Claims of "misconduct" based on FOI*.zip get this response from me

February 14th, 2012 (06:26 pm)

Tags: climategate noise, foi2009.zip, foia2011.zip, michael mann, mother jones, steve mcintyre, swifthack, swifthack 2.0, the frog of war, tyrone hayes

frank -- Decoding SwiftHack | February 13, 2012 at 12:01 pm |
Deep Climate, Snapple:
McIntyre [q. v.], and climate inactivists in general, should give a straight answer [to] this question: Did FOI2009.zip or FOIA2011.zip reveal any actual, specific, actionable instances of attempts to falsify data or results, or attempts to suppress good, solid science?
But of course they won't answer the question -- because they know that the true answer is "no".
So instead, they make a lot of irrelevant noises about 'oh noes climatologists said unflattering things about skeptics', etc. etc. etc. Last I checked, saying unflattering things about people one doesn’t like is in no way a scandal, and in no way a firing offence. But you won't find people like McIntyre pointing that out. It's all spin -- spin for the purpose of avoiding the key questions.
-- frank

And (via Prof. Michael Mann) as an aside, for some reason I find the Mother Jones story The Frog of War to be really ... hilarious.

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In 2009, a UK climatology centre, the Climatic Research Unit of the University of East Anglia, was hit by a cyber-attack. E-mails and data were stolen, and published on the Internet in two batches, once in 2009 shortly before the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, and once in 2011 shortly before the conference in Durban, South Africa. Global warming `skeptics' -- people who dispute that the Earth is warming due to mankind's burning of fossil fuels -- quickly used the e-mails to portray global warming as being a hoax, and tried to manufacture a 'Climategate scandal' of climate science.

This blog comments on SwiftHack -- the cyber-attack on climate science -- and seeks to uncover the truth behind the events surrounding the attack.

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