Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 02/14/2010 4:40:24 AM PST by cycle of discernment
Climategate U-turn as scientist at centre of row admits: There has been no global warming since 1995
By Jonathan Petre 14th February 2010
-Data for vital 'hockey stick graph' has gone missing
-There has been no global warming since 1995
-Warming periods have happened before - but NOT due to man-made changes
-Data: Professor Phil Jones admitted his record keeping is 'not as good as it should be'
The data is crucial to the famous ‘hockey stick graph’ used by climate change advocates to support the theory.
Professor Jones also conceded the possibility that the world was warmer in medieval times than now – suggesting global warming may not be a man-made phenomenon.
And he said that for the past 15 years there has been no ‘statistically significant’ warming.
Sceptics believe there is strong evidence that the world was warmer between about 800 and 1300 AD than now because of evidence of high temperatures in northern countries.
But climate change advocates have dismissed this as false or only applying to the northern part of the world.
Professor Jones departed from this consensus when he said: ‘There is much debate over whether the Medieval Warm Period was global in extent or not. The MWP is most clearly expressed in parts of North America, the North Atlantic and Europe and parts of Asia.
Sceptics said this was the first time a senior scientist working with the IPCC had admitted to the possibility that the Medieval Warming Period could have been global, and therefore the world could have been hotter then than now.
He added that the professor’s concessions over medieval warming were ‘significant’ because they were his first public admission that the science was not settled.
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bflr
Dear Government,
Does this mean we can have our light bulbs back?
The vampires in the LSM will treat this info like garlic.
Update from the belly of the UEA’s Prof. Peter Liss:
How can UEA win back public support?
Liss: “We scientists are somewhat on the back foot and its partly our own fault because we are not as willing as perhaps we ought to be in speaking to the media and so we are receiving questions and answering them when perhaps we should be setting the agenda. The so-called climate sceptics are not so inhibited; they are much more up front with saying ‘we know climate is not changing and we don’t need to do anything’ which is a very arrogant position to take. Many of them are not scientists, their opinion is against a huge body of scientific information.”
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Now that’s not arrogant;)
But Obama said the science is settled. I am so confused and now I don’t know what to do with my carbon credits.
He further admitted that in the last 15 years there had been no ‘statistically significant’ warming, although he argued this was a blip rather than the long-term trend.
Some of the confusion coming out about all this speculative data. First he says warming since 1998 could not be explained by natural phenomena, then he says there's been no 'statistically significant' warming since 1998 (actually, 'in the last 15 years' which dates back to 1995...). Well, which is correct?
...but I thought all the snow and cold in the midwest proved there was Global Warming?
I don’t care what the liars say. I just want the whole climate change power grab faux debate to end and the billions fraudulently wasted to land the corrupt politicians in irons.
Yes, yes, yes!!! Can we have the non-dangerous, non-mercury-infused ones back? The ones you don’t need EPA guidelines to dispose of if they break?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2450951/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2450943/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2450923/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2450905/posts
New record. Same article posted five times.
First time I saw it. Not all of us can be logged in 24/7.
Africagate: top British scientist says UN panel is losing credibility (former IPCC chairman)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article7017907.ece
A LEADING British government scientist has warned the United Nations’ climate panel to tackle its blunders or lose all credibility.
Robert Watson, chief scientist at Defra, the environment ministry, who chaired the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) from 1997 to 2002, was speaking after more potential inaccuracies emerged in the IPCC’s 2007 benchmark report on global warming.
Thank you.
Well, that settles it. The Medieval Warm Period was simply a small local event, covering only North America, North Atlantic Europe and Asia and lasting only several centuries. The rest of the world must have been normal, even though we don't have any data for it. Therefore we must spend trillions on rationing and taxing fuel.
No, he was referring to the period before 1998, or "the global warming observed from 1975-1998" as the question was phrased by the BBC. After that, he agreed that there was no "statistically significant" warming.
The BBC interview is here.
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