Climategate Concepts

The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium

by Martin Gurri · 13 Nov 2018 · 379pp · 99,340 words

of the emails exploded across the blogosphere, beginning with the vital community around Climate Audit. On November 20, The Telegraph published a tendentious column titled “Climategate: The final nail in the coffin of ‘Anthropogenic Climate Change?’”[106] With that, the incident received its permanent, if unimaginative, name. The news media now

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scientific institutions judged themselves. I grant that this, too, is hard to prove: there are no measurements of public trust in science before and after Climategate that I am aware of. There is no data going back to 1919. Existing surveys show a significant decline in trust,[108] yet I suspect

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every domain of human activity and every exercise of authority once considered legitimate. The conflict, I maintain, is everywhere. Particular skirmishes, like Tahrir Square and Climategate, are what philosophers call “epiphenomena,” surface effects rather than causes, the crack and rumble of a dissolving glacier. Underneath these events, and far more consequential

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East into an “Arab spring,” many connections have been missed. I have aimed at the strategic, at the big picture, folding Napster and blogging and “Climategate” into the same insurgency that swept Barack Obama to office and knocked Hosni Mubarak off his pharaoh’s throne. I have portrayed a public in

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, Naama. “Social activists: The revolution is here.” Ynetnews.com, July 30, 2011. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4102107,00.html. “Colleague defends ‘ClimateGate’ professor.” BBC, December 4, 2009. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi /8396035.stm. Cottingham, Rob. “The Obama online campaign, by the numbers: quantifying the

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York City.” r/Politics, no date. http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/kv84b/this_is_the_declaration_of_the_occupation_of_new/. Delingpole, James. “Climategate: The final nail in the coffin of ‘Antropogenic Global Warming’?” The Telegraph, November 20, 2009. http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100017393

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Lab,” The Economist, October 17, 2013, http://www.economist.com/news/briefing /21588057-scientists-think-science-self-correcting-alarming-degree-it-not-trouble. [95] The Climategate Emails, John Costella, ed., (The Levoisier Group, March 2010), http://www.lavoisier.com.au/articles/greenhouse-science/climate-change

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in Nate Silver’s The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail – But Some Don’t (The Penguin Press, 2012), 142-175. [116] Climategate Emails, 84. [117] Wikipedia Commons. [118] Bob Woodward, Maestro: Greenspan’s Fed and the American Boom (Simon and Schuster, 2000), Kindle location 507. [119] Ibid

Twilight of Abundance: Why the 21st Century Will Be Nasty, Brutish, and Short

by David Archibald · 24 Mar 2014 · 217pp · 61,407 words

) came up with its ice cap–melting prediction of a 6°C increase in average global temperature by the end of this century? The notorious Climategate emails,1 released on November 20, 2009, appear to show scientists manipulating data to produce the answers they desired, bullying those who disagreed with them

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, “Did IPCC scientists actually believe in the global warming that they were promoting?” Apparently they did, and possibly still do. That is shown by the Climategate emails17 released on November 20, 2009, and a second batch of emails released two years later. The fact that the IPCC scientists believed in the

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or the next. The history of the global warming fraud has been detailed in a number of books published recently, including a number on the Climategate emails alone. One good analysis of the malfeasance of the climate scientists is The Delinquent Teenager Who Was Mistaken for the World’s Top Climate

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Expert, published by Canadian investigative journalist Donna Laframboise in 2011.18 One of the earliest Climategate emails shows how the results of research were tailored to a political agenda. On July 29, 1999, Adam Markham of WWF (a non-government organization

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have seen in my long life as a physicist. Anyone who has the faintest doubt that this is so should force himself to read the ClimateGate documents, which lay it bare. (Montford’s book organizes the facts very well.) I don’t believe that any real physicist, nay scientist, can read

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-goes-mad-for-shale-gas/. Chapter 2: A Less Giving Sun 1.John Costella, ed., The Climategate Emails (Melbourne, Victoria: Lavoisier Group, March 2010), http://www.lavoisier.com.au/articles/greenhouse-science/climate-change/climategate-emails.pdf. 2.Henrik Svensmark and Eigil Friis-Christensen, “Variation of Cosmic Ray Flux and Global Cloud

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Northern Fennoscandinavia during the Last Millenium,” International Union for Quaternary Science Congress 17 (2007). 17.For the text of the emails, see Costella, ed., The Climategate Emails. 18.Donna Laframboise, The Delinquent Teenager Who Was Mistaken for the World’s Top Climate Expert (Toronto: Ivery Avenue, 2011). 19.“A Study of

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Fool Me Twice: Fighting the Assault on Science in America

by Shawn Lawrence Otto · 10 Oct 2011 · 692pp · 127,032 words

in climate science who travels America eruditely calling global warming “bullshit.”53 Obama’s delay gave opponents the time and ammunition they needed to regroup. CLIMATEGATE On November 17, 2009, the battle was rejoined. Days before the start of the Copenhagen climate summit, an unidentified hacker posted on a Russian FTP

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investigating the truth or falsehood of the claims, which could have been easily established, mainstream media outlets lapped up the prepackaged “controversy” and called it “Climategate.” “Too many lazy journalists simply uncritically parroted what they had read from dubious sources, such as climate change denial outfits and blogs,” said Mann.62

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the US and Canada,” which, he said, was “politically troubling because Americans are among the most skeptical about global warming.” When Scott brought up the Climategate e-mails, Goler said that although people had raised questions about the CRU data, “the data also comes from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

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Sammon issued his directive, Palin also used concern appropriation in a major op-ed published in the Washington Post in which she said that the Climategate scandal exposes a highly politicized scientific circle—the same circle whose work underlies efforts at the Copenhagen climate change conference…. The e-mails reveal that

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to 2035—that no one had caught, even when the 2035 prediction had garnered worldwide media attention going into Copenhagen. This error occurred concurrently with Climategate. The press smelled blood in the water, and coverage of the error went worldwide. The retreating glaciers’ iconic beauty had inspired press stories, but so

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their scientific impotence discounting to all of science—precisely the outcome that National Academy of Sciences president Ralph Cicerone had been concerned could happen during Climategate. They had essentially been “radicalized” and set on the path toward an antiscience, antirationalist worldview. “When a person holds a belief,” Munro says, “especially a

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News and How to Use It: What to Believe in a Fake News World

by Alan Rusbridger · 26 Nov 2020 · 371pp · 109,320 words

. <https://spaceshipmedia.org/about/> Abramson, Jill. Merchants of Truth: The Business of News and the Fight for Facts. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2019. Adam, David. ‘“Climategate” review clears scientists of dishonesty over data’. The Guardian, 7 July 2010. <https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2010/jul/07

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This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate

by Naomi Klein · 15 Sep 2014 · 829pp · 229,566 words

better—whether it’s former Vice President Al Gore for his mansions, or famed climate scientist James Hansen for his speaking fees. Then there is “Climategate,” a manufactured scandal in which climate scientists’ emails were hacked and their contents distorted by the Heartlanders and their allies, who claimed to find evidence

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Brief Summary of James E. Hansen’s NASA Ethics File,” American Tradition Institute, November 18, 2011; VINDICATED: David Adam, “ ‘Climategate’ Review Clears Scientists of Dishonesty over Data,” Guardian, July 7, 2010; FUELED: James Delingpole, “Climategate: The Final Nail in the Coffin of ‘Anthropogenic Global Warming’?” Daily Telegraph, November 20, 2009; James Delingpole

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, “Climategate: FOIA—The Man Who Saved the World,” Daily Telegraph, March 13, 2013; BILLBOARD CAMPAIGN: Wendy Koch, “Climate Wars Heat Up with Pulled Unabomber Billboards,” USA

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The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-But Some Don't

by Nate Silver · 31 Aug 2012 · 829pp · 186,976 words

’s length. Michael Mann, who is director of the Earth System Science Center at Penn State University, was once at the center of a controversy. “Climategate” concerned the hacking of a server at the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia,103 which produces the temperature record that

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. “Climatic Research Unit E-Mail Controversy;” Wikipedia.org. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climatic_Research_Unit_email_controversy. 104. Henry Chu, “Panel Clears Researchers in ‘Climategate’ Controversy,” Los Angeles Times, April 15, 2010. http://articles.latimes.com/2010/apr/15/world/la-fg-climate-data15-2010apr15. 105. Including those from satellite

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, 20, 30–36, 39–43, 118–19, 329 failure to predict, 181, 327 global population, growth of, 212 global warming, 13 causality and, 372–73 Climategate and, 408 contrarianism and, 380 Copenhagen conference on, 378–80 IPCC report on, see International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) predictions of, 373–76, 393

Everything Under the Sun: Toward a Brighter Future on a Small Blue Planet

by Ian Hanington · 13 May 2012 · 258pp · 77,601 words

believe the earth was created six thousand years ago and that humans and dinosaurs walked together, have followed his lead. As for the so-called Climategate brouhaha (where more than one thousand emails between climate scientists at the University of East Anglia were stolen or leaked by hackers), a fifth investigation

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happening but say we can’t and shouldn’t do anything about it. Of course, they will continue to repeat the same discredited points about “Climategate” and medieval warm periods and CO2 as plant food, and they’ll continue to take the advice of climate-change denial PR people like Tom

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, and other events. Let’s take a look at some of what we are now learning. Six independent investigations have found that the unimaginatively named Climategate was anything but the scandal or “nail in the coffin of anthropogenic global warming” that deniers claimed. After the illegal theft and release of emails

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–57; oceans and, 160; science, 97–98; science and threat of, 128–30; species extinction, 38–39; technology fixes, 144–46; water and, 146–48 “Climategate,” 97, 132, 133 coal mining, 115 coffee, 189–92 Coleman, Eliot, 180–81 Collapse (Diamond), 245 Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada

MacroWikinomics: Rebooting Business and the World

by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams · 28 Sep 2010 · 552pp · 168,518 words

. But the best way to counter backroom lobbying and misinformation is not to hunker down as some climate scientists have in the wake of the climategate scandal (see chapter 9), but to foster greater transparency and open debate around the risks of not acting now. For instance, Palmer suggests that everyone

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about how scientists relate to the public and how the public relates to science are becoming critical. Nothing illustrates the challenges better than the recent “climategate” scandal in which a large stash of e-mails from and to investigators at the Climatic Research Unit of the University of East Anglia provided

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and often unfortunate exchanges between climate researchers and the bloggers who were hounding them. Depending on your perspective there are two competing analyses of what “climategate” means, says Fred Pearce, an environment writer who led a major investigation into the controversy on behalf of the The Guardian.6 Climate scientists tend

How to Talk to a Science Denier: Conversations With Flat Earthers, Climate Deniers, and Others Who Defy Reason

by Lee McIntyre · 14 Sep 2021 · 407pp · 108,030 words

how climate change is a hoax perpetrated by the Chinese to hurt American manufacturing, that the scientists are politically biased, etc.62 During the 2009 Climategate debacle, deniers seized on some inappropriate emails sent by scientists at the University of East Anglia, and tried to use them to show that there

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Jones, December 12, 2018, https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/12/trump-climate-timeline/. 63. Kate Sheppard, “Climategate: What Really Happened?” Mother Jones, April 21, 2011, https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2011/04/history-of-climategate/. 64. “What If You Held a Conference, and No (Real) Scientists Came?” RealClimate, January 30, 2008

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Before Russia Hacked the Election, Someone Did the Same Thing to Climate Scientists,” Mother Jones, January/February 2018, https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/12/climategate-wikileaks-russia-trump-hacking/. 26. Carolyn Y. Johnson, “Russian Trolls and Twitter Bots Exploit Vaccine Controversy,” Washington Post, August 23, 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com

Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right

by Jane Mayer · 19 Jan 2016 · 558pp · 168,179 words

made to appear to suggest a willingness to falsify data in order to buttress the idea that global warming was real. Dubbing the alleged scandal Climategate, they went into overdrive. The web of organizations, funded in part by the Kochs, pounced on the hacked e-mails. Cato scholars were particularly energetic

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harassment they had been subjected to, their reasoning was understandable, but it violated the customary transparency expected within the scientific community. Other than that, the “Climategate” scandal was, in other words, not one. It took no time, nevertheless, for the hacked e-mails to spur a witch hunt. Within days, Inhofe

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moment”: Chris Horner, “The Blue Dress Moment May Have Arrived,” National Review, Nov. 19, 2009. “a crucial tipping point”: Tim Phillips was speaking about the Climategate leaks at the Heritage Foundation on October 26, 2010, as reported by Brad Johnson, Climate Progress, Nov. 27, 2010. Phillips did all he could to

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Matters, May 22, 2009. “and the other advocates”: Mark Levin, Liberty and Tyranny (Threshold, 2010), 133. Almost half of those polled: Cited in Kate Sheppard, “Climategate: What Really Happened?,” Mother Jones, April 21, 2011. “I have come to conclude”: Ryan Lizza, “As the World Burns,” New Yorker, Oct. 11, 2010. “Gridlock