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ClimateGate 2 - NOAA Whistleblower Claims World Leaders Fooled By Fake Global Warming Data
Zero Hedge ^ | 2-5-2017 | Tyler Durden

Posted on 02/05/2017 4:25:03 PM PST by blam

Dr John Bates' disclosures about the manipulation of data behind the so-called 'Pausebuster' paper is the biggest scientific scandal since 'Climategate' in 2009 when, as Britain's Daily Mail reported, thousands of leaked emails revealed scientists were trying to block access to data, and using a 'trick' to conceal embarrassing flaws in their claims about global warming.

Britain's Mail on Sunday today revealed astonishing evidence that the organisation that is the world’s leading source of climate data rushed to publish a landmark paper that exaggerated global warming and was timed to influence the historic Paris Agreement on climate change.

A high-level whistleblower has told this newspaper that America’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) breached its own rules on scientific integrity when it published the sensational but flawed report, aimed at making the maximum possible impact on world leaders including Barack Obama and David Cameron at the UN climate conference in Paris in 2015.

The report claimed that the ‘pause’ or ‘slowdown’ in global warming in the period since 1998 – revealed by UN scientists in 2013 – never existed, and that world temperatures had been rising faster than scientists expected. Launched by NOAA with a public relations fanfare, it was splashed across the world’s media, and cited repeatedly by politicians and policy makers.

But the whistleblower, Dr John Bates, a top NOAA scientist with an impeccable reputation, has shown The Mail on Sunday irrefutable evidence that the paper was based on misleading, ‘unverified’ data.

It was never subjected to NOAA’s rigorous internal evaluation process – which Dr Bates devised.

His vehement objections to the publication of the faulty data were overridden by his NOAA superiors in what he describes as a ‘blatant attempt to intensify the impact’ of what became known as the Pausebuster paper.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: agw; climate; fakescience; fraud; globalwarming; noaa; paris; pausebuster; pausebusterpaper
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To: blam

and yet...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-libel-suit-threatens-catastrophe-for-the-climate-of-public-debate-1486336417

A Libel Suit Threatens Catastrophe for the Climate of Public Debate

The First Amendment provides robust protection for political and scientific debate, but it faces a new threat from a climate activist determined to silence his critics. In a case pending before the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, Penn State professor Michael Mann is waging an aggressive campaign of lawfare, accusing of defamation those who dare to question his work. So far, the courts have given this assault on free speech a green light.

Mr. Mann is famous as the creator of the “hockey stick” graph, which portrays a dramatic trend in global warming over the past century. Numerous critics have cast doubt on the quality and accuracy of his work. They argue that his historical temperature proxies are unreliable, his data presentation misleading, and his statistical techniques skewed.

Even among those who support the theory of global warming, some have singled out Mr. Mann’s work as sloppy and exaggerated. David Hand, a former president of Britain’s Royal Statistical Society, has written that Mr. Mann’s technique “exaggerated the size of the blade at the end of the hockey stick,” which corresponds to the 20th-century temperature rise.

Not content to answer his critics in the public square, Mr. Mann has sued them. One target of his lawsuit is the political magazine National Review, which published a 270-word blog post criticizing Mr. Mann as “the man behind the fraudulent . . . ‘hockey-stick’ graph.” His lawsuit objects to the magazine’s decision to quote a critic who wrote that Mr. Mann “could be said to be the Jerry Sandusky of climate science, except that instead of molesting children, he has molested and tortured data.”

National Review moved to dismiss the suit, citing a phalanx of Supreme Court precedent. The Constitution obviously does not allow crippling damages to be imposed for voicing one’s opinion, however vehemently or caustically. Punishing such criticism because a jury disagrees with it does not aid the search for truth, but impedes it by stifling conflicting views. As the liberal Justice William Brennan observed: “Truth may not be the subject of either civil or criminal sanctions where discussion of public affairs is concerned.” Such speech “is the essence of self-government.”

As a federal court once put it in the particular context of scientific controversies: “More papers, more discussions, better data, and more satisfactory models—not larger awards of damages—mark the path toward superior understanding of the world around us.” Even a meritless defamation suit can be an effective weapon to intimidate critics and shut down debate through ruinous litigation costs.


21 posted on 02/05/2017 7:17:19 PM PST by Chode (may the RATS all die of dehydration from crying)
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To: samtheman

it’s NOAA [part of the Dept of Commerce] here [not the EPA in this particular expose] that has been engaged in creating political science to support Obama’s contention that there is a climate crisis.


22 posted on 02/05/2017 7:29:25 PM PST by IWONDR
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To: IWONDR
John Bachelor has a podcast on his website that is an interview with a German scientist on the effect that Antarctic ice has on global temperatures. Bottom line is that this effect is not integrated into the climate models used for global warming predictions, AND they have proved that the Earth's temperatures have fluctuated significantly, in cycles, for thousands of years. Like, when Greenland was really green. Interestingly, the German scientist appeared very reluctant to disclose these facts, although he did when pressed by John B.
23 posted on 02/05/2017 9:13:49 PM PST by binreadin
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To: arthurus
"It would be interesting to have a chart that matches El Nino phases with temperature charts."

I agree.

This El Nino is suppose to be historically a big one.

'Godzilla El Niño' Now Being Called 'Strongest In Recorded History'

24 posted on 02/06/2017 9:54:17 AM PST by blam
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To: Army Air Corps

President Trump will stand up to these bullies.

NOAA and NASA climate budget for 2017: $0


25 posted on 02/08/2017 9:02:42 PM PST by Eric Blair 2084 (I don't always drink beer, but when I do, I prefer to drink a bunch of them. Stay thirsty my FRiends)
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