Climategate: The Crutape Letters

Mosher and Fuller do a good job putting the ClimageGate documents in context, and the book is a riveting read. I received my copy yesterday, and find the book to be faithful to the climate war events that I have followed over a period of years. It reports actual email communications of a small group of paleoclimatologists and their roles in perhaps the biggest scientific hoax since Piltdown Man. The sad realization is that formerly respectable scientists are human, following the money at all costs to others. They put themselves in the position of publishing bad science, and doing everything in their power, ethical or not, to defend shoddy work. The reputations of their supporting institutions (East Anglia University, Pennsylvania State University, and NASA) are at risk. Understand that the emails and documents in the ClimateGate files don't necessarily prove that global warming is false. The documents do confirm that studies by Michael Mann (Penn State), Keith Biffra (CRU, EAU), and Phil Jones (Director CRU) are based on compromised, fudged data and as such do not comprise credible science. The statement that "the warmth of the 20th century is unprecendented" is falsified.

For the past ten years Planet Earth has NOT been warming, but the political heat has been intense. Tens of thousands of scientists have been speaking out on the Gore global warming fraud, but the money and power has all been on the other side. Finally, just before the failed December 2009 Copenhagen Conference, proof positive came out with the release to the public of the CRU files. The authors were close to this event, and, like me, they watched the creation of a new word, "Climategate," which within a week was getting tens of millions of hits on Google. This evidence is more than a smoking gun. It's a chain of nuclear explosions. The UN's IPCC -- a political body with only a few scientists (aided and abetted by formerly repected scientists at England's CRU) -- has been twisting and selectively cherry picking temperature records for years. THEY THREW OUT THE TEMPERATURE RECORDS!!!! Literally. Even the "Medieval Optimum" -- the time 1,000 years ago when people were visiting Greenland in open boats (in winter) and growing wine grapes there -- disappeared from the record. Michael Mann (here in the U.S.) helped by manipulating tree ring data, spreading false science to show the infamous "hocky stick" temperature graph as per Gore's movie. Google "hide the decline" for an amusing video about that. And now in 2010 we are moving into Climategate II. Climategate I is the scandal uncovered at the Climate Research Unit (CRU) at the Univ. of East Anglia in England, the subject of this book. Climategate II Involves the dishonesty at the US NASA-GiSS facilities as well as at the NOAA facilities. The underlying science of the entire global warming scare has disappeared in a mushroom cloud of scientific dishonesty. Nothing produced by these agencies including all of the IPCC documents can be trusted for scientific honesty. This book is an easy way to get up to speed on this fraud. Learn about how Michael Moore created the "hockey stick" by manipulating tree ring data to support Global Warming fear mongering. The danger to humanity isn't Global Warming, it is Radical Green politics, the new Socialism. It's about money and power: Trillions of dollars and freedom is at stake. For that story, Blue Planet in Green Shackles by Klaus tells of the economics and politics.

Mosher and Fuller were at the forefront of the revelation that Hadley's CRU was acting out of line. They were careful about moving ahead unless or until the leaked emails were deemed authentic. The reader can trust this volume. What many anthropogenic global warming advocates do not know is that workers at the CRU were concerned about the strength of data that showed the Medieval Warm Period (MWP) was much warmer than the 20th Century. The leaked emails reveal this concern and how some ethically challenged scientists endeavored since the mid-1990s to diminish the importance of the MWP and devise support for the erroneous notion the the 20th Century was the warmest period of the past millennium. This book by Mosher and Fuller honestly chronicles that revelation. This book is a step -- albeit an important one -- in the citizen's quest to understand the empirical truth about anthropological global warming. Everyone who desires to have a thorough understanding of the issue must read this book and recognize the importance of the leaked CRUtape letters.

This book details the history of respected (up to now) climate scientists here and abroad (mostly UK) who colluded and connived to create inaccurate reports, conceal their fraud, malign their critics and prevent them from publishing in journals that they influenced, lie about their raw data, lose their raw data, deny peremptorily requests for data, delay and then refuse to respond to Freedom of Information requests, promise to destroy files rather than release them to FOIA requesters, and attempt to call for criminal prosecution of those who procured correspondences and data that confirmed all this. Their highly unscientific behavior - normal enough I suppose in other fields of endeavor - does not define them or their work, but it is repetitive, and frequent enough and deliberative enough to call the rest of their work into question. Students have been expelled for less. The closest analogy would be the Pentagon Papers, for which Daniel Ellsberg received praise rather than vilification. But the Vietnam War was not an object of adoration as is our self-flagellating anthropogenic global warming.

These gentlemen were among the first to find these emails on the WWW... The emails show the true state of climate "science". The so called scientists were funded by US and British taxpayer money. Every taxpayer has a right to see the shenanigans that were, and probably still are, taking place. Thanks, authors, for bringing these emails into the public eye. Also a big thanks to the whistleblower who released this evidence of malfeasance.