My belated condolences. I always enjoyed reading his posts and will miss his insight and wide ranging views. May hew…
Climategate, a crisis of conscience.
Sometimes in a life, you have to look at where you are and what you’ve become a part of, through the very best and the most innocent of intentions, and you don’t like yourself. It’s not somewhere you ever wanted or intended to be, but it is what it is.
That’s where you are.
Everyone is talking about the big picture but all you can see is a different big picture, and your picture has faces to it, lots of them; silly human family faces. Everyone around you is fixated on some new Jerusalem on the oh so nearly reachable horizon or another similarly beguiling but distant mirage, but you’re looking at the human cost of achieving it.
Decision time.
Stay on the train, stay safe, fat, dumb and happy and screw anyone else who didn’t get aboard; or do something. You did something and by putting your life voluntarily into the danger zone, you’ve saved lives.
You are in crisis and a personal one, I can see that; there are just too many red flags in that email. There’s a limit to how much any man can take and how much can reasonably be asked of him. All the love, determination, courage and sheer guts run out in the end. There’s only so much of any of them in any one human being. The only honour is in how long you last.
You Sir, have given great service and you’ve done it uncommonly well. Look after yourself, time to rest now.
©Pointman
Pointman's 
climategate 3.0 http://junkscience.com/2013/03/13/climategate-3-0-220247-e-mails/ still going strong 🙂
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That’s a fine and empathetic tribute, Pointman. You lead the way again.
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In the light of your post, I reread the email. Like point man says, you should relax. We’ll take it from here.
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It’s morning here in Australia. My day started well. It just got better. Mr FOIA, you have done an amzing thing. You’ve gone above and beyond. Keep safe. The world is indebted to you.
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Stay safe, FOIA. There’s a multitude who’ve got your six.
We’ll all back you to the limit.
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Pointman,
Seems like it was an external hack after all …
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Have you noticed the double space between full stops and the start of a new sentence? What’s that tell you?
Pointman
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English education, sometime during the forty years following the end of WWII.
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Or someone who learnt to type with a typewriter. And subsequently used one for some years.
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Not your usual kiddo hacker then. They stopped teaching that double space a long time ago, but our fingers, like so many unconscious things in that email, betray us in the end. Someone of an older vintage, I’d venture to assay.
P
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That tells me that they learnt English at a formal level. It was his statements about his non-English linguistic background and not being from the UK that suggests that he does not live in the UK which suggests he was not an employee of CRU or UEA.
I could be wrong of course …
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Did he say that he was not connected with UEA?
There is one thing in his text I do not agree with. He is concerned about privacy aspects in the mails. All mails used UEA addresses and are subject to FOIA. If someone wants to discuss his genital diseases in mails belonging to his employer, he may do that but should not complain afterwards about privacy violations.
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Like P said, We’ll take it from here.
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For Mr FOIA the war is over.
As a matter of interest were you one of the recipients of the password Mr Pointman?
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I’m a minor imp of the great Satan.
Pointman
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An imp who uses the word “garner” in more than one post.
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When? Not once in the last 20 posts.
Although I too felt that I’d seen the word used, but that may have been elsewhere.
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Type garner into the search the site box, 2 hits.
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Just noticed this exchange and have to say, “garners” aside, I’m definitely not Mr. FOIA. If I were, I’d have turned myself in to force the trial of the century.
Pointman
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Thanks, Pointman, for expressing so well the gratitude that so many of us feel for FOIA’s gallant efforts on behalf of society.
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“Indeed, it’s singular “I” this time. After certain career developments I can no longer use the papal plural”.
Was there a second who has dropped out, leaving FOIA alone?
If so my thanks to them both, and if only one, a double lot of thanks for such courage.
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It’s a filthy grey, rainy morning here with gales blowing but it doesn’t matter…. the sun just came out for me. Thank you FOIA, thank you.
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‘Papal Plural’ is just a more particular example of the ‘Royal We’, meaning ‘I’, there being no ‘I’ in Royalty.
Not many Monarchs can resign their Royalty though.
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We have a situation where good people are held hostage to very bad ideas, and I for one think we should honor the goodness in man and let actions be questions for the law. Where everyone else is let free. Manipulation can happen to us all.
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I give up. A chance to do another profiling blog. You don’t have to answer, You’re a between the lines blogger. Infuriating but compulsive.
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Yes, perhaps so and I’m sorry about that. I always try and protect people. He’s given out the password, so I’ll make a small exception here. He’s handing it off, because he has to. Frazzeled. No more stress, we’ll take it from here. You’ve got the password, start doing the selection and redaction of personal details.Our problem now. It’s all now up to youse guys, because after keeping a huge secret for over 3 years, he’s buggered.
Let’s just leave him alone.
Pointman
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Thanks, Pointman, for your efforts to unravel the Climategate mystery. The key is:
“Fear of Humans – Pathology behind the Climate Change Movement”
With kind regards,
– Oliver K. Manuel
Former NASA Principal
Investigator for Apollo
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