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Of all the mails I went through this one starts to have the smell of a cover up.

Again, we don’t know if these mails are 100% accurate. A FOI request
will clear that up. In this case I would urge everyone to make a request for this mail under FOI.

The context ( I believe, CA is down so I can’t check) is the jesus paper. The jesus paper ( see bishop hill) was needed for chapter 6 of AR4. If you look at the mails in the July time frame you will see the authors of the chapter ( 6)
asking the authors of the paper if it will get published in time to be used
in the chapter. Its very clear they all knew about the deadline. Well, some very irregular things went on to insure that that paper could be referenced.

McIntyre got on the case after the publication of Ar4 and started to inquire about the paper and how it got referenced.

We are NOT talking about a science issue here. We are talking about scientists bending and breaking the rules of the IPCC to get a certain paper into the document. So, WRT scientific issues this is totally minor. its not about science. What it is about is the lengths these INDIVIDUALS will go to to persue their agenda. The document ( AR4) had a cutoff date. papers referenced must be published before a certain date. Say August 1, 2006.

Question: what do you do if there is a vital paper that won’t be published
until Sept 1 2006? what do you do?

1. write the chapter without the paper. follow the rules.
2. Mess about with the rules to get that paper in because dammit
this is important. screw the rules.

Now, I can surely sympathize with somebody “hacking” the rules of the IPCC
to be able to reference this paper. I understand their passion. I understand
that “it doesnt matter” in the end. its only one paper. its only one chapter.
So, it’s really just all about the character of the individuals.

Then comes the coverup. When McIntyre got on the trail of this, the person
who wrote this mail ( if its real) tell everybody to delete their mails.

One thing is clear throughout these 1003 mails. There is one individual
who consistently works to thwart the release of data and code. One individual who suggests that people delete files. One individual who says he would delete files before turning them over. One individual who convinced his FOI department to reject the requests.

One individual who said something to the effect ” why should I give you this data when all you want to do is find something wrong”

One individual who was happy one of his critics died.

There is also trouble in here for FOI officers.

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