"For a while, I was looking at the ClimateGate 2.0 emails by searching them for certain names and keywords. Now, my plan is to read all 5,349 of them at this link. I didn't want to start at #1, so I started at #5000, read to the end, then went back to 4,000. I'm currently about 1,000 emails into this project."...
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Update: "Climategate 2 FOIA 2011 Searchable Database"
Below an alarmist commenter deals with adversity by changing the subject and saying "everyone knows" such and such and it's "irrelevant" to global warming anyway. (Hockey Stick graph at end of this post). New ClimateGate emails announced:
FOIA2011.zip, MegaUpload, via Climate Audit
11/22/11, "New Climategate Emails," Steve McIntyre, Climate Audit
"New climategatedossier
See notice from “FOIA” here and subsequent comments as well as discussion at Jeff Id here.
I’ll comment later after I have a chance to look at things."
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Below, a climate alarmist commenter to Climate Audit says even if certain hockey stick measurements weren't true, it's irrelevant and of "tiny importance to the whole issue of AGW."
- The 'hockey stick' was used by Lehman Brothers as its sales pitch, page 6 in its 2007 report, "The Business of Climate Change" for the purpose of persuading billions of dollars to change hands and to influence governments. (Hockey Stick graph pictured at end of this post).
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11/22/11, "chriscolose
Craig, I really have no desire to respond to you, but everyone who studies this subject knows the data is wrong (anyone can look at the instrumental record and see this trivially). The problem is also known to apply primarily to only a particular subset of tree rings, and trees in different regions are known to respond differently to various factors. This is not my field, but to be blunt I’d trust a dendroclimatologist to tell me more about the limitations and current understanding than anyone here.
Of course, I didn’t say that the pre-divergence data is “right,” but again, that is irrelevant to the accusations related to climategate. Personally, I agree there is a lot of progress to be made in tree ring science, and whether tree rings are dubious or not, and what they may have the potential to tell us, is largely irrelevant to what I focus on. It’s also
- of tiny importance to the
- and almost entirely
- irrelevant to the physics, sensitivity, or attribution issues.""
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2/6/2008, "SEC Denies Lehman Brothers Bid to Block Global Warming Shareholder Proposal," Reuters
- “Lehman Brothers says it wants to make money from global warming, but basic
- information on which the firm relies and presents to shareholders is clearly
- erroneous,” said Steve Milloy, portfolio manager of Action Fund Management (AFM), the FEAOX’s investment adviser.
“When a $34 billion company is touting misinformation as a basis for its
actions, it makes you wonder about the soundness of its business plan,” Milloy
added.
- "Lehman Brothers’ management uses the so-called “hockey stick” chart, for example, to support the notion that “the Earth’s mean temperature has risen sharply in recent decades.”(1)
But the hockey stick graph was scientifically discredited long before Lehman issued its February 2007 report.(2)"...
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Even the UK Guardian said in 2009 the 'climate' movement was about "transfer of money:"
11/29/2009. "Copenhagen summit: It's money that matters in the backroom talks," UK guardian, John Vidal
"Copenhagen may lead over the next 20 years to the largest transfer of money in history from the global north to the south."...
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Hockey Stick graph:
Hockey Stick showing McIntyre correction in green via Volokh (scroll down)
12/4/2009, "Looking Back at the Hockey Stick Thesis: The JoNova Account," Jim Lindgren, Volukh
"Astonishingly, Nature refused to publish the (McIntyre) correction. It was published elsewhere, and backed up by the Wegman Report, an independent committee of statistical experts.
In 2009 McIntyre did it again with Briffa’s Hockey Stick. After asking and waiting three years for the data, it took just three days to expose it too as baseless. For nine years Briffa had concealed that he only had 12 trees in the sample from 1990 onwards, and that one freakish tree virtually transformed the graph. When McIntyre graphed another 34 trees from the same region of Russia, there was no Hockey Stick.
The sharp upward swing of the graph was due to one single tree in Yamal.
Skeptical scientists have literally hundreds of samples. Unskeptical scientists have one tree in Yamal, and a few flawed bristlecones". . .------------------------
- "Al Gore’s carbon trading business GIM was banked with Lehman Bros."...
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