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Climategate: The CRUtape Letters Paperback – 14 Jan. 2010

English edition by Steven Mosher (Autor), Thomas Fuller (Autor)
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The Climategate scandal covered from beginning to end--from 'Hide the Decline' to the current day. Written by two authors who were on the scene--Steven Mosher and Tom Fuller--Climategate takes you behind that scene and shows what happened and why.For those who have heard that the emails were taken out of context--we provide that context and show it is worse when context is provided.For those who have heard that this is a tempest in a teacup--we show why it will swamp the conventional wisdom on climate change.And for those who have heard that this scandal is just 'boys being boys'--well, boy. It's as seamy as what happened on Wall Street.
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Steven M Mosher, born in Grand Rapids Michigan, graduated Northwestern University and attended UCLA for graduate studies in literature. He later joined Northrop Aircraft where he worked as an threat analyst and director of analysis until transitioning to the commercial world in 1995 when he joined Creative Labs as a director of marketing and product development. Since 1995 he has specialized in the development of new consumer technologies such as 3D graphics, web cameras, Mp3 players and a variety of wireless devices. Since 2007 he has worked in the open source community and has been active leader in the effort to get open access to the data and code underlying climate science. Thomas Fuller was born in Denver Colorado and currently lives in San Francisco. Trained by the U.S. Navy in electronics and cryptography, he has been writing about technology ever since, usually market research reports with exciting titles like 'Project Global Market for Infusion Pumps 2009-2014.' This is a lot of fun by comparison.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Createspace Independent Publishing Platform (14 Jan. 2010)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 186 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1450512437
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1450512435
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 17.78 x 1.07 x 25.4 cm
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  • Anthony N. Jeric
    5.0 out of 5 stars If you want to understand in detail the context and implications of the climategate e-mails this is for you
    Reviewed in the United States on 8 February 2014
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    The authors are clearly climate war insiders whose beliefs lie somewhere between the alarmists and the deniers. They are intimately familiar with the CO2 warming issues from the perspective of the under reported cyber war carried out by the horde of volunteer engineering and data analyst skeptics against the Climate Science Establishment (CSE). It covers the fight for open sourcing of the raw data, the adjusted data and the adjustment methodologies regardless of who the CSE considers to be qualified to access and evaluate such data. History is replete with past science establishment efforts to maintain authority and control over a subject by keeping out those they consider to be interlocutors and heretics. After reading this, one will realize that climate science is no different. Those familiar with global warming issues but not Climategate e-mails will be rewarded with another layer of understanding. A bonus is a clear explanation of the role that the tree series truncation (the infamous "trick" frequently confused with the current lack of warming) played in the creation of the hockey stick graphs and the dilemma it posed to the CSE. CSE insider e-mails are put into context with many other communications especially the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) actions. These were launched to pry loose the CSE's originating data and adjustment methods. This was crucial because that information is the foundation for the CSE's conclusion that the warming of the modern period is unprecedented. Other E-mails have to do with CSE efforts to 1) suppress publication of dissenting papers, 2) take control of the peer review process 3) ensure only friendly papers and comments are considered by the IPCC, 4) circumvent the IPCC expert reviewer process when considered deleterious to the CSE position and 5) getting those not conforming to CSE wishes fired or isolated. The authors suggest that resistance to information release comes from fear of public exposure to sloppy CSE book keeping. CSE work may not be reproducible, which violates a foundational science principle i.e. repeatability. That then calls into question the verifiability and hence trustworthiness of the CSE's global warming pronouncements.

    Those who presume that all scientists religiously adhere to some higher standard of integrity than mere mortals are in for a rude awakening. Consider: “Science as something already in existence, already completed, is the most objective, most impersonal thing that we humans know. Science as something coming into being, as a goal, however, is just as subjectively, psychologically conditioned, as all other human endeavors.”
    —Albert Einstein , as quoted in A. Douglas Stone’s Einstein and the Quantum
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  • Mr. S. Crook
    5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent analysis of the CRU Emails
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 July 2010
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    I confess; I'm a sceptic/lukewarmer, and if you're a regular at real climate, you may find some of what is in this book rather difficult to read, but I suggest you read it. It's a chronological analysis of the hacked/leaked CRU emails, linking them with important events in climate science over the last decade and more. You won't come away a sceptic, but it might make you a little less inclined just to accept the 'consensus'. It might also make you wonder what Muir Russel and Oxborough were actually looking at in their enquiries.

    For the most part it's a straightforward analysis of the emails, with no pronouncements on AGW or climate change in general. If you've read about 'hiding the decline', and the 'nature trick', this book will explain the context in which they were used. It shows pretty clearly how some scientists suffered a loss of perspective as they let activism cloud their judgement, and then tried to counter what they perceived as attacks on their professionalism and reputations with half lies, delay and obfuscation. It also shows relations between CRU and the rest of the world were cordial until the M&M2003 Paper was published after which there was a decline that couldn't be hidden :-)

    There's not much to criticise apart from one or two passages where I think the authors infer too much into the motives/feelings of Jones, Briffa et el. Some of the diagrams could have been in colour, but I guess cost is an issue.

    There is a significant section on the reliability of the ground station record (particularly in the US) and how this can impact estimates of UHI effects and therefore on the instrumental record of global temperature rise.

    Consider also The Hockey Stick Illusion;Climategate and the Corruption of Science (Independent Minds) and The Climate Files: The Battle for the Truth About Global Warming. The latter is important because it comes from an author associated with the AGW camp.
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  • Emc2
    5.0 out of 5 stars A detailed and balanced analysis of the CRU e-mails
    Reviewed in the United States on 22 April 2010
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    Though the book was put together in just 30 days the authors delivered a truly forensic analysis of the CRU e-mails. A selection of the e-mails is presented in chronological order with proper context. Actually, approaching the end of the book they go into so much detail that if you are not able to bear with them, I recommend you to jump to Chapter 8, the jewel of the book.

    Despite the title, be aware that this book does NOT belong to the "GW is a hoax" category, and the authors explicitly state that this fiasco does not invalid in any way the science, global warming is real but the alarmist view has no solid ground. They managed to demonstrate with evidence and beyond any doubt not only the reprehensible behavior of key climate scientists involved in the scandal ("The Team"), but they make a very good case of all the problems caused by The Team lack of transparency and rejection of healthy skepticism, and as they conclude, this is inevitable when the scientific endeavor is mixed with personal interests and a political agenda. The minimum decent thing that the climate science community should do is to rebuilt the Hockey Stick in an open and independent way that guarantees that anyone interested can verified the results.

    Definitely recommended for those with a genuine interest in this controversy and concerned with the scientific bias with which this important issue is being promoted to the public. A good reading also for the moderates in the warming side.

    Two recommended complementary readings: Climate of Uncertainty for a balanced primer and an honest discussion of this debate. Why We Disagree About Climate Change: Understanding Controversy, Inaction and Opportunity is recommended for those more familiar with the controversy. Hulme's book is a deep analysis of climate change from the lenses of history, sociology and economics written by someone with firsthand experience who is a renowned climate scientist.

    PS: Do not miss the Hartwell Paper published in May 2010 (available for free in pdf format in the web, just google). In this publication 14 academics (including Mike Holme, former Director of the research center involved in Climategate) and energy advocates talk very openly about the uncertainties and limitations of climate science and modelling, and argued that the Kyoto Protocol has failed to produce any discernable real world reductions in emissions of greenhouse gases in fifteen years, and therefore, after the Copenhagen fiasco, Kyoto has crashed, and proposed a radically different policy approach. In this paper Mosher's book is a reference for the events of Climategate.
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  • Lance A. Wallace
    4.0 out of 5 stars An Exciting Whodunit--but a Black Eye for Science
    Reviewed in the United States on 26 January 2010
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    This is quite the thriller, with a fascinating documentation of how scientists can be gradually corrupted by the heady power of convincing the UN, world leaders, and (to a slightly lesser extent) the people of the world that we are headed for disastrous climate change and must undertake supreme efforts within the next decade or condemn our grandchildren to famine, flood, and hurricanes. Mosher was near the heart of the early confused reception of the Climategate emails, when the leaker (Mosher presents strong reasons for it being a leaker, not a hacker)attempted time and again to get his message out (even, ironically, including sending the link to the main blog for the defenders of the status quo) and no one paid any attention. The leaker sent one message ("And then a miracle occurred") with a link to the documents and no one clicked the link! Finally Mosher and others began cautiously reading, wondering if this was a hoax, calling persons whose emails they were reading to see if they were authentic, and gradually realizing that this was the break of a lifetime, akin to the release of the Pentagon Papers. The book is valuable just for bringing the readers in to the middle of this white-hot period.

    The remainder of the book is a fairly complete chronological history of the emails with a reasonable effort at explaining the backstory for the general reader. It was of course thrown together in a very short time and shows it. (So I give it only 4 stars). The co-authors describe themselves as "Lukewarmers", neither alarmists not denialists, accepting that global warming is occurring but not convinced it is mostly caused by man and not convinced that superhuman efforts are all that can save the planet. The larger story here is an almost Shakespearean tragedy as the scientists at the heart of the story become more and more desperate to keep the millions of dollars in research funds coming despite the awareness that their models are not working. No doubt this will take years to be sorted out, as the most prestigious science journals of our time gradually come to realize they fell into a scientific consensus built on sand.

    As an astrophysicist, I learned long ago of the Milankevitch cycle, which has led to about 7 Ice Ages lasting about 100,000 years each in the last million years, and which it seems will inevitably lead to another one down the road. Do we think we can change the precession of the poles (Vega will be the North Star in 13,000 years), the wobble of the angle of the North Pole, or the variation of the eccentricity of the Earth's orbit? If we can't, there's some serious global cooling ahead.
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  • Legal Eagle
    5.0 out of 5 stars Fair and balanced reporting
    Reviewed in the United States on 6 February 2010
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    This is a fair and balanced book that should be read by every voter. The issue is whether the U.S. should spend many trillions of dollars (which it would have to borrow from China) in an attempt to cool the Earth's climate.

    This book examines the science behind anthropogenic global warming (AGW). AGW is global warming (now called climate change) purported caused by man burning fossil fuels, which increases the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere, which in turn increases the greenhouse effect and causes the climate to warm substantially.

    The issues are whether higher CO2 causes global warming, or whether the converse thereof is true, whether recorded temperatures are accurate or have been properly or improperly adjusted, and whether temperatures have been accurately and properly estimated from tree rings and ice core samples.

    The authors describe the dispute between the skeptics and the alarmists which ended up with the leak of emails and documents on the internet from the Climate Research Unit at the School of Environmental Sciences at East Anglia in Norwich, U.K. The authors then analyze the content of the documents and the unethical and illegal conduct of the participant scientists. The conduct described is now referred to as Climategate.

    The documents which were leaked were contained in a file appropriately named FOIA2009.ZIP The skeptics had for years attempted to obtain weather data through Freedom of Information requests, which were improperly denied by the scientists. (Subsequent to the release of the book, authorities in the U.K. determined that the refusals were illegal, but that the statute of limitations for prosecution had expired.)

    This book is not recommended for members of the First Green Church of Global Warming, because they will not like the conclusions. For example, "Only 11% of temperature monitoring stations in this country [the U.S.] meet guidelines set up to insure they accurately collect and report temperature." At p. 101 "When hundreds of billions are staked on a scientific claim, there is no margin for error. . . . We see in the leaked emails that they acted like spoiled children much of the time . . ." At p. 181

    Who are the authors? They describe themselves as believing in global warming but not that it will be catastrophic. At p. 180.
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