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Saturday 21st November 2009
QUICK! Burn the e-mails! BURN THEM!
For those with the vaguest of interest in global warming and the role that man plays in this, the internet seems to be all a-buzz with news that a load of 'confidential' e-mails from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit have escaped. This received vague coverage on the BBC, the Telegraph and no doubt many other places, but if you want to read the e-mails themselves (straight from the horse's mouth), there's always the ever-reliable WikiLeaks, of course. A searchable archive of these e-mails can be found here. I've not had the chance to read through all those hundreds of e-mails, so cannot verify whether quotations like this (the use of emboldened type-face is my own):
I've just completed Mike's Nature trick of adding in the real temps
to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) amd [sic] from
1961 for Keith's to hide the decline. Mike's series got the annual
land and marine values while the other two got April-Sept for [Northern Hemisphere] land
N of 20N. The latter two are real for 1999, while the estimate for 1999
for NH combined is +0.44C wrt 61-90. The Global estimate for 1999 with
data through Oct is +0.35C cf. 0.57 for 1998.
are genuine or not. The above certainly suggests a healthy massaging of data though. Ho hum. However, I always take news of these 'leaks' with a pinch of salt, as should everyone. Was the data genuinely leaked or did someone, somewhere allow it to happen?
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