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Myth #1, is a common reaction by warmist/alarmists who are so ready to lie to themselves, they also LIE about the e-mails they don't read, because they have a mindless herd mentality to maintain. It is why they are so ignorant and stupid!
Ross McKitrick.com
CLIMATEGATE Untangling Myth and Reality Ten Years Later
By Stephen McIntyre and Ross McKitrick
December 5, 2019
Excerpt:
INTRODUCTION: MAKING THE MYTHS
It is now 10 years since the Climategate emails were released. The issues they raised continue to reverberate; even figuring in a decision last week of the United States Supreme Court to allow Michael Mann’s (US) defamation suits to proceed (see the dissent by Justice Alito), and in an August 2019 decision of the BC Superior court dismissing a similar suit (on which see more below). The immediate reaction at the time to the emails was visceral, even among “green” reporters, including George Monbiot as follows:
"Pretending that this isn't a real crisis isn't going to make it go away. Nor is an attempt to justify the emails with technicalities. We'll be able to get past this only by grasping reality, apologising where appropriate and demonstrating that it cannot happen again "
UK reporter Fred Pearce, who covered the story for the Guardian and who, unlike Oxburgh or Muir Russell, had actually read the emails, wrote in The Climate Files:
"The evidence of scientists cutting corners, playing down uncertainties in their calculations and then covering their tracks by being secretive with data and suppressing dissent suggests a systemic problem of scientific sloppiness, collusion and endemic conflicts of interest, but not of outright fraud. (p. 241) "
Given the importance of climate science in today’s society, all of us expect more of climate scientists than merely that they not commit “outright fraud.” Exoneration at such a low threshold would be small exoneration indeed.
However, rather than confronting the corruption and misconduct apparent throughout the Climategate emails, the climate academic community shut their eyes to the affair, eventually even persuading itself that the offending scientists were victims, rather than offenders.
This re-framing was made possible by numerous myths propagated about the affair, of which the following were especially important:
Myth #1: The Climategate scandal arose because “cherrypicked” emails were taken “out of context”.
LINK
Ross McKitrick.com
CLIMATEGATE Untangling Myth and Reality Ten Years Later
By Stephen McIntyre and Ross McKitrick
December 5, 2019
Excerpt:
INTRODUCTION: MAKING THE MYTHS
It is now 10 years since the Climategate emails were released. The issues they raised continue to reverberate; even figuring in a decision last week of the United States Supreme Court to allow Michael Mann’s (US) defamation suits to proceed (see the dissent by Justice Alito), and in an August 2019 decision of the BC Superior court dismissing a similar suit (on which see more below). The immediate reaction at the time to the emails was visceral, even among “green” reporters, including George Monbiot as follows:
"Pretending that this isn't a real crisis isn't going to make it go away. Nor is an attempt to justify the emails with technicalities. We'll be able to get past this only by grasping reality, apologising where appropriate and demonstrating that it cannot happen again "
UK reporter Fred Pearce, who covered the story for the Guardian and who, unlike Oxburgh or Muir Russell, had actually read the emails, wrote in The Climate Files:
"The evidence of scientists cutting corners, playing down uncertainties in their calculations and then covering their tracks by being secretive with data and suppressing dissent suggests a systemic problem of scientific sloppiness, collusion and endemic conflicts of interest, but not of outright fraud. (p. 241) "
Given the importance of climate science in today’s society, all of us expect more of climate scientists than merely that they not commit “outright fraud.” Exoneration at such a low threshold would be small exoneration indeed.
However, rather than confronting the corruption and misconduct apparent throughout the Climategate emails, the climate academic community shut their eyes to the affair, eventually even persuading itself that the offending scientists were victims, rather than offenders.
This re-framing was made possible by numerous myths propagated about the affair, of which the following were especially important:
Myth #1: The Climategate scandal arose because “cherrypicked” emails were taken “out of context”.
LINK
