On the Hacked Emails

"Doonesbury" might have long ago jumped the shark but in his day, Trudeau was on target with his satire. During Watergate, the Nixon Administration did not want to release their tapes because statements could be taken out of context. Trudeau exploited this opening. The artistically-challenged cartoonist drew the White House and used speech balloons. Someone in the White House parrots the "out of context" line and then plays a snippet. "Hey John, how's the cover-up coming?" "Good example."

The East Anglia emails are full of "How's the cover-up coming?" kind of excerpts. One or two of these could be damning but they keep piling up. The case for fraud is overwhelming.

A few quick samples:

From Michael E. Mann (withholding of information / data):

“Dear Phil and Gabi,

I’ve attached a cleaned-up and commented version of the matlab code that I wrote for doing the Mann and Jones (2003) composites. I did this knowing that Phil and I are likely to have to respond to more crap criticisms from the idiots in the near future, so best to clean up the code and provide to some of my close colleagues in case they want to test it, etc. Please feel free to use this code for your own internal purposes, but don’t pass it along where it may get into the hands of the wrong people.”

So gentle reader, how does it feel to be the wrong people?

Try this one on for size.

From Phil Jones (destroying of emails / evidence):

“Mike, Can you delete any emails you may have had with Keith re AR4? Keith will do likewise. He’s not in at the moment – minor family crisis. Can you also email Gene and get him to do the same? I don’t have his new email address. We will be getting Caspar to do likewise.”

The tip of the iceberg as climatologists say.


From Tom Wigley (ousting of a skeptic from a professional organization):

“Proving bad behavior here is very difficult. If you think that Saiers is in the greenhouse skeptics camp, then, if we can find documentary evidence of this, we could go through official AGU channels to get him ousted.”

Oh the hits just keep on coming. During this brutal frigid winter we might need the pyre of truth to warm our hearts because greenhouse gases ain't going to do it. We'll revisit this subject as long as we have a blog. It is virtually iexhaustible.

Media Monday: CNN Spins Climategate

The Editor Has Returned...Sort of

Technically, I have moved. Still experiencing a loss of equilibrium. "Where is my checkbook? Where is my toothbrush? Where is the bill I was going to pay when I found my checkbook?"

So much to talk about. So much to catch up on. Climategate, the continuation of the notoriously reviled health care reform legislation, Copenhagen and much, much more.
We have missed a lot.

Things are starting to change. You can feel it. :)

Hiatus Coming to an End?

I sure hope so! If all goes well, I will be blogging maniacally in 2010.

In the meantime, I would like to plug a worthy site. It seems that Craig and Sandford and Limbaugh have not cornered the market on hypocrisy.

http://www.randomhouse.com/doubleday/doasisay/quiz.pdf

Moving, etc.

I am moving at the end of December to much smaller quarters. In the meantime I am liquidating rooms of stuff (some might say junk.)

Giant sigh. Climategate in unfolding and I am stuck on the sidelines at least until 2010. this should have been a wonderful Thanksgiving but I spent a lot of time packing and organizing and so on.

I miss my little blog.

Media Monday: Chuck Todd. Obama Shill

WHATEVER ELSE CAN BE SAID ABOUT CHUCK TODD, HIS LOYALTY TO OBAMA IS UNFALTERING

Sweden in Grips of Islam

Ordinarily this item would go on Wild Card Wednesday but this blogster has fallen far off his routine. Transportation problems, a vicious and prolonged cold and all of the hassles one associates with the changing of addresses have kept me isolated from blogsville.

We could see sporadic posting in the foreseeable future.


AMERICA'S FUTURE?