Are your tax dollars helping hide global warming data from the public? Internal emails leaked as part of “Climategate 2.0” indicate the answer may be “Yes.”
The original Climategate emails — correspondence stolen from servers at a research facility in the U.K. and released on the Internet in late 2009 — shook up the field of climate research. Now a new batch posted in late November to a Russian server shows that scientists at the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit refused to share their U.S. government-funded data with anyone they thought would disagree with them.
Making that case in 2009, the then-head of the Research Unit, Dr. Phil Jones, told colleagues repeatedly that the U.S. Department of Energy was funding his data collection — and that officials there agreed that he should not have to release the data.“Work on the land station data has been funded by the U.S. Dept of Energy, and I have their agreement that the data needn’t be passed on. I got this [agreement] in 2007,” Jones wrote in a May 13, 2009, email to British officials, before listing reasons he did not want them to release data.
Two months later, Jones reiterated that sentiment to colleagues, saying that the data “has to be well hidden. I’ve discussed this with the main funder (U.S. Dept of Energy) in the past and they are happy about not releasing the original station data.”
A third email from Jones written in 2007 echoes the idea: “They are happy with me not passing on the station data,” he wrote.
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The Scientific Method.
Jones only wanted to allow his own fellow adherents to his philosophical views to share his raw data.
That’s a no-no in research.
Transparency is the heart of real science.
Jones (and his ilk) were trying to destroy real science in order to enrich themselves.
Anyone should have the right to check someone else’s math.
Not just his fans.
When one of Jones’ fans turned critic, after finding some inconsistencies in Jones’ work, he asked Jones for the raw data to try to HELP.
But Jones turned him into an enemy!
Partial transcripts:
Warwick Hughes to Phil Jones, September ‘04:
Phil to Warwick:
But Warwick found more inconsistencies and, in order to understand what was going on, in 2005 Warwick asked Phil for the dataset that was used to create the CRU temperature record.
Phil Jones famously replied:
Subject: Re: WMO non respondo
And the government helped!