I think a leaker is more likely than a hacker, but we’ll find out who to thank in due course. For now, the folks at Hadley (and Michael Mann) are trying to deflect attention from what they wrote to each other by focusing on the legality of how the papers were obtained.
Tony Soprano had some excellent words of wisdom for the motley CRU: “You can’t put the shit back in the donkey.”
The Examiner has some juicy excerpts from the emails:
From Michael Mann:
Perhaps we’ll do a simple update to the Yamal post, e.g. linking Keith/s new page–Gavin t? As to the issues of robustness, particularly w.r.t. inclusion of the Yamal series, we actually emphasized that (including the Osborn and Briffa ’06 sensitivity test) in our original post! As we all know, this isn’t about truth at all, its about plausibly deniable accusations.From Phil Jones:
The skeptics seem to be building up a head of steam here! … The IPCC comes in for a lot of stick. Leave it to you to delete as appropriate! Cheers Phil
PS I’m getting hassled by a couple of people to release the CRU station temperature data. Don’t any of you three tell anybody that the UK has a Freedom of Information Act !From Michael E. Mann:
Anyway, I wanted you guys to know that you’re free to use RC [RealClimate.org - A supposed neutral climate change website] Rein any way you think would be helpful. Gavin and I are going to be careful about what comments we screen through, and we’ll be very careful to answer any questions that come up to any extent we can. On the other hand, you might want to visit the thread and post replies yourself. We can hold comments up in the queue and contact you about whether or not you think they should be screened through or not, and if so, any comments you’d like us to include.
From Phil Jones:
If FOIA does ever get used by anyone, there is also IPR to consider as well. Data is covered by all the agreements we sign with people, so I will be hiding behind them.
[...] The Examiner follows the idea that the CRU data and email release was not a hack, but a leak. Toldya. [...]
I’ll bet it was leaked — somebody there has a conscience.
Please, someone tell me the end to their scam is near — or is this just the beginning of the end?
This is going to kill some credibility to global warming believers.
leaked or hacked: this person deserves a medal.
AGWers: “Move on. Nothing to see here. Just normal science racketeering and deception. Get a life.”