{"id":15552,"date":"2011-02-03T04:00:09","date_gmt":"2011-02-03T12:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetsave.com\/?p=15552"},"modified":"2011-02-03T04:00:09","modified_gmt":"2011-02-03T12:00:09","slug":"the-real-climategate-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetsave.com\/articles\/the-real-climategate-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"The Real Climategate Crime"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The big crime when it came to climate gate in my mind was always the actual and only crime — hackers breaking into private emails of leading climate scientists and releasing bits of them in a way to misrepresent them and, essentially, sick the dogs on them.<\/strong> Why the media didn’t make a bigger deal of this crime is still a mystery to me. Why hardly anyone even mentions it, is an even greater mystery. I’m not the only one who has thought about these things, though. RealClimate recently had an in-depth piece on a new study of the climategate hoopla. While the researchers seemed to have missed some key points, RealClimate doesn’t. Here’s an extended quote from the piece, the part I found especially poignant:<\/p>\n

After having studied the discussions in the CRU-emails, Ryghaug and Skj\u00f8lsvold find that they suggest that climate sciences appear to be doing scientific business-as-usual. As did earlier\u00a0inquiries<\/a>. But this is not really the interesting part. The interesting story concerns the reactions in the aftermath of the CRU-hack and the notion of manipulation and the absence of transparency. In this story, it is a paradox that we only have seen the tip of the iceberg \u2013 what lies below the surface is hidden \u2013 while questions of manipulation and transparency has been at its heart (and hence Ryghaug and Skj\u00f8lsvold\u2019s STS study).<\/p>\n

Since there wasn\u2019t any improper manipulation of scientific data, the \u2018manipulation\u2019 in this story involved taking the contents in the e-mails out of context and the generation of wild accusations devoid of any real evidence. The manipulation really was about the perception of the climate research community and how that was presented in blogosphere and the media.<\/p>\n

When it comes to transparency, I cannot think of any more murky environment than that of think tanks in which many accusers thrive. In order to be taken seriously, they need to be open too, sharing their code and raw data as they have demanded of Phil Jones and the CRU. I wanted to reproduce some results of a solar-climate study, but the authors\u00a0refused to divulge their code<\/a>. I have also asked to see the methods of some Norwegians who claim that climate models fail to reproduce the recent trends and have made a big fuss out of climategate \u2013 all without a positive outcome.<\/p>\n

I think that representatives from the contrarian community are the ones who really play the shady part in the story of \u201cClimategate\u201d. Has anybody ever seen the original data and methods from people like\u00a0Scafetta & West<\/a>, Svensmark, Lindzen, Michaels, Piers Corbyn, Lomborg, Easterbrook and Douglass? I haven\u2019t. Similarly, I have seen no clamor in the contrarian blogosphere demanding it, even while their conclusions are eagerly accepted. I agree with Ryghaug and Skj\u00f8lsvold that scientific knowledge is about persuasion, which implies that evidence must be presented in a clear and transparent fashion (divulging both method and data), published in the scientific literature, and tested over time. The evidence must sway the majority and create a consensus.<\/p>\n

It is also a mystery to me why the mainstream media has not seen the real situation concerning who played the different roles and what was actually hidden \u2013 hence it could be appropriate to rename \u201cclimategate\u201d to \u201cclimateg\u00e5te\u201d, where \u201cg\u00e5te\u201d means\u00a0riddle<\/em> in Norwegian. We still don\u2019t know who the hacker(s) was (were) (and hack it was<\/a>).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read RealClimate’s full piece here:\u00a0The obvious answer<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Related Story:\u00a0Loony \u201cCIA Vet\u201d Kent Clizbe Trying to Get Dirt on Dr Michael Mann, Saying Colleagues Could Get Millions for Helping<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Photo Credit: Steve Punter<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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