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===Freedom of Information Act===
===Freedom of Information Act===
Climate scientists at the CRU worked to circumvent the Freedom of Information Act process in the UK. The Freedom of Information Act explicitly forbids deletion of any material subject to a [[FOIA]] request. The penalty for such a criminal act is a fine of up to £5,000. Presumably being found guilty of such an act, or even suggesting it, would also bring about significant disciplinary procedures at any reputable [[university]].
Climate scientists at the CRU worked to circumvent the Freedom of Information Act process in the UK. The Freedom of Information Act explicitly forbids deletion of any material subject to a [[FOIA]] request. The penalty for such a criminal act is a fine of up to £5,000. Presumably being found guilty of such an act, or even suggesting it, would also bring about significant disciplinary procedures at any reputable [[university]].
==Climategate emails==
The Climategate emails discussed methods of subverting the scientific peer review process to ensure dissenting papers had no access to publication. The emails show that climate scientists may have committed a [[felony]] using government funded money, deliberately falsified data then used the results of the falsification to obtain additional research funding. The collection of data and data processing programs, code from the CRU shows proof that valid temperature station readings were taken and skewed to fabricate the results the "scientists" wanted to believe, not what actually occurred.
Further analysis of the word "trick" and how it was used in the Climategate emails from the CRU provided interesting feedback. It showed that CRU did indeed truncate tree ring data, so that the real decline in global temperature is not shown in the IPCC report, as referenced by Steve McIntyre.<ref>Steve McIntyre. [http://climateaudit.org/2009/12/10/ipcc-and-the-trick/#more-9483 IPCC and the “Trick”], climateaudit.org, December 10, 2009.</ref> McIntyre brought this to attention as an expert reviewer in the IPCC process in 2005, but at the time of inquiry his dissent was stifled and the discussion was never presented to external peer reviewers.
The explanation for the use of the word "trick" came quickly from CRU director Dr. Phil Jones in his official announcement on November 23rd. He claimed, "The word ‘trick’ was used here colloquially as in a clever thing to do. It is ludicrous to suggest that it refers to anything untoward." If Dr. Jones used such colloquialisms regularly, it stood to reason that further analysis should find a number of similar instances of the word "trick" in the CRU Climategate emails over the decade that the emails spanned. A file search program with a simple mission to scan the email folders for all file content with instances of the word "trick" used by itself (excluding other words like "Patrick" that would have "trick" embedded in it) returned eight files with that condition:<ref name=trickcount>[http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/12/10/counting-cru-tricks/ Counting CRU “tricks”], ''WUWT'', December 10, 2009.</ref>
* [http://www.eastangliaemails.com/emails.php?eid=12&filename=843161829.txt 0843161829.txt]
* [http://www.eastangliaemails.com/emails.php?eid=154&filename=942777075.txt 0942777075.txt]
* [http://www.eastangliaemails.com/emails.php?eid=365&filename=1065206624.txt 1065206624.txt]
* [http://www.eastangliaemails.com/emails.php?eid=366&filename=1065636937.txt 1065636937.txt]
* [http://www.eastangliaemails.com/emails.php?eid=454&filename=1103236623.txt 1103236623.txt]
* [http://www.eastangliaemails.com/emails.php?eid=796&filename=1179416790.txt 1179416790.txt]
* [http://www.eastangliaemails.com/emails.php?eid=812&filename=1188508827.txt 1188508827.txt]
* [http://www.eastangliaemails.com/emails.php?eid=852&filename=1200162026.txt 1200162026.txt]
After a second file search was executed to double check how many emails contained some permutation of the letters "t r i c k," it revealed 29 emails out of the 1079 emails in the FOIA2009.zip file. Only one instance was found where Dr. Jones used the word "trick" in reference to a procedure on data. There are other uses and variations of the word "trick" in other emails, but only one instance attributed to Jones where he refers to this data issue. As Dr. Jones put it: The word ‘trick’ was used in the lone instance colloquially as in a clever thing to do (eg. "that’ll do the trick"). But it was questioned that one would expect to see it in general use by Dr. Jones in other emails if it was indeed a colloquialism. In the thousand plus emails, there’s no other use of the word "trick" by Dr. Jones related to data truncation or otherwise, though there are other colloquial uses of the word by other authors.<ref name=trickcount/>
==Global reactions to data on climate change==
==Global reactions to data on climate change==
* [http://www.PJTV.com/climategate PJTV Covers Climategate] - Full coverage of how scientists cooked data on climate change
* [http://www.PJTV.com/climategate PJTV Covers Climategate] - Full coverage of how scientists cooked data on climate change
* [http://www.nocapandtrade.com/climategate/ ClimateGate] - Learn about the Climategate emails
* [http://www.nocapandtrade.com/climategate/ ClimateGate] - Learn about the Climategate emails
* [http://eastangliaemails.com/ The CRU emails] - East Anglia confirmed emails from the Climate Research Unit
[[Category: Earth Sciences]]
[[Category: Earth Sciences]]