It has been reported that climate scientists have seen an increase of threatening emails since
the CRU email leak late last year.
So whilst the process following on from
the CRU email leak has been painful, there is absolutely clear that this new level of accountability should be very much welcomed.
Not exact matches
One 1999
email by Phil Jones, director of the
CRU, has been the focus of media coverage since news of the
leak broke last Thursday.
Tom Wigley took over from Hubert Lamb as Director of the
CRU and guided much of the early research and then remained the major influence as the
leaked emails revealed.
It was no accident that the person who
leaked the
emails from the Climatic Research Unit (
CRU) also
leaked computer codes.
While it is too bad there are not more actual Hansen
emails that have come available via the
CRU leak, clearly Gavin Schmidt is extremely close to his boss Jim Hansen and some of Gavin's 2009
emails to
CRU have been released.
A good example was the reaction to the
leaked emails from the
CRU known as Climategate.
We learned much about their role from the
leaked Climatic Research Unit (
CRU)
emails and the behavior of some editors.
The
leaked CRU emails disclose Wigley as the eminence gris to whom all his old pupils and colleagues at
CRU turn to for advice and direction.
Leaked emails show people at the Climatic Research Unit (
CRU) realized the need for fixes.
On 14 Oct 2009 Kevin Trenberth, member of the IPCC and leading member of the Climatic Research Unit (
CRU) group, wrote one of the
leaked emails that exposed climate science corruption.
It is important for the person who
leaked the
emails from the Climatic Research Unit (
CRU) in November 2009 and 2010 to reveal themselves and release the remaining 200,000
emails.
Going to Scotland for another speech, he played the victimization card now familiar to IPCC affiliated and Climatic Research Unit (
CRU) people, like Director Phil Jones who claimed he considered suicide after the
emails were
leaked.
In the run up to Copenhagen, a selection of documents, files and
emails from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit (
CRU) were
leaked onto the internet.
Although the letter to David Willetts was written following the general election, the DECC's response only arrived shortly after publication of the Muir Russell Report, the third report into the
leaked documents and
emails from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit (
CRU):
Viscount Monckton on Climategate: «They Are Criminals» The man who challenged Al Gore to a debate is furious about the content of the
leaked CRU emails — and says why you should be, too.
When the
emails were
leaked from the Climatic Research Unit (
CRU) a public relations person was engaged.
I've noticed that some of the disinformation being spread about the
CRU hack (called Swifthack or Climategate — lots of info here) is starting to creep into reports on climate change on the ABC, for example this morning some radio reports regarding the WMO's finding that the last decade has been the hottest on record has been qualified by mentions of the hack, when there is no credible reason to believe that the
leaked emails indicate a problem with the instrumental record — I note that the online version of the story doesn't do this though).
The
leaked Climatic Research Unit (
CRU)
emails only worked because they identified human as well as scientific malfeasance.
Two of the scientists involved in «Climategate» — the e-mail hacking incident at the Climatic Research Unit (
CRU) of the University of East Anglia, UK — have been
emailed death threats since the contents of their private e-mails were
leaked to the world.
He preceded Phil Jones as Director and was the key person directing the machinations revealed by the
leaked emails from the
CRU.
In late 2009, not long before the Copenhagen climate - change conference, thousands of private
emails by climate researchers based at the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit (
CRU) were
leaked on the internet.
On March 13, 2013 someone with the pseudonym Mr. FOIA released the remaining 220,000
emails leaked from the Climatic Research Unit (
CRU) at the University of East Anglia (UEA) to a select few.
Even Phil Jones, the
CRU director at the centre of last year's «Climategate»
leaked email scandal, was forced to admit in a littlenoticed BBC online interview that there has been «no statistically significant warming» since 1995.
The senders and recipients of the
leaked CRU emails constitute a cast list of the IPCC's scientific elite, including not just the «Hockey Team», such as Dr Mann himself, Dr Jones and his
CRU colleague Keith Briffa, but Ben Santer, responsible for a highly controversial rewriting of key passages in the IPCC's 1995 report; Kevin Trenberth, who similarly controversially pushed the IPCC into scaremongering over hurricane activity; and Gavin Schmidt, right - hand man to Al Gore's ally Dr James Hansen, whose own GISS record of surface temperature data is second in importance only to that of the
CRU itself.
Yes, he was the one who informed me, including forwarding the
email that had been sent around
CRU announcing the file
leak.
Look at the cover - ups they participated in with regard to information exposed by the
leaked emails from the Climatic Research Unit (
CRU).
The most bizarre to date is the fact that the University of East Anglia hired Neil Wallis of Outside Organization to handle the fall out from the
emails leaked from the Climatic Research Unit (
CRU) in November 2009.
Members of the
CRU he hired became central in the IPCC and also infamous after their corruptive behaviour was exposed by
leaked emails.
It's part of the deception further identified in the
leak of more
emails from the Climatic Research Unit (
CRU) of the University of East Anglia.
So I would argue that this document
leak is very different than the
CRU email hack, however, many of the lessons in context (or lack thereof) learned after the
CRU hack need to be applied here.
Leaking the
CRU emails — for all we know the work of a genuine whistle blower — was the only way to (a) produce documents responsive to valid FOIA requests, (b) expose
CRU's willful evasion of FOIA, and (c) subject
CRU research products to the indispensable test of reproducibility.
After the
CRU leak the openness and self - correcting nature of academia ensured that those who wrote and received the
emails would be investigated (A total of 9 investigations which turned up nothing nefarious).
Right at the heart of the sound and fury of «Climategate» — the
emails leaked from the Climatic Research Unit (
CRU) in East Anglia — is one story of scientific chicanery, overlooked by the media, whose implications dwarf all the rest.
Over 6000
leaked emails from the Climatic Research Unit (
CRU) delineate the challenges and political rather than scientific responses.
Proponents actively worked to prevent it, as the
leaked emails from the Climatic Research Unit (
CRU) at the University of East Anglia (UEA) demonstrate.
Emails leaked from the Climatic Research Unit (
CRU) in 2009, exposed the practices of the scientists controlling the IPCC.
Whether the person who
leaked the
CRU emails was a hacker or a whistle blower remains an open question.
I published an article on December 5, 2009 shortly after the first
leak of
emails from the Climatic Research Unit (
CRU) occurred identifying one action by John Holdren, Obama's Science Czar, when on faculty at Harvard.
These include disclosure of
leaked emails from the Climate Research Unit (
CRU): incorrect and inappropriate data and methods of the IPCC: and Nature not cooperating by invalidating predictions — accurate predictions are essential validation of the science.
The admission follows the
leaking of a thousand private
emails sent and received by Professor Phil Jones, the
CRU's director.
Now, over 5000 more
leaked emails from the Climatic Research Unit (
CRU), labeled Climategate 2, provide clarity.
Had anyone suggested before the
email leaks from
CRU that Steve has been an inappropriate reviewer?
In fact, one of the past posts on this site about this subject now reflects poorly on the group as a whole in light of the
leaked CRU emails.
Don't forget that the climategate
email leak showed
CRU being a recipient of Shell funds for research.
Little or nothing was achieved because the corrupted science of the IPCC and Climatic Research Unit (
CRU) was exposed through
leaked emails.