Explaining the emails, an article by Michael Barone
Michael Barone: “The CRU has been a major source of data on global emperatures, relied on by the IPCC. But the emails suggest that CRU scientists have been suppressing and misstating data and working to prevent the publication of conflicting views in peer-reviewed science periodicals. Some of the more pungent emails:”
” ‘I can’t see either of these papers being in the next IPCC report. Kevini and I will keep them out somehow — even if we have to redefine what the peer-review literature is!’ “
” ‘Can you delete any emails you may have had with Keith re AR4?’ “
” ‘I’ve just completed Mike’s Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) and from 1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline.’ “
” ’ The fact is that we can’t account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty we can’t.’ “
” ‘I’m getting hassled by a couple of people to release the CRU temperature station data. Don’t any of you 3 tell anybody that the UK has a Freedom of Informatio