Unintended Irony

In 1731, a man called John Hadley published a paper to the Royal Society describing a new instrument for measuring angles. Hadley’s quadrants (also known as the “octant”) were so successful because they allowed a much greater accuracy in measuring longitude and latitude. His brother, George Hadley was in charge of meteorological observations for the Royal Society and had contributed to the theory of “Trade Winds”.

An octant - the very picture of accurate measurements circa 1731
(picture source)

It is after George Hadley that the Met Office’s Hadley Centre for Climate Change is named. From their own website they are:

“the UK’s foremost climate change research centre. We produce world-class guidance on the science of climate change and provide a focus in the UK for the scientific issues associated with climate change.”

The Met Office Hadley Centre, in cooperation with the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit helped to develop some scary (yet now well debunked) temperature graphs that were used to scare politicians into believing in The Warming. In fact, from the link it appears that the CRU only used the Hadley Centre’s data in formulating the booga-booga temperature graphs.

Booga-booga-you're-all-gonna-die-unless-we-tax-the-living-shit-out-of-everyone
hockey stick graph (picture source)

From a man who helped the world by providing more accurate measurements, to a "research institute" that profanes his name by supplying ‘less than accurate measurements’ (which, due to some unfortunate circumstances, are now lost forever).

The biggest scientific fraud of the century has begun to unravel thanks to leaked emails of the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit (CRU) and their brothers in arms at the Hadley Centre.

Ah Irony, thy name is hockey stick.