Posted on 12/18/2009 9:46:15 AM PST by neverdem
I cannot condone some things that colleagues of mine wrote or requested in the e-mails recently stolen from a climate research unit at a British university. But the messages do not undermine the scientific case that human-caused climate change is real.
The hacked e-mails have been mined for words and phrases that can be distorted to misrepresent what the scientists were discussing. In a Dec. 9 op-ed, former Alaska governor Sarah Palin argued that "The e-mails reveal that leading climate 'experts' . . . manipulated data to 'hide the decline' in global temperatures." Yet the e-mail she cites was written in 1999, just after the warmest year ever recorded (1998) to that date. It could not possibly have referred to the claim that global temperatures have declined over this decade -- a claim that is false (the current decade, as has been recently reported, will go down as the warmest on record).
In one case, professor Phil Jones of the University of East Anglia refers to a "trick" regarding temperature data that he attributes to an article that co-authors and I published in the journal Nature in 1998. We showed one up-to-date temperature data set from thermometer measurements along with a longer data set, based on calculations from natural "proxy" records such as ice cores, corals and tree rings, that ended in 1980. The "trick" (by which scientists generally mean a clever solution, i.e., a "trick of the trade") was that...
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The scientific consensus regarding human-caused climate change is based on decades of work by thousands of scientists around the world. The National Academy of Sciences has concluded that the scientific case is clear. As world leaders work in Copenhagen to try to combat this problem, some critics are seeking to cloud the debate and confuse the public.
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Very good IMO research on Global Warming on Conspiracy Theory a TV program. It researches the background of the Global Warming Scam and traces it through to Al Gore and back to the originator Maurice Strong. If you remember Maurice Strong was also behind the Iraq Oil for Food Program. He was the one who stole the food money destined for the Iraqi people. He is convicted and is a criminal and now resides in China. He is subject to arrest in the US and Canada for this crime. Check it out. Conspiracy Theory is on the TruTV channel.
Check out this video at YouTube.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svRUcX9Q9yU
You may want to check some of the Lord Monckton videos as well. He’s been following this fraud for a long time. UN goons shoved him, knocked him down and went unconscious by UN guards two days ago. Excellent speaker sounds a bit pompous but isn’t. He is a member of the House of Lords and was a scientist/advisor who reported to Margaret Thatcher. He breaks down the fraud in great detail. It is a truly a great video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zOXmJ4jd-8
If you like it look at it. If not look away.
I’m tired of comments from the peanut gallery.
No one is suggesting you do anything you don’t want to do. Thanks.
Dr. Mann, I believe that your work, and that of your colleagues at East Anglia, should be taught in schools. Just not in science class.
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“The People will believe what they want to believe.”
I guess Mann, like 0bama, is the change he has been waiting for.
Jaye Davidson would be proud.
Is it possible for parents paying for college educations in studying this fraud to pursue a class action suit against universities promulgating this junk science—for abuse of the public welfare and violation of universities’ charters?
Or, with all the PhD work, college tuition wasted and careers that have been and/or will be undone with this intentionally dishonest scheme, a la Enron, to sue Strong, Soros, the Joyce Foundation and/or Gore for fraud and conspiracy to commit fraud?
With the trillions at stake on the side of those complicit in it, and obvious moneymakers in that mix, is there not redress?
Mikey is the P. T. Barnum of bullshit......he profits from this scam every day as we see in his own words.
Mann is a mutt, but he’s a bold mutt. He’s a cornered mutt too. He put himself in that corner. Penn State is investigating him.
Good deal.......never hoped for a person to be unemployed yet polidiots and presstitutes aren’t people IMO.
He needs to be suffering through this tidal wave of BS he helps sustain with the rest of us.
Hope yer well Doc !
Michael Mann doubles down. I guess he doesn’t have much choice.
Of course the temperature information would vary by elevation.
The Russians didn't mix the data but Mann did.
What you have is a picture of Mann with tree rings ~ the implication is that those particular tree rings tell the story ~ which, no doubt, they do ~ but the reality is different than the story.
The reality is he was prepared to PROVE HIS CASE with his tree rings. On the other hand, the tree rings didn't all come from the same place, nor did they cover the same periods of time, nor were they representative of the same sampling universe.
It is noteworthy that the local climate along the Lena river in Yakutia has been such that about 1850 ALL THE TREES in the highlands were killed and blown into the valleys. In fact, the weather was so bad for the next 159 years in the highlands that trees have not yet been able to re-establish themselves.
The trees in the valley survived the climate. However, I suspect even they show a decline in local temperatures from 1850 to the date of sampling in 1998 ~ which would require Mann to "cheat" once again by cherry picking the older upland samples as well as the newer valley samples.
BTW, subsequent to the earlier work along the Lena the researchers in Russia were able to extend the period of samples back 2000 years.
In the 70’s and 80’s I was a (minor) player in a scientific endeavor that went against the prevailing thought at the time. In this case we were EAGER to provide data, ALL the data, to the skeptics. We welcomed debate with the skeptics, since we knew that we could convince open minded people with the facts that we had. This attitude is totally lacking in the CRU/GISS/Mann community. It is truly Mann made goobal warming.
Global warming is the greatest hoax since 1912 Piltdown man. It took 40 years to expose the fraud.
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