Summary of #66 Dale Johnson: ClimateGate deep dive

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Dale Johnson, a climate change skeptic, discusses his experience with ClimateGate, emphasizing the corruption, deceit and manipulation involved in the top climate science institutes worldwide. He explains how climate change scientists refuse to accept evidence from skeptics or deniers, making it difficult to convince people who are heavily invested in the climate change narrative. Johnson uses infographics and memes with exact quotes to back up his arguments. He also talks about the skepticism surrounding the poorly maintained databases involved in climate research projects, as well as the manipulation of climate data involved in the destruction of history and the use of plausible deniability. Finally, Johnson discusses the unprofessionalism of scientists in the scandal and the wealthy individuals and investment groups promoting green energy investment firms for their financial gain, leading ultimately to the end of private car ownership and the need to consume bugs as a food source.

• 00:00:00 In this section, Dale Johnson discusses his experience with ClimateGate and how it was like reading a mystery novel. He had no prior interest in the climate debate but was intrigued when news of the scandal broke out. As he delved further into the emails, he was shocked by the corruption, deceit, and lies that were happening behind closed doors amongst the top climate science institutes in the world. Johnson spent months reading the emails on his own and wasn't initially blogging or on Twitter but later decided to use his findings to promote the truth and was attacked viciously for it.
• 00:05:00 In this section, Dale Johnson discusses how the climate change community does not accept any evidence from experts who are skeptics or deniers. He explains how he used the information from the ClimateGate emails to put forward his argument and how it was difficult to convince people who were really in on it. He also talks about how he created infographics or memes with exact quotes and sources that people could validate and verify. Dale's Twitter account with 28,000 followers got suspended, and he now works with a graphics expert with the name Dawn to protect her identity.
• 00:10:00 In this section, the guest and the host talk about the team behind the popular Twitter account, @Climatism. They then delve into the Climategate scandal and how the authorities whitewashed it. The guest recounts how the emails implicated key players in the manipulation of climate data and the refusal to disclose raw data that would have enabled skeptical researchers to falsify claims being made. The guest details some of the bizarre aspects of the emails and the contempt in which these so-called scientists held their profession. Of particular interest was the so-called "Mike's nature trick" which aimed to make the data look more reliable than it was.
• 00:15:00 In this section, the speaker talks about how the data was manipulated to fit the desired narrative of global warming. They go into detail about the process of smoothing out the data to remove variability and how key players like Mike Mann, Phil Jones, and Keith Barefoot all manipulated the data in different ways, like hiding the decline or inflating the numbers to match what they wanted. They also discussed how sea surface temperatures were largely based on unreliable data and how adjustments were made to the temperature data, such as changing the type of buckets used to collect water or the speed of the ship, to fit the narrative.
• 00:20:00 In this section, Dale Johnson discusses how the Argo buoys, which were high-tech and the latest technology, were adjusted by Tom Carl and his comrades at NOAA to match the old outdated obsolete methodology of the biased warm bucket data. Dale questioned why adjustments were made to high-tech readings to match the old technology. Huang, the person who did the calculations for the adjustment, replied that they thought it was the way the department decided to handle it in a meeting, and that it did not matter. Dale emphasized the importance of which ones you adjust as it can show either an increase or a decrease. Finally, he discussed the farcical handling of data in climate science, which showed no real control, and the complexity of the tortuous history of the manual and semi-automated interventions in the Harry readme file, leaving readers laughing and crying at the same time.
• 00:25:00 In this section, excerpts from the video showcase the issues with the climate data and databases that were involved in the ClimateGate controversy. The speaker discovers that the data has been lost, swapped, and scaled improperly, making it difficult to identify the stations and their locations accurately. Moreover, he notes that there are no station identification details in the data, which makes it almost impossible to verify its accuracy. Consequently, the poor state of the databases has led to the project's nearly year-long delay, and the speaker highlights that he is frustrated with the quality of such data. Additionally, the video mentions that nobody knows who was involved in the ClimateGate scandal. However, it is suspected that the person who released the file named "Freedom of Information Act" in 2009 knew the inside story. Finally, the video highlights that many climate alarmists refuse to question the dodgy and sketchy databases involved in such climate research projects and only focus on defense.
• 00:30:00 In this section of the video, the speaker discusses how Michael Mann, editor of a journal, had a bias towards minimizing or removing the Medieval Warm Period and the Little Ice Age. He would often attack colleagues personally if he disagreed with their work and was accused of being a gatekeeper who silenced other views. Additionally, he was accused of gaming the peer-review system, and journals were pressured not to publish papers by climate skeptics. The speaker mentions that it's hard to know what's happening behind the scenes with data adjustments since emails are not available to the public.
• 00:35:00 In this section, Dale Johnson discusses the manipulation of climate data through the destruction of history and the use of plausible deniability. He talks about using Tony Heller's work, but instead of citing it, he finds the original source to make his quotes. He mentions that he has thought about putting together books on the main characters of ClimateGate but there is so much information. Johnson also talks about the number of hours he spent reading the ClimateGate emails and how after months of reading, about 15-25% of them would blow your mind. While he has stopped reading up on climate stories and claims, he mentions that he has read about 30,000-50,000 pages of the IPCC to find out what was going on. Lastly, Johnson mentions that he has come across John Cook's work and his 97 consensus but was blocked after reading skeptic stuff that revealed the database Cook used and how he categorized things.
• 00:40:00 In this section, Dale Johnson discusses the unprofessionalism of scientists involved in the ClimateGate scandal. He reveals that scientists had a private, thought-to-be private, forum where they planned their PR campaign for the 97 consensus before anyone had even read any abstracts. Furthermore, people without credentials were asked to read abstracts and were made co-authors if they read 2,000. Johnson also mentions that the scientists at Skeptical Science had photoshopped pictures of themselves in Nazi uniforms, and when people called them out on it, they said it was embarrassing, but they were thrilled to be seen as Nazis. Finally, Johnson talks about how scientists delete or deny history that is inconvenient to them and how they throw around confidence levels, such as the 95% confidence level, to convince people that what they're saying is pretty confident, even though it is just made up.
• 00:45:00 In this section, the speaker questions the scientific validity of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) as they express the need to find more peer-reviewed papers to make their high confidence level seem more realistic. He argues that this approach is not science but a circus. Later on, he talks about the origins of the climate strike and how it was not as spontaneous as it seemed. He states that Greta Thunberg's parents tried to sell their daughter as an eight-episode series to a Swedish documentary channel two years before the climate strike started. Moreover, the speakers describe the involvement of Ingebar Rentzog, the man who started, "we don't have time," and received training from Al Gore's climate reality project. The climate protest was their idea, and Greta joined the youth council and put her name there. They even had brochures printed for the day. He argues that the strike was not spontaneous, and there was more preparation behind it than people realize, such as her mother writing a book, which was published four days after the strike started. He concludes that the climate strike was not spontaneous because Greta had only started her Twitter account one month before the strike.
• 00:50:00 In this section, climate change skeptic Dale Johnson discusses the wealthy individuals and investment groups that are promoting green energy investment firms for their own financial gain, using Greta Thunberg as a means of publicity. He also explains how this has been years in the making and the ultimate goal is to make billions of dollars from green investments. Johnson predicts that the push for green energy will lead to social ratings and the end of private car ownership, with bugs becoming a common food source. He argues that the raw materials needed to make EVs and replace batteries are going to run out within 10 years, leaving us in a dire situation.