Thursday, November 26, 2009

Climaquiddick: Tim Ball Fills In Some Background

And here’s retired climatologist Tim Ball — a man I’ve corresponded with and have long admired — discussing the significance of the recently leaked emails and documents from the Climate Research Unit at East Anglia University. Watch this:

A hacker — or possibly a disillusioned insider — has gathered thousands of e — mails and data from the CRU and made them available on the Web. Officials at the CRU have verified the breach of their system and acknowledged that the e-mails appear to be genuine….

Yes, this is a theft of data-but the purpose of the theft was to blow the whistle on a much bigger, more brazen crime. The CRU has already called in the police to investigate the hacker. But now someone needs to call in the cops to investigate the CRU.

These e-mails show, among many other things, private admissions of doubt or scientific weakness in the global warming theory.