Snippets from Climategate 2.0

Some snippets with commentary from the most recent batch of Climategate emails.

1. Email exchange between Phil Jones and Journalist. Jones answers in italics.

One of your speciality is paleoclimatology. It is necessary to study the dinosaur age to be able to predict the near future or which is the most outstanding period for studying? 

 No! The only recent period that is relevant for the future is the last 2000 years. For earlier periods back to the dinosaurs, the boundary conditions were different. The amount of day hours at different latitudes changes enough prior to 2000 years ago. Back with the dinosaurs the continents were in different positions.

http://di2.nu/foia/foia2011/mail/2740.txt

Seems James E. Hansen and Makiko Sato would disagree!

Paleoclimate Implications for Human-Made Climate Change

Planting the seeds of innovation in the Bureaucracies of today is a sure way to sprout the weeds of the tomorrow.

This letter left on the cutting room floor at the Australian....

Dear Editor,
Bjorn Lomborg suggests spending a $100 billion a year on research into making renewables cost competitive with fossil fuels (Carbon tax a costly feel-good gesture that won't reduce emissions. 17/11). While I am supportive of the concept, and it makes much more sense than the government's economy destroying carbon tax; I can't help but be concerned that the offer of a large, long lived, cash cow and the prospect of permanent research jobs would only serve to create a bureaucracy that would stifle creativity and delay the great leap forward. Just look at the way climate science has hopelessly stumbled in recent years in explaining the travesty of the world's missing warming for instance, despite a healthy investment of tax payers dollars. So, rather than pump $100 billion into a bloated system every year, year in - year out, and risk a drawn out process of invention, why not offer a one off cash prize of $100 billion to the successful individual or consortium who delivers the breakthrough? Planting the seeds of innovation in the Bureaucracies of today is a sure way to sprout the weeds of the tomorrow.