Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 03/01/2010 5:34:33 PM PST by I got the rope
Reconstructions of temperature over the past 1000 years have been an highly visible part of IPCC presentations to the public. CRU has been extremely influential in IPCC reconstructions through: coauthorship, the use of CRU chronologies, peer review and IPCC participation. To my knowledge, there are no 1000-year reconstructions which are truly “independent” of CRU influence. In my opinion, CRU has manipulated and/or withheld data with an effect on the research record. The manipulation includes (but is not limited to) arbitrary adjustment (“bodging”), cherry picking and deletion of adverse data. The problem is deeply rooted in the sense that some forms of data manipulation and withholding are so embedded that the practitioners and peer reviewers in the specialty seem either to no longer notice or are unoffended by the practices. Specialists have fiercely resisted efforts by outside statisticians questioning these practices – the resistance being evident in the Climategate letters. These letters are rich in detail of individual incidents. My submission today will not comment on these individual incidents (some of which I’ve commented on already at Climate Audit), but to try to place the incidents into context and show why they matter to the research record. I will not comment in this submission on CRUTEM issues only for space reasons.
(Excerpt) Read more at scienceandpublicpolicy.org ...
Stephen McIntyre and Ross McKitrick...Canada’s finest...planet earth’s finest! We owe them gratitude for their diligence.
OUTSTANDING post!
BUMP-TO-THE-TRUTH!
AGW scam bump
I wish that the press and even individuals would stop phrasing it in this misleading way.
That is so misleading. Indirectly this was the primary and ONLY source on which the IPCC political summaries were based.
That is why real scientists resigned participation in the IPCC in significant numbers!
Yes...I think McIntyre was being too kind here. He does usually take the high road when it comes to the science...but I know what you mean. I wish he would treat these people like they deserve to be treated...with ridicule and disdain.
Mark for later reading
Steve deserves some kind of an award beyond the Nobel Prize level.
EatB,
This might also be of interest to you;
http://climateaudit.org/2010/03/05/phil-jones-called-out-by-swedes-on-data-availability/
Oh Boy,...now it’s getting fun....I may post that.
I just finished reading all the comments there. Interesting!
:’) Yeah, maybe call it “the FReeper”. “I’m a FReeper travelin’ on now, and this ‘per you cannot change...” ;’)
If anybody would take time to read this, especially the last 10 or so of his numbered items, it would be the fully-nailed casket for the climate hoax. Devastating stuff. Hat tip to whoever hacked the email system, allowing the dots to be connected.
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