Mohib Ebrahim, who has created timelines for professional exhibitions, has now produced one of the ClimateGate scandal, providing graphs, e-mails, history, and analysis of events. This is the second edition, thoroughly edited and revised.
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To print a poster, check-out the sizes below, each with reference pages. As needed, the timeline will be updated and expanded. This is its home, so check back here for new editions and comments. And please link to this page here so people will always get the updates and all the versions.
About the designer
A software architect, Mohib Ebrahim designs graphic timelines as a hobby. As an amateur astronomer, he has always been an AGW skeptic because of synchronous warming on neighbouring planets. A few years ago, he read Michael Chrichton’s State of Fear, and learning about many AGW issues, began his own investigation.
With the Internet release of the CRU e-mails last November, Ebrahim started work on a visual presentation setting out who, what, when, where, and how. Though this timeline was intended only for himself, he soon realized it could be of use to others, and decided to go public. The first on-line edition, a mostly unedited draft, was well received, and described by Rick Lippincott, an executive at the Society for Technical Communication, as possibly “one of the best visual representations of complex data since Charles Joseph Minard prepared [in 1861] a graphic charting Napoleon’s march to Moscow.”
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US Letter — 33 pages (90%) US Tabloid — 18 pages (95%) A4 — 36 pages(95%) A3 — 18 pages (95%) A2 — 8 pages (92%) A1 — 4 pages (95%) A0 — 2 pages (95%) |
If you want a copy to read at home, a reduced format works best. US Letter — 21 pages (68%) A4 — 18 pages(66%) |
The timeline can be used non-commercially free of charge. If you publicly display it, please drop Mohib an e-mail (timelines at sent.com) indicating where. We would also appreciate photos, if available, to put in our gallery. If you’ve already displayed the timeline, we’d love to hear about the reactions it has generated!
You can print a full size banner (see download links above) 2.3m (94 inches) long and 80cm (34 inches) wide, the equivalent of two A0 landscape pages.
Exhibition murals should be printed at 200% size, and can be read from a distance of three feet.
Use Adobe Acrobat (not Acrobat Reader) to scale and tile the PDF banner for printing on other paper format and/or different scales.
Printed Examples
BLACK AND WHITE BANNER A black and white banner can be printed for just $18 at Kinko’s. Thanks to Tom Moriarty of ClimateSanity for this information and photo. Here’s his poster pinned up outside is office cubicle (right).
FULL SIZE COLOUR BANNER
Below, see Brenton’s dedicated effort to put together the dozens of A4 pages.
INTRODUCTION FROM THE TIMELINE
A STORY OF INTRIGUE, DECEPTION AND SECRECY
On November 17, 2009 some 3,000 e-mails, software files, and other documents from the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit were covertly released onto the Internet. In his November 28, 2009 telegraph.co.uk article “Climate Change: This is the Worst Scientific Scandal of Our Generation,” Christopher Booker summarized the far-reaching ramifications of what was exposed in these documents:
The reason why even the Guardian’s George Monbiot has expressed total shock and dismay at the picture revealed by the documents is that their authors are not just any old bunch of academics. Their importance cannot be overestimated, What we are looking at here is the small group of scientists who have for years been more influential in driving the worldwide alarm over global warming than any others, not least through the role they play at the heart of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Professor Philip Jones, the CRU’s director, is in charge of the two key sets of data used by the IPCC to draw up its reports. Through its link to the Hadley Centre, part of the UK Met Office, which selects most of the IPCC’s key scientific contributors, his global temperature record is the most important of the four sets of temperature data on which the IPCC and governments rely – not least for their predictions that the world will warm to catastrophic levels unless trillions of dollars are spent to avert it.
Dr Jones is also a key part of the closely knit group of American and British scientists responsible for promoting that picture of world temperatures conveyed by Michael Mann’s “hockey stick” graph which 10 years ago turned climate history on its head by showing that, after 1,000 years of decline, global temperatures have recently shot up to their highest level in recorded history.
Given star billing by the IPCC, not least for the way it appeared to eliminate the long-accepted Mediaeval Warm Period when temperatures were higher they are today, the graph became the central icon of the entire man-made global warming movement.
Since 2003, however, when the statistical methods used to create the “hockey stick” were first exposed as fundamentally flawed by an expert Canadian statistician Steve McIntyre, an increasingly heated battle has been raging between Mann’s supporters, calling themselves “the Hockey Team”, and McIntyre and his own allies, as they have ever more devastatingly called into question the entire statistical basis on which the IPCC and CRU construct their case.
The senders and recipients of the leaked CRU emails constitute a cast list of the IPCC’s scientific elite, including not just the “Hockey Team”, such as Dr Mann himself, Dr Jones and his CRU colleague Keith Briffa, but Ben Santer, responsible for a highly controversial rewriting of key passages in the IPCC’s 1995 report; Kevin Trenberth, who similarly controversially pushed the IPCC into scaremongering over hurricane activity; and Gavin Schmidt, right-hand man to Al Gore’s ally Dr James Hansen, whose own GISS record of surface temperature data is second in importance only to that of the CRU itself. [16]
Writing in The Atlantic, Clive Crook is more candid: “In my previous post on Climategate I blithely said that nothing in the climate science email dump surprised me much. Having waded more deeply over the weekend I take that back. The closed-mindedness of these supposed men of science, their willingness to go to any lengths to defend a preconceived message, is surprising even to me. The stink of intellectual corruption is overpowering.” [159]
As Charlie Martin explained in “Global WarmingGate: What Does It Mean,” the e-mails suggested:
- [T]he authors co-operated covertly to ensure that only papers favorable to CO2-forced AGW [Anthropogenic Global Warming or man-made global warming] were published, and that editors and journals publishing contrary papers were punished. They also attempted to ‘discipline’ scientists and journalists who published skeptical information.
- [T]he authors manipulated and ‘massaged’ the data to strengthen the case in favor of unprecedented CO2-forced AGW, and to suppress their own data if it called AGW into question.
- [T]he authors co-operated (perhaps the word is ‘conspired’) to prevent data from being made available to other researchers through either data archiving requests or through the Freedom of Information Acts of both the U.S. and the UK. [17]
THE CLIMATEGATE TIMELINE AND THE TICKING TIME BOMB
To better appreciate these themes, this Timeline chart consolidates and chronologically organizes information uncovered and published about the CRU e-mails by many researchers (see references) to visually show who said or did what and when and, from simultaneous events, to understand the context in which events occurred. There is far more information than can be assembled in one place, and more continues to be uncovered, but some of the key material found to-date has been included.
Though many event boxes are important, perhaps two are most critical: one from 1981, and another from October 12, 2009 (both with bomb icons). The first sets out the shaky foundation underpinning the AGW (Anthropogenic Global Warming or man-made global warming) enterprise, and the second an admission of its failure. Together, they help explain why everything that occurred in between (as revealed by the CRU documents and independent researchers like Steven McIntyre) was inevitable to plug the holes in the leaky boat and keep up appearances. Consequently, as Terence Corcoran sets out in “A 2,000-page epic of science and skepticism,” disagreement and skepticism ran strife throughout the 13 years of e-mails [124].
The story that emerges is not of a smoking gun, but of a 30-year time bomb whose fuse was lit in 1981, when — despite only a handful of scientists supporting it — the AGW theory was championed, without question, by the Popular Press.
Given this foundation, it was only a matter of time before the growing divergence between real-world data and the AGW climate models, which had been considered beyond reproach, became self-evident and problematic. Offending data was massaged to fit the models to stave off questions and the losses that would ensue to the billion dollar climate industry: “$32 billion for climate research, and another $36 billion for development of climate-related technologies” by the US government alone. [131]
The data manipulation became so extreme that a CRU programmer tasked in 2006 with reproducing CRU’s own published results using its own models and data was unable to do so after three years. Releasing the data and computer codes behind the models for others to review and verify was out of the question. Though FOI requests are redundant for peer-reviewed research, the CRU’s refusal to release data and methods used for papers published in respected peer-reviewed journals, despite journal rules prohibiting such refusals, inevitably led to legal FOI requests, if for no other reason than that some scientists were insisting that the world commit trillions of dollars to economic policies based on what they claimed their research showed.
Lest there be any doubt that these scientists did anything wrong, Richard Lindzen, Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, explains what the CRU documents reveal: “They are unambiguously dealing with things that are unethical and in many cases illegal…” “[S]cientists manipulating raw temperature data….“ “The willingness to destroy data rather than release it. The avoidance of Freedom of Information requests….“ [66] Thus, while UEA and Pennsylvania State University said they were investigating the matter [69], the UK Met Office (which works closely with the CRU and relies heavily on its product) announced a 3-year project to re-examine 160 years of temperature data, signalling its own lack of confidence in its CRU-based record.
What about the supposedly independent temperature records of NASA’s GISS and NOAA’s NCDC? CRU, GISS and NCDC get most of their raw data from NOAA’s GHCN. [50] [1255298593.txt] Serious irregularities and questionable adjustments are starting to surface with the source GHCN data itself. [50] [60] [62] [67] [72] [77] [114] [132] [168] [171] “The number of actual weather observation points used as a starting point for world average temperatures has been reduced from about 6,000 in the 1970s to about 1,500 in the most recent years [in the NCDC data]…. [A]nd in the final NASA/GIStemp data file, it drops to about 1,000,” most below 60 degrees latitude, where temperatures are naturally warmer. [168:1] And so, like the Three Musketeers, the CRU, GISS and NOAA temperature records stand or fall together.
Data fudging and secrecy aside, by 1998, Earth had stopped warming and begun cooling, despite record levels of CO2 (large blue event box with a bomb icon). This divergence between AGW theory and reality grew so enormous that by October 12, 2009, Kevin Trenberth, in a fit of frustration, e-mailed his colleagues: “Where the heck is global warming?“ “The fact is that we can’t account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can’t.” The reason he gave for their inability to account for cooling was that “[T]he data are surely wrong. Our observing system is inadequate.“ In other words, the findings indicating cooling were wrong, but the climate models, predicting warming, were correct. This, arguably, is the key revelation of ClimateGate. It makes self-evident that blind faith and bankrupt logic are now masquerading as rational science. No matter how much techno-babble is used to make today’s climate models sound impressive, they have all proved wrong. The hockey team scientists admit they have no clue why this is so, though other scientists do (see “Climate Corrections” [92]).
These problems would have been publicized years ago if the AGW theorists didn’t have powerful allies: policy makers in virtually every professional scientific body, editors of virtually every major scientific journal, and reporters and editors at virtually all mainstream media outlets. Few provided unbiased, impartial forums where alternate views and evidence were aired and debated. Instead, most took official positions, invariably with an air of authority, and spared no effort to ensure that voices against the artificial consensus were quashed by editorial fiat and a persistent campaign of vilification, intimidation, and ridicule.
Twenty-first Century science has borrowed a page from the medieval Church in using fear and persecution to silence skeptics. The oppressed have become the oppressors. Given that most professional scientific bodies and peer-reviewed journals have been active accomplices in this scandal, one wonders how many other “scientific consensuses” have been similarly engineered.
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Thirty Years? – more like forty years, ever since the ENSO Fantasy was ‘exported’ from the University of East Anglia in the mid 1970’s.
AGW arguments about Temperature are untenable. As explained by Alex S. Gaddes in his work ‘Tomorrow’s Weather'(1990,)temperature fluctuations are normal consequences of the longitudonal orbit of Solar Particle induced ‘Dry’ Cycles around the planet. (thirty degrees/month with the Solar orbit of the Earth’s Magnetic Field.) As these ‘Dry’ Cycles pass over the temperature measuring ‘stations’ temperatures rise. As the ‘Dry’ Cycles are replaced by the subsequent ‘Wet’/Normal Periods, the temperatures cool. An updated version of ‘Tomorrow’s Weather'(with ‘Dry’ Cycle forecasts to 2055,)is available as a free pdf from [email protected]
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Hello:
I am heading up an art club at a new high school in Myrtle Beach SC and would like a copy of timeline to share with students
How can I a get a copy. I do not have a decent printer.
thank you
thereze
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REPLY: I’m not sure, but if you ask on a new thread, someone might be able to help if you explain why you’d like to have it. Because it is so large, you would either need to print many small ones and stick them together (doable) or pay at a professional print shop. If it is to be displayed at a school, someone might help out. – Jo
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Hi Jo
I would really like to know if there is any reliable science or research being done into these areas:
1. The shifting tectonic plates of the world – Apparently the Australian plate is moving northward and is moving quicker than any other plate in the world. The GPS readings for Australia have to be amended by more than 1.5 metres over the last 22 years. The Australian and Pacific plates are on a collision course in the area called the Pacific Ring of Fire, one of the most turbulent and volcanically violent places on the planet.
In a recent 60minutes show the reporter told us all how the sea levels are rising and some of the outer atolls of the Solomon Islands are being inundated by the sea. I believe this to be false reporting as the facts are that the Solomon tectonic plate sits above the collision between the Australia and Pacific plates, but the Solomon Sea plate is being subducted underneath the South Bismark plate. (In the region of today’s (Feb 6, 2013) magnitude-8.0 earthquake, the Australia plates dives beneath the Pacific plate toward the east-northeast at a geologically speedy 3.7 inches (94 millimeters) per year, according to the Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (IRIS).) This area is one of the most active for earthquakes and volcanoes, 2013 was a year where major earthquakes occurred and many volcanoes erupted around the world.
The fracturing of the earths crust results in molten lava bubbling up through the fractures and melting the once harden rock, resulting in volcanic activity.
2. The Earth has moved on its axis and the poles are moving. Scientists do not know why this has happened but are blaming melting polar ice which is obviously a false deduction because there has been more ice formed in the poles over the last couple of years. So instead of telling us all they do not know they attribute it to climate change, very scientific I would say.
3. The magnetic field that surrounds the earth and protects it has weakened over the last year or so. Again the scientists do not know why but blame it on climate change.
For me it would seem far more logical that climate change is a result of the above events and that humanity has a snowballs chance in hell to do anything about it.
These are the real reasons that we are experiencing climatic events. Poor old CO2 is demonised, we would all be dead if it wasn’t for CO2.
QUESTIONS – What effect do volcanoes have on the temperature of the earth? When the earth fractures through the movement of tectonic plates is the surface of the earth impacted by heat? What effect does a weaker magnetic field have in regard to allowing the suns rays to penetrate into our surrounding mantle and what effect does that have on our climate?
Your thoughts would be appreciated.
[Patricia, if you want to add links to papers on this topic, I’m all ears. It will help me if you can sum up each paper in a line. Time is so short, and there is so much to learn. I agree that there is a lot more going on under our feet and 99% of the Earth is not the crust we know and love. Gets forgotten. – Jo]
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