Happy New Year 2024 (and sorry for the forum being offline some hours) /DM
Good morning Stephen (UTC),As promised, here is the article I ended up burning some midnight oil over."At the time of writing Stephen has still not provided any evidence for his scurrilous allegation against Prof. Rice."#Climategate pigs might fly?
It seems as though the British Broadcasting Corporation has commissioned a “thriller” entitled “The Trick“, which is based on the events in 2009 and thereafter popularly referred to as “Climategate”:The “Climategate” computer hacking scandal that rocked the scientific world is to be made into a BBC film.
It's called a hockey stick, because of the shape of the T vs t time series. As David is pointing out, this shape is consistent with what we'd expect from climate physics.
Hidden in this cautionary tale, there’s also a love story: Phil and Ruth’s. There are numerous tear-jerking scenes, in particular Ruth’s reaction when Phil returns from a moonlit beach walk, sodden wet, after wading into the sea and contemplating death by suicide. She remains his rock throughout.‘Climategate’ itself may have been about facts and figures, but The Trick’s, well, trick is honing in on the people it affected – and on the billions of people who will be impacted by the climate crisis in the years to come.
Is it worth watching, Jim?
The "heroes" of The Trick, to the extent that there are any, are the square-jawed "reputation managers" who coached Jones up to appear before a Parliamentary Committee a few weeks later. They are Neil Wallis and Sam Bowen of Outside Organization - similar guys to Fusion GPS. Wallis, a former exec editor of tabloid News of the World, was arrested two years later in aphone hacking scandal.
