Comments on: The Heart of the Scandal

By: Wearysider

Wearysider — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 00:49:25 +0000

It isn’t ‘Hadley CRU’ it’s ‘University of East Anglia CRU’ btw.

By: Evil Red Scandi

Evil Red Scandi — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 19:51:19 +0000

Disclaimer – I am not a professional scientist and I’m not working on anything that even resembles The End of the World.

And yet if I had to turn over any of the stuff I work on for audit purposes, I could do so and be done with it. It’s organized and coherent. Any reasonable person with comparable expertise in my field could look at it and go “OK, I see what’s going on.” If I got hit by a truck tomorrow, the people dependent on me would be OK.

So how on Earth are we supposed to trust trillions of dollars of economic activity to a bunch of people whose work is – by their own insistence – so disorganized and opaque? To people who, if CRU’s “the dog ate my data” statements are correct, can’t even replicate their own work?

The science aside, based on the attitudes shown in these e-mails I wouldn’t trust these guys with $1,000, let alone the amounts of money they’re given to do research and the massive global implications of their findings. It’s really breathtaking how badly screwed up this situation is.

By: hunter

hunter — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 18:45:44 +0000

Fred,
Apparently so.

By: Fred

Fred — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 17:25:26 +0000

Working in a field that literally affects the fate of civilization on this planet these scientists feel that having an outsider check their work is too much of a burden?

By: Jim Turner

Jim Turner — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 09:37:12 +0000

“…they are ignoring anybody who has dealings with CA,…”
What do they mean by this? There are several regular ‘big names’ at CA and I guess these are the ones they are looking out for, but do they keep a list of CA posters who use their real names? As someone who as infrequently posted at CA under my real name (since not working in the climate field) would I be picked up as someone to ignore?

By: David Harrington

David Harrington — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 08:22:23 +0000

I have created a petition on the UK Number 10 web site to gather signatures for an inquiry into this affair. If you are a UK citizen or resident please add your name to this petition.

http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/HADLEY-LEAK/

Thanks

By: dearieme

dearieme — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:29:33 +0000

“Essentially, Phil Jones is saying that, as a government official,..”: he doesn’t appear to be a government official. He appears to be a university employee.