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December 1, 2009
"This isn’t climate science, this is climate scientology."
Charles Martin pummels "Fraud Denier" Phil Plait in The global warming emails non-event @ (Very) Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine
Phil, this is really shameful. If you think there was no attempt to silence scientists with differing ideas, call up Roger Pielke (either of them). Have a look at Hans von Storch’s web page.HT The Gormogons: Credit Where It's DueAs for fraud, I don’t believe that Hansen, Mann, Jones, and Schmidt have been holding secret Climate SMERSH meetings to plan a conscious fraud. It’s much more insidious than that: they simply decided on the Right Explanation for the general warming trend (that nobody I know of questions), and then apparently ensured the “corrections” and splices matches that Right Explanation. They didn’t massage the data, they waterboarded it into submission. They then conspired to prevent people, even people like Pielke Sr who believed in general in both the warming and anthropogenicity, but who believed in other mechanisms for the anthropogenic forcings, from being published.
Oddly, when we look at the data, we find that the corrections dominate the raw data signal, and constitute most or all of the temperature change that was then published as a “result.”
On the FOIA front, they clearly conspired (in 20 emails rather than 2) to find ways to prevent their data from being released. Jones even requested certain emails be deleted after they were requested via FOIA.
So, I suppose if you think manipulating data, misconduct in peer review, and what appear to have been multiple felonies are nothing, I can’t argue.
But this isn’t climate science, this is climate scientology.
Posted by Vanderleun at December 1, 2009 1:46 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.