On Nov. 12, 2009, CBR Networking has an article here entitled “UEA succeeds in Quest for secure IT access”. A university spokesman said: This gives us peace of mind – for example, we have considerably more confidence that a student is unable to gain unauthorised access to sensitive systems such as the university’s finance system […]
If anyone’s keeping a tab on “climategate” hits, they have a very Hockey-Stick shaped pattern. A couple of days ago, someone observed that “climategate” hits on Google hit the 10 million mark. They’ve now hit 10.8 million. [Note: I got 94.5 million a couple of minutes ago. Dunno why I got a different answer when […]
Another good editorial by Judy Curry here. Dealing with a problem begins by acknowledging it.
Climate scientists like preaching to the choir, but right now, perhaps they should consider the possibility that a little outreach would be in order. In normal times, Climate Audit has a large audience; right now, its audience is far larger than normal and includes journalists as well as the public. Given recent events, I made […]
One reviewer of the IPCC 2007 Assessment Report specifically asked IPCC not to hide the decline. The reviewer stated very clearly: Show the Briffa et al reconstruction through to its end; don’t stop in 1960. Then comment and deal with the “divergence problem” if you need to. Don’t cover up the divergence by truncating this […]
For the very first time, the Climategate Letters “archived” the deleted portion of the Briffa MXD reconstruction of “Hide the Decline” fame – see here. Gavin Schmidt claimed that the decline had been “hidden in plain sight” (see here. ). This isn’t true. The post-1960 data was deleted from the archived version of this reconstruction […]
Phil Jones, Dec 3, 2008: About 2 months ago I deleted loads of emails, so have very little – if anything at all. Phil Jones, Nov 24, 2009 Guardian We’ve not deleted any emails or data here at CRU.
Commenters on the earlier thread have presented another explanation of the “RC Hack”. The same idea occurred to several people and has been presented at several blogs (tAV for example). I’ll cite Steve Mosher’s below both because he knows computers and is very familiar with the facts: If you look at all the emails you […]
Gavin Schmidt states categorically that the FOIA.zip was uploaded to RC around 6.20 am Eastern [Update – Aug 23, 2011: noticed that this was changed to 7:20 am] and that 4 downloads took place prior to RC regaining control of their blog. He also observes that there is a previously unnoticed reference to the file […]
Tough article by WSJ here. They conclude: However, we do now have hundreds of emails that give every appearance of testifying to concerted and coordinated efforts by leading climatologists to fit the data to their conclusions while attempting to silence and discredit their critics. In the department of inconvenient truths, this one surely deserves a […]
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