"I can't hear you LA LA LA!"
Posted on 11/27/2009 7:49:12 AM PST by SeekAndFind
WASHINGTON -- Stop hyperventilating, all you climate change deniers. The purloined e-mail correspondence published by skeptics last week -- portraying some leading climate researchers as petty, vindictive and tremendously eager to make their data fit accepted theories -- does not prove that global warming is a fraud.
If I'm wrong, somebody ought to tell the polar ice caps that they're free to stop melting.
That said, the e-mail episode is more than a major embarrassment for the scientists involved. Most Americans are convinced that climate change is real -- a necessary prerequisite for the kinds of huge economic and behavioral adjustments we would have to make to begin seriously limiting carbon emissions. But consensus on the nature and scope of the problem will dissipate, and fast, if experts try to obscure the fact that there's much about the climate they still don't know.
Here's what happened: Someone hacked into the servers at one of the leading academic centers in the field -- the Climatic Research Unit of the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England -- and filched a trove of e-mails and documents, which have been posted on numerous Web sites maintained by climate skeptics.
Phil Jones, the head of the Climatic Research Unit, released a statement Wednesday saying, "My colleagues and I accept that some of the published e-mails do not read well." That would be an example of British understatement.
In one message sent to a long list of colleagues, Jones speaks of having completed a "trick" with recent temperature data to "hide the decline." The word "trick" is hardly a smoking gun -- scientists use it to refer to clever but perfectly legitimate ways of handling data. But the "hide the decline" part refers to a real issue among climate researchers called the "divergence problem."
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LA LA LA LA LA...I CAN’T HEAR YOU!!!!
Washington Compost: “Evidence of massive fraud means there is no massive fraud.”
Follow the money, Global Warming is too good a vehicle for getting grants and applying total govt control.
"I can't hear you LA LA LA!"
So....they're back to confusing climate change(a natural phenomena) with man-made climate change (a fraud).
Kinda how the Obama supporters keep trying to play the race card.
Well, what about the polar ice caps and Mt. Kilimanjaro’s vanishing snow ?
They've stopped melting (see diagram below). And even if they were melting, that would simply mean that the climate was getting warmer, just as it did in the Medieval Warm Period. The article writer needs to find out what the word "Anthropogenic" means.
Try "fair and balanced" once and see how it works out for you Washington Post.
You may find that you like it.
Caught cooking data to shape the conclusion.....
.....they make this claim as if the climate has always been a constant.
The climate has never been constant. A real scientist should know this.
Not wrong... just too stupid to understand the truth...
In fact, you are wrong, Mr. Don't Bother Me With Facts Robinson - a huge part of the climate change fraud is the unfounded claim that the planet is warmer now than any time during the last 2000 years. But people like you continue to use misdirection to confuse the issue and to gloss over the importance of these emails...
eugene robinson, who wrote this opinion article, is merely an apologist for his discredited, hokey religion of environmentalism.
....ahhh! the WaPo swings into predictably into action defending the Chicken Littles of global warming....get ready for a similar barrage from the NY Times and LA Times with CBS/NBC/PBS/ABC chiming in.
Uh, My name is Eugene.
I stick my hand in fans for fun!
If this type of thinking isn't mentally unbalanced, it's very close.
And Mary Mapes says we never proved the TANG memos were bogus. Typical liberal last line of defense - demand we prove a negative. Which means we're winning, because only the hardcores accept such a line of defense. The rest recognize such as pure BS and deflection.
Yep, who are you gonna believe the contents of the emails or the WaPo spin?
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