FOIA – Stupid, Crap

This posting is named for the two “dirty words” with the highest “hit count”. Yes, the favorite word is “Crap”.

(of those I checked. After a while I ran out of imagination and, well, I’m not all that current on British curse words, so bullocks was about it… at any rate, of the list I thought of, “crap” was The Number One.)

Be Warned. They also toss around the “F-Bomb”. While most of the list below is in “population count” order, I’ve moved the F-word to the very end and put a WARNING in front of it. IF you get to the “crap”, be warned what is next…

As the total file count is well over 100, there is no way I can put them in a posting. Heck, it will take a fair amount of time just to dig through them (so if there is some particular word you are fond of, feel free to “dig here!” and post what you find ;-) Just put warning tags at the top of an F-bomb postings, OK?

What is posted here are the text lines (prefixed with the email name / number) in which the “special word” was found. I’ve removed any ‘false hits’ on attachments, but may have missed some ‘false hits’. (For example, I removed a Russian name that began with Shitxxxxx, but might well have missed some other variation). Some of the lines make it clear what the context is, and what the interest might be. Others are just vague. It will take a while to work through these.

I suspect that the items that caused The Team the most heartache and drove them most to cursing will likely be a fertile ground for finding “interesting topics”…

Each set begins with the command line I used to do the search. I have a command named “ff” (for “FOIA Find”) that does the actual work. It takes the argument of any search text of interest. IF in quotes, it is to eliminate compounds and look only for the word bounded by a blank space. Each set ends with a count of the lines found. For those where I removed “false hits” I adjusted the count (and hopefully kept it right ;-)

If there are any particular “keyword searches” anyone would like done, just let me know. It takes about 30 seconds to do one (and about an hour to get the posting up ;-) So for keywords with a low hit count, it’s about a minute to say “Found 10 for foo” and even for the ones with high hit counts, if all you want is the count and not the text, it’s quite fast…

I’ve done nothing to strip out the things that WordPress likes to consume, so lines with matched angle brackets may have simply turned to blanks. If one of those happens, I’ll try to past back in the original text. Email addresses are often that way.

Links

If you would like to read any of these emails, just hit this link and pick out the email that has the same number/name:

Link to online archive of emails.

For a general entry point into prior FOIA postings, look here:

https://chiefio.wordpress.com/foia/

Each of the articles on a F.O.I.A. topic will be assigned to the FOIA Category (at the right edge of the page). You can get directly to that list (which will be in reverse chronological order) here:

https://chiefio.wordpress.com/category/foia-climategate/

Lightly Cursing – Oh Shit!

These are the words that had a single digit hit count:

Shit, sucker, bitch, ass, bastard, bullshit

:~/Desktop/FOIA2011/mail chiefio$ ff ” shit”

5290.txt:Note that Dave recommends not using HadCM2 greenhouse gas plus sulphate – “the sulphate runs are shit” is his no-doubt confidential opinion ;-)

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:~/Desktop/FOIA2011/mail chiefio$ ff sucker

0563.txt:going to be taken for a sucker.”

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Snow-Book:~/Desktop/FOIA2011/mail chiefio$ ff bitch

4509.txt: play and payback is a bitch. That is all I have to say.

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Snow-Book:~/Desktop/FOIA2011/mail chiefio$ ff ” ass ”

0798.txt:a pain in the ass for you at this time. I hope all is well at home and that
3300.txt:afraid that can probably be traced back to the half ass chronology

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:~/Desktop/FOIA2011/mail chiefio$ ff bastard

1523.txt: Bastard!
2119.txt:sceptics might think. Frankly, I just ignore the bastards like John
3148.txt: not yet on both accounts, nah! I agree that Venus is better than Mars for those bastards.

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Snow-Book:~/Desktop/FOIA2011/mail chiefio$ ff bullshit

1013.txt: > Sent some bullshit to Albert. Tuesday Feb 3 is not far off. I’ll be

2178.txt:to try to get it through. This is not bullshit as I was anxious to really

3062.txt: low-res proxies – varves mainly. We don’t really want the bullshit and

3078.txt: this is simply to say that I will get my paper to you as soon as I can. Frank knows that I am currently involved with writing a bid on behalf of the earth science community to try to extract 8 million pounds for a 5 year project from NERC to support Palaeo/Modelling validatin work. I was not allowed to say no to this request and it is involving me in a lot of meetings and associated crap. I am now redrafting the proposal. Also I must write my application to NERC for a fellowship – if this fails Sarah and I are unemployed after December as things stand. God knows there is little chance of success but the application must be in be the end of September and I have not started it yet. This is a big deal for me and I am putting you down as my primary suggested scientific referee. The PAGES paper can only be done in mid October and I really need your and Frank’s understanding on this. I had to do the Thematic bid proposal as Nick Shackleton asked me to , and I want to put him down as my primary Personal reference! In early October I have to attend a NERC Earth Science Board meeting to defend the Thematic bid; a meeting of PEP3 in Belgium;a UK CLIVAR meeting in London; an EC meeting to present our ADVANCE-10K results in Vienna. This is not bullshit. I will do the PAGES meetin paper as fast as I can and you must please allow me the leeway . Sorry – but this will not really hold the publication up . If I could sort out some funding I could afford to drop some of these things but with the EC future also up in the air at the moment , I have to try to juggle these things. Sorry again Ray

3803.txt: bullshit, but I guess that’s how far standards have fallen. Pretty amazing…

3969.txt: The second question is typical bullshit. The investment will happen anyway.

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Oh Hell!

Here we have the “double digit” words.

Hell: 20
Idiot: 21
damn: 31
stupid: 71
crap: 73

Then a gap, followed by the 13 “F-bombs”

:~/Desktop/FOIA2011/mail chiefio$ ff ” hell ”

0457.txt:>>embarassing set of reasonable requests from CRU, who the hell do you
0662.txt:Espen used to raise hell for the Marshall Islands in the UNFCCC processes. he is now part of the New York UN corps. I know anything you can get together he would value and you’d actually be producing a very useful output!
0865.txt: 5. Hey – In fact – for the hell of it, I might swap our RW Tornetrask series with Hakan
1819.txt: to wait. (In other words, go to hell for now, and I’ll tell you when to come back out.)
2044.txt: Is there a chance in Hell this complex message can be conveyed to the public and to
2145.txt:subject: Feb 27 e-mail – what the hell is going on?
2299.txt: > an embarassing set of reasonable requests from CRU, who the hell do
2299.txt: > >to be consultant work as we never have a cats chance in hell of
2440.txt: requests from CRU, who the hell do you think you are? There will of course be an FOI on
2627.txt:> please tell me in some detail what the hell is going on. I was away for
2639.txt: religious doctrine, in some cases, hell bent on eliminating other cultures by force. The
2906.txt:>>>that I have had genuine hell with one reviewer who was not
3511.txt: Here are some other QUICK thoughts – don’t count on me for the next week. Proposal hell and
3688.txt:>Subject: Re: Feb 27 e-mail – what the hell is going on?
4346.txt:important, but on the side we should be going hell for leather to prevent
4378.txt:>> an embarassing set of reasonable requests from CRU, who the hell do
4610.txt:> I really don’t feel very happy about this, as we did put a hell of alot of
4624.txt:Now you are mad as hell at me, I know. So let me say that you have done an
4778.txt: requests from CRU, who the hell do you think you are? There will of course be an FOI on
4899.txt:>>>> an embarassing set of reasonable requests from CRU, who the hell do
5314.txt:> >likely to provoke a reaction such as “What the hell does that mean ?”

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:~/Desktop/FOIA2011/mail chiefio$ ff idiot

0020.txt:Hello all. Ah ha–the latest idiot–McKitrick–reenters the scene. He and
0563.txt:be the equivalent of giving an idiot child a machine gun.” He
0563.txt:idiotically, last Thursday: ” is not a plan for America?s future,
0748.txt: about when it comes to SST adjustments and buckets. Maybe it will show that idiots at CA
0845.txt: I did talk to the idiot who wrote this, but couldn’t persuade him it was rubbish. This
1885.txt: I’m not – just at the idiots who continue to spout this nonsense.
2016.txt:>> is that he is a complete idiot, and has not even bothered to read
2063.txt: As Durkin is an idiot, the easiest thing for you to do is just point
2073.txt: however not willing to get into a discussion with an “idiot”
2165.txt:> Hello all. Ah ha–the latest idiot–McKitrick–reenters the scene. He and
2583.txt: I did talk to the idiot who wrote this, but couldn’t persuade him it was rubbish. This
3115.txt: Legates, the Finn, or any of these other idiots. They’re simply going to save up your
3263.txt: I did talk to the idiot who wrote this, but couldn’t persuade him it was rubbish. This
3499.txt: likely to have to respond to more crap criticisms from the idiots in the near future, so
3563.txt: I just wanted something for idiots like this to read.
3707.txt:is that he is a complete idiot, and has not even bothered to read Santer
3890.txt:so-idiotic-that-its-already-funny versions that Haemeranta is sending
4135.txt:Former German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt called for an end to the “hysteria” over global warming in the lead-up to the summit. The topic is “hysterical, overheated, and that is especially because of the media,” Schmidt told Germany’s Bild daily. There has always been climate change on earth, Schmidt said. “We’ve had warm- and ice-ages for hundreds of thousands of years,” he said, and added that the reasons behind the multiple climate changes have been “inadequately researched for the time being.” To assume that global climate change can be altered by any plans made at the Heiligendamm summit is “idiotic,” he said.
4152.txt: about recent temps, and probably when it comes to those idiots
4923.txt: visit David Bellamy made to the HC. He’s another idiot who just spouts the same garbage.
5215.txt:> Finally, that idiot Lord Monckton or Brenchly, is making his own
5224.txt: idiots on Climate Audit something to talk about!

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:~/Desktop/FOIA2011/mail chiefio$ ff damn

0045.txt:c already wrote it once, last year, and now I can’t find the damn thing.
0105.txt: seems as though I’m damned if I do and damned if I don’t.
0344.txt: >>At present, I’m damned and publicly vilified because I refused to
0349.txt:>> >>live in a fool’s climate. We are damned if we
0349.txt:>> >>continue to burn fuel and damned if we stop too suddenly.”
0563.txt:the U.S. corporate fossil fuel industry don’t give a damn about
1158.txt:qRIoxxSCOcuYTntucIY6uHGNRqalyeWyjs9nZIiJyDAmNY/JolAv5u2LkbKxtCGG
1353.txt:>>always, he seeks to damn ( in this case with faint praise) the records or
1680.txt:> seems as though I’m damned if I do and damned if I don’t.
2104.txt: We note in this regard that even under the less damning evaluation
2156.txt:what to do? I’ve always been a believer in doing what is “right’ and damn
2169.txt:of the QC techniques employed and might be useful.. or damning.
2178.txt:comment seems to be enough to damn our proposals, and all we get is a
2245.txt: Oh Phil, what can I say? I haven’t even read the damned piece
2327.txt:Damn – I was hoping you wouldn’t spot that was missing! ;-)
2336.txt:”Its a leftist plot to take over the village, you all watch out” he warned his fellow clansmen. “Them folks outside the Annex want what we’ve got, an’ we worked damn hard for what we got. They just want to take our Carbon Water and tell us what to do here
2402.txt: It seems to me that you are damned if you do and damned if you don’t respond positively. I
2447.txt:other communication took place – we agreed to do our damndest to raise the
2458.txt:LISBOA (3000) and SILVA-PORTA (4750). The real damning piece of
2704.txt:>always, he seeks to damn ( in this case with faint praise) the records or
2712.txt:do we stand now that someone else gives a damn?” My hope is that
2944.txt:our perceived independence – do we give a damn?
3327.txt: believe the trends from ISCCP at all. Saying Wielicki and ISCCP agree actually damns
3341.txt: > >At present, I’m damned and publicly vilified because I refused to
3416.txt:Anchorage briefing, becaue the press is conservative there, its too damn
3476.txt:> seems as though I’m damned if I do and damned if I don’t.
4001.txt:try to get this finalized before, like the Forth Bridge, the whole damn lot
4132.txt: damning…
4253.txt: give a damn?
4271.txt: As we now know, the far more damning fact is that Von Storch et al knowingly applied a
4354.txt: damned sight easier than yours!
5299.txt:As we now know, the far more damning fact is that Von Storch et al

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:~/Desktop/FOIA2011/mail chiefio$ ff stupid

0207.txt:>Sorry if all this sounds stupid or obvious. I got afflicted with the ‘need
0281.txt: So the German group would be stupid to take your bet. There is a likely
0307.txt: dire and it is important not to be put off taking action by stupid misinformation.
0363.txt: do the same thing. stupid idea. dont want to debate a professional debater on air.
0402.txt: Hope none of the above are stupid!
0410.txt:17(739-740) : This sentence sounds stupid. Rephrase.
0452.txt:> stupid to leave the Trend in with the rest of the variance.
0487.txt: dire and it is important not to be put off taking action by stupid misinformation.
0555.txt: limited by IPCC declaring MBH to be “true”. (Stupid, politicized action by IPCC, not MBH’s
0563.txt:What could be more massively stupid than that? Cheap power has
0742.txt:Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity!
0767.txt: and it is important not to be put off taking action by stupid misinformation.
0800.txt: > So all these arguments/comments are stupid.
0984.txt:>> to them for political reasons) is stupid, but we want to keep readers
1069.txt:I am forwarding an exchange of e-mails I had with David Whitehouse last week about the Met Office’s press release on 2008 global temperatures. You will see that he is persisting with his stupid argument that global warming ended in 2001 – he is still managing to sway people with his argument, and it is the same as Christopher Booker is using virtually every week in ‘The Sunday Telegraph’.
1111.txt: We would look stupid if you released the data now. I can put your FOI person
1151.txt: anything – except that we don’t use the stupid new NOAA definition ! It seems that only
1180.txt: It’s dire and it is important not to be put off taking action by stupid misinformation.
1214.txt: paper. I am actually not that stupid as you indicate. At least, I
1217.txt:>>> We would look stupid if you released the data now. I can put your
1467.txt:> blow up in the media. It would seem to me that it would be stupid
1570.txt:> >> to them for political reasons) is stupid, but we want to keep readers
1590.txt: truncated space??? stupid…)
1641.txt:> So the German group would be stupid to take your bet. There is a likely
1643.txt:> >with his stupid argument that global warming
1677.txt: programs and the knowledge how to test and interpolate the data (beyond stupidly and
1682.txt:”Hey, forest decline was a stupid lie, so climate change must be too.”
1682.txt:> this way and we now get the reply: “Hey, forest decline was a stupid lie,
1738.txt:>stupid.
1798.txt:in both the MWE and LIA seems too stupid to be true.]
1839.txt: who won’t be queuing to read this exposure of their stupidity. Even America itself has had
1858.txt: than anywhere else! We have this stupid Research Assessment Exercise
1882.txt:sorry, this week is just full of stupid meetings!).
1885.txt: I keep on seeing people saying this same stupid thing. I’m not
2044.txt: self-interested, misinformed, stupid or dishonest. Politicians mainly want to be seen as
2117.txt: We would look stupid if you released the data now. I can put your FOI person
2142.txt:>> Might be a stupid idea, so it’s ok to say so.
2204.txt:stupid. The first thing that comes to my mind is that nitrogen would be
2233.txt: drastically when disturbed. It is showing ignorance and stupidity.
2268.txt:>”Hey, forest decline was a stupid lie, so climate change must be too.”
2268.txt:> > this way and we now get the reply: “Hey, forest decline was a stupid
2308.txt: As you said Tom, there were some stupid messages going
2336.txt:The 77 families looked at Uncle Sam as if he was stupid.
2381.txt:>> >change. Am I being really stupid, or is it difficult to use those
2581.txt: Russia and China. Pasha will have heard of all the stupid things
2639.txt: I have stopped sending data out to anybody after the stupid comment on Climate Audit by
2730.txt: Russia and China. Pasha will have heard of all the stupid things
2835.txt:Sorry if all this sounds stupid or obvious. I got afflicted with the ‘need
2984.txt:least). These are stupid — they lead to ridiculous emissions (see
3003.txt:> amusing and stupid. If a US HCN observer denies permission for CA
3046.txt:>>am willing to accept that this was done in naive stupidity, but I am not
3176.txt: Is this a very stupid idea, when I find an earlier year (instead of
3219.txt:stupid. To suggest that dendrochronology does not embrace the
3235.txt: stupid questions she asks me and/or Sarah), but I am not going to
3242.txt: Hope none of the above are stupid!
3245.txt: publishing MBH, and called the IPCC “stupid” and “irresponsible” for highlighting the
3410.txt:>>did a stupid mistake. In this case, I will get a beer for you on Monday…
3511.txt: ahead and do a stupid thing. If this was a climate field recon it would be different, no?
3550.txt: drastically when disturbed. It is showing ignorance and stupidity.
3563.txt: I know it’s stupid, but I keep hearing this.
3708.txt:to them for political reasons) is stupid, but we want to keep readers
3814.txt:’Invention is merely the sudden cessation of stupidity’
4053.txt: At least March should stop the stupid op-ed pieces about the coming Ice Age
4285.txt: the LIA — allowing both in both the MWE and LIA seems too stupid to be true.]
4351.txt:>>when publishing MBH, and called the IPCC “stupid” and
4494.txt:>> >> to them for political reasons) is stupid, but we want to keep readers
4652.txt:>>>Sorry if all this sounds stupid or obvious. I got afflicted with the ‘need
4766.txt:> We would look stupid if you released the data now. I can put your FOI
4890.txt: persisting with his stupid argument that global warming ended in 2001 – he is still
4986.txt: It’s dire and it is important not to be put off taking action by stupid misinformation.
5084.txt: Near the end the comments get a bit picky/stupid. e.g. “according to
5174.txt:stupid.
5303.txt: from Plane Stupid and the Department of Energy and Climate Change.

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:~/Desktop/FOIA2011/mail chiefio$ ff crap

0063.txt: > >chased you’ll have to scrape together the time from somewhere else
0201.txt:>Oh MAN! will this crap ever end??
0276.txt:> to counter this crap is to use the biggest guns we can muster. The
0333.txt: is complete crap. Having one’s integrity questioned like this must make your blood boil
0380.txt: crap, and they provide an online version of the Mann et al method (and the proxy data), so
0383.txt: “We have resolved the “crap parameter” problem” – good that means the likes of Aldergrove
0383.txt: We have resolved the “crap parameter” problem: a new fitting procedure implemented, and we
0479.txt:crap in the US actually showed a time series from the IPCC FAR – if
0514.txt: Oh MAN! will this crap ever end??
0562.txt: we think it is crap!)
0599.txt:>>>>>The NAS/NRC mtg is at a crappy time. I can’t travel then since I’m
0661.txt:sensitivity. Amazingly, he managed to publish that crap in GRL. Christy
0907.txt:data — and Crowley has put somethong like an 11-year running mean (a crappy
1044.txt: So I’d advise scrapping version 2, and trying to make version 1 as
1141.txt:>>The NAS/NRC mtg is at a crappy time. I can’t travel then since I’m
1146.txt:I remember that Figure. When it appeared I thought “what crap”.
1178.txt: would like to see this minimalist scheme scrapped and replaced with a serious commitment,
1247.txt:> > > as they are crap anyway.
1283.txt: usual suspects are going to try to peddle this crap. The important thing is to deny that
1353.txt:>>that don’t serve his purpose , and to elevate any scrap of evidence that
1421.txt:>>>> The NAS/NRC mtg is at a crappy time. I can’t travel then since I’m
1423.txt: that kind of crap.
1492.txt: > > > as they are crap anyway.
1673.txt: as they are crap anyway.
1700.txt:The only way to counter this crap is to use the biggest guns we can
1706.txt: Thanks Phil — in a word, you seem to think the paper is crap.
1706.txt: It has the words, this is wrong, this is crap in red on several pages. There was a lot
1724.txt: and sky-scrapers
1737.txt: McIntyre and McKitrick for what it is–pure crap. Of course, we’ve already done this on
1798.txt:of crap for the following reasons is *not* going to give the original
1846.txt: usual suspects are going to try to peddle this crap. The important thing is to deny that
2092.txt:> >>> The only way to counter this crap is to use the biggest guns we can
2185.txt:What has happened since is that another crappy paper that Ben and I
2220.txt: mark of diluted standing requirements,” a 1973 decision known as the Scrap case. That
2220.txt: standing so generous as to be all but unthinkable today. “Today’s decision is Scrap for
2272.txt:I have followed some email discussion about this amongst concerned paleoclimate experts here at UEA, in the USA and in Oz and NZ and their is overwhelming consensus that the Soon and Baliunas work is just crap science that should never be passed peer review (for a flavour see Mike Mann, Phil Jones and Barrie Pittock below). These paleo-experts have decided it is not worth a formal scientific response since the story has not run that widely in the mass media (although is now used by sceptics of course to undermine good science) and that the science is so poor it is not worth a reply.
2272.txt:Of course, we would need to be sure of our case and to argue on grounds of poor conduct of peer review (I can forward a devastating critique of the Soon/Baliunas method from Barrie Pittock if you wish) rather than on disagreeable content of one manuscript. CR does of course publish some good science, but the journal is not doing anyone a service by allowing crap science also to be published.
2423.txt:> get the Times to do a story on that. I’m tired of this crap.
2527.txt: suspects are going to try to peddle this crap. The important thing is to deny that this has
2683.txt:> I might well alert these other colleagues to the crap science CR
2696.txt: Yeah–this looks bad too. IJC has published some decent stuff, but lots of crap. Didn’t
2704.txt:>that don’t serve his purpose , and to elevate any scrap of evidence that does
2719.txt:>>> The only way to counter this crap is to use the biggest guns we can
2723.txt:>to juggle University and teaching/committee crap) . Keith
2869.txt:Lindzen and Choi crap (GRL). Not a comment, but a separate paper
3039.txt:>overwhelming consensus that the Soon and Baliunas work is just crap
3039.txt:>crap science also to be published.
3078.txt: this is simply to say that I will get my paper to you as soon as I can. Frank knows that I am currently involved with writing a bid on behalf of the earth science community to try to extract 8 million pounds for a 5 year project from NERC to support Palaeo/Modelling validatin work. I was not allowed to say no to this request and it is involving me in a lot of meetings and associated crap. I am now redrafting the proposal. Also I must write my application to NERC for a fellowship – if this fails Sarah and I are unemployed after December as things stand. God knows there is little chance of success but the application must be in be the end of September and I have not started it yet. This is a big deal for me and I am putting you down as my primary suggested scientific referee. The PAGES paper can only be done in mid October and I really need your and Frank’s understanding on this. I had to do the Thematic bid proposal as Nick Shackleton asked me to , and I want to put him down as my primary Personal reference! In early October I have to attend a NERC Earth Science Board meeting to defend the Thematic bid; a meeting of PEP3 in Belgium;a UK CLIVAR meeting in London; an EC meeting to present our ADVANCE-10K results in Vienna. This is not bullshit. I will do the PAGES meetin paper as fast as I can and you must please allow me the leeway . Sorry – but this will not really hold the publication up . If I could sort out some funding I could afford to drop some of these things but with the EC future also up in the air at the moment , I have to try to juggle these things. Sorry again Ray
3157.txt: Well be scrapping a side event we had planned to do at the COP in Poznan and Ill need to
3232.txt:>The paper is all crap. I don’t think I’ll respond. “RealClimate” already
3232.txt:>I can’t allow myself to be sidelined with this sort of crap any further,
3379.txt: > > > > Nature reporter’s news story is really crappy. I’m surprised
3415.txt:>> 1d. there is also some evidence (crappy, since some of the best –
3499.txt: likely to have to respond to more crap criticisms from the idiots in the near future, so
3595.txt:effectively that year by scrapping new car tax without any consultation with
3595.txt:i.e. new car tax could be scrapped without any direct consequence for DoT
3618.txt: > > > > Nature reporter’s news story is really crappy. I’m surprised
3810.txt:1881….he is using it in verification and wants to know if it’s crap.
3927.txt:> > > > as they are crap anyway.
3964.txt: I said the film was crap. However, I think it was better than the Pentagon report.
4032.txt: The only way to counter this crap is to use the biggest guns we can muster. The
4042.txt: having a bad time with this end note crap
4064.txt:use it. To do this I’ve taken every single scrap of info I have in my
4138.txt: harry – the wetsyn netCDF file seems full of crap! stripey like when you previously
4207.txt: (numbers in parentheses in attached figure 1 from the paper), so if a series is truly crap
4207.txt: In my opinion, this is a better approach then simply deeming a record crap a priori (and
4207.txt: that’s because it’s crap–no further comment on what stuff gets into GRL!
4215.txt: as they are crap anyway.
4271.txt: You should have seen some of the crap
4285.txt: peer reviewed). A response that says this paper is a load of crap for the following
4327.txt:> > the usual suspects are going to try to peddle this crap. The
4361.txt:type of crap (e.g., with regard to Pat Michaels–my
4373.txt: are aware that McIntyre and his ilk realize they no longer need to get their crap
4558.txt: Senators Benjamin Cardin (D-MD) and Mike Crapo (R-ID) will serve as chairman and ranking
4564.txt:>>> hand-picked to get the desired result” is complete crap. Having one’s
4587.txt:> The NAS/NRC mtg is at a crappy time. I can’t travel then since I’m
4808.txt: Soon and Baliunas work is just crap science that should never be passed peer review (for
4808.txt: by allowing crap science also to be published.
4854.txt: usual suspects are going to try to peddle this crap. The important thing is to deny that
4920.txt:later time, but now I wonder whether to scrap the current synthetic
4993.txt: > This is crap of the worst kind–it was written explicitly for
5055.txt: I have just read this lettter – and I think it is crap. I am sick to death of Mann stating
5105.txt: I gave Myles the crap paper last week when we met at Duke for an IDAG
5105.txt: the crap paper nor his own in response to some comments in Chapter 5. With your
5105.txt: It is total crap. It is a pain to do, but important to have a response
5177.txt:until January 3. The handwritten version is too scrappy to send. This
5263.txt:hand-picked to get the desired result” is complete crap. Having
5294.txt:> the usual suspects are going to try to peddle this crap. The important thing is to

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WARNING!!! F-Bombs Follow !!!

:~/Desktop/FOIA2011/mail chiefio$ ff fuck

0002.txt:he has done fuck-all except for the Bradley/Jones decadal series,
0435.txt: him has fucked up in reconstructing past NH temperatures over the past 1000 years (this
0435.txt: the proxy estimates), but honestly know fuck-all about what the >100 year variability
0435.txt: was like with any certainty (i.e. we know with certainty that we know fuck-all).
0643.txt: him has fucked up in reconstructing past NH temperatures over the past 1000 years
0643.txt: the proxy estimates), but honestly know fuck-all about what the >100 year variability
0643.txt: was like with any certainty (i.e. we know with certainty that we know fuck-all).
0798.txt:what the fuck Wigley was trying to do. Needless to say, Singer quite easily
1689.txt: made saying we believe the “prats have really fucked up someway” – and that the
2431.txt: I have been battling with teaching today and fucked up course scheduling by the
2707.txt: made saying we believe the “prats have really fucked up someway” – and that the
3253.txt:follow-up talk on how everybody but him has fucked up in
3253.txt:believe the proxy estimates), but honestly know fuck-all about what
3253.txt:with certainty that we know fuck-all).
3622.txt:>>hierarchical Bayes, there is fuck-all difference in the results.
4451.txt: made saying we believe the “prats have really fucked up someway” – and that the
4604.txt: Re the modelling fucking up the recent submissions – I am sending you (later today) also a
4604.txt: them last Spring. Of course I have done fuck-all on it since which may have been just as
4604.txt: drought proposal with you and Tim as sub-contractors. We got fucked because of the
4722.txt:I have been battling with teaching today and fucked up course scheduling by
4862.txt:> I absolutely accept responsibility for this fuck up – I simply did a

Count of unique files found in search for: fuck

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In Conclusion

Well, colorful fellows, these. At least, last time I looked, use of such language inside the workplace was to be discouraged (and in some cases subject to “sexual harassment” and “hostile workplace” laws / suits). I’ve not done a particular search for “sexual terms” or any of the other things that Managers And The Law class said were forbidden, but frankly this long list seemed like more than enough for one posting.

At the very least, this paints a picture of a group feeling under attack, and somewhat defensive / paranoid. Where a common reaction to ordinary things (like requests for the raw data to validate their findings) are met with hostility and anger. (Perhaps they need to attend an “anger management” class… HR? Anyone in HR want to council these folks?)

The number of folks they consider stupid or idiots is surprisingly large and wide ranging. Perhaps some day I’ll start making a list of “Phriends of Phil” and “Phil Calls Stupid”…

With that, “Happy Digging!”

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