Klimabløffen

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Shameful Sham Climategate report urges 'campaign to win hearts and minds' to restore confidence in global warming science -- 'University of East Anglia's enquiry into the conduct of its own staff at its Climatic Research -- The most serious charge is poor communication -- Sir Muir Russell even calls for 'a concerted and sustained campaign to win hearts and minds' to restore confidence in the team's work' (Full PDF report here.)

The Muir Russell Review gets basic IPCC info wrong! Pielke Jr.: 'The idea that IPCC presents a 'best estimate' understanding based on views of a selected group of scientists is completely contrary to how IPCC characterizes its own work... 'To suggest that the IPCC is "not to produce a review of the scientific literature" is just plain wrong'

Climate Audit's McIntyre on Climategate report: It 'adopted a unique inquiry process in which they interviewed only one side – CRU. As a result, report is heavily weighted towards CRU apologia' -- '...a not unexpected result given that the writing team came from Geoffrey Boulton's Royal Society of Edinburgh. Remarkably, the Muir Russell inquiry ruled on this issue without actually citing IPCC procedures...Instead of examining IPCC rules, they asked John Mitchell, the Review Editor, for his opinion. Mitchell, needless to say, was a Climategate correspondent, who gave untruthful answers when refusing David Holland's FOI request for materials'

Climate Audit's McIntyre: 'Muir Russell's [climategate report] contains many gaffes and errors, which are going to get placed into the sunshine over the next few days, as critics get a chance to work through the report. It's too bad that Muir Russell decided that it was a good idea not to interview critics during the preparation of the report'

More Errors: Muir Russell writes that Oxburgh inquiry looked at the science. Lord Oxburgh has specifically stated that his inquiry did not look at the science' -- 'An inquiry that doesn't look at the science cannot understand Climategate' -- 'Nor did the Parliamentary sub-committee's one day hearing. Nor did either of the Penn State investigations [look at the science].' 'But in terms of making this issue go away, which is the obvious goal of all these investigations, it failed to do what it was meant to do...without looking at the science, they didn't look at Climategate'

Meteorologist Watts: Muir Russell Climategate report is 'another apologist who doesn't ask relevant questions of both sides, only one side'

'The subjects of their criticism were not invited, nor were climate scientists critical of their behavior' -- Sham: 'The report finds a criterion: a 'consistence of view' with earlier work. The earlier work here was produced the academics under scrutiny. So the academics were judged against their earlier work, and not surprisingly, found to be consistent'

Microsoft Made Climategate professors Do It!? 'Calling people 'frauds', 'fraudit', 'bozos', 'morons' and so on. It was Microsoft's fault' -- Muir Russell blamed email itself for the language: 'Finding: The extreme modes of expression used in many e-mails are characteristic of the medium....Extreme forms of language are frequently applied to quite normal situations by people who would never use it in other communication channels'

Sir Muir appears to have spent untold amounts of public money only to miss at least two of the 'five key leaked emails' identified by Fred Pearce

'What Climategate is largely about, then, is whether academics were justified in making Medieval Warm Period disappear. Unfortunately, none of the 3 'independent' reviews have grappled with this'

Mockery for Climategate whitewash: 'We're shocked, shocked!' 'Utterly shocked – that anyone could have thought that the review might have found otherwise'

Climategate? Never heard of it. 'Climategate' professor Phil Jones gets his job back has cleared Prof Jones of dishonest behavior -- 'Skeptics claimed report was a whitewash and questioned the reinstatement of Prof Jones. David Holland, one of the leading skeptics on the blogosphere, pointed out that Prof Jones referred to deleting emails in one of his communications. 'Would you trust a man who has asked to delete evidence?' he said'

'Climategate' scientists were 'unhelpful' and not open about their studies, finds review -- 'Review found that the graph referred to in this now infamous email from the centre's head, Professor Phil Jones, was 'misleading' because it did not make plain what the scientists had done'

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