Climategate: The Smoking Code

Watts Up With That?
Dec. 05, 2009

The Proof Behind the CRU Climategate Debacle: Because Computers Do Lie When Humans Tell Them To

From Cube Antics, by Robert Greiner

I'm coming to you today as a scientist and engineer with an agnostic stand on global warming.

If you don't know anything about "Climategate" (does anyone else hate that name?) Go ahead and read up on it before you check out this post, I'll wait.

Back? Let's get started.

First, let's get this out of the way: Emails prove nothing. Sure, you can look like an unethical asshole who may have committed a felony using government funded money; but all email is, is talk, and talk is cheap.

Now, here is some actual proof that the CRU was deliberately tampering with their data. Unfortunately, for readability's sake, this code was written in Interactive Data Language (IDL) and is a pain to go through.

NOTE: This is an actual snippet of code from the CRU contained in the source file: briffa_Sep98_d.pro

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