ClimateGate

[crenelle]

Wikipedia now has a Climategate article at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climategate that appears to be tracking the subject. It cites numerous articles at the end for review. The lion's share of articles appear to be main stream, or slightly off Broadway, media explaining what'

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Re: ClimateGate

[crenelle]

It is, but I suggest that there are people who are completely convinced that the whole climate change thing is a conspiracy. They can't read the papers even if they were given copies.

I know I can rise to the occasion, 'cuz I gots a college education. I think I can even plow through the necessary math and learn the required lore, but it isn't an overnight thing, it'll take me a while.

The blog entry at http://residualanalysis.blogspot.com/2009/11/very-artificial-quote-mining.html is also an interesting read, as is ESR's blog comment thread.

So. I'm looking for any recognition by any party that the data was used in a paper. If so, which ones? I want to find them and read them. So far, I haven't seen anyone draw a line from the code and data to published papers.

I want to see that what people are looking at in the stolen files constitutes a snapshot of code and data that published findings reflect.

[crenelle]

another interesting site:

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/11/24/the-people-vs-the-cru-freedom-of-information-my-okole%E2%80%A6/