{"id":1431,"date":"2009-11-21T18:12:32","date_gmt":"2009-11-21T23:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=1431"},"modified":"2010-07-19T00:06:56","modified_gmt":"2010-07-19T05:06:56","slug":"hiding-the-decline-prologue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=1431","title":{"rendered":"Hiding  the Decline: Prologue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the summaries I&#8217;ve seen, the 61 megabytes of email and documents net-jacked from the Climate Research Unit a few days ago do not &#8212; quite &#8212; reify conservatives&#8217; darkest fantasies about &#8220;the team&#8221; (as the network of professional anthropogenic-global-warming alarmists communicating through CRU likes to style itself). To do that, they&#8217;d have to contain marching orders from the Socialist International.<\/p>\n<p>However, the excerpts I&#8217;ve seen are already quite damning enough; among other things, they are evidence of criminal conspiracy to violate the Freedom Of Information act. And I no longer have to speculate about the rest; I&#8217;ve downloaded the documents from Pirate Bay and will study them myself.<\/p>\n<p>For those of you who have been stigmatizing AGW skeptics  as &#8220;deniers&#8221; and dismissing their charges that the whole enterprise is fraudulent? Hope you like the taste of crow, because I do believe there&#8217;s a buttload of it coming at you. Piping hot.<\/p>\n<p>Am I going to blog about it?  Heh&#8230;try to stop me&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE:  I&#8217;ve read about 10% of the material and started a file of notes on it, but been delayed by preparing for a major release on one of my projects.  In the meantime, read <a href=\"http:\/\/bishophill.squarespace.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/20\/climate-cuttings-33.html\">this excellent summary<\/a> with links to the original emails.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the summaries I&#8217;ve seen, the 61 megabytes of email and documents net-jacked from the Climate Research Unit a few days ago do not &#8212; quite &#8212; reify conservatives&#8217; darkest fantasies about &#8220;the team&#8221; (as the network of professional anthropogenic-global-warming alarmists communicating through CRU likes to style itself). To do that, they&#8217;d have to&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=1431\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hiding  the Decline: Prologue<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-science","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1431"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2299,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431\/revisions\/2299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}