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And now Climategate 3.0 |
It looks like Climategate 3.0 is out there - not released like the first two installments, but in the form of a password giving access to the rather extensive remaining data to a limited number of people. And there is a commentary signed by FOIA:
It's time to tie up loose ends and dispel some of the speculation surrounding the Climategate affair.
Indeed, it's singular "I" this time. After certain career developments I can no longer use the papal plural ;-)
If
this email seems slightly disjointed it's probably my linguistic
background and the problem of trying to address both the wider audience
(I expect this will be partially reproduced sooner or later) and the
email recipients (whom I haven't decided yet on).
The "all.7z" password is [redacted]
DO NOT PUBLISH THE PASSWORD. Quote other parts if you like.
Releasing the encrypted archive was a mere practicality. I didn't want to keep the emails lying around.
I
prepared CG1 & 2 alone. Even skimming through all 220.000 emails
would have taken several more months of work in an increasingly
unfavorable environment.
Dumping them all into the public domain
would be the last resort. Majority of the emails are irrelevant, some
of them probably sensitive and socially damaging.
To get the
remaining scientifically (or otherwise) relevant emails out, I ask you
to pass this on to any motivated and responsible individuals who could
volunteer some time to sift through the material for eventual release.
Filtering\redacting personally sensitive emails doesn't require special expertise.
I'm
not entirely comfortable sending the password around unsolicited, but
haven't got better ideas at the moment. If you feel this makes you
seemingly "complicit" in a way you don't like, don't take action.
I
don't expect these remaining emails to hold big surprises. Yet it's
possible that the most important pieces are among them. Nobody on the
planet has held the archive in plaintext since CG2.
That's right;
no conspiracy, no paid hackers, no Big Oil. The Republicans didn't
plot this. USA politics is alien to me, neither am I from the UK.
There is life outside the Anglo-American sphere.
If someone is still wondering why anyone would take these risks, or sees only a breach of privacy here, a few words...
The
first glimpses I got behind the scenes did little to garner my trust
in the state of climate science -- on the contrary. I found myself in
front of a choice that just might have a global impact.
Briefly
put, when I had to balance the interests of my own safety,
privacy\career of a few scientists, and the well-being of billions of
people living in the coming several decades, the first two weren't the
decisive concern.
It was me or nobody, now or never. Combination
of several rather improbable prerequisites just wouldn't occur again
for anyone else in the foreseeable future. The circus was about to
arrive in Copenhagen. Later on it could be too late.
Most would
agree that climate science has already directed where humanity puts its
capability, innovation, mental and material "might". The scale will
grow ever grander in the coming decades if things go according to
script. We're dealing with $trillions and potentially drastic influence
on practically everyone.
Wealth of the surrounding society tends
to draw the major brushstrokes of a newborn's future life. It makes a
huge difference whether humanity uses its assets to achieve progress, or
whether it strives to stop and reverse it, essentially sacrificing the
less fortunate to the climate gods.
We can't pour trillions in
this massive hole-digging-and-filling-up endeavor and pretend it's not
away from something and someone else.
If the economy of a region,
a country, a city, etc. deteriorates, what happens among the poorest?
Does that usually improve their prospects? No, they will take the
hardest hit. No amount of magical climate thinking can turn this one
upside-down.
It's easy for many of us in the western world to
accept a tiny green inconvenience and then wallow in that righteous
feeling, surrounded by our "clean" technology and energy that is only
slightly more expensive if adequately subsidized.
Those millions
and billions already struggling with malnutrition, sickness, violence,
illiteracy, etc. don't have that luxury. The price of "climate
protection" with its cumulative and collateral effects is bound to
destroy and debilitate in great numbers, for decades and generations.
Conversely, a "game-changer" could have a beneficial effect encompassing a similar scope.
If
I had a chance to accomplish even a fraction of that, I'd have to try.
I couldn't morally afford inaction. Even if I risked everything, would
never get personal compensation, and could probably never talk about it
with anyone.
I took what I deemed the most defensible course of
action, and would do it again (although with slight alterations --
trying to publish something truthful on RealClimate was clearly too
grandiose of a plan ;-).
Even if I have it all wrong and these
scientists had some good reason to mislead us (instead of making a
strong case with real data) I think disseminating the truth is still the
safest bet by far.
Big thanks to Steve and Anthony and many
others. My contribution would never have happened without your work
(whether or not you agree with the views stated).
Oh, one more
thing. I was surprised to learn from a "progressive" blog, corroborated
by a renowned "scientist", that the releases were part of a coordinated
campaign receiving vast amounts of secret funding from shady energy
industry groups.
I wasn't aware of the arrangement but warmly
welcome their decision to support my project. For that end I opened a
bitcoin address: 1HHQ36qbsgGZWLPmiUjYHxQUPJ6EQXVJFS.
More
seriously speaking, I accept, with gratitude, modest donations to
support The (other) Cause. The address can also serve as a digital
signature to ward off those identity thefts which are part of climate
scientists' repertoire of tricks these days.
Keep on the good
work. I won't be able to use this email address for long so if you
reply, I can't guarantee reading or answering. I will several batches,
to anyone I can think of.
Over and out.
Mr. FOIA
Details at
Bishop Hill and, doubtless, many other places.
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