By Elmer Beauregard
On Nov. 20th Startribune.com had a nice article about the hacked emails called "A Global Warming Meltdown" written by by Andrew C. Revkin, of the New York Times.
The article talked about how the emails revealed that scientists were using statistical "tricks" to make charts show a recent sharp warming trend. I went to find that article today on their website and it is gone, it seems to have been pulled. I can't find it on the New York Times website either, a lot of other sites had linked to this article as well, but all you get is the 404 error message.
On Nov. 21 Andrew Revkin wrote another article called "Hacked E-Mail Is New Fodder for Climate Dispute" this article is essentially the same as the article written the day before only the headline is different. hhhhhmmmmm
Today's article on startribune.com on the subject which is now being called "Climategate" is Hackers leak climate change e-mails from key research unit, stoke debate on global warming. This article seems more directed at killing the messenger and how this may have been done to undermine the Copenhagen meeting.
This is probably the spin the mainstream press will put on this whole thing, which is a bit like saying Woodward and Burnstein were just trying to undermine Nixon.
That started right from the get-go.
Instead of screaming, "AGW IS A PROVEN SCAM!", you immediately got headlines decrying the theft and the hack of classified email and data from this wonderful institution. And... classified by whom? This is not government secrets. I have to then assume they are talking about the twerps at CRU themselves 'classifying' the info, not some Official Secrets Act sort of thing. But you never get that clarification. Oh no. Not ever.
I just noticed this myself. I searched and searched but it's gone.
Google still has the article cached. Search with "A Global Warming Meltdown". Right now it is the 2nd item on the list.
The Google cached page can be found at:
http://209.85.229.132/search?q=cache:4BqS5zEn9skJ:www.startribune.com/world/70674087.html%3Felr%3DKArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUUsZ+%22a+global+warming+meltdown%22&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk
I did see that and if you compare the 2 articles the only difference is the headline. Which I think was pulled because it was too damaging to the cause.
StarTribune.com
A global warming meltdown
By ANDREW C. REVKIN, New York Times
November 20, 2009
Hundreds of private e-mail messages and documents hacked from a computer server at a British university are causing a stir among global warming skeptics, who say they show that climate scientists conspired to overstate the case for a human influence on climate change.
The e-mail messages, attributed to prominent U.S. and British climate researchers, include discussions of scientific data and whether it should be released, exchanges about how best to combat the arguments of skeptics and casual comments -- in some cases derisive -- about people known for their skeptical views. Drafts of scientific papers and a photo collage that portrays climate skeptics on an ice floe were also among the hacked data, some of which dates back 13 years.
In one e-mail, a scientist writes of using a statistical "trick" in a chart illustrating a recent sharp warming trend. In another, a scientist refers to skeptics as "idiots."
Some skeptics asserted Friday that the correspondence revealed an effort to withhold scientific information. "This is not a smoking gun, this is a mushroom cloud," said Patrick Michaels, a climatologist who has long faulted evidence pointing to human-driven warming and is criticized in the documents.
Questions will be raised
Some of the correspondence portrays the scientists as feeling under siege by the skeptics' camp and worried that any stray comment or data aberration could be turned against them.
But the evidence pointing to a growing human contribution to global warming is so widely accepted that the hacked material is unlikely to erode the overall argument. However, the documents will undoubtedly raise questions about the quality of research on some specific questions and the actions of some scientists.
In several e-mail exchanges, Kevin Trenberth, a climatologist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, and other scientists discussed whether a string of recent years of relatively stable temperatures undermined scientific models that predict long-term warming. "The fact is that we can't account for the lack of warming at the moment, and it is a travesty that we can't," Trenberth wrote.
Other scientists went on to rebut him, saying that the fluctuations were not inconsistent with a continuing warming trend.
Officials at the University of East Anglia confirmed in a statement on Friday that files had been stolen from a university server and that the police had been brought in to investigate the breach. They added, however, that they could not confirm that all the material circulating on the Internet was authentic.
But several scientists and others contacted by the New York Times confirmed that they were the authors or recipients of specific e-mail messages included in the file.
Trenberth said that he was appalled at the release of the e-mail messages, which he said were private discussions. But he added that he thought the revelations might backfire against climate skeptics. If anything, he said, he thought that the messages showed "the integrity of scientists."
'There's nothing there'
Still, some of the comments might lend themselves being interpreted as sinister. In a 1999 e-mail exchange about charts showing climate patterns over the last two millenniums, Phil Jones, a longtime climate researcher at the East Anglia Climate Research Unit, said he had used a "trick" employed by another scientist, Michael Mann, to "hide a decline" in temperatures.
Mann, a professor at Pennsylvania State University, confirmed in an interview that the e-mail message was real. He said the choice of words by his colleague was poor but noted that scientists often use the word "trick" to refer to a good way to solve a problem "and not something secret."
"It sounds incriminating, but when you look at what you're talking about, there's nothing there," Mann said.
Jones, writing in an e-mail message, declined to be interviewed.
Stephen McIntyre, a blogger who has for years been using his website, climateaudit.org, to challenge data used to chart climate patterns and came in for heated criticism in some e-mail messages, called the revelations "quite breathtaking."
But several scientists whose names appear repeatedly in the e-mail messages said they merely revealed that scientists were human beings and did nothing to undercut the body of research on global warming.
"Science doesn't work because we're all nice," said Gavin Schmidt, a climatologist at NASA whose e-mail exchanges with colleagues over a variety of recent climate studies were included in the cache. "Newton may have been an ass, but the theory of gravity still works."
Schmidt said the breach at the University of East Anglia was discovered after hackers who had gained access to the correspondence sought on Tuesday to hack into a different server supporting realclimate.org, a blog unrelated to NASA that he runs with several other scientists pressing the case for global warming.
© 2009 Star Tribune. All rights reserved.
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