Over on James Delingpoles blog article on FOIA, Daily Telegraph commenter ColdfingerUK notes:
This story appears to have been pulled, I wonder why?”Who Released The Climategate Emails And Why Forbes – 1 hour ago No, it wasn’t a conspiracy plotted by Big Oil or Republican operatives using mercenary hackers after all. And unless you happen to get all your news from the mainstream media, you will undoubtedly recognize that by “Climategate”, I’m referring here to the …”
http://www.forbes.com/sites/la…
Here’s a screenshot of Google’s record:
The String pullers are working overtime. It seems that at all costs to journalistic integrity, the story is to be kept out of the mainstream media. Is this freedom of the press? Do we live in democracies any more?
Professor Larry Bell the author, is well acquainted with opposition to sceptical views. See this article by Marc Morano:
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One so called “horde” of notorious sceptics took care of the witchcraft of the impresarios (of the academic theatre), by communication, the thing at the heart of peer-review, unbelievable 😎
This will backfire, mark my words. The second they start issuing blackmail and lawyers on journalists, that is the first second they create curious reporters who want to know what is actually going on.
Then the first link from Google for “climate-gate 3.0” is an article by a warmist going on about how “there is nothing to see here.”
Are they blind? Just by talking about it and not saying anything about it they are just going to make people curious. So yes, this tactic will fail miserably. All it does is buy them time. They are desperate if they are going to sink to these lows, so be prepared.
The password won’t remain secret for much longer either. I had a quick question, I wanted to review the article above but couldn’t get it as google has disappeared the cache for it already, could you send it to me, or perhaps link to it?
[snip email address by co-mod]
Here is some of the text at least:
No, it wasn’t a conspiracy plotted by Big Oil or Republican operatives using mercenary hackers after all. And unless you happen to get all your news from the mainstream media, you will undoubtedly recognize that by “Climategate”, I’m referring here to the thousands of leaked email communications between prominent international researchers within the U.K.’s University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit (CRU) network. That person (yes, single individual) has come forth to shed light on a real conspiracy…one to spread false alarm about a concocted global warming crisis.
Not only that, “Mr. FOIA” (aka. Freedom of Information Act) has done it again. He has issued a password along with instructions to a select group that provides access to a new and much larger communications file, one which many of those researchers and their sponsoring organizations have worked very hard to suppress from legal FOIA requests. I have confirmed through reliable sources that this database is authentic. Some intriguing insights have already begun to surface.
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The following quotations present what Mr. FOIA said in an explanation note:
It’s time to tie up loose ends and dispel some of the speculation surrounding the Climategate affair.
Indeed, it’s singular “I” this time. After certain career developments I can no longer use the papal plural.
If this email seems slightly disjointed it’s probably my linguistic background and the problem of trying to address both the wider audience (I expect this will be partially reproduced sooner or later) and the email recipients (whom I haven’t decided yet on).
The “all.7z” password is [redacted]
DO NOT PUBLISH THE PASSWORD. Quote other parts if you like.
Releasing the encrypted archive was a mere practicality. I didn’t want to keep the emails lying around.
I prepared CG1 & 2 [previous email releases] alone. Even skimming through all 220.000 emails would have taken several more months of work in an increasingly unfavorable environment.
Dumping them all into the public domain would be the last resort. Majority of the emails are irrelevant, some of them probably sensitive and socially damaging.
To get the remaining scientifically (or otherwise) relevant emails out, I ask you to pass this on to any motivated and responsible individuals who could volunteer some time to sift through the material for eventual release.
Filtering\redacting personally sensitive emails doesn’t require special expertise.
I’m not entirely comfortable sending the password around unsolicited, but haven’t got better ideas at the moment. If you feel this makes you seemingly “complicit” in a way you don’t like, don’t take action.
I don’t expect these remaining emails to hold big surprises. Yet it’s possible that the most important pieces are among them. Nobody on the planet has held the archive in plaintext since CG2.
That’s right; no conspiracy, no paid hackers, no Big Oil. The Republicans didn’t plot this. USA politics is alien to me, neither am I from the UK. There is life outside the Anglo-American sphere.
If someone is still wondering why anyone would take these risks, or sees only a breach of privacy here, a few words…
The first glimpses I got behind the scenes did little to garner my trust in the state of climate science — on the contrary. I found myself in front of a choice that just might have a global impact.
No CG3 has “officially” occurred until what is accepted as officialdom states it.
If Forbes journos are professional then dig it out using every trick or tool, it’s your job, why you are paid.
I just did a search for “global warming climate change” in Forbes and found six warmist and nine skeptic articles, so I doubt that Forbes pulled the article because Mann, Trenberth et al. asked them to. I detect the heavy hand of the US Department of Justice.
Many thanks to Andrew and benfrommo, for their comments just approved above. Now we have more of the text of Prof. Bell’s article. I have emailed him to ask for the full article too.
It looks as if it’s back online.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/larrybell/2013/03/15/who-released-the-climategate-emails-and-why/
Thanks ColdOldMan. I wonder if we’ll get to find out if anything was edited. If it was, it must be from the end of the piece, after the full quote of FOIA’s email, judging by the text Andrew posted above.
Interesting, I wonder why the article just simply disappeared like that? Thanks Andrew on the text for the original article.
The Story is up now on http://www.forbes.com/sites/larrybell/2013/03/15/who-released-the-climategate-emails-and-why/
I’ll keep the page tab open in case anyone needs a screengrab.
I’ve heard back from Prof. Larry Bell, who sent a thoughtful email containing this re-assurance:
“There’s no conspiracy to censor information here on Forbes’ part. There was a temporary legal source question which was quickly resolved. I provided the email source + confirmation sources and all was fine.”
We are still acutely aware of the way Climategate has been downplayed and discounted by the media, and were too hasty to assume the worst in this instance. I’m glad Forbes re-instated the piece in a timely fashion, and hope other major media outlets will follow suit in broadcasting the genuine motivation of FOIA for making the archive available. People are hard at work filtering the archive to remove irrelevant office procedural and personal material. Considering the sheer volume, it will take a little time, but I have no doubt it will be made available to the wider world soon.
Good to see that CG3 is starting to hit some of the MSM.
Can’t wait to see how the good old BBC handle this delicate issue. I sure hope they do better with this than they did with the Jimmy Savile affair.
The release is very timely. The watermelons are continuing their lies here in Australia. They are claiming that the weather we had over summer was unprecedented it was not:
1. in my lifetime there have been many summers where temperatures soared over 40C and reaching up to 45C. In fact the record temperature at Oodnadatta that was set in the 1960s has not been surpassed.
2. In my lifetime I have faced floods, especially a result of the Warragamba dam spilling over (yes I ended up in the middle of a flood but was not flooded out).
The real issues should have been that government allows people to build in the flood prone zone. There are other issues to contemplate as well. However, the watermelons continue their attempts to confuse a population that does not know better.
What is worse is that the watermelons have continued to claim that only those who get published in their silly journals and have peer review have true credentials on this whole subject… yeah sure…. but only those who agree with the few get their material published.
It is more than about time to see Michael Mann exposed as a fake… I detest those who misuse statistics.