Comments on: BP’s Analysis of CRU Emails

By: Mike_S

Mike_S — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 14:28:38 +0000

Look at the hypocrisy at stoat of William Connoly and james Annan.
http://scienceblogs.com/stoat/2010/07/good_news_for_the_gulf.php#comments

By: stephen richards

stephen richards — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 15:06:35 +0000

Steve
As you probably realise, I think you are sometimes too polite but I respect totally your methods and your opinions.

You will know only too well that serious high level board meetings are not always as polite as you have been to all either attached to or enquiring into, the team.

By: Alex Harvey

Alex Harvey — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 02:27:15 +0000

Dear Steve,

I consider myself a dispassionate observer here, but mostly on your side.

When I read:

“… Since I am sometimes criticized for being insufficiently polite in making this sort of request, Pretty please with sugar on it, …”

The tone is confrontational throughout, and the section I have quoted is quite sarcastic. This would kind of reinforce any prior perception that the requests are not made politely.

Best,
Alex

Steve: Of course I was confronting them in this instance.
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By: Mark Williamson

Mark Williamson — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 14:43:46 +0000

I agree – but the “pretty please with sugar on it” line would get up my nose and, I think, any casual observer.

Steve; they’ve chosen not to interview CRU critics as beneath their dignity. So sure I’ll satirize them.

By: Gary

Gary — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 12:47:58 +0000

People sometimes say that I don’t ask for things politely emough ( I disagree.)

I have been unable to locate this document in the documents released on July 7, 2010 and would appreciate it if you would either post this document on your website now that the Review is completed or send it to be. Thank you for your attention.

“…emough”

“…send it to be.”

It’s a trivial matter, but Steve, you gotta get a proof-reader, at least for the official requests.

By: TAC

TAC — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 12:08:14 +0000

What was David Eyton doing on the Team anyway? He should have resigned, for everyone’s sake, the moment the accident in the Gulf occurred — if not sooner. SteveM made this point last May.

Eyton reflects badly on everything he associates with, and eventually BP will recognize this and fire him.

By: TAC

TAC — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 11:51:49 +0000

I am with you.

By: Stacey

Stacey — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 10:50:10 +0000

Steve

When you say that he “welshed on his promise”, so that us welshmen and women don’t get upset it comes from the fact that Edward the VII never paid his gambling debts and as he was the Prince of Wales hence the derivation.

Sorry if this seems like I am chastising you for the use of the term.

By: Mike Haseler

Mike Haseler — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 09:31:10 +0000

That’s an interesting subject. I just happened to do a little research on types of sugars a month or so ago and came across an interesting article on glucose-fructose syrup. Now I was already aware of the glycemic “hit” given by sugars which leaves you with a “sugar high” — the body pumps in insulin, and then an hour later you get a “insulin munchy” and you then have a desperate desire to go looking for more food/sugar.

What I wasn’t aware of, is that glucose fructose syrup is a lot worse and now seems to be stuffed into everything. Being much smaller than sucrose and not needing to be broken down to give the hit, glucose-fructose syrup will hit the body like a bunch of storm troopers , perhaps triggering such a massive insulin surge that even though the rest of the meal is digested gradually, you may still get the “insulin muchies” an hour or so later.

Moreover it “super sweetens” food making you accustomed to super-sweet food which I personally blame as the reason kids refuse to eat basic foods.

Obviously this is just conjecture – but after we finish the current diluting juices – I’m buying them all at Tesco because both Asda and Sainsburys stuff their’s full of glucose-fructose syrup!

By: Roddy Campbell

Roddy Campbell — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 08:52:59 +0000

I was surprised that you are being made the poster boy of frivolous/vexatious/tiresome etc inquiries and so on. It seemed oddly rude, and unnecessary in what was, on the face of it, quite a grown-up report. But I think it goes with the territory. Rise above it. I’m looking forward to your Guardian evening.