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Old 11-29-2011, 03:27 AM  
SimonScans
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I'm surprised no one has pointed this out so far. Climategate 2.0 is happening right now. Another 5000 emails between the key players to do with AGW has been hacked/stolen/released/whatever from within the CRU.

http://wattsupwiththat.com/

Highlights for me so far are

Phil Jones - head of the CRU - couldn't work Excel well enough to plot a trend to refute a sceptics enquiry.

Rob Wilson - a researcher working FOR the CRU - was able to easily reproduce the hockey stick by just feeding their climate models white noise. Ooops.

Other recuring themes:-

Much higher levels of uncertainty when talking to each other privately than they ever admit in private.

Endless attempts to make sure that anything that didn't agree with the consensus was not only never published but that the researcher and offending editors were blackballed. Meanwhile papers they admitted in private to being low quality - but from on message "team" players - got published without negative comment and usually fast as well.

Maybe the science is settled, but the behaviour of some of the key scientists absolutely reeks.
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