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Corruption of Bribery

Chapter 6 : Corruption in the “Carbon World”

8.2.4.2 The Climate Research Whistleblowing Episode
In November 2009, immediately before the Copenhagen Conference was due to open and at
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which optimists hoped Kyoto would be reinvigorated , a 60MB file from the University of East
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Anglia containing over 1,000 e‐mails and other documents was released on the Internet.

These revealed serious misconduct including data falsification, withholding of or destruction of
data, manipulation of the IPCC peer group process to exclude dissent and specifically to:

 try to reduce the impact of the Mediaeval Warm Period which is probably the most
serious impediment to the believers’ cause
 “hide the decline” in global temperatures
 conceal the divergence between proxy and recorded temperatures
 adopt Professor Mann's " nature trick" of seamlessly joining tree proxy records to current
temperature data

The believers’ reaction to the “whistleblowing” also revealed a deplorable level of arrogance and
exposed a messianic zeal that was not consistent with scientific open‐mindedness.

The files included programs written in Fortran and a README file indicating that UEA’s
temperature reconstructions had been manipulated to show increases when there hadn't been
any.

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“Harry” (the programmer concerned in fiddling with the data ) notes "the data after 1960 should not be used.
The tree ring density records tend to show a decline after 1960 relative to the summer temperature in many high
latitude locations. In this dataset this decline has been artificially removed in an ad hoc way and this means that
data after 1960 no longer represents three ring density variations that have been modified to look more like the
observed temperatures”. Comments in the file make it clear that Harry tried for 3 years to recreate the CRU’s
published results and failed

The immediate reaction by the UEA and its supporters to the disclosures was that a terrible crime
had been committed against the near saintly climatologists: that “hackers” were involved and
that the affair was a cynical attempt to disrupt the Copenhagen Conference. Officialdom had no
doubt that honest scientists had been attacked in the most vile way: they were the victims of a
sinister external plot: no doubt about it.

Sir David King, the government’s Chief Scientific Adviser suggested that the hacking was the work of foreign
intelligence agencies. Unfortunately, Sir David, having absolutely no evidence to back up his conspiracy theory,
subsequently withdrew it. But his immediate reaction had been to go on the attack.

60 Which it was not
61 The incident ‐ including reproduction of many e‐mails‐has been reported in a number of publications including "Climate
gate. The Crutape Letters” by Stephen Mosher and Thomas W Fuller ISBN 1450512437

62 See page because it shows a decline in temperatures

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