Yet More Warmaquiddick Gorebacle Fallout [UPDATED]

Noel Sheppard continues explicating the meaning of the CRU disclosures, despite the spin of asshats such as Gavin Schmidt of NASA at the ineptly named RealClimate.org. Setting aside as secondary the matter of the emails, which climate scammers will insist are being read out of context, Sheppard focuses instead on what is revealed by the CRU metrics source code and its annotations, and comes to these conclusions:

Clamoring alarmists can and will spin this until they’re dizzy. The ever-clueless mainstream media can and will ignore this until it’s forced upon them as front-page news, and then most will join the alarmists on the denial merry-go-round.

But here’s what’s undeniable: If a divergence exists between measured temperatures and those derived from dendrochronological data after (circa) 1960 then discarding only the post-1960 figures is disingenuous to say the least. The very existence of a divergence betrays a potential serious flaw in the process by which temperatures are reconstructed from tree-ring density. If it’s bogus beyond a set threshold, then any honest men of science would instinctively question its integrity prior to that boundary. And only the lowliest would apply a hack in order to produce a desired result.

And to do so without declaring as such in a footnote on every chart in every report in every study in every book in every classroom on every website that such a corrupt process is relied upon is not just a crime against science, it’s a crime against mankind.

Indeed, miners of the CRU folder have unearthed dozens of email threads and supporting documents revealing much to loathe about this cadre of hucksters and their vile intentions. This veritable goldmine has given us tales ranging from evidence destruction to spitting on the Freedom of Information Act on both sides of the Atlantic. But the now irrefutable evidence that alarmists have indeed been cooking the data for at least a decade may just be the most important strike in human history.

Advocates of the global governance/financial redistribution sought by the United Nations at Copenhagen in two weeks and the expanded domestic governance/financial redistribution sought by Liberal politicians both substantiate their drastic proposals with the pending climate emergency predicted in the reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Kyoto, Waxman-Markey, Kerry-Boxer, EPA regulation of the very substances of life – all bad policy concepts enabled solely by IPCC reports. And the IPCC, in turn, bases those reports largely on the data and charts provided by the research scientists at CRU – largely from tree ring data — who just happen to be editors and lead authors of that same U.N. panel.

Bottom line: CRU’s evidence is now irrevocably tainted. As such — all assumptions based on that evidence must now be reevaluated and readjudicated. And all policy based on those counterfeit assumptions must also be re-examined.

While none of the information has gotten any coverage on the legacy networks, yet, Declan MCCullagh has a suitably damning post on CBS’s news website that also references Schmidt’s sordid evasions. William Teach also points out an AP article that contains a startling quantity of reality. You really do need to read Schmidt’s piece to get the complete flavor.

He avers that the emails (setting aside the source code) are remarkable for what they don’t display, and then goes on to attack a series of straw men. He’s right, though. They are remarkable for what they don’t display, such as any concern for scientific probity. In the following interview with Stuart Varney, Ed Begley makes an egregious ass of himself:

Part of what we now know is that these people engaged in threats and intimidation to prevent contrarian analyses from appearing in peer reviewed journals, and actively sought to undermine and subborn the peer review process. For Begley to make such a deal about peer review is disingenuous, and the activites of CRU and related entities resemble nothing so much as the operations of pseudo-scientific mafiosi.

So, in short, fuck them and their enablers. They are beneath contempt.

My theory on the provenance of the documents is that it was an inside job by one of the programmers, who was ordered to back-construct the “raw data” in order to comply with the FOI requests, and was driven so mad by the process that he went rogue.

A Serr8d joint

Brought to mind by Van der Leun

UPDATE: Now comes news from Reuters that Obama will indeed be traveling to Copenhagen, where he promises to bow to Gaia.