This is the tenth anniversary of dissemination of Climategate emails. My first post at Climate Audit was simple: Words fail me. climateaudit.org/2009/11/19/cru… The comments are worth re-reading.
It was the vindictiveness and malice of so many climate scientist that shocked me the most
It was the vindictiveness and malice of so many climate scientist that shocked me the most
2/ at the time, Mosher and I speculated on whether the disquieting conduct resulted from "noble cause corruption" - that anything was justified in pursuit of their climate policy. He used this phrase in his e-book with Tom Fuller.
3/ over the years, I've tended to attribute less and less of the conduct to "noble" corruption and more and more to combinations of personal pettiness, arrogance, ambition and/or career advancement
