{"id":107777,"date":"2009-12-28T09:34:19","date_gmt":"2009-12-28T14:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/intersection\/?p=5728"},"modified":"2009-12-28T09:34:19","modified_gmt":"2009-12-28T14:34:19","slug":"my-cameo-in-the-%e2%80%9cclimategate%e2%80%9d-emails-the-intersection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/107777","title":{"rendered":"My Cameo in the \u201cClimateGate\u201d Emails | The Intersection"},"content":{"rendered":"

It has been brought to my attention that I am mentioned, once, in the “ClimateGate” email stash. If you go here<\/a> and search for my name, you find this<\/a>, an email from Tom Wigley of NCAR, who I have interviewed for various stories:<\/p>\n

From: Tom Wigley <wigley@xxxxxxxxx.xxx>
\nTo: santer1@xxxxxxxxx.xxx
\nSubject: Re: [Fwd: [Fwd: FW: Press Release from The Science & Environmental Policy Project]]
\nDate: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 17:17:14 -0700
\nCc: carl mears <mears@xxxxxxxxx.xxx>, Frank Wentz <frank.wentz@xxxxxxxxx.xxx>, Tom Wigley <wigley@xxxxxxxxx.xxx>, Steven Sherwood <Steven.Sherwood@xxxxxxxxx.xxx>, John Lanzante <John.Lanzante@xxxxxxxxx.xxx>, “‘Dian J. Seidel’” <dian.seidel@xxxxxxxxx.xxx>, Melissa Free <Melissa.Free@xxxxxxxxx.xxx>, Karl Taylor <taylor13@xxxxxxxxx.xxx>, Steve Klein <klein21@xxxxxxxxx.xxx>, Leopold Haimberger <leopold.haimberger@xxxxxxxxx.xxx>, “Thorne, Peter” <peter.thorne@xxxxxxxxx.xxx>, “‘Philip D. Jones’” <p.jones@xxxxxxxxx.xxx><\/p>\n

Dear all,<\/p>\n

I think the scientific fraud committed by Douglass needs to
\nbe exposed. His co-authors may be innocent bystanders, but
\nI doubt it.<\/p>\n

In normal circumstances, what Douglass has done would cause
\nhim to lose his job — a parallel is the South Korean cloning
\nfraud case.<\/p>\n

I have suggested that someone like Chris Mooney should be
\ntold about this.<\/p>\n

Tom.<\/p>\n

In searching my emails, I was never told about this, and certainly never wrote anything about the situation, which I am not familiar with. As a journalist, though, I certainly do want to receive tips of things to write about, and I frequently do from a wide variety of folks. With only the most rare of exceptions, I never get around to writing anything; but in this case, I wasn’t even tipped.<\/p>\n

Still, I can see why scientists concerned about global warming, and accepting of the scientific consensus, would want me to cover the topic, including its political side. By 2007 I already had a track record for exposing the misinformation campaign to mislead the public about climate change, something I continue to do today. And given that there is such a misinformation campaign–with “ClimateGate” being the latest and perhaps the most severe example–we need scientists and journalists alike striving to set the record straight.<\/p>\n

I guess that that’s my way of saying that, as with virtually all of the “ClimateGate” emails that I have seen, the single one mentioning my name is not very surprising–especially as it regards me, who never even heard of this until now.<\/p>\n

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\n<\/a><\/p>\n

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It has been brought to my attention that I am mentioned, once, in the “ClimateGate” email stash. If you go here and search for my name, you find this, an email from Tom Wigley of NCAR, who I have interviewed for various stories: From: Tom Wigley <wigley@xxxxxxxxx.xxx> To: santer1@xxxxxxxxx.xxx Subject: Re: [Fwd: [Fwd: FW: Press […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":641,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/641"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}