The Climatic Research Unit email controversy began in November 2009 with the hacking of a server at the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia (UEA) by an external attacker, copying thousands of emails and computer files, Climatic Research Unit documents to various internet locations.
10 Year Anniversary of Climate Gate
It’s Officially the Tenth Anniversary
of Climategate – and they’ve learned nothing
By Charles Rotter and Anthony Watts
From Charles:
It was ten years ago today that I personally
first viewed the instructions to download the Climategate files from the
anonymous Russian server. That set in motion a series of events still
affecting the outcome of worldwide energy and environmental policy today.
The whitewashers at the BBC, The Guardian, and elsewhere have started putting
up their officially sanctioned narrative version, amounting to little more than
nothing to see hear move along.
I wrote up my contemporaneous version of
events here.
Anyone who wants to rebut claims of
exoneration can
use this Ross McKitrick paper for reference.
A couple of days ago we reposted Judith
Curry’s excellent 10 year anniversary write up.
By Charles Rotter and Anthony Watts
From Charles:
It was ten years ago today that I
personally first viewed the instructions to download the Climategate files from
the anonymous Russian server. That set in motion a series of events still
affecting the outcome of worldwide energy and environmental policy today.
The whitewashers at the BBC, The Guardian, and elsewhere have started putting
up their officially sanctioned narrative version, amounting to little more than
nothing to see hear move along.
I wrote up my contemporaneous version of
events here.
Anyone who wants to rebut claims of
exoneration can
use this Ross McKitrick paper for reference.
A couple of days ago we reposted Judith
Curry’s excellent 10 year anniversary write up.
November 15, 2019
…
Did climate scientists learn anything
from Climategate?
Looking forward, should Climategate
matter? Only if scientists failed to learn the appropriate lessons.
At the time of Climategate, I wrote an
essay entitled On
the credibility of climate research.
I raised four key issues:
- · Lack of transparency,
- · climate tribalism,
- · the need for improved analysis and
- · communication of uncertainty, and
- · engagement with ‘skeptics’ and critics of our work.
At the time, I was rather astonished by
the failure of climate science ‘leaders’ (apart from the climagaters defending
themselves) to make public statements about this and show some leadership.
Interesting insights into the
‘leadership’ void at the time of Climategate are revealed by a tranche of
emails obtained by the CEI [link]
dated the first half of 2010, involving scientists involved iClimategate emails
as well as others who are regarded as the keepers of the IPCC ‘flame’ – e.g.
Michael Oppenheimer, Steve Schneider, Gabi Hegerl, Eric Steig, Kevin Trenberth.
…
The
Ten
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