Category Archives: climategate

Science(mag) Insider

Nov 23, 2009 – 6:59 PM

Interestingarticle at Science (mag) Insider here. The writer sought perspectives on potential liability in relation to FOI from two aspects: the deletion of emails subject to an FOI request: According to Hazel Moffatt, a partner in the litigation and regulatory department at the law firm DLA Piper in London, deleting emails subject to a FOI […]

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A Third Theory

Nov 23, 2009 – 2:38 PM

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.

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The Harry Read_Me File

Nov 23, 2009 – 10:31 AM

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.

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John Mitchell’s Review Comments

Nov 23, 2009 – 9:50 AM

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 […]

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Curry: On the credibility of climate research

Nov 22, 2009 – 11:02 PM

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.

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"a very disturbing HARRY_READ_ME.txt file"

Nov 22, 2009 – 8:44 PM

Good notes on source code by a blogger here/ Also here

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UK Whistleblower Legislation

Nov 21, 2009 – 8:04 PM

Some actions by whistleblowers in the U.K. are protected under the U.K. Public Interest Disclosure Act

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CRU Refuses FOI Request

Nov 21, 2009 – 9:26 AM

Given the tumultuous events of the past few days, the receipt of yet another refusal to provide station data pursuant to an FOI request may seem a little uneventful. But the chronology of this most recent refusal is, to say the least, interesting.

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Mike’s Nature trick

Nov 20, 2009 – 9:59 AM

So far one of the most circulated e-mails from the CRU hack is the following from Phil Jones to the original hockey stick authors – Michael Mann, Raymond Bradley, and Malcolm Hughes.

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CRU Correspondence

Nov 19, 2009 – 10:11 PM

Words fail me. CA is VERY slow right now, but WUWT, Jeff Id and Lucia are all less affected. Tom Fuller picked up the story here http://www.examiner.com/x-28973-Essex-County-Conservative-Examiner~y2009m11d19-Hadley-CRU-hacked-with-release-of-hundreds-of-docs-and-emails.

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