Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Climategate 2.0 emails – They’re real and they’re spectacular!

Climategate 2.0? More Emails Leaked From Climate Researchers - FOX
"Today’s decisions should be based on all the information we can get, not on hiding the decline"

Excerpts from the emails posted on climate skeptic websites are certainly eye-opening:
{1939} Thorne/MetO: Observations do not show rising temperatures throughout the tropical troposphere unless you accept one single study and approach and discount a wealth of others. This is just downright dangerous. We need to communicate the uncertainty and be honest.

{3066} Thorne: I also think the science is being manipulated to put a political spin on it, which for all our sakes might not be too clever in the long run.

{4755} Overpeck: The trick may be to decide on the main message and use that to guid[e] what’s included and what is left out.
The leak comes less than a week before the latest United Nations meeting intended to control carbon emissions and monitor the world's climate -- a fact underscored in a document that accompanied the leaked emails.

"Today’s decisions should be based on all the information we can get, not on hiding the decline," the anonymous document states, a reference to a comment from the first batch of emails that became a rallying point for climate skeptics.
Climategate 2.0 emails – They’re real and they’re spectacular! - Watts Up With That?
{2440} Jones: I’ve been told that IPCC is above national FOI Acts. One way to cover yourself and all those working in AR5 would be to delete all emails at the end of the process