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Climategate: the emails that most damn Jones
Andrew Bolt
–, Saturday, November, 21, 2009, (12:19pm)
These are the emails that should have Professor Phil Jones most worried about his future.
Jones, head of the CRU unit whose emails were leaked, has been under most fire so far over one email in particular in which he boasted of using a '"trick" to "hide the decline" that would have otherwise spoiled his graph showing temperatures soaring ever-upward.
But far more serious - at least in a legal sense - may be his apparent boasting of destroying data to stop sceptics from checking this alarmist work. If, as some emails suggest, he destroyed it to thwart FOI requests from Professor Ross McKitrick and Steve McIntyre, who'd already exposed as fake the Michael Mann "hockey stick", Jones, one of the most active of the IPCC lead authors, could even face criminal charges.
(Note: in saying that, I should add that these emails may simply be poorly worded, out of context or even altered by the whistleblower who leaked them. Jones may also not knowingly have done anything wrong, and there is no proof that he did anything against the law. UPDATE: Several updates on Jones below, including his "selfish" wish to see global warming "regardless of the consequences" just to be proved right.)
Whether laws were broken or not, the emails prove beyond doubt how resistant Jones and his colleagues were to having their work properly scrutinised by anyone not of their "team". No wonder, perhaps, when the documents reveal Jones has so far attracted $25 million in grants.)
The most damning emails on this point are the following, starting with 1107454306.txt, in which Jones refers to MM - McIntyre and McKitrick (bold added):
At 09:41 AM 2/2/2005, Phil Jones wrote:
Mike, I presume congratulations are in order - so congrats etc !
Just sent loads of station data to Scott. Make sure he documents everything better this time ! And don't leave stuff lying around on ftp sites - you never know who is trawling them. The two MMs have been after the CRU station data for years. If they ever hear there is a Freedom of Information Act now in the UK, I think I'll delete the file rather than send to anyone. Does your similar act in the US force you to respond to enquiries within 20 days? - our does ! The UK works on precedents, so the first request will test it.We also have a data protection act, which I will hide behind. Tom Wigley has sent me a worried email when he heard about it - thought people could ask him for his model code. He has retired officially from UEA so he can hide behind that. IPR should be relevant here, but I can see me getting into an argument with someone at UEA who'll say we must adhere to it !
Jones admits he was warned by his own university against deleting data subjected to an FOI request from McIntyre - or anyone:
From: Phil Jones
To: santer1@XXXX
Subject: Re: A quick question
Date: Wed Dec 10 10:14:10 2008
Haven't got a reply from the FOI person here at UEA. So I'm not entirely confident the numbers are correct. One way of checking would be to look on CA, but I'm not doing that. I did get an email from the FOI person here early yesterday to tell me I shouldn't be deleting emails - unless this was 'normal' deleting to keep emails manageable! McIntyre hasn't paid his £10, so nothing looks likely to happen re his Data Protection Act email.
Anyway requests have been of three types - observational data, paleo data and who made IPCC changes and why. Keith has got all the latter - and there have been at least 4. We made Susan aware of these - all came from David Holland. According to the FOI Commissioner's Office, IPCC is an international organization, so is above any national FOI. Even if UEA holds anything about IPCC, we are not obliged to pass it on, unless it has anything to do with our core business - and it doesn't! I'm sounding like Sir Humphrey here!
Makes you wonder very strongly what Jones is trying to hide, doesn't it? Also makes you laugh all over again at his claim once that the data being sought had, sadly, been ... um, lost.
In1212063122.txtm, Jones urges another colleague, Michael "Hockey Stick", Mann, to join in the deleting - at least of emails about the IPCC's controversial ARA report on man-made warming which Jones co-authored, and which claimed warming was "unequivocal" and "most likely" caused by humans:
From: Phil Jones
To: "Michael E. Mann"
Subject: IPCC & FOI
Date: Thu May 29 11:04:11 2008
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.
I see that CA claim they discovered the 1945 problem in the Nature paper!!
For years Jones has made clear his determination to keep crucial data from the eyes of sceptics:
From: Phil Jones
Subject: Fwd: CCNet: PRESSURE GROWING ON CONTROVERSIAL RESEARCHER TO DISCLOSE SECRET DATA
Date: Mon Feb 21 16:28:32 2005
Cc: "raymond s. bradley"
, "Malcolm Hughes"
Mike, Ray and Malcolm,
The skeptics seem to be building up a head of steam here ! Maybe we can use this to our advantage to get the series updated !
Odd idea to update the proxies with satellite estimates of the lower troposphere rather than surface data !. Odder still that they don't realise that Moberg et al used the Jones and Moberg updated series !
Francis Zwiers is till onside. He said that PC1s produce hockey sticks. He stressed that the late 20th century is the warmest of the millennium, but Regaldo didn't bother
with that. Also ignored Francis' comment about all the other series looking similar to MBH.
The IPCC comes in for a lot of stick. Leave it to you to delete as appropriate !
PS I'm getting hassled by a couple of people to release the CRU station temperature data.
Don't any of you three tell anybody that the UK has a Freedom of Information Act !
And when Jones is really forced to the point of handing over his data, he considers ways to may checking it more difficult or annoying:
Options appear to be:
Send them the data
Send them a subset removing station data from some of the countries who made us pay in the normals papers of Hulme et al. (1990s) and also any number that David can remember. This should also omit some other countries like (Australia, NZ, Canada, Antarctica). Also could extract some of the sources that Anders added in (31-38 source codes in J&M 2003). Also should remove many of the early stations that we coded up in the 1980s.
Send them the raw data as is, by reconstructing it from GHCN. How could this be done? Replace all stations where the WMO ID agrees with what is in GHCN. This would be the raw data, but it would annoy them.
But Jones figures a way out:
At 04:53 AM 5/9/2008, you wrote:
Mike, Ray, Caspar,
A couple of things - don't pass on either…
2. You can delete this attachment if you want. Keep this quiet also, but this is the person who is putting in FOI requests for all emails Keith and Tim have written and received re Ch 6 of AR4. We think we've found a way around this…
This message will self destruct in 10 seconds!
Prof. Phil Jones
More from Don't-Disclose Phil, who seems to have a like-minded acolyte in Melbourne's own Bureau of Meterology warmist David Jones:
Email 1182255717.txt
Wei-Chyung and Tom,
The Climate Audit web site has a new thread on the Jones et al. (1990) paper, with lots of quotes from Keenan. So they may not be going to submit something to Albany. Well may be?!?
Just agreed to review a paper by Ren et al. for JGR. This refers to a paper on urbanization effects in China, which may be in press in J. Climate. I say 'may be' as Ren isn't that clear about this in the text, references and responses to earlier reviews. Have requested JGR get a copy a copy of this in order to do the review.In the meantime attaching this paper by Ren et al. on urbanization at two sites in China.Nothing much else to say except:
1. Think I've managed to persuade UEA to ignore all further FOIA requests if the people have anything to do with Climate Audit
.2. Had an email from David Jones of BMRC, Melbourne. He said they are ignoring anybody who has dealings with CA, as there are threads on it about Australian sites.
3. CA is in dispute with IPCC (Susan Solomon and Martin Manning) about the availability of the responses to reviewer's at the various stages of the AR4 drafts. They are most interested here re Ch 6 on paleo.
Wow. Which sites may they be? And what does it say of David Jones that the reading of a single website renders you a non-person, whose inquiries must invariably be disregarded?
How impartial a scientist is Phil Jones? How open to evidence that he may be wrong? Gather from this confession to John Christy:
...If anything, I would like to see the climate change happen, so the science could be proved right, regardless of the consequences. This isn't being political, it is being selfish.
Cheers, Phil
How typical for Jones to confuse "science" with "hypothesis".
The attempts to stop the publication of papers by sceptics such as Chris de Freitas and Roger Pielke (sr?) are astonishing. This is how the image of consensus was forged - in both senses of the word: From Phil Jones to Michael Mann, dated July 8, 2004:
The other paper by MM is just garbage - as you knew. De Freitas again. Pielke is also losing all credibility as well by replying to the mad Finn as well - frequently as I see it. I can't see either of these papers being in the next IPCC report. Kevin and I will keep them out somehow - even if we have to redefine what the peer-review literature is !
The trouble is the so many climate scientists and institutions are implicated in these emails, or are connected to those involved, that who is left in the scientific community to hold Jones and his mates to account? Who has even the will to strike against a high priest of the warming faith?
Yet from the reaction even at RealClimate, it seems even the faithful must now hold their nose.
It seems that Phil Jones' request to his colleagues to delete emails followed an FOI request not from Steve McIntyre but from engineer David Holland. The following time-line (from Bishop Hill) of Holland's FOI requests to Keith Briffa, a lead author of the IPCC's key chapter 6 of ARA4, is especially damning:
May 5 - FOI request
May 6 - CRU Acknowledgement
June 3 - CRU Refusal Notice
June 4 - Holland Appeal
June 20 - CRU Rejection of Appeal
Fom the May 5 FOI request to the CRU, which employs Briffa:
Dear Mr Palmer,
Request for Information concerning the IPCC, 2007 WGI Chapter 6 Assessment Process
Drs Keith Briffa and Timothy Osborn of your Climatic Research Unit served as lead authors on the IPCC Fourth Assessment, which by international agreement was required to be undertaken on an comprehensive, objective, open and transparent basis.1 On 31 March 2008, I asked Dr Briffa for important specific information, not so far released, on his work as a lead author to which I have had no reply or acknowledgement, but have, through other FoI enquiries, been given a copy of his email dated 1 April 2008, to several other IPCC participants including Dr Philip Jones, and to which my letter was attached. He told his colleagues his response to me would be brief when he got round to it. Also included in the documents released to me is an email dated 14 March 2008 to Dr Briffa, among others, from Susan Solomon, Co-Chair of WGI, advising the addressees not to disclose information beyond that (which I consider inadequate) already in the public domain.
Accordingly, I hereby request the following information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and/or the Environmental Information Regulations 2004:
But here, again, is CRU boss Phil Jones, just three weeks after David Holland's FOI request:
From: Phil Jones
To: "Michael E. Mann"
Subject: IPCC & FOI
Date: Thu May 29 11:04:11 2008
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.
I see that CA claim they discovered the 1945 problem in the Nature paper!!
Prof. Phil Jones
No to disclosure to non-friends!:
From: Phil Jones
To: santer, Tom Wigley
Subject: Re: Schles suggestion
Date: Wed Dec 3 13:57:09 2008
Cc: mann, Gavin Schmidt, Karl Taylor, peter gleckler
When the FOI requests began here, the FOI person said we had to abide by the requests. It took a couple of half hour sessions – one at a screen, to convince them otherwise showing them what CA was all about. Once they became aware of the types of people we were dealing with, everyone at UEA (in the registry and in the Environmental Sciences school – the head of school and a few others) became very supportive. I've got to know the FOI person quite well and the Chief Librarian – who deals with appeals. The VC is also aware of what is going on –
Ain't peer reivew grand? You only get to be checked by the people you know will agree.
Incidentally, where in FOI legislation does it say man-made warming sceptics are banned from using it?
Have Your Say
The two MMs
Shouldn't that be the two Mcs? AGW scientists can't be expected to get anything right…
Sat 21 Nov 09 (09:11am)
Sat 21 Nov 09 (12:59pm)
You are right, Anthony, but their modelling says 'two MMs'.
Sat 21 Nov 09 (02:23pm)
Not sure about other countries or States, but in Victoria it is an indictable offence to obtain property by deception. If data was deliberately altered or made up to support a theory that would lead to the granting of funds, then one could argue those funds were obtained dishonestly through deception.
Sat 21 Nov 09 (09:12am)
Sat 21 Nov 09 (09:28am)
yep… it's called fraud no matter where you're from and is typically a criminal offence.
Sat 21 Nov 09 (10:24am)
Roman if this is indeed proven to be a world wide conspiracy to defraud then every single AGW scientist should be thrown in jail with those that funded them.
Those who cried wolf while blindly following ie Krudd and Co should also be held 100% accountable
Sat 21 Nov 09 (12:46pm)
Don't worry Roman, what you see in climate is being approximately replicated in most other fields of science.
Even in Australia we have been subject to similar frauds, where scientists colour their conclusions in order to wring research grants out of predominantly government funding bodies.
I have been talking for many years about the level of corruption amongst those engaged in public science. This is just the first validation of what is really a widespread problem.
Sat 21 Nov 09 (01:23pm)
These emails must be genuine. Too many names and known emails are refered to for them not to be genuine.
Sat 21 Nov 09 (08:24pm)
I was expecting Senator Wong and Tim Foolery to get the spoils from 'saving' the Australian Waterfront Homes over million dollars each, under Compulsory Acquisition in a Fire Sale (no pun intended as Water Sale.
They are so FULL of It
Are these people really supposed to be the best and brightest? He is urging people to delete emails and sending his requests BY EMAIL!! Either Loserville has a new Mayor or this is all a hoax to sting the whistleblowers.
If true, it has the potential to bring the whole climate change crusade to it's knees, and makes a mockery of claims that the science is settled on this.
Sat 21 Nov 09 (09:16am)
Sat 21 Nov 09 (02:45pm)
Also, deleting an email from your inbox does not necessarily delete it from the server where it is stored, or from an backups made of the server data.
This is a link with all of the files in a directory that can be searched.
for example
Sat 21 Nov 09 (09:24am)
Sun 22 Nov 09 (05:36am)
I followed the link, and browsed randomly. It did not take me very long at all to find an message hinting at unethical conduct:
Yeah, it wasn't so much 1998 and all that that I was concerned about, used to dealing with that, but the possibility that we might be going through a longer - 10 year - period of relatively stable temperatures beyond what you might expect from La Nina etc.
Speculation, but if I see this as a possibility then others might also. Anyway, I'll maybe cut the last few points off the filtered curve before I
give the talk again as that's trending down as a result of the end effects and the recent cold-ish years.
Suppressing inconvenient data to give a deliberately misleading impression? I expect this of politicians and lobbyists, but not of scientists.
(Note: in saying that, I should add that these emails may simply be poorly worded, out of context or even altered by the whistleblower who leaked them. Jones may also not knowingly have done anything wrong.)
If they do turn out to be real emails it's the context that becomes important.
RealClimate have released a statement.
Sat 21 Nov 09 (09:24am)
Sat 21 Nov 09 (11:07am)
Going for the "taken out of context" defense huh?
Sat 21 Nov 09 (11:27am)
Indeed. The part I enjoyed most was:
More interesting is what is not contained in the emails. There is no evidence of any worldwide conspiracy, no mention of George Soros nefariously funding climate research, no grand plan to 'get rid of the MWP', no admission that global warming is a hoax, no evidence of the falsifying of data, and no 'marching orders' from our socialist/communist/vegetarian overlords.
All of that is on the other server
Sat 21 Nov 09 (11:32am)
So you are saying that if it proves correct that they committed fraud, it's OK as long as they had good intentions. Yeah, I'll buy that.
Sat 21 Nov 09 (11:35am)
quote - "no evidence of the falsifying of data"
- just one sentence proving 'realclimate' is absolutely without credibility.
It was more concerned with buzz words such as 'ethics' and 'privacy', and in the relatively minor addressing of the actual content, it was literally put down to enthused disagreemet between scientists within the organization and nothing more, whilst having a go at and degrading those who would actually dare to read more into the information.
Utterly pathetic - realclimate has itself become a master of denial here, and no amount of spin, deceit and denial won't stop the sh*t from hitting it's fan.
Thanks Black Knight for showing what a cowardly deceiving organization this is - from now on, one can now even more happily discard anything it has to say in 'defence' of global warming/climate change.
Sat 21 Nov 09 (12:33pm)
I am mindful of email frauds such as the one Malcolm Turnbull fell for, and most of us will recall the "Hitler diaries". But if these emails are genuine then these Hadley guys are not so much scientists as conspirators.
I was nauseated by the bitterness in the email allegedly from Dr Phil Jones who described the death in 2004 of Tasmanian skeptic John Daly as "cheering news." Daly was a Tasmanian who ran an authoritative website debunking junk GW science.
So if this stuff is the McCoy then their arse deserves to be grass.
Sat 21 Nov 09 (12:48pm)
TBK, reading Gavins pathetic defence of the emails highlights that the emails are real and that the information contained in many of the emails is indeed a damning indictment on the CRU's credibility.
The misrepresentation of the data by any factor places the validity of any information supplied by this agency and its associates and must immediately be used as a reason for the delay of any ETS by the government.
Sat 21 Nov 09 (03:22pm)
If they do turn out to be real emails it's the context that becomes important.
If they do turn out to be real emails it's the context that becomes important.
This is quite correct. Mr Logic will now provide the context: if GW theory was shown to be false by the data, they would lose their funding and therefore their jobs.
Sat 21 Nov 09 (04:58pm)
Posted to Real Climate as below:
"We do screen out a lot of [what we judge] the random squawk of the blogosphere and the baseless accusations of malfeasance that are commonplace on open forums."
Your blog and you can do what you like, but how does this differ from "censorship"?
Comment acknowledged with following message:
Your comment is awaiting moderation.
20 November 2009 at 7:25 PM
Just went back to Real Climate page later posts have since been accepted.
What do think of my chances or will I be censored too?
Sat 21 Nov 09 (07:24pm)
If they do turn out to be real emails
I´ve heard of blind faith, but you take the
It´s nearly 24 hours since Jones confirmed
the data was sourced from CRU.
Nothing in any Australian newspaper I can find about this. Nothing in breaking news. This is the biggest story of the century telling about the biggests crooks delivering the biggest scam on the largest change to our culture, and there is nothing, zero, zilch. The blogosphere is going nuts about it, and no Australian newspaper has it as its headlines. Thank goodness for the internet.
The ETS legislation is built upon a scam and a sham. Nobody in any party should support it.
Sat 21 Nov 09 (09:27am)
Sat 21 Nov 09 (11:00am)
Thank goodness for the internet. .For now?
Sat 21 Nov 09 (11:11am)
It took nearly 2 weeks for the American MSM to run anything about the ACORN fraudulent and corrupt practices exposed by a couple of young amateur journalists on Fox News.
That story went viral on the internet, but the msm managed to ignore it until it became so big, and claimed enough prominent scalps, it was impossible to pretend otherwise.
I believe this story will unfold in the same way, especially with Hopenchangen looming.
Sat 21 Nov 09 (12:33pm)
i'm sure rudd is working on a way to control internet content as we speak.
Sat 21 Nov 09 (01:02pm)
Pepper, I have just written to my regular paper pointing this out. I suggest others do so too.
Sat 21 Nov 09 (01:47pm)
Well, no, pepper of qld.
What it really means is that you're a laughable crank with views that require so much denial of reality that they don't warrant a whole lot of adult conversation.
Newspaper reporters, at least good ones, tend to read enough of the material in question to come to a balanced conclusion. That conclusion so far would be that leaping up and down calling this a scandal is just another sad, science-denying joke.
Sat 21 Nov 09 (05:27pm)
Boards of Canada.... So you agree that a Government funded body, who has accepted and used 25 million pounds in Taxpayer funded grants can seek to deny a FOIA order through nefarious means, definitely not in the spirit of transparency, whilst also illegally deleting emails and encouraging others to do likewise????!
And further, you see nothing wrong or news worthy in that? Considering our government is basing economic and environmental policy on that data and that the person in question is a lead author on the IPCC?
Sir, I think you have lost all reason.
Sat 21 Nov 09 (05:48pm)
it would appear that the emails are real (given they haven't been denied), which means that the failure of the msm to report this is....what? I'm struggling for words so can someone help me out please. It's not that I'm surprised because it's been obvious for a long time that the msm is corrupt, but failing to report a story of this magnitude is mindboggling nevertheless.
Sat 21 Nov 09 (07:47pm)
I suggest everyone email all the information to everyone you know and ask them to do the same. This must get out.
Sat 21 Nov 09 (08:10pm)
science-denying joke.
Show me the empirical science that proves beyond doubt that man made global warming is a fact.
On the same theme as Roman of Qld, I'd like to know what the implications are for Lord Nicholas Stern in the UK and our Stern clone Ross Garnaut in regard to the use of information from Hadley CRU.
It would also be worth going back through the IPCC WG1 AR4 report, to see how much of scientific input was derived from Hadley CRU. The obvious one is the Mann hockeystick, which I found was still there this morning.
Sat 21 Nov 09 (09:33am)
Hey Andrew! I think I've made you famous in the U.K I suggested your blog to James Delingpole last night.Michelle Malkin has read you too. Keep up the great work.They could have given related tags to hundreds of journos but gave yours above the rest.
Sat 21 Nov 09 (09:36am)
Sat 21 Nov 09 (11:11am)
Fantastic Andrew!
As of now 65 'blogs from Google blog search are covering this.
Sat 21 Nov 09 (11:56am)
I was just reading James Delingpole's UK Telegraph blog about the CRU hack when I saw his link to Andrew! Nice one Juliana.
(Delingpole used to review TV in every second issue of the London Spectator - and along with Mark Steyn's film reviews it was usually the best thing it it)
Sat 21 Nov 09 (03:03pm)
Andrew, congratulations, well done, we in Australia know how good you are and now the World is slowly starting to know of your great skills.
Thank You!
Juliana, excellent work, well done.
I am truly flabbergasted by this so called hacking and leaking of all these emails, this is dynamite.
Let the truth be exposed!
Sat 21 Nov 09 (08:27pm)
Time to put a FOIA application for Tim Foolery, Shergold Rerport writer and Senator Wong's sources.
Watch proverbial hit the Fan.
Thanks, Juliana.
Andrew Bolt
Sat 21 Nov 09 (10:30am)
At 09:41 AM 2/2/2005, Phil Jones wrote:
If they ever hear there is a Freedom of Information Act now in the UK, I think I'll delete the file rather than send to anyone. Does your similar act in the US force you to respond to enquiries within 20 days? - our does ! The UK works on precedents, so the first request will test it.
Date: Mon Feb 21 16:28:32 2005
Don't any of you three tell anybody that the UK has a Freedom of Information Act !
For these emails to be genuine and not a fake or forgery, these scientists would have to be real stupid with Phill just having learned the UK has a FOI act, and the others not even knowing.
Even though the UK FOI act was five years old!!!!!
Now how likely are the sharpest tools in the climate shed to be that ill-informed about the UK FOI act that most did not know it existed?
Something smells fishy
Sat 21 Nov 09 (09:39am)
Sat 21 Nov 09 (10:57am)
If you warmenists can fabricate climate science for 20 years, you should be able to finesse your way out of a few incriminating emails, eh Ted?
Sat 21 Nov 09 (10:57am)
Nothing fishy. Phil Jones is hoping that 2 Canadians don't know about British FOI Act. Very simple.
Sat 21 Nov 09 (11:16am)
Clutching at straws BT. If you acrually read the emails posted by Andrew, it shows the writers were well aware of FOI.
According to the FOI Commissioner's Office, IPCC is an international organization, so is above any national FOI. Even if UEA holds anything about IPCC, we are not obliged to pass it on, unless it has anything to do with our core business - and it doesn't! I'm sounding like Sir Humphrey here!
Sat 21 Nov 09 (11:39am)
- is that the best you can do ??
Sat 21 Nov 09 (11:53am)
Spot on Big Ted.
And you know what it is, it is the smell of your panic that smells fishy.
Sat 21 Nov 09 (12:09pm)
It reminds me of "how sharp were the tools" at ENRON when they left e-mail trails of their deeds. At that time anybody with a modicum of computer literacy knew that e-mails can't be erased. It happens to the "sharpest" of tools lol
Sat 21 Nov 09 (12:13pm)
Who ever said the "Global Warmers" were clever Comrade Ted
Keep digging that hole for yourself big fella
Sat 21 Nov 09 (06:38pm)
Ted, given you took the time to post that comment it's safe to assume its the strongest argument you can come up with to defend your side..
Very, very wet mate. Keeping quiet would have had more impact.
Sat 21 Nov 09 (06:47pm)
No wonder you wouldnt comment on the hockey stick graph. (belly laugh)
Sat 21 Nov 09 (09:25pm)
Guys like you BT should be reviewing your entire belief system right now. The question really is - How could you NOT know that AGW was a scam???
Having spent some time going thru some of these e-mails last night ( I went thru them in reverse order) I would suggest 2 others should also be worried, MM and KB.
It maybe a coincedence but one of the above seems to have taken quite a bit of time off when the sh*t hits the fan.
I'm no expert but it struck me that these fellows seem to have had a "result" in mind (re temps. graphs etc) first, and worked towards fitting at least some of the results in with that. Good "science".
Sat 21 Nov 09 (09:43am)
Here's some spin from the New York Times that makes even our PM pale in comparison:
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," Dr. Trenberth wrote.
Other scientists went on to rebut him, saying that the fluctuations were not inconsistent with a continuing warming trend.
Dr. Trenberth said Friday that he was appalled at the release of the e-mails, 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 a man with extraordinary front or a total lack of insight.
Keep up the battle Andrew.
Sat 21 Nov 09 (09:46am)
Sat 21 Nov 09 (12:22pm)
Surely not the same Trenberth?
"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.
Sat 21 Nov 09 (01:44pm)
Dr. Trenberth said Friday that he was appalled at the release of the e-mails, which he said were private discussions.
They were discussions about publicly funded work by publicly funded scientists using publicly funded equipment. On what grounds does he think the discussions were private?
Looks like the MSM are all looking the other way, after scanning the Courier Mail from cover to cover cannot find 1 single reference to this latest revelation - I guess the MSM Chosen One must be protected at any cost.
Sat 21 Nov 09 (09:47am)
On the one hand, I feel that Christmas has come early this year. On the other, these emails seem too good to be true - they're the kind of emails I would script for a climate alarmist in a telemovie. In the meantime, John Spooner in today's Age is really just daring them to sack him.
Sat 21 Nov 09 (09:47am)
Don't forget that these people are at the top of the peer-reviewed science.
Sat 21 Nov 09 (09:48am)
Jones is doing the UK's poltical establishment's bidding....any investigation there will be just smoke and mirrors.
However, any of this that overlaps into fraud in the US may well have much more serious consequences.
Sat 21 Nov 09 (09:59am)
Rudd, Wong and Turnbull must now resign.
Sat 21 Nov 09 (10:02am)
Sat 21 Nov 09 (01:19pm)
I am sure when these E-Mails have been proven true they will do the honorable thing and resign A&A;, but then I still believe in Santa Claus.
Sat 21 Nov 09 (05:41pm)
No they don't. Turnbull did not resign over Grech's faked email and no politician will resign over faked research data. The scientists should lose their jobs though.
Sat 21 Nov 09 (10:37pm)
I can here it now "this changes nothing, the science is settled".
Tue 24 Nov 09 (02:09pm)
And Wong of all people- a product of a privileged private school upbringing in Adelaide, with zero experience of the real world- to pontificate over such immensely important issues is a disgrace.
It's not worse than we thought - it is as we thought.
A small group of "climate scientists" called the Team fudge data, suppress contrary research, and go to extraordinary lengths promote a narrative that is simply false.
Big Ted and Dan R are willing puppets.
The screen on the puppet show has come down.
This distortion of science to political ideology has all been documented elsewhere. It is nothing new.
Sat 21 Nov 09 (10:03am)
Andrew gets a mention in the UK Telegraph
Climategate: the final nail in the coffin of 'Anthropogenic Global Warming'?
James Delingpole UK Telegraph.
When you read some of those files – including 1079 emails and 72 documents – you realise just why the boffins at Hadley CRU might have preferred to keep them confidential. As Andrew Bolt puts it, this scandal could well be "the greatest in modern science". These alleged emails – supposedly exchanged by some of the most prominent scientists pushing AGW theory – suggest:
Conspiracy, collusion in exaggerating warming data, possibly illegal destruction of embarrassing information, organised resistance to disclosure, manipulation of data, private admissions of flaws in their public claims and much more.
Sat 21 Nov 09 (10:05am)
Not surprisingly, CRU/Jones is in major back peddling damage control, it's as if he is trying to hide the elephant in the room while it contiunes to crap all over him - not surpisingly as well, the AGW snake oil salesmen, including the regulars here on this blog, are trying to paint CRU as a small bit player - even if that was so, not only does this information reveal tentacles from it reaching other institutions, but one has to also now ask 'who else is fudging/manipulating/with holding data as CRU appears to be'.
And still nothing whatsoever on the MSM, especially the ABC, about this - it's almost as if {they) are reeling from the thought of having to break it to a devoted society that their religion (AGW) is indeed a concocted crock after all.
I suggest 'we' all help by passing the info here onto them in any way we can, including both political parties.
And as for environment victoria organizing it's utterly useless 'walk against global warming' for copenhagan, I suggest they better make it 'run against global warming' as their AGW fairy tale is rapidly falling apart !!
Sat 21 Nov 09 (10:06am)
Sat 21 Nov 09 (11:13am)
Great post! LOL
But our FIO allows the documents to be blacked out if it's deemed in the national interest.
So where does that leave FIO?
Sat 21 Nov 09 (10:09am)
Sat 21 Nov 09 (11:36am)
One of the issues raised in these emails is that international organisations (eg, IPCC, UN) are not subject to national FOI laws.
Where does that leave us with Copenhagen and the proposed new world government?
Sat 21 Nov 09 (11:56am)
If you are talking about FIO in S.A. Peter you are correct, and you have to pay and arm and leg to get it. Didn't Rann say he would make it easier when he was first elected? M Williams
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When Facebook unveiled the concept of "frictionless sharing" back in September it is unlikely that many of its claimed 800 million active users understood what it would mean. The idea, essentially, was that, after an initial approval, they would be able to share effortlessly with their friends the articles they were reading and the music they were listening to.
There are not yet a huge number of services offering this facility. They include apps from newspapers such as The Wall Street Journal, Britain's The Guardian and Independent as well as music services such as Spotify and Deezer. The number both of apps and users, however, appears to be growing very fast.
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In search of "frictionless" sharing, Facebook is putting up a barrier to entry on items your friends want you to see—that is, they're creating friction. Even if it's just a onetime inconvenience, any barrier to sharing breaks sharing. The barriers will keep popping up as more content publishers create social apps that have to be authorized before you can view their content. For every five people who authorize an app, I'd guess five will turn away, and eventually get annoyed enough to stop clicking links at all, and maybe eventually annoyed enough to stop visiting Facebook so often, and go searching for somewhere easier and less invasive to simply post a link and have fun with your friends.
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Throughout this week, most or all of the "most shared" and, by extension, "most viewed" stories on Independent.co.uk have been from the late 1990s. Most are oddball stories with eye-catching headlines, including "Sean, 12, is the youngest father" (January 1998), "Eton pupil died in 'fainting game'" (March 1999) and "Scotland's ugliest woman honoured" (May 1999).
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Ashley Nicole Clark, 23, was initially charged with first degree domestic assault, a class A felony, by Scott County Prosecutor Paul Boyd. The assault charge was amended Wednesday to first degree murder following the death of the Devionah Clark, 13 months.
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The child was then taken to Missouri Delta Medical Center and later transported by helicopter to Children's Hospital in St. Louis.
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An affidavit from Children's Hospital stated doctors found the following injuries based on medical records and radiographic film: bleeding under the covering of the brain, swelling of the brain, bleeding inside the eyes, brain damage, inflicted traumatic brain injury consistent with acceleration/
deceleration, and child maltreatment.
The letter also said "this child has no known medical condition that would predispose her to major injury from minor trauma. The force required to produce these injuries exceeds the force required to provide routine care to a child in the course of normal daily activities, including play, and would be of sufficient magnitude that a reasonable adult would realize that it would likely cause injury or death to a child."
Once information was obtained from emergency room doctors at MDMC indicating the injuries were from apparent abuse, Clark was brought in to DPS headquarters for interviews during which officials obtained a confession.
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According to a probable cause statement, Clark said that on Monday she swung the baby up in the air by her arms three times. On the third time the baby reportedly did a complete flip and dropped to the floor from over four feet high.
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FBO off-screen-rendering problemPosted Thursday, 7 May, 2009 - 08:44 by Shocker in
I'd like to draw 3D directly to Screen. And I tried using WIN32 API - Layered Window with FBO.
It succeeded in creating transparency enabled window . But a problem has occurred in essential Drawing 3D .
Drawing surfaces of Cube was incorrectly . It seems that Depth buffer couldn't work well .
Could you tell me where a mistake is ?
To use depth test with FBOs, you have to attach a depth texture (or renderbuffer) first. In your PreparingGL_FBO method, create a texture using the DepthComponent internal format and attach it with:
GL.GenTextures(1, out depth_texture); GL.BindTextures(TextureTarget.Texture2D, depth_texture); GL.TexImage2D(TextureTarget.Texture2D, 0, PixelInternalFormat.DepthComponent, Width, Height, 0, OpenTK.Graphics.PixelFormat.DepthComponent, PixelType.UnsignedByte, IntPtr.Zero); ... GL.FramebufferTexture2D(FramebufferTarget.Framebuffer, FramebufferAttachment.DepthAttachment, TextureTarget.Texture2D,texture, 0);
Afterwards, depth test should work as expected.
Edit: Some drivers need you to specify the exact bitdepth of the texture, e.g. PixelInternalFormat.DepthComponent24.
Thank you !
I have thought that the FBO needs a Depth texture when it is needed to get Depth buffer as an image .
Yes, texture attachements is needed when you want to get rendered image (depth or color) as texture. If you don't, then use renderbuffer attachment.
I haven't understood use of Render buffer clearly .
Thanks to you, I get a some knowledge .
Hi i am currently drawing offscreen to a renderbuffer attached to and FBO. I need to display the contents of the FBO back to "on-screen" i.e. the window. How can you do that without having to go to main memory by using the glreadpixels() and gldrawpixels()? If i should use glcopypixels() how can i do that because i am trying to get that working and only getting a blank screen back!
glRasterPos2d(0.0, 0.0);
glCopyPixels(0, 0, 500, 500, GL_COLOR);
Do i need to use renderbuffer for better performance or can i just use the texture, as with the latter averything is working fine?
You need to use GL.BlitFramebuffer to copy ("resolve") the renderbuffer to a texture.
The main difference between renderbuffers and textures are that the former can be multisampled while the latter generally cannot (unless the drivers expose multisampled textures, and many do not).
so if the extension for blitting is not supported on the graphics card renderer then there is no other way i can do this pixel transfer?
Unless you use a multisampled render target, glCopyPixels should work.
I don't know if you can copy directly to GL_FRONT, however. It may be possible, but I have never tried this - I always use an intermediate texture, first. Try using GL_BACK.
i tried to use GL_BACK but still all i am getting are just artifacts (parts of the desktop current windows) rather than my drawing


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World renouned prize fighter, Manassa, Colorado, Historical landmarks in Colorado, Bruce McElmurray
Today we took a drive to an adjoining county. In doing so we passed right through Manassa, Colorado. Manassa is a small community that is out of the way but was home to William Harrison Dempsey, better known as the Manassa Mauler, or Jack Dempsey. Dempsey was born June 24, 1895, and died May 31, 1983. He held the world heavyweight title from 1919 - 1926. He is in the International Boxing Hall of Fame. Dempsey has one of the best knockout records in history with an unparalleled winning streak of 32-0 with 28 knockouts, including 17 of them in the first round! Jack Dempsey was not only one of the most exciting heavyweight champions in history he was also one of the ring's greatest all time pound for pound fighters.So what does Jack Dempsey have to do with the present? He was one of the best fighters of all time and his birth place is just a short drive from our house. Manassa is a very small town in South Central Colorado and has a Jack Dempsey museum and statute (see photo) in the center of town. One of the greatest fighters of all time came from this very small town in Southern Colorado near our homestead. Homesteading in the mountains is unique inasmuch as we are constantly surrounded by history. Most readers won't know who Dempsey was but he was world champion fighter when the sport was one of our countries main forms of entertainment. Sometimes we take history for granted. Every time we drive to get our mail we go past Ft. Garland, a fort that was commanded by Kit Carson and helped settle our area. Then not 5 miles from our home is a limber pine tree that I measured and estimated is over 2,100 years old. That tree has had a lot of cultures pass by it. If it could only talk. Our country is only 219 years old by comparison. Mother has a plethora of history packed in its 40 years. Think what a tree that is over two thousand years old could tell us if it could just talk. Two years ago we visited Bonanza, Colorado, a ghost town with an intact cemetery with graves that went back pre-Civil War. The lives and possibly heroes who were interred there. Or Summitville, Colorado; another short drive for us. It too is a ghost town and undergoing a long term EPA clean up. Standing there, looking over the clean up, you can't help but wonder what those who lived there during its prime would think of the current disaster. Same with Bonanza which is contaminated by big mine run off. So history is important especially if you wonder about things like I do. When I find a piece of very old fence on our homestead, I wonder what the land looked like when it was strung by a cowboy or pioneer many years ago. They were probably more concerned with survival than the highs or lows of the stock market, or the many other things we are bombarded with these days. So who cares about history? I care, we are surrounded by it and it makes me wonder when I am confronted with remains or artifacts of history. While our homestead seems remote, there is no question that it has been crossed and crossed again by other cultures over the past several thousand years. History helps me realize that what I presently do needs to be done for those who will come in the future and hopefully they will find it as clean as I found it when we moved here. History therefore does have value, especially when you are surrounded by it or you live in a county like we do, where the county seat is the oldest city in Colorado. Every direction that we turn, history is right there to be seen and experienced. Our local area has given inspiration to many western novels and I'm sure there are many more to be written in the future. Cowboys, Indians, explorers, miners have all passed through here many times. As they say now - we have history!!!History, Who Cares About History?
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Fife Sports and Leisure Trust is implementing rules following advice from Scottish Swimming that mean children learning to swim may be supervised from the poolside only and not by an instructor in the water with them.
There seems to be a difference of opinion about whether it is safer for instructors to be in the pool with children or supervising from the side. The concerns are whether a child getting into difficulty will be noticed and how long it will take to be rescued.
The Courier (Tayside and Fife) reported the story on 2 September 2011. A spokesman is reported as saying "Fife Sports and Leisure Trust is implementing swimming teaching policy in line with the Scottish Swimming pool management and programme guide. As with lifeguards, higher elevation allows the instructor to better spot potential safety issues. All instructors were consulted on this change and parents and students have been advised." The Fife MSP questioned the practicality of the change saying "Whether in excess of four is a realistic cut-off point I have my doubts. Nevertheless, I can understand the trepidation some teachers may have about not adhering to these guidelines." One worried mother said: "My two children are very young and have both just started learning to swim and I for one am very concerned about these so-called guidelines.
Fife Today also reported the story. A parent is reported as saying "I think it's a very silly decision — I don't know anyone who thinks it's a good idea." And it has been reported that a child did get into difficultly after the rules were implemented and had to be rescued by a lifeguard. The report suggests some lifeguards were choosing to ignore the new rules.
Learning to swim is an important life skill and can reduce the risks of individuals drowning in later life. Therefore, it is important that children have the opportunity to learn to swim. Equally, they have to be safe whilst learning, and it seems that people do not agree whether it is better for the instructor to be in the water or on the side. It may be that this is not the decision that is silly but the way swimming lessons are run. In particular, the number of children per instructor, especially for the first few lessons whilst they gain confidence and learn the basics.
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