Emails from scientists at an all-important British research station were leaked to the internet.
Why is the research station important?
In his November 28, 2009 telegraph.co.uk article "Climate change: This is the Worst Scientific Scandal of Our Generation", Christopher Booker summarized the far-reaching ramifications of what was exposed in those documents:
The reason why even the Guardian's George Monbiot has expressed total shock and dismay at the picture revealed by the documents is that their authors are not just any old bunch of academics. Their importance cannot be overestimated, What we are looking at here is the small group of scientists who have for years been more influential in driving the worldwide alarm over
global warming than any others, not least through the role they play at the heart of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
This Panel is one of the most important policy-making bodies in the world on the issue of climate change. The UN listens to it. The G-8 and other representative organizations of develop(ed)ing nations listen to it.
But what did the scientists write, say and do that was so damnable to the science behind global warming?
As the leaked documents were analysed, three threads emerged that sent a shockwave through informed observers across the world. As Charlie Martin explained in "Global WarmingGate: What Does It Mean" [17], the e-mails suggested:
1. ... the authors co-operated covertly to ensure that only papers favorable to CO2-forced AGW were published, and that editors and journals publishing contrary papers were punished. They also attempted to “discipline” scientists and journalists who published skeptical information.
2. ... the authors manipulated and “massaged” the data to strengthen the case in favor of unprecedented CO2-forced AGW, and to suppress their own data if it called AGW into question.
3. ... the authors co-operated (perhaps the word is ‘conspired’) to prevent data from being made available to other researchers through either data archiving requests or through the Freedom of Information Acts of both the U.S. and the UK.
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h/t http://joannenova.com.au/global-warming/climategate-30-year-timeline/
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