Friday, November 20, 2009

Some Verification Of Hadley CRU Files Hacked

I have posted Climate Files Hacked about the release by anonymous ftp of the contents of hundreds of files and thousands of e-mails. Some have questioned their authenticity. I have partial verification from Real or Fake.

Steve McIntyre (Comment#23773) November 19th, 2009 at 6:08 pm

I’m having trouble getting into CA right now.

I made up a pdf of the emails to help browse through them and it’s over 2000 pages. Every email that I’ve examined so far looks genuine. There are a few emails of mine that are 100% genuine.

It is really quite breathtaking.
Yes. It is breathtaking.

Update: 20 November 2009 1009z

TBR.cc reports that the Hadley Center admits that the files are real.
The director of Britain's leading Climate Research Unit, Phil Jones, has told Investigate magazine's TGIF Edition tonight that his organization has been hacked, and the data flying all over the internet appears to be genuine.

In an exclusive interview, Jones told TGIF, "It was a hacker. We were aware of this about three or four days ago that someone had hacked into our system and taken and copied loads of data files and emails."

"Have you alerted police"

"Not yet. We were not aware of what had been taken."

Jones says he was first tipped off to the security breach by colleagues at the website RealClimate.
WOW It is real. This is going to do a LOT of damage to the AGW Community. Big damage.

TBR.cc recommends Air Con: The Seriously Inconvenient Truth About Global Warming.

You might want to give it a look.

Cross Posted at Classical Values

7 comments:

J Carlton said...

Could you say "damage control" And what an amount of damage to control. I didn't have time to do much more than read a little bit last night, but this is just devastating.

Sir Sefirot said...

Damn. And here I thought that divine justice was just a myth.

I'm salivating already. I keep some skepticism, but if this all turns true...

Damn.

AmPowerBlog said...

Added ... thanks for the tip ...

Anonymous said...

ive allready noticed globull warminists are out trying to hit blogs and say either its b.s. or this is all you got derision...

papertiger said...

Neal J King.
Where is he?

I got a bone to pick with him.
Heh.

Megabites of bones actually.

Too much to chew in one sitting.

Here's the best of the comments from Revkin's Dot Earth.


Comment 7

"While this blog post is appreciated by those of us who have always expressed our concern for these very issues, due primarily to the fact that the science has never borne out the assertions of the very scientists who are the authors of these emails, it does seem clear that you were less than thorough in the coverage of them. Climate scientists, secure in their science, would never need to take these steps or make these statements. While The New York Times may use headlines that would misdirect the attention to the 'hack' or the 'private conversations', as the NYT seldom cares too much about this where its ideological foes are concerned, it hardly seems fitting here. Consider the following:

“Some of the excerpts of emails within the archives (edited for brevity, emphasis added):

From Michael E. Mann (witholding 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.

From Nick McKay (modifying data):
The Korttajarvi record was oriented in the reconstruction in the way that McIntyre said. I took a look at the original reference – the temperature proxy we looked at is x-ray density, which the author interprets to be inversely related to temperature. We had higher values as warmer in the reconstruction, so it looks to me like we got it wrong, unless we decided to reinterpret the record which I don’t remember. Darrell, does this sound right to you?

From Tom Wigley (acknowleding the urban effect):
We probably need to say more about this. Land warming since 1980 has been twice the ocean warming — and skeptics might claim that this proves that urban warming is real and important.

From Phil Jones (modification of data to hide unwanted results):
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 from 1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline."




It goes on, but I'll let you click.

M. Simon said...

tiger,

Thanks. It should be at the very least amusing if not enlightening.

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