"Climategate" Redux: Conservative Media Distort Hacked Emails ... Again

This is a very thorough debunking of the latest "climategate" B.S. Of course, the conservative media isn't bothering to research and relay any of this. I recommend going to the site, as I will be unable to post the full article.
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Anonymous hackers recently released another batch of emails taken from a climate research group at the University of East Anglia in 2009, along with a document containing numbered excerpts of purportedly incriminating material. Many of these selections have been cropped in a way that completely distorts their meaning, but they were nonetheless repeated by conservative media outlets who believe climate change is a "hoax" and a "conspiracy."

CONSERVATIVE MEDIA HIGHLIGHT MISLEADINGLY CROPPED AND OUT-OF-CONTEXT EMAILS

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- Selectively Edited Email Implies Scientists "Left Out" Information To Fit A "Message." A December 2004 email from the University of Arizona's Jonathan Overpeck to Argentinian scientist Ricardo Villalba was cropped to say: (text at link)

- Email Was Actually About Meeting Page Limits. The full email reveals that Overpeck is advising Villalba to edit a lengthy outline down to "0.5 pages of HIGHLY focused and relevant stuff." They are discussing a "Section on Modes of Variability" for the Palaeoclimate chapter of the draft 2007 IPCC report. From Overpeck's email: (text at link)

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- Cropped Email Falsely Suggests Scientist Said Science Was "Manipulated" In IPCC Report. Emails by then-Met Office scientist Peter Thorne to Phil Jones of the University of East Anglia in February 2005 were cropped to say: (text at link)

- Concerns Were Expressed About First Draft, Addressed In Final Version. This exchange was about the first draft, called the "zero order draft," of a section on upper-air temperatures in the 2007 IPCC report. Thorne said "we need to communicate the uncertainty" and later added:

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- Cropped Email Falsely Suggests Scientists Manipulated Data. A December 2004 email from Phil Jones was edited to read as follows: (text at link)

- Email Was Actually About Color Schemes. A closer look reveals that this exchange is about what color schemes to use for temperature and precipitation maps for chapter 3 of the 2007 IPCC report, like the ones displayed at the bottom of these maps: (text at link)

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- Email Cropped To Falsely Suggest Scientist Wanted To Suppress The "Truth." An April 2002 email from then-Duke University professor Thomas Crowley to his colleagues at UEA was cropped to state: (text at link)

- In Fact, Scientist Was Trying To Cool Down Heated Exchange Between Colleagues. The fuller context shows that Crowley was attempting to mediate a heated email dispute between colleagues: (text at link)

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- Email Cropped To Suggest Scientist Tried To Paint Pessimistic Picture. A February 2008 email from Jones to Overpeck was cropped to state: (text at link)

- Jones Was Actually Criticizing The Omission Of "Good Honest Stuff, Warts And All." The email is in reference to a joint paper and shows Jones criticizing another author's (German scientist Michael Schulz) work. The Guardian reported that the email was about "Schultz's early work on a new way of reconstructing ancient climate through the oceans." [The Guardian, 11/24/11]

The full text of the email reveals that Jones wanted to emphasize, not downplay, uncertainty about the research. He asked for "good honest stuff, warts and all": (text at link)

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- Email Edited To Suggest University Suppresses Dissenting Views. An August 2004 email from Phil Jones to Melissa Murphy of the University of East Anglia Communications office was edited to say: (text at link)

- Email Was Actually About Scheduling A TV Interview. The full email shows that in response, Jones is not saying that "different views" are unacceptable within UEA -- he is saying that most climate scientists agree that extreme weather is related to global warming. Indeed, a 2004 study concluded that human-induced climate change "doubled the likelihood" of the 2003 European heat wave that killed tens of thousands of people. [Nature, 12/1/04]

Murphy's inquiry stated that UEA scientist David Viner "is going to be featured" on a TV news segment to present "his view that recent extreme weather is due to global warming." She went on to ask if UEA would provide a scientist to argue "a different view": (text at link)

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- Cropped Email Highlighted Discussion About How To Communicate Climate Change. A September 2002 email from Cambridge geographer Bill Adams to Mike Hulme of the University of East Anglia regarding an upcoming meeting with "BP delegates" was cropped to read: (text at link)

- Email Was Edited To Exclude Scientist's Instructions To Convey "Complexities And Uncertainties." But contrary to the implication that scientists are trying to promote a political agenda, Adams specifically says that the goal is "education not conversion" and stresses the need to adequately convey the complexity of climate science and "get grey tones across": (text at link)

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- Email Edited To Falsely Suggest Scientist Admitted Making Unsupported Statements. A January 2005 email from Keith Briffa of the University of East Anglia was cropped to state: (text at link)

- In Fact, He Was Soliciting Criticism. After explaining that he had attached a draft section of the IPCC report, Briffa asked for "critical comment": (text at link)

MUCH MORE AT LINK....