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12/1/2009

East Anglia CRU Chief Steps Down (For Now)

Filed under: Environment — DRJ @ 3:43 pm



[Guest post by DRJ]

East Anglia CRU Chief Phil Jones announced he will temporarily step down pending an investigation into the leaked/hacked email scandal:

“The university [of East Anglia] said in a statement that Phil Jones, whose e-mails were among the thousands of pieces of correspondence leaked to the Internet late last month, would relinquish his position as director of Climatic Research Unit until the completion of an independent review.”

The University’s Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research Trevor Davies and other global warming advocates nevertheless defended Jones from the implications of the scandal:

“Davies defended Jones and his colleagues, saying the publication of their e-mails “is the latest example of a sustained and, in some instances, a vexatious campaign” to undermine climate science. The sentiment was echoed by Nicholas Stern, a leading climate change economist, who said the person or people who posted the leaked e-mails had muddled the debate at a critical moment.

“It has created confusion and confusion never helps scientific discussions,” Stern told reporters in London Tuesday. “The degree of skepticism among real scientists is very small.

Governments are in the final days of preparations for Copenhagen conference, which is due to outline a new climate change agreement. Stern said the stakes were very high, explaining that if countries did not manage to reach agreement, world temperatures could rise by five degrees Celsius (nine degrees Fahrenheit) by the end of the century, making much of the world uninhabitable.

“We have a moment now when we could get a strategy agreed,” Stern said. “If it were to dissolve in disarray it would not be easy to put this momentum back together again.”

The scientists seem especially concerned with what this scandal will do to the Copenhagen conference.

— DRJ

42 Responses to “East Anglia CRU Chief Steps Down (For Now)”

  1. The University’s Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research Trevor Davies and other global warming advocates nevertheless defended Jones from the implications of the scandal. . .

    Wow, no one circles the wagons quite like academics, do they?

    JVW (0fe413)

  2. Fraudsters, the whole world is full of fraudsters.

    They are debating the government rationed health-care fraud now — And how is it designed to improve health-care, or cut costs?

    bill-tb (365bd9)

  3. He’s not stepping down cause of what a great job he did. Time to get his affairs together I’d guess.

    happyfeet (71f55e)

  4. From the other thread:

    Penn State Will Investigate ‘Climategate’
    November 30, 2009 02:40 PM ET | Jeff Greer | Permanent Link | Print
    Among other things, the Watergate scandal of the 1970s gave us a great naming convention for future scandals. Take “Climategate” at Penn State. That’s what people are calling the controversy surrounding leaked E-mails among climate change researchers that climate change opponents say expose the researchers’ falsification of data. One Penn State professor is involved in the scandal.

    The Penn State administration plans to investigate Climategate and determine if it needs to take further action, the Daily Collegian reports. A little more than a week ago, E-mails exchanged among an English university’s climate change researchers were illegally obtained from a server and posted online, the report says.

    Climate change opponents say the E-mails indicate that climate change researchers—including Penn State Prof. Michael Mann—exaggerated or fabricated global warming data. And, according to the report, some E-mails indicate that the director of the research unit in question may have contacted researchers and asked them to “delete certain E-mails.”

    http://www.usnews.com/blogs/paper-trail/2009/11/30/penn-state-will-investigate-climategate.html

    Dr. K (adb7ba)

  5. This should all be cleared up fairly quickly now that CJ is reading scientific journals. He’s focused on the first hurdle of combatting the disinformation and denial. Stand by.

    gp (d1217f)

  6. “..The scientists seem especially concerned with what this scandal will do to the Copenhagen conference”…
    like it might put a major crimp in their funding streams.

    AD - RtR/OS! (66f601)

  7. “We have a moment now when we could get a strategy agreed,” Stern said. “If it were to dissolve in disarray it would not be easy to put this momentum back together again.”

    Fake but accurate science coming up.

    daleyrocks (718861)

  8. Stern said the stakes were very high, explaining that if countries did not manage to reach agreement, world temperatures could rise by five degrees Celsius (nine degrees Fahrenheit) by the end of the century, making much of the world uninhabitable

    Let me see if I have this right, if a group of nations do not come to some statement of agreement later this month, the civilized world will end within 90 years…

    I must say they are consistent, such as addressing a “crisis” in healthcare with laws that will go into effect in 3-4 years, and an “emergency” funding bill that kicks in mainly after 2 years.

    MD in Philly (227f9c)

  9. Anyone here get Analog? I just happened to be reading the ‘Alternate Facts’ article in the November issue. Turns out that the chances are excellent that the data collection in the USA on temperatures is garbage as no one has been checking the equipment or the changes made to them.

    seaPea (0c6ab0)

  10. seaPea, there is actually a website dedicated to analysing the temperature recording stations one by one to see how they are compromised by location, exposure to heat sources etc.

    SPQR (26be8b)

  11. The scientists seem especially concerned with what this scandal will do to the Copenhagen conference.

    Probably just announce a new messiah to take the lead in this battle for our money.

    One can but hope that those who are smart and honest will just say, hey we fucked up, and some of us fucked up big time.

    Let us not forget that this one place was not the sole storage point for RAW data, they may have not kept the data they were provided, but the providers of such data did.

    TC (0b9ca4)

  12. The funny part is, this didn’t all have to be some sort of ‘evil money/power-grabbing scientist cabal’ as all the skeptic-haters say. All it took to get the ball rolling is group-think: someone in relative authority has a pet theory, juniors and coworkers around tend to ‘go along’ or unconsciously want to help prove the case vs. disprove it, especially when assembled (conferences and the like). Where I work we do a lot of engineering that can frankly cost people lives if it doesn’t get done right, and they make us take a course on good engineering practices (six-sigma related) as well as how to avoid group-think, both at the ‘grunt’ level and at the ‘leadership’ level. (And yes, it can still happen – self-protection is kinda hard to root out of people even if trained to look for the signs.)

    Crap like this is what caused a certain o-ring to make a shuttle go boom and cost NASA at least a decade of self-confidence.

    He should step down; quite clearly, no matter what you believe or disbelieve of the science, he was not running his agency with any intent to avoid or prevent herd mentality. He set the Agenda, capital A intended. And defended it with far more than scientific truth in mind.

    rtrski (c69273)

  13. Great news, the chief ClimateQuack and data abuser is going to step down, lay low, and wait for the heat to die down so his co-conspirators can go to Copenhagen and put Humpty Dempty back together again.

    Wow! Hip, hip, hooray, three cheers for SCIENCE!

    Lucky us to have such dedicated seekers of truth in our corner. Can you imagine all the upset and discord if charlatans and lickspittles were able to run an international con game on the citizens of industrialized nations to steal billions and billions of dollars using the United Nations as the instrument of deceit.

    It makes Food for Oil seem sort of silly and quaint, like tiddlywinks.

    ropelight (7379dd)

  14. Google tried preventing people from finding Lord Moncton discussing the Global Warning hoax until Moncton threatened to go public with the Google Fraud.

    Just remember, Al Gore is on Google’s board of directors, and Al Gore will do anything to protect his hoax and his multi-billion dollar Carbon Credit Sales scam.

    PCD (1d8b6d)

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  16. #14, PCD, if there’s any justice to come out of this sorry ass hoax, Algore’s carbon credits will come to be valued along side of the German Mark during the Weimar Republic. And, it couldn’t happen to a more deserving Philistine.

    ropelight (7379dd)

  17. CRUD in, CRUD out.

    BarSinister (9a86c3)

  18. PCD-

    Any links to go with your comment at #14?

    So Gore not only invented the internet, but sits at the top level of one of the net’s giants?

    You know, somebody controlling Internet content for their own financial and intangible gains sounds like a novel that is turned down because it is “too obvious”, or “could never happen”, or some such. It also sounds like an offense the FBI would be interested in, if we had one that was interested in law enforcement more than aiding propaganda production.

    Of course, there is Interpol… that would be a trip, to see Gore indicted by a foreign country or international body, (maybe my post-lunch naptime is speaking).

    MD in Philly (227f9c)

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  22. So Phil Jones stepped down as Director High Priest of the Universtiy of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit pending an investigation. Well, if his GW warming projections don’t hold up, at least he knows that his legacy will live on with his groundbreaking New & Improved CRU Scientific Method. I was able to reverse engineered the East Anglia CRU Scientific Methodology from the procedures documented in the purloined e-mails and code. It is clear to me that they have built on the work of maverick chemist Theodore Hapner, who revolutionized thinking about the scientific method in 2006. Godspeed Phil Jones.

    mw (24b25e)

  23. Best line I saw all day on this topic:

    “Climate Scientologist”

    Wish I could claim it as my own…

    Dr. K (adb7ba)

  24. mw — thank-you, thank-you, and thanx for the Hapner reminder. Wish I’d thunk it firstest.

    Robert N. (ad4ee7)

  25. Dr. K,

    Am I the only one who keeps seeing shades of Schöne in all this?

    Scott Jacobs (445f98)

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  41. MD and Ropelight,

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    PCD (1d8b6d)


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