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Guest post from Nick Loris with the Heritage Foundation
1,000 emails and more than 3,000 other documents from the Climate Research Unit at East Anglia University in the United Kingdom publicly revealed by a hacker, or allegedly an inside whistleblower, are rekindling the flame to the global warming debate just weeks before the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference where the United States will propose an emissions reduction target. A sample of what the emails exposed, which date back 13 years, includes:
1,000 emails and more than 3,000 other documents from the Climate Research Unit at East Anglia University in the United Kingdom publicly revealed by a hacker, or allegedly an inside whistleblower, are rekindling the flame to the global warming debate just weeks before the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference where the United States will propose an emissions reduction target. A sample of what the emails exposed, which date back 13 years, includes:
“The fact is that we can’t account for the lack of...
ClimateGate Heats Up Global Warming Debate before Copenhagen
Once again, the subject was the materials copied over from the hacked Hadley CRU site.
And it will take some time to digest the material down into information that will explain how they operate in a way that is easily understood.
The most I can say right now having read several documents and a few dozen e-mails is that 1) There is a high degree of uncertainty in the models used for making predictions, and 2) The quality of data is sometimes judged by...