Comments on: Time for some wild speculation – update II

By: Chief Blogger

Chief Blogger — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:52:29 +0000

i think when one considers the word ‘trick’ in the context of all the emails – which give a pattern of sloppy data handling, hiding data and bullying opponents – then one can rightly conclude that the ‘trick’ was to decieve others. Climate Data has explained what the ‘trick’ was.

By: evan

evan — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:13:52 +0000

realclimate.org has started the damage control already. After stating:
“…releasing private information is illegal, and regardless of how they were obtained, posting private correspondence without permission is unethical. We therefore aren’t going to post any of the emails here.”

which is very convenient for them considering that it exposes some serious ethical problems. They then go on to try to defend themselves against one claim, stating:
“Scientists often use the term “trick” to refer to a “a good way to deal with a problem”, rather than something that is “secret”, and so there is nothing problematic in this at all.”

Yeah right. I guess releasing a damage control statement is also known as a ‘trick’.

Now why is that an appropriate word in this situation?

By: evan

evan — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:32:10 +0000

The words that come to mind are ‘epic fail’…

Of course, the fact that the world is cooling, not warming, isn’t a problem for the global warming scaremongers, so I imagine that they’ll palm this off as well.