The... Larch
Posted on 12/06/2009 6:16:25 AM PST by Michel12
Coming to light in recent days has been one of the most extraordinary scientific detective stories of our time, bizarrely centred on a single tree in Siberia dubbed "the most influential tree in the world". On this astonishing tale, it is no exaggeration to say, could hang in considerable part the future shape of our civilisation. Right at the heart of the sound and fury of "Climategate" – the emails leaked from the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) in East Anglia – is one story of scientific chicanery, overlooked by the media, whose implications dwarf all the rest...
To appreciate its significance, as I observed last week, it is first necessary to understand that the people these incriminating documents relate to are not just any group of scientists. Professor Philip Jones of the CRU, his colleague Dr Keith Briffa, the US computer modeller Dr Michael Mann, of "hockey stick" fame, and several more make up a tightly-knit group who have been right at the centre of the last two reports of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). On their account, as we shall see at this week's Copenhagen conference, the world faces by far the largest bill proposed by any group of politicians in history, amounting to many trillions of dollars.
It is therefore vitally important that we should trust the methods by which these men have made their case. The supreme prize that they have been working for so long has been to establish that the world is warmer today than ever before in recorded history. To do this it has been necessary to eliminate a wealth of evidence that the world 1,000 years ago was, for entirely natural reasons, warmer than today (the so-called Medieval Warm Period)...
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
The... Larch
Oh the complexities!!!
I suspect the hacks who perpetrated this fraud will invent an excuse on the order that: “they were, in fact, perturbed by the imminent ice age approaching and wanted to prevent mass hysteria”.
The fools in the US media - who comprise a bunch of uneducated copy readers for the Democrats in power - will lap it up.
Fantastic article. Time after time, the actual facts show that “anthropogenic global warming” is nothing more than fantasy.
However, the UN/Left/Environut coalition is intent on ignoring the actual science and pushing forward an agenda of global control and economic dismemberment of the First World. Objective reality be damned.
We must stop them, for our children’s sake!
Just noting that there are 3000 year old trees (and ring cores) that directly contradict the ‘Larch’ data..
Excellent article.
Now its a more accurate statement.
Just don't let the nasty Canadian lumberjacks come near that tree!
When are they going to start tours to the tree so that the AGW pilgrims can go and make a sacrifices and offerings to their gods?
It's amazing to me that so many people are willing to succumb to group-think. People have surely been dumbed down. Just go read letters from the 1800's and see the language used. Today a writer can txt thr msg to millions using abbrvs and that is considered writing.
Enjoy the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnoYTotZRjE
"The other is that the ugly, drum-like concrete building at the University of East Anglia which houses the CRU is named after its founder, the late Hubert Lamb, the doyen of historical climate experts. It was Professor Lamb whose most famous contribution to climatology was his documenting and naming of what he called the Medieval Warm Epoch, that glaring contradiction of modern global warming theory which his successors have devoted untold efforts to demolishing. If only they had looked at the evidence of those Siberian trees in the spirit of true science, they might have told us that all their efforts to show otherwise were in vain, and that their very much more distinguished predecessor was right after all."
and there it is...
It has nothing to do with the most influential tree. It has to do with a bad “scient9ist” skewing data for his political agenda. They should chop down the tree and let it fall on him.
When they first started talking about Global Warming, I didn’t agree because from history we know that Greenland was settled by the Vikings and for a number of years it was warmer during that period than now.
I thought about it more and said, “now I know, those Vikings caused a mini global warming with all their burning of villages —— bad Viking, bad Viking.
I guess Keith Briffa must have been a Monty Python fan.....
LOL
great name for a tree the Hacks use to Attack Us.
“The most costly economic suicide note in history.”
I looked up the Medieval Warming Period on a search engine and found numerous articles claiming the period wasn’t warmer than today. They mostly argued that the period was cooler than today and whatever warming there was was limited to northern Europe. One site showed a graph suspiciously similar to Mann’s erroneous Hockey Stick graph. My question to the non-believers in the MWP (deniers you might call them) is how can one area of the planet be warmer for five hundred years and not any other areas of the earth? And was Greenland warmer or not? If not, why did they call it Greenland?
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