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Climategate: v. 1: The CRUtape Letters (Climategate: The CRUtape Letters) Paperback – 3 Feb. 2010

by Steven Mosher (Author), Thomas W. Fuller (Author)
4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars 47 ratings
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    186 pages
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    English
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    St Matthew Publishing Ltd
  4. Publication date
    3 Feb. 2010
  5. Dimensions
    17.8 x 1.2 x 25.8 cm
  6. ISBN-10
    1901546349
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1901546347
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ St Matthew Publishing Ltd (3 Feb. 2010)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 186 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1901546349
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1901546347
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 17.8 x 1.2 x 25.8 cm
  • Customer reviews:
    4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars 47 ratings

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Mr. S. Crook
5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent analysis of the CRU Emails
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 July 2010
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I confess; I'm a sceptic/lukewarmer, and if you're a regular at real climate, you may find some of what is in this book rather difficult to read, but I suggest you read it. It's a chronological analysis of the hacked/leaked CRU emails, linking them with important events in climate science over the last decade and more. You won't come away a sceptic, but it might make you a little less inclined just to accept the 'consensus'. It might also make you wonder what Muir Russel and Oxborough were actually looking at in their enquiries.

For the most part it's a straightforward analysis of the emails, with no pronouncements on AGW or climate change in general. If you've read about 'hiding the decline', and the 'nature trick', this book will explain the context in which they were used. It shows pretty clearly how some scientists suffered a loss of perspective as they let activism cloud their judgement, and then tried to counter what they perceived as attacks on their professionalism and reputations with half lies, delay and obfuscation. It also shows relations between CRU and the rest of the world were cordial until the M&M2003 Paper was published after which there was a decline that couldn't be hidden :-)

There's not much to criticise apart from one or two passages where I think the authors infer too much into the motives/feelings of Jones, Briffa et el. Some of the diagrams could have been in colour, but I guess cost is an issue.

There is a significant section on the reliability of the ground station record (particularly in the US) and how this can impact estimates of UHI effects and therefore on the instrumental record of global temperature rise.

Consider also  The Hockey Stick Illusion;Climategate and the Corruption of Science (Independent Minds)  and  The Climate Files: The Battle for the Truth About Global Warming . The latter is important because it comes from an author associated with the AGW camp.
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Ms. J. Cooper
5.0 out of 5 stars A sorry state of affairs revealed
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 April 2011
What a creature can humans be at times. Science REQUIRES scepticism at all times, yet time and again we see that people become wedded to their "pet" idea at the cost of scientific integrity. That "pet" idea becomes their comfort blanket. Let's be honest even Albert Einstein couldn't quite accept what Bohr and Heisenberg were saying. So to corrupt the process of inquiry in so appalling a manner as this book summarises is a disaster for all.

I confess I speak as a sceptic, not just about AGW, but about so many things that are peddled to us with inadequate science to support them. The precautionary principle just does not cut the mustard. We cannot prove that there is no teapot orbiting the sun but neither should we adjust our actions just in case there is one. Equally, tripe such as the "Hockey Stick" and its attendant "independent" supporting papers also just don't cut the mustard. Climate changes, sometimes breathtakingly quickly. Without that life would not exist. The planet WILL survive no matter what we do, we are tiny pip-squeaks compared to the natural processes. Now what we do to ourselves and our fellow species is rather different and of course we must learn to curb our excesses. Will we though? I doubt it. Humans are just another species like any other. Civilisations come and go, species come and go, in the end even planets, solar systems and galaxies come and go.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Climategate - the CRUtape letters.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 30 September 2011
Great book, clearly exposes the scams, dishonesty and fraud perpetrated by the Global warming alarmists in order to continue the AGW scare propaganda.

It exposes how corrupt scientists influence governments into taxing it's citizens to the eyeballs with fraudulent green taxes in the ridiculous cause of 'Saving the planet'. You'd laugh at their nonsense if the cost implications to all of us weren't so serious.
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Jazznick
5.0 out of 5 stars Essential reading - Climate Scientists caught out !
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 June 2010
I must admit that this recommendation is in response to the previous 1 star given to it by an
ex-scientist.

Despite admitting that the details were overwhelming and that the Climategate crew
were playing with figures and should be ashamed he gave it 1 star !!! Amazing.

I fail to see what else the author could have done to make the deceptions more
clear - turn it into a musical ?!
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Emc2
5.0 out of 5 stars A detailed and balanced analysis of the CRU e-mails
Reviewed in the United States on 22 April 2010
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Though the book was put together in just 30 days the authors delivered a truly forensic analysis of the CRU e-mails. A selection of the e-mails is presented in chronological order with proper context. Actually, approaching the end of the book they go into so much detail that if you are not able to bear with them, I recommend you to jump to Chapter 8, the jewel of the book.

Despite the title, be aware that this book does NOT belong to the "GW is a hoax" category, and the authors explicitly state that this fiasco does not invalid in any way the science, global warming is real but the alarmist view has no solid ground. They managed to demonstrate with evidence and beyond any doubt not only the reprehensible behavior of key climate scientists involved in the scandal ("The Team"), but they make a very good case of all the problems caused by The Team lack of transparency and rejection of healthy skepticism, and as they conclude, this is inevitable when the scientific endeavor is mixed with personal interests and a political agenda. The minimum decent thing that the climate science community should do is to rebuilt the Hockey Stick in an open and independent way that guarantees that anyone interested can verified the results.

Definitely recommended for those with a genuine interest in this controversy and concerned with the scientific bias with which this important issue is being promoted to the public. A good reading also for the moderates in the warming side.

Two recommended complementary readings:  Climate of Uncertainty  for a balanced primer and an honest discussion of this debate.  Why We Disagree About Climate Change: Understanding Controversy, Inaction and Opportunity  is recommended for those more familiar with the controversy. Hulme's book is a deep analysis of climate change from the lenses of history, sociology and economics written by someone with firsthand experience who is a renowned climate scientist.

PS: Do not miss the Hartwell Paper published in May 2010 (available for free in pdf format in the web, just google). In this publication 14 academics (including Mike Holme, former Director of the research center involved in Climategate) and energy advocates talk very openly about the uncertainties and limitations of climate science and modelling, and argued that the Kyoto Protocol has failed to produce any discernable real world reductions in emissions of greenhouse gases in fifteen years, and therefore, after the Copenhagen fiasco, Kyoto has crashed, and proposed a radically different policy approach. In this paper Mosher's book is a reference for the events of Climategate.
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Kevin L. Thomas
4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Review of a Major Scandal
Reviewed in the United States on 21 May 2010
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Authors Mosher and Fuller are NOT skeptics, and believe that there is some warming going on, and we need to address it, so their review is really independent of the skeptics who have long disputed anthropogenic global warming. They have done a yeoman's job to cover the details of the leaked CRU e-mails, the contents of which indicate the lengths which the team of scientists responsible for the global warming scare will go to suppress research, data, calculation methods, and theories which do not agree with their own. As a former researcher in desalination, science was always something I held in high esteem. Reading this book brought tears to my eyes as I read of the corruption of science that had taken place.

The authors wrote this book in a month's time, to get it out in front of the public, while global warming alarmists, including our scientists, our universities, and our politicians were working feverishly to get the story of Climategate suppressed, and get it off the front pages of the news. In so doing, the authors claim that they have written a book that is not easy to read. Actually, I found it easy to read, and it should be easy for anyone who has been following the debate on anthropogenic global warming.

The only reason I give the book 4 stars, is because since it was hastily written, it reads like a draft, and has occasional typos and errors in spelling, grammar, and punctuation. The book has no index, and no footnotes. It is my sincere request that the authors consider writing a second edition, to correct the few errors and typos, and to include footnotes and an index. There are many persons named in the book, whose title or employer is not clearly identified, so it would be helpful to include a list of all of them, with some identifying information for each one. The authors use italics and bold type to distinguish one writer from another, but it often is not clear who is talking. It would be helpful to clear this up. Of all the deficiencies mentioned here, the most important addition would be an index, so one could refer to topics, specific e-mails, and persons with ease.

However, the essential material, interpretation, and comments are all there, and the review is complete. Read this book, and you will know Climategate, the scandal, inside and out. This really should be a 5-star book.
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Mark Rieger
5.0 out of 5 stars Climate junkies - buy this book!
Reviewed in the United States on 16 March 2010
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Mosher and Fuller do an excellent job of putting perspective and context around the emails hacked (leaked?) from the Climate Research Unit at East Anglia. They interweave the emails with postings from two major climate blogs - McIntyre's Climate Audit and Schmidt's Real Climate - to provide a clearer understanding of the discussion and implications of a given email. Without this back story, many of the emails cannot be fully appreciated. Further, they dispel some misunderstandings of the more widely publicized sound bites such as "hide the decline", which was about temperature-tree ring correlations post 1960, not the 2000-2009 decade of supposed global temperature decrease as proffered by some radio and TV pundits. Readers will be engaged by the behind the scenes look into the private conversations of climate scientists (Mann, Jones, Briffa to name a few) that show how defensive, emotional and subjective they can be when their life's work is challenged by others. For academics, Climategate is a great illustration of how peer review can go awry, and how the blogosphere has emerged as a second check on peer review.
I think both sides - the catastrophic global warming folks and the "deniers" - will find this book appealing, although it may seem to be a play toward the latter group. I taught an Honors Colloquium on climate change Fall semester 2009 where I tried to let the students find the truth for themselves. We presented both perspectives on issues and told the students that the truth was somewhere between Rush Limbaugh and Al Gore. Too bad the timing did not permit us to use Climategate as a case study in the course. Mosher and Fuller, self-described "lukewarmers", have found the middle ground with Climategate, noting that climate change is real and humans have something to do with it, but end of the earth is not nigh. After a year of consuming climate change literature, including the IPCC WGI and WGII reports (not just the SPM!), I found the book refreshing, balanced, and accessible.
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Legal Eagle
5.0 out of 5 stars Fair and balanced reporting
Reviewed in the United States on 6 February 2010
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This is a fair and balanced book that should be read by every voter. The issue is whether the U.S. should spend many trillions of dollars (which it would have to borrow from China) in an attempt to cool the Earth's climate.

This book examines the science behind anthropogenic global warming (AGW). AGW is global warming (now called climate change) purported caused by man burning fossil fuels, which increases the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere, which in turn increases the greenhouse effect and causes the climate to warm substantially.

The issues are whether higher CO2 causes global warming, or whether the converse thereof is true, whether recorded temperatures are accurate or have been properly or improperly adjusted, and whether temperatures have been accurately and properly estimated from tree rings and ice core samples.

The authors describe the dispute between the skeptics and the alarmists which ended up with the leak of emails and documents on the internet from the Climate Research Unit at the School of Environmental Sciences at East Anglia in Norwich, U.K. The authors then analyze the content of the documents and the unethical and illegal conduct of the participant scientists. The conduct described is now referred to as Climategate.

The documents which were leaked were contained in a file appropriately named FOIA2009.ZIP The skeptics had for years attempted to obtain weather data through Freedom of Information requests, which were improperly denied by the scientists. (Subsequent to the release of the book, authorities in the U.K. determined that the refusals were illegal, but that the statute of limitations for prosecution had expired.)

This book is not recommended for members of the First Green Church of Global Warming, because they will not like the conclusions. For example, "Only 11% of temperature monitoring stations in this country [the U.S.] meet guidelines set up to insure they accurately collect and report temperature." At p. 101 "When hundreds of billions are staked on a scientific claim, there is no margin for error. . . . We see in the leaked emails that they acted like spoiled children much of the time . . ." At p. 181

Who are the authors? They describe themselves as believing in global warming but not that it will be catastrophic. At p. 180.
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Anthony N. Jeric
5.0 out of 5 stars If you want to understand in detail the context and implications of the climategate e-mails this is for you
Reviewed in the United States on 8 February 2014
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The authors are clearly climate war insiders whose beliefs lie somewhere between the alarmists and the deniers. They are intimately familiar with the CO2 warming issues from the perspective of the under reported cyber war carried out by the horde of volunteer engineering and data analyst skeptics against the Climate Science Establishment (CSE). It covers the fight for open sourcing of the raw data, the adjusted data and the adjustment methodologies regardless of who the CSE considers to be qualified to access and evaluate such data. History is replete with past science establishment efforts to maintain authority and control over a subject by keeping out those they consider to be interlocutors and heretics. After reading this, one will realize that climate science is no different. Those familiar with global warming issues but not Climategate e-mails will be rewarded with another layer of understanding. A bonus is a clear explanation of the role that the tree series truncation (the infamous "trick" frequently confused with the current lack of warming) played in the creation of the hockey stick graphs and the dilemma it posed to the CSE. CSE insider e-mails are put into context with many other communications especially the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) actions. These were launched to pry loose the CSE's originating data and adjustment methods. This was crucial because that information is the foundation for the CSE's conclusion that the warming of the modern period is unprecedented. Other E-mails have to do with CSE efforts to 1) suppress publication of dissenting papers, 2) take control of the peer review process 3) ensure only friendly papers and comments are considered by the IPCC, 4) circumvent the IPCC expert reviewer process when considered deleterious to the CSE position and 5) getting those not conforming to CSE wishes fired or isolated. The authors suggest that resistance to information release comes from fear of public exposure to sloppy CSE book keeping. CSE work may not be reproducible, which violates a foundational science principle i.e. repeatability. That then calls into question the verifiability and hence trustworthiness of the CSE's global warming pronouncements.

Those who presume that all scientists religiously adhere to some higher standard of integrity than mere mortals are in for a rude awakening. Consider: “Science as something already in existence, already completed, is the most objective, most impersonal thing that we humans know. Science as something coming into being, as a goal, however, is just as subjectively, psychologically conditioned, as all other human endeavors.”
—Albert Einstein , as quoted in A. Douglas Stone’s Einstein and the Quantum
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