Published December 11, 2009
by dbazely
Well, I was wrong, wrong, wrong, when I told several colleagues, some weeks ago, that the CRU (Climate Research Unit) at UEA (University of East Anglia) e-mail hacking incident was silly, and to ignore it.
It has not gone away, because climate-change deniers are fully invested in launching what appears to me to be an across-the-board attack on peer reviewed science. This has happened before, to whit, the lobbying for and subsequent removal of Robert Watson as Chair of IPCC (the Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change).
How on earth should the scientific community respond? Well, I challenge everyone to hack into your own emails using terms such as "rejection", "rejected", "plagiarism", "trick", "fix" and see what emails you come up with. Then you can find incriminating phrases that can be taken out of context and used to self-smear your own integrity as a scientist.
Here's what I found when I searched 4 years of my backed-up emails for "trick". In a 2007 email, I wrote that Doritos will provide an alternative solution to dealing with the consequences of climate change: "doritos should do the trick". Please note that Drs. Vicari and Koh, as former students of mine, are clearly fellow members of this conspiracy and we are, in fact, hoping that this snack company will fund our next field season.
Dawn R. Bazely
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