IPCC scientists hacked, emails leaked, damning…

A major story is breaking in climate science, after hackers posted a 61 megabyte data file on a Russian server that appears to be confidential emails and climate data hacked from the UK Met Office Hadley Centre.

The data raises major questions about the role of scientists in what appears to be a deliberate conspiracy to mislead the public:

From: Phil Jones
To: ray bradley ,mann@virginia.edu, mhughes@ltrr.arizona.edu
Subject: Diagram for WMO Statement
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 13:31:15 +0000
Cc: k.briffa@uea.ac.uk,t.osborn@uea.ac.uk

   

Dear Ray, Mike and Malcolm,
Once Tim's got a diagram here we'll send that either later today or
first thing tomorrow.
I've just completed Mike's Nature trick of adding in the real temps
to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) amd from
1961 for Keith's to hide the decline. Mike's series got the annual
land and marine values while the other two got April-Sept for NH land
N of 20N. The latter two are real for 1999, while the estimate for 1999
for NH combined is +0.44C wrt 61-90. The Global estimate for 1999 with
data through Oct is +0.35C cf. 0.57 for 1998.
Thanks for the comments, Ray.

Cheers
Phil

Prof. Phil Jones
Climatic Research Unit Telephone               +44 (0) 1603 592090         +44 (0) 1603 592090
School of Environmental Sciences Fax +44 (0) 1603 507784
University of East Anglia
Norwich Email p.jones@uea.ac.uk

If there's an innocent explanation, I'll be interested in hearing it.

In the meantime I've sent an email to Phil Jones asking if this email is genuine.

For those interested, the large file can be downloaded here [UPDATE, file removed from server. Have decided not to re-link in case some of the new ones around have been modified. I have a copy of the original. You can check out some of the alternative download links at Watts, but checksum the file as per their instructions to ensure it is the original]

UPDATE: Am busy on the TGIF deadline so have only generally perused the leaked emails. It appears to be a collection that might have been prepared for a possible FOIA (freedom of information) request and were in the process of being scrutinized. The tone of many is quite waspish, although like others the email above seems too damning to be true. Surely they weren't that stupid to commit such comments to writing back in 1999?

UPDATE 2: One of the emails refers to stacking the peer-review process to ensure scientific papers by the likes of NZ's Chris de Freitas don't make it past review into the IPCC's 2007 AR4.

The other paper by MM is just garbage – as you knew. De Freitas again. Pielke is also losing all credibility as well by replying to the mad Finn as well – frequently as I see it. I can't see either of these papers being in the next IPCC report. K and I will keep them out somehow – even if we have to redefine what the peer-review literature is !

Shocking. Lends authenticity to the documents as well – a US or European based hacker would not be likely to pluck de Freitas' name out of thin air if they were making something up.

UPDATE 3: This email from RealClimate's organ grinders illustrates a deliberate effort to prevent anything too challenging from being allowed on their website:

From: "Michael E. Mann"
To: Tim Osborn , Keith Briffa
Subject: update
Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2006 16:51:53 -0500
Reply-to: mann@xxx
Cc: Gavin Schmidt

guys, I see that Science has already gone online w/ the new issue, so we
put up the RC post. By now, you've probably read that nasty McIntyre
thing. Apparently, he violated the embargo on his website (I don't go
there personally, but so I'm informed).

Anyway, I wanted you guys to know that you're free to use RC in any way
you think would be helpful. Gavin and I are going to be careful about
what comments we screen through, and we'll be very careful to answer any
questions that come up to any extent we can. On the other hand, you
might want to visit the thread and post replies yourself. We can hold
comments up in the queue and contact you about whether or not you think
they should be screened through or not, and if so, any comments you'd
like us to include.

You're also welcome to do a followup guest post, etc. think of RC as a
resource that is at your disposal to combat any disinformation put
forward by the McIntyres of the world. Just let us know. We'll use our
best discretion to make sure the skeptics dont'get to use the RC
comments as a megaphone…

mike

More details at wattsupwiththat

Comments

[C Higley]

Where can the hacked files be found?

[Rick]

I'm going to assume this was all made up by someone. It's the only safe thing to do.

[Adolf Fiinkensein]

It was only a matter time before someone stuck a knife into the bloated viscera that is the climate change community and allow the whole stinking load of rotted guts to spill out for all the world to see.

[Shane Ponting]

Ian I'd love a copy, and yes I admit, I want to push it onto the major P2P networks to ensure it stays available to all. Email me if you are willing to make it available to me. Thanks

[Ian Wishart]

It's 62 mb in size, too big to email. If you have an FTP site I could upload to it.

[Shane Ponting]

How about a rapidshare upload? http://rapidshare.com/ Then flick me the rapidshare link, I'll dl it and then you can delete it or keep it there for others...

[Jack]

Looks like the beginning of the crash-and-burn finale of the entire AGW scam - just in time for Copenhagen. Good job. The politicians can run for cover now.

[Hoodie]

its on The Pirate Bay now:

http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5171206/Hadley_CRU_Files_%28FOI2009.zip%29

[Mandy Kelly]

Dream on morons. No wonder real scientists do everything they can to silence you idiots, you think you can swamp facts with the quantity of garbage you spew about, and none of you would understand any of the papers you're talking about anyway. All the lies you fervently believe were put about by the oil industry, or didn't you know that? Suckers.

[bielie]

Easy to check is it is the truth: Google all the email adresses. I did the first two and they pan out. These guys are in shuch big Sh!t

[bob]

Oh crap George bush is to blame, can't you see he has his thermostat way down and it's effecting the climate. On a serious note: the weather in Sarasota Florida is the best it's been since I've lived here (1988) the water quality of the gulf is also the best.

[Eduardo in Argentina]

It is also in:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=003LKN94

http://www.filedropper.com/foi2009

Quoting Hamlet, "Something is rotten in Demark" --in December more than ever!

[tonyq]

Mandy Kelly: why so upset? i understand you are disappointed that those you believed in so strongly have been misleading you. its just time to re-evaluate your faith in government, that's all. you obviously don't believe everything you read, and that's a great start!

[jj]

Worth a look: http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2009/11/the-cru-hack/#more-1853

[Ryan O'Connor]

has anyone interviewed these professors?

[Bamm Bamm]

Ochen interestniya! Kakia pogoda v Moskva? Bolshoi spasiba! :-)

Actually, finally the FSB has done something which the CIA, NSA and GCSB won't do because they are too corrupt.

That's blow the lid on 'Man Made Global Warming' scam.

A timely reminder that public opinion will swing nastily towards those academics, and politicians, that suckle from this porker.

Besides, if Russian Intel is reading your email, hacking your servers, you know that you are in trouble!

Well done!

[Karen Hoffhein]

Are you all reading these e-mails or just talking about them? How would your personal e-mail correspondence fare on the Internet? How would they be interpreted? Opinions are legal, and we all have them.

The truth about climate change is probably somewhere in the middle. There is no conspiracy. Climate changes. Always has since the birth of the planet. Human activity has altered and possibly accelerated some of that change. The planet is not in danger. The inhabitants are.

[Interpol]

... with trillions of dollars of their business at stake if we ever got serious of cutting back on CO2 emissions the carbon traders (oil, coal, gas producers) have a good motive to use any sort of tactics they can.
Publishing of or trading in stolen data including emails is a criminal offense. I hope the NZ police will take a look at Ian's website here where which is one of those peddling in the stolen data.

[R.C.]

I'm sorry, is there ANYONE who isn't already aware what a vast scam the global warming / climate change racket was?

Really, in another twenty years they'll look back on it the way we look back on the UFO scares of the 70's, the Satanic cult scares of the 80's....

[robk]

I wonder what "Yes, Minister" would have made of this lot!