Viaduct? Vy not?
Only In It For The Gold — ... Regular readers are likely to be aware of the release of a huge mass of illegally obtained emails among leading climate scientists of the observational stripe. RealClimate, I think, handled it nicely. ...

Here’s what we know so far: CRU’s emails were hacked, the 2000s will easily be the hottest decade on record, and the planet keeps warming thanks to us!
Climate Progress — As many of you will be aware, a large number of emails from the University of East Anglia webmail server were hacked recently (Despite some confusion generated by Anthony Watts, this has absolutely nothing to do with the Hadley Centre which is a completely separate institution). So begins the RealClimate post on this hack-heard-round-the-blogosphere.   I’ll excerpt that post at the end — and add any responses  put out by the scientists of the Climate Research Unit. Whatever smoke the anti-scientific disinformers are ...

This is not good, the CRU computer hack
Greenfyre's — ... interesting is what is not contained in the emails. There is no evidence of any worldwide conspiracy, no mention of George Soros nefariously funding climate research, no grand plan to ‘get rid of the MWP’, no admission that global warming is a hoax, no evidence of the falsifying of data, and no ‘marching orders’ from our socialist/communist/vegetarian overlords. The truly paranoid will put this down to the hackers also being in on the plot though.“ RealClimate CRU Emails “I’m withholding judgment ...

Bob Ward: This climate email-hacking episode is generating more heat than light
The Guardian | Environment — ... on global temperature trends. But as usually happens in the blogosphere, this episode is generating more heat than light and is likely to lead to more public confusion over the causes of climate change. ...

Climate contrarians spinning hard with stolen email files
DeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science — ... As for the Mann "trick," I would be very impressesd that this "trick" was never detected by the NAS report. As Mann himself explains today on Real Climate, the "trick" being refered to is that, "scientists often use the term “trick” to refer to a “a good way to deal with a problem”, rather than something that is “secret”, and so there is nothing problematic in this at all. ...

FOX News and TrollCat agree: Global warming is BUNK!
Grist - the Latest from Grist — ... Climatic Research Unit were hacked recently and dumped on a Russian web server. Fox News and right-wing bloggers believe the illegally obtained emails prove that “ ...

Private Climate Conversations on Display
Dot Earth — ... starting Thursday afternoon. Before they propagated, the purloined documents, nearly 200 megabytes in all, were uploaded surreptitiously on Tuesday to a server supporting the global warming Web site realclimate.org , along with a draft mock post, said Gavin Schmidt, a NASA climate scientist managing that blog. He pulled the plug before the fake post was published. I have a story in The Times on the incident and its repercussions, which continue to unfold. But there’s much more to explore, of course (including ...

Skeptics claim global warming is fake after top scientists’ emails hacked at CRU
Grist - the Latest from Grist — ... I’ll save you from the science wonkery and allusions here (check out RealClimate for a more detailed explanation), but noisy climate skeptics are jumping on two parts of that sentence. Guess which ones? Yup, “trick” and “hide the decline.” ...

The CRU Hack
Peak Energy — The climate tinfoil world is abuzz with discussion of a large volume of emails hacked out of the University of East Anglia's email servers recently (funny how these sorts of things tend to happen just before large climate summits like Copenhagen). RealClimate casts an eye over the chatter and notes that it seems to be much ado about nothing - The CRU Hack. ...

Climate Scientists’ Emails Hacked, Posted; But What Does it All Mean for the Climate?
The Yale Forum on Climate Change & The Media — ... - - - - - - - - - - A few, among many possible, early links for details. (You can simply search online for “Hadley CRU hacked”): http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/21/science/earth/21climate.html?hp ; http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/11/21/cru-emails-search-engine-now-online/#more-12978 ; http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/11/climate-hack/ ; http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2009/11/the-cru-hack/#more-1853 ; ...

Hacked climate emails: conspiracy or tempest in a teapot?
Environment — ... Over at Realclimate.org, several of whose climate-scientist contributors were involved in the pilfered email-exchanges, the “group” explains the collection this way: ...

CRU Hack, time to hit back … hard
Greenfyre's — ... Aside: apparently what has been released is about 1/2 of the total copied from CRU. We do not know if what has been released is cherry picked and the remaining material fills in the blanks exhonorating everyone of any wrong doing, or if there is more to come. According to RealClimate, whatever is there, it will not be evidence of scientific malpractice such as tampering with data, and that’s good enough for me. ...

Hackers Hit Climate Data Site, Make Fools of Themselves
FUTURISM NOW — ... of the chapters, after certain folks have explained their way into a deep hole.” Another priceless quote from the Watt denier readers  (WUWT — google it, I’m not going to link to it) : “Keep it up!!! Holy cow, they are on the ropes now. It won’t be long before the ref stops this fight! As Hunter said, go go go!!!!” Yeah, holy cow! “It’s about time us regular Joes (the Plumbers) told those scientists a thing or two!  After all, there’s more of us dumbf**ers!” The real story from RealClimate is here .  As they point out, the hacking results are more notable for what they ...

Contrarians Unfairly Using Hacked E-mails
Union of Concerned Scientists — Contrarians Unfairly Using Hacked E-mails Statement by Peter Frumhoff, the director of science and policy at the Union of Concerned Scientists and a lead author of the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change WASHINGTON (November 23, 2009) Some opponents of climate action are attacking climate science by misrepresnting illegally-obtained private e-mails from the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in Great Britain. Below is a statement by Peter Frumhoff, the director of science and policy at the Union of Concerned ...

Competitive Enterprise Institute to sue RealClimate blogger over moderation policy
Climate Progress — ... Gavin Schmidt has done a wonderful job at RealClimate patiently explaining the context of the stolen emails. He’s made it perfectly clear that the claims of scientific malpractice are without foundation. He must be doing a really good job, because the ...

Pretending the climate email leak isn't a crisis won't make it go away | George Monbiot
The Guardian | Environment — ... , which has been a total trainwreck: a textbook example of how not to respond. RealClimate reports that "We were made aware of the existence of this archive last Tuesday morning when the hackers attempted to upload it to RealClimate, and we notified CRU of their possible security breach later that day." In other words, the university knew what was coming three days before the story broke. As far as I can tell, it sat like a rabbit in the headlights, waiting for disaster to strike. ...

Mr. Obama Goes to Copenhagen
Discovery News - Earth News — ... , and some seem to genuinely believe that a few hacked, out-of-context e-mails somehow prove that the thousands upon thousands of pages of scientific literature showing that the climate is changing as a result of greenhouse gas emissions is ...

Swiftboating Climate Science (aka. climategate) - what you need to know
DeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science — ... have also nefariously edited the files. 4. The emails in question were taken out of context, and they don’t mean what deniers claim they mean. Out of thousands and thousands of emails that were hacked, the climate change denying conspiracy theorists have only managed to identify a few that they consider to be incriminating. The supposedly incriminating emails are in fact, at worst, merely embarrassing. One of the scientists over at RealClimate explains: More interesting is what is not ...

CRUde Hack, everybody loves a charade
Greenfyre's — ... magazine Science Insider blog: In Climate Hack Story, Could Talk of Cover-Up Be as Serious as Crime? • Yale Climate Media Forum: Climate Scientists’ E-mails Hacked, Posted; So What Does it All Mean for the Climate? • New York Times: Hacked E-Mail Is New Fodder for Climate Dispute • NYT Dot Earth blog: Two Posts Plus Expert Commentary • National Review Online: Climate Change Scandal • Real Climate: Two Posts + Tons More In Comments, Responses from Scientists Whose Emails Got Hacked ...

Anti-Climate Change Activists Hack Emails
Daily Greenz, the Blog from Greenzer.com — ... to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) and from 1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline.” It’s undoubtedly suspicious sounding, but scientists have said that it’s more a case of the general public not understanding the jargon and information in the sentence. The term “trick”, for example, usually refers to a method of working out a problem in the scientific community, and not to a deceitful act. You can read more about what’s really being said in the e-mails at RealClimate . Meanwhile, in other anti-global warming efforts , Weather Network founder and ...

Climate Hackergate, Part II
FUTURISM NOW — ... of these emails. Furthermore, as a commenter said on my blog, “I would like to be able to inspect all e-mails ever sent or received by (a) anyone connected with the major oil companies [that funded climate-denial organisations], (b) at least a few of those who have been most vocal in their scepticism to man-made climate change.” A reasonable request… But changes 1 through 3 are nevertheless potentially good news for science and for all of us. To find out more, the best place to go is Real Climate . Meanwhile, several UEA and other scientists are having to change their bank ...

Climate Changegate: Setting the Record Straight
Energy Bulletin - — ... By Fiona Harvey, Financial Times of London, Nov. 30, 2009 Copenhagen Diagnosis website The Sunday Times: Climate change data dumped Wall Street Journal: "Hacked: Sensitive Documents Lifted from Hadley Climate Center" , Nov. 20, 2009 More from The Sunday Times: The great climate change science scandal EU figurehead says climate change a myth For better understanding around the story of the hacked e-mails, see discussion at Realclimate.org: The CRU hack The CRU hack: Context Copenhagen Is Supposed to Fail. DIY! by Jan ...

Climate Change Skeptics Incited by Leaked Emails
Global Voices Online — ... According to ClimateChange, a group blog by American and European scientists, the plot the skeptics claim to have unveiled is nowhere to be found: ...

Thoughts on ClimateGate
arduous blog — I've been following the Climategate blow out with a fair amount of interest recently. For those of you who haven't heard, basically some one hacked the emails at the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia and then published the emails on the internet. And the emails released were incredibly damaging both for climate science and the climate scientists involved. Now, I'm not a hard scientist. So when Real Climate explains this email by Phil Jones: "I’ve just completed Mike’s Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for ...

Preparing to Face Down the Future
unEARTHED: the Earthjustice Blog — ... to cast aspersions on the scientific consensus on man-made global warming. The hope, perhaps, is to gain support for a delusion that thrives in their fertile imaginations: that global warming is a hoax perpetuated by a clandestine network of global conspirators. A number of ...

Evidence That Humans Caused Today's Global Warming
unEARTHED: the Earthjustice Blog — ... to deal with climate change. The recent hacked email scandal is being used by deniers and contrarians to weaken the chances of getting anything done at the conference. A good dose of solid science like this could help keep things on track. ...

Anti-science idealogues spin the NY Times public editor on “Climategate”
Climate Progress — ... columnist.”  Yes, everybody who cares about science outside of the New York Times knows that he “makes up stuff, just like George Will” (see here).  But you can’t expect the public editor of the NY Times to ever believe that the so-called paper of record would actually employ on their staff the country’s worst science writer, can you?  But you might still point out the “hide the decline” nonsense is, well, nonsense. Someone might also point out to Hoyt that the Times has been criticized ...

Climate Change ‘Scam’ Debunked
EarthFirst.com — RealClimate debunked the claims, as did the Union of Concerned Scientists. DeSmogBlog smacked them down, too. But apparently, reading through all the articles that explain exactly how conspiracy theorists are wrong about the hacked emails that supposedly prove global warming to be a scam is too hard for most skeptics. So, we’d like to present this idiot-proof video: it’s easy to follow, even if you’re not the sharpest tool in the shed. Via [The Huffington Post] ...

‘Climategate’ for Idiots: can we get back to reality now?
TerraCurve.com: Go beyond green. | Responsible travel news, places, people and events. — ... for the environmental movement side-stepped that debate entirely in a rush to defend the real science. Now, the debate is settled. At least, for the intelligent people out there. The idiots are still buying Hummers. I won’t bore you with my own take of the evidence – as I recently came upon a brilliantly done video by way of the good folks over at EarthFirst.com (via The Huffington Post) that lays it all out completely. Here is what they say: “RealClimate debunked the claims, as did the Union of Concerned Scientists. ...

SciFri Blog:Stolen snarky statements suggest scandal, say skeptics
sciencefriday.com - making science user-friendly — ... interacted with those outside their organization. What those emails did NOT show was any signs of attempting to fool the world about climate change, or of fudging data, or of being any less certain about their conclusions than they have been stating publicly. What I really want to see is a scandal in the fence-making industry: GateGate!!! More about the Climategate "scandal"... Union of Concerned Scientists debunks the myths Huffington Post ClimateGate "Myths" slideshow RealClimate's comprehensive view EXTRA! EXTRA! There's an iceberg floatilla heading to New ...

Facilitating Disruption
ClimatePolicy — ... taken based on the color of your uniform or who pays you the most. Discussion is based not on ideas and solutions, but on who makes a statement. Issues are advocated, and ideas are placed into extremes that take on attributes such as good and evil, for and against. The other side is wrong, and their intentions are of hidden control or hidden profit. This threatens our credibility and our viability. US Senators pursue an investigation of climate science based upon the stolen and published correspondence of a small clutch of prominent ...

How the 'climategate' scandal is bogus and based on climate sceptics' lies | Fred Pearce
The Guardian | Environment — ... The "trick" was a graphic device used by Mann in a 1998 paper in Nature to merge tree ring data from earlier times with thermometer data for recent decades. He explained it in the paper. Jones was repeating it in another paper. "This is a trick only in the sense of being a good way to deal with a vexing problem," Mann told the Guardian. ...

Part two: How the 'climategate' scandal is bogus and based on climate sceptics' lies
The Guardian | Environment — ... The "trick" was a graphic device used by Mann in a 1998 paper in Nature to merge tree ring data from earlier times with thermometer data for recent decades. He explained it in the paper. Jones was repeating it in another paper. "This is a trick only in the sense of being a good way to deal with a vexing problem," Mann told the Guardian. Clearly, this problem with modern tree data raises questions about older data – at least until the reason for the divergence is nailed down. But it is not clandestine data ­manipulation, or, as claimed by Palin and Inhofe, a trick to ...