  • truncating the temperature and time axis on diagrams
  • omitting data from measurement stations that were "too cold to be included"
  • failing to mention contradicting information, i.e.
    • polar ice data from Patagonia (the other pole, where ice is increasing)
    • failing to report standard deviations or volatility measures
    • failing to mention conflicts of interest, explicit joking about easy available grants and salaries
  • omitting a decent timeline of several thousand years

A condensed version is found on WS: Climategate E-mails.

In sum IPCC scientists admit to fraudulent activity, not by outright falsehoods but by distortion, omission and selective attention. Moreover they admit that plenty of money is available for the "easy job" of doing so.


 

Related Documents

TitleTypePublication dateAuthor(s)Description
Document:Climategate its the heat source stupidCommentary
Document:People and Data Cherry-Picked For the IPCC Political Agendaarticle20 April 2014Tim BallA cogent critique of the UN IPCC personnel and methodology designed to suborn and harness science to a clearly political agenda. Written by a Doyen of climate science and author of the book "The Deliberate Corruption of Climate Science".
File:Climategate-emails.pdfarticleMarch 2010John Costella
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