Climate Research Center Hacked- Thousands Of Damning Docs Hit The Net: Global Warming Cancelled?

UPDATE: Here’s the bottom line on this massive scandal. A MUST READ from a scientist on the front-lines of the fraud.

Wow. While we were sleeping some HUGE news hit– the University of East Anglia’s Hadley Climatic Research Centre in the UK was apparently hacked… or an insider’s conscience got the best of them. (Second one gets my vote.) Thousands of emails and documents of various types were leaked online. (The CRU is the world’s source for global temperature records.) These files contain highly sensitive information that are proving very embarrassing to their authors. Those authors include some of the most celebrated names among proponents of the theory of anthropogenic (man-caused)global warming (AGW). The documents show the scientists ignoring, manipulating and outright deleting data to fit their climate-change hoaxes–subverting peer review processes and colluding to make their computer models fit the scam science they promote. . Just in time for Copenhagen!!

Some of the most embarrassing e-mails are attributed to Philip Jones, the Director of the CRU and recipient of over $10 million in U.S. taxpayer dollars since 1995; Keith Briffa, his assistant; Michael E. Mann of the University of Virginia; Malcolm Hughes at the University of Arizona; and others. One such e-mail makes references to the famous “hockey-stick” graph published by Mann in the journal Nature:

I’ve just completed Mike’s Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) amd from 1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline. Mike’s series got the annual land and marine values while the other two got April-Sept for NH land N of 20N. The latter two are real for 1999, while the estimate for 1999 for NH combined is +0.44C wrt 61-90. The Global estimate for 1999 with data through Oct is +0.35C cf. 0.57 for 1998.

There are emails discussing how to avoid Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA) requests for data. There are documents like one entitled “The Rules of the Game”, which looks to be a primer for propagating the global warming scam to the masses. The Hadley CRU director admits the emails seem to be genuine:

The director of Britain’s leading Climate Research Unit, Phil Jones, has told Investigate magazine’s TGIF Edition tonight …”It was a hacker. We were aware of this about three or four days ago that someone had hacked into our system and taken and copied loads of data files and emails.”…

Regarding that Freedom of Information request sent to Jones, referred to above– Jones discusses in a file called “jones-foiathoughts.doc” his evident reluctance to hand over information, presumably to Climate Audit – and lists as one option sending back the information just as raw data, which would “annoy” those behind the FOI request:

Options appear to be:

1. Send them the data

2. Send them a subset removing station data from some of the countries who made us pay in the normals papers of Hulme et al. (1990s) and also any number that David can remember. This should also omit some other countries like (Australia, NZ, Canada, Antarctica). Also could extract some of the sources that Anders added in (31-38 source codes in J&M 2003). Also should remove many of the early stations that we coded up in the 1980s.

3. Send them the raw data as is, by reconstructing it from GHCN. How could this be done? Replace all stations where the WMO ID agrees with what is in GHCN. This would be the raw data, but it would annoy them.

And this gem:

From: Kevin Trenberth
To: Michael Mann
Subject: Re: BBC U-turn on climate
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 08:57:37 -0600
Cc: Stephen H Schneider , Myles Allen , peter stott , “Philip D. Jones” , Benjamin Santer , Tom Wigley , Thomas R Karl , Gavin Schmidt , James Hansen , Michael Oppenheimer

Hi all
Well I have my own article on where the heck is global warming? We are asking that here in Boulder where we have broken records the past two days for the coldest days on record. We had 4 inches of snow. The high the last 2 days was below 30F and the normal is 69F, and it smashed the previous records for these days by 10F. The low was about 18F and also a record low, well below the previous record low. This is January weather (see the Rockies baseball playoff game was canceled on saturday and then played last night in below freezing weather).

Trenberth, K. E., 2009: An imperative for climate change planning: tracking Earth’s global energy. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 1, 19-27, doi:10.1016/j.cosust.2009.06.001. [1][PDF] (A PDF of the published version can be obtained from the author.)

The fact is that we can’t account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can’t. The CERES data published in the August BAMS 09 supplement on 2008 shows there should be even more warming: but the data are surely wrong. Our observing system is inadequate.”

Al Gore is rocking in the corner as we speak.

Superb round-up from Bishop Hill.

Fantastic guide to the data at Reference Frame.

The anonymous hackers offer this brief summary of their alleged finds so far- (these are the file numbers of the respective emails):

0926010576.txt * Mann: working towards a common goal
1189722851.txt * Jones: “try and change the Received date!”
0924532891.txt * Mann vs. CRU
0847838200.txt * Briffa & Yamal 1996: “too much growth in recent years makes it difficult to derive a valid age/growth curve”
0926026654.txt * Jones: MBH dodgy ground
1225026120.txt * CRU’s truncated temperature curve
1059664704.txt * Mann: dirty laundry
1062189235.txt * Osborn: concerns with MBH uncertainty
0926947295.txt * IPCC scenarios not supposed to be realistic
0938018124.txt * Mann: “something else” causing discrepancies
0939154709.txt * Osborn: we usually stop the series in 1960
0933255789.txt * WWF report: beef up if possible
0998926751.txt * “Carefully constructed” model scenarios to get “distinguishable results”
0968705882.txt * CLA: “IPCC is not any more an assessment of published science but production of results”
1075403821.txt * Jones: Daly death “cheering news”
1029966978.txt * Briffa – last decades exceptional, or not?
1092167224.txt * Mann: “not necessarily wrong, but it makes a small difference” (factor 1.29)
1188557698.txt * Wigley: “Keenan has a valid point”
1118949061.txt * we’d like to do some experiments with different proxy combinations
1120593115.txt * I am reviewing a couple of papers on extremes, so that I can refer to them in the chapter for AR4

The hacker/mole released this statement along with the files:

“We feel that climate science is, in the current situation, too important to be kept under wraps.
We hereby release a random selection of correspondence, code, and documents.
Hopefully it will give some insight into the science and the people behind it.”

INDEED. Much more here at Watts Up With That. Here are all of the emails in chronological order. This is a searchable database.
We’re on this developing story. Happy Friday!

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