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WikiLeaks has a 120 MB ZIP file available for download that includes everything that’s been released so far relating to the Climate Research Unit scandal.

Also at WikiLeaks is one article containing Sinclair Davidson’s commentary on the affair: CRU emails reveal a worrying pattern of bad behaviour.

Resources

WikiLeaks CRU Files

WikiLeaks Article on Climategate

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The hullaballoo started when somebody calling themselves FOIA posted a message to the Air Vent blog which offered a tantalizing ZIP file about climate science internals:

FOIA said:

November 17, 2009 at 9:57 pm
We feel that climate science is, in the current situation, too important to be kept under wraps.
We hereby release a random selection of correspondence, code, and documents.
Hopefully it will give some insight into the science and the people behind it.
This is a limited time offer, download now: http://ftp.tomcity.ru/incoming/free/FOI2009.zip

The fact that the files were hosted on a Russian server seems to have given credence to the theory that it was Russian hackers who hacked into the UEA e-mail system. But some people feel the precise collection of e-mails points to an inside source, a whistleblower.

Once people started to realize what they were dealing with, the news spread quickly to climate blogs, and then the rest of the blogosphere.

What the e-mails say

The reason the scandal concerns Digitivity is 1) the electronic nature of the hack/whistleblowing and 2) the theme of open vs. closed arena research.

Below are some brief excerpts. The full corpus is available at http://www.eastangliaemails.com/ .

The e-mails at first glance seem to reflect:

Manipulating data

“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.”

Is the world really warming?

“The fact is that we can’t account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can’t.”

Deletion of documents

“Can you delete any emails you may have had with Keith re AR4 [IPCC]?”

Ire about critics

“Next time I see Pat Michaels at a scientific meeting, I’ll be tempted to beat the crap out of him. Very tempted.”

Fixing the peer-review process

“This was the danger of always criticising the skeptics for not publishing in the “peer-reviewed literature”. Obviously, they found a solution to that–take over a journal! So what do we do about this? I think we have to stop considering “Climate Research” as a legitimate peer-reviewed journal.

“I will be emailing the journal to tell them I’m having nothing more to do with it until they rid themselves of this troublesome editor”

Desire to fix the results

“As you know, I’m not political. If anything, I would like to see the climate change happen, so the science could be proved right, regardless of the consequences. This isn’t being political; it is being selfish.” CRU Director Phil Jones

Resources

Sites covering the controversy include

• Slashdot
• Real Climate (a blog run by many of those in the e-mails)
• Climate Audit (run by Steve McIntyre, a prominent global warming critic mentioned in the emails)
• Bishop Hill blog
• The New York Times
• Some has registered the ClimateGate domain and is running a what might become a ClimateGate clearinghouse there.

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