See also http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/17/AR2009121703682_pf.html -- Mann's attempts at brushing off the emails.
I think it's important to note that the intention was to deceive the public and politicians rather than to deceive other experts on ancient climate. The medieval warm period is well-established, and has been for some time. They must have assumed that they could do a good enough PR and intimidation job to prevent an opposition story from becoming popularly accepted. Not an unreasonable supposition considering the fever-pitch over the issue.
I had been waiting for them to discuss climategate and sure enough it is too cringe inducing to listen to. Whenever someone says something like "message the data to get a meaningful signal", as if this were some infallible process, I want to cry. One of my favorites form Mcyntire was when he produced some hockey sticks from randomly generated "noise" in excel. You can't tell the difference from the official reconstructions.
How did those guys manage to make it "look" like the glaciers have gotten smaller in both the North and south hemispheres?
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See also http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/17/AR2009121703682_pf.html -- Mann's attempts at brushing off the emails.
I think it's important to note that the intention was to deceive the public and politicians rather than to deceive other experts on ancient climate. The medieval warm period is well-established, and has been for some time. They must have assumed that they could do a good enough PR and intimidation job to prevent an opposition story from becoming popularly accepted. Not an unreasonable supposition considering the fever-pitch over the issue.
I had been waiting for them to discuss climategate and sure enough it is too cringe inducing to listen to. Whenever someone says something like "message the data to get a meaningful signal", as if this were some infallible process, I want to cry. One of my favorites form Mcyntire was when he produced some hockey sticks from randomly generated "noise" in excel. You can't tell the difference from the official reconstructions.
How did those guys manage to make it "look" like the glaciers have gotten smaller in both the North and south hemispheres?
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