Charles of WUWT offers a new and interesting theory of the file: that the file was not “stolen”, it was “found”. See here. Charles’ epithet: “Never assume malice where stupidity will do”. Here’s his scenario.
A CA readr has organized the Harry_Read_Me file here. Take a look. And we thought GISTEMP was bad. And it’s not like the underlying calculations are very complicated.
IPCC policies state that their process is supposed to be open and transparent and that all comments are to be archived. Previously, we observed that the Lead Author Responses to our Review Comments were completely unresponsive on key issues. Under IPCC policies, the Review Editor is charged with seeing that this doesn’t happen. John Mitchell […]
Judy Curry writes in as follows: Having been riveted for the last few days by posts in the blogosphere on the HADCRU hack and the increasing attention being given to this by the mainstream media, I would like to provide an “external but insider” assessment and perspective.
Good notes on source code by a blogger here/ Also here
The emails are only the start of this. The zip includes data and code. Reader Neal writes as follows (SM Note: Anthony reports below that he has verified these comments in the following location /documents/osborn-tree6/mann/oldprog in the files maps12.pro maps15.pro maps24.pro): People are talking about the emails being smoking guns but I find the remarks […]
Judy Curry writes in as follows: (please comment here)
Like many other people, I’m gradually digesting the CRU letters. Obviously I’m going to comment on them but I’m going to start a little slowly. Here’s one that’s a little fun,
Some actions by whistleblowers in the U.K. are protected under the U.K. Public Interest Disclosure Act
The performance of the CA server is ridiculously slow. Last March, I considered moving to a wordpress account, but was persuaded that there were so many embedded links to CA and to CA graphics to move. Thus, we continued on using our own server, which has now collapsed under a load much more modest than […]