Bishop Hill UEA Chancellor's emails
May 4, 2011 Climate: CRU Someone - not me - has got hold of the Climategate emails of UEA's Chancellor, Brandon Gough. This is a slightly odd choice of target, as university Chancellors are usually figureheads as far as I know.
However, it did throw up two things: one trivial but odd, the other just rather funny.
The trivial-but-odd thing is that a whole host of Spanish universities wrote to Brandon Gough in the wake of Climategate pledging their undying support. I would have waited for the investigation to finish myself.
Secondly, a rather amusing job application sent to Gough shortly after the emails hit the internet:
Dear Sir,
I am inquiring about the possibility of employment at the University.
I was recently sacked from my previous job for conspiring to distort company figures. Before that I was fired for gross incompetence and for losing critical corporate data; and before that for attempting to corrupt audits by getting my mates assigned to the role, and for attempting to cover-up my dishonesty by criminally inciting others to delete incriminating files and emails.
I was thinking maybe something in your Climate Research Unit, but I'm concerned I
may be over-qualified.I also have two convictions for fraud. Is this enough?
Please advise soonest.
Yours Sincerely,
Bishop Hill
ZT in the comments appears to have found Gough's response ;-)
Dear Lord Oxburgh,
Thank you for your recent application for a position at the UEA's internationally renowned CRU. You are indeed eminently well qualified for the arduous and painstaking work performed at the CRU, upon which the entire human race depends. It is a tremendous privilege to be able to draw on the talents of preeminent and studious researchers, such as yourself, in our cutting edge creative climatological research.
However, I fear that your predisposition to the forthright disclosure of minute details may render the work of the CRU burdensome. I will keep your resume on hand, if I may, as I feel that your talents may be of value in an entirely independent inquiry which I am about to institute (though you will, of course, need to suppress that forthrightness and focus on a selection of papers independently selected by my esteemed colleague, Professor Philip D. Jones).
Yours, as ever, Lord Rockingham of Daventry, formerly B. Gough Esq.
Reader Comments (25)
And I thought the art of letter writing was dead!
Wonderful - I wish I'd thought of it.
How long before someone mentions Common Purpose?
Did they get the job?
Brilliant!!!!
Sounds a bit too honest for the CRU really.
(...though possibly he or she assisted with the 'independent' reviews)
Yours Sincerely, ???
This must have been the email that made Jones contemplate suicide.
Sounds like the perfect applicant.
Lots of Spanish universities...
Now which European country was it that has unbalanced its economy by over-subsidising renewables?
Yes BBD - and that was the height of its efforts to be the green leader in and outside Europe. The economics have not proved so good, and to be fair I have come across some pretty sensible graduates of Spanish universities in the area of energy economics and regulation down in Latin America. Better than their UK equivalents who seem more brainwashed by the political consensus.
Yes BBD - and that was the height of its efforts to be the green leader in and outside Europe. The economics have not proved so good, and to be fair I have come across some pretty sensible graduates of Spanish universities in the area of energy economics and regulation down in Latin America. Better than their UK equivalents who seem more brainwashed by the political consensus.
Did this come from an ex-Enron employee?
jheath
I am happy to hear it.
Did this come from an ex-Enron employee?
May 4, 2011 at 10:18 PM | andyscrase
Or a former prime minister/cabinet minister?
BBD
am more impressed by academic standards in Spain than in the UK...don't let cultural bias distract you
Now I would love to see the Chancellors reply to that email!
I am very surprised that there is no e-mail relating to the Council of the University.
One would think that the Council would have taken a very close interest in CRU, the various enquiries and, in particular, the antics Trevor Davies and Acton.
diogenes
No cultural bias was intended, I assure you.
Dear Lord Oxburgh,
Thank you for your recent application for a position at the UEA's internationally renowned CRU. You are indeed eminently well qualified for the arduous and painstaking work performed at the CRU, upon which the entire human race depends. It is a tremendous privilege to be able to draw on the talents of preeminent and studious researchers, such as yourself, in our cutting edge creative climatological research.
However, I fear that your predisposition to the forthright disclosure of minute details may render the work of the CRU burdensome. I will keep your resume on hand, if I may, as I feel that your talents may be of value in an entirely independent inquiry which I am about to institute (though you will, of course, need to suppress that forthrightness and focus on a selection of papers independently selected by my esteemed colleague, Professor Philip D. Jones).
Yours, as ever, Lord Rockingham of Daventry, formerly B. Gough Esq.
Careful, ZT, my ticker's not the best, and sudden convulsive laughter might set something off!
Best laugh for a while - I tried to read it to my wife over breakfast and collapsed repeatedly in the effort!
Would make Delingpole proud to know the sender.
In his previous working life Brandon Gough was a Partner in Coopers and Lybrand, the auditing firm. I wonder if he feels able to sign off the enquiries instigated by his University as offering "a true and fair view"?
P.S.
Just to let you know how inteligent I am, I believe that was the first person to notice that there is no "F" in global warming..
Please add this info to my resume.
Thanking you in anticipation
Yours sincerely
Corrections
1) should read .. intelligent
2) should read ...I was the etc