Posted on 02/13/2010 9:11:19 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster
Climategate U-turn as scientist at centre of row admits: There has been no global warming since 1995
By Jonathan Petre
Last updated at 2:39 AM on 14th February 2010
Data: Professor Phil Jones admitted his record keeping is 'not as good as it should be'
The academic at the centre of the Climategate affair, whose raw data is crucial to the theory of climate change, has admitted that he has trouble keeping track of the information.
Colleagues say that the reason Professor Phil Jones has refused Freedom of Information requests is that he may have actually lost the relevant papers.
Professor Jones told the BBC yesterday there was truth in the observations of colleagues that he lacked organisational skills, that his office was swamped with piles of paper and that 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.
The admissions will be seized on by sceptics as fresh evidence that there are serious flaws at the heart of the science of climate change and the orthodoxy that recent rises in temperature are largely man-made.
Professor Jones has been in the spotlight since he stepped down as director of the University of East Anglias Climatic Research Unit after the leaking of emails that sceptics claim show scientists were manipulating data.
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See #16...Gordon Brown is still Bellowing!
(1)Colleagues say that the reason Professor Phil Jones has refused Freedom of Information requests is that he may have actually lost the relevant papers.
It isn't paper that was being asked for by the FOIA requests, it was the digitized raw data in that "central database" you mention...data which by the way ol' Phil HAS shared with "friendly" peers, just not critical ones. So the "my office ate my homework" excuse doesn't cut it.
(2)He also agreed that there had been two periods which experienced similar warming, from 1910 to 1940 and from 1975 to 1998, but said these could be explained by natural phenomena whereas more recent warming could not.
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.
It is precisely that 1975 to 1998 period that the AGW crowd points to as proving man-made warming. If there hasn't been "any statistically significant warming" since 1998 ("the last 15 years"), then there isn't any "more recent warming" that needs explaining. Your statements here make no sense whatsoever, Jonathan. This whole article seems a collection of whiny excuses, wrapped in sloppy, sycophantic journalistic drivel.
By not reporting this story the MSM become increasingly irrelevant.
btt
"The dog ate them. No, really."
This is the same high degree of scholarly discipline that led to the firing of Michael Bellesiles ("Arming America") from Emory University. Good job, Dr. Jones. Your lies and deceit nearly destroyed the world's economy and caused billions of people to live poorer, harder lives. You get a spot in the dictionary beside Trofim Lysenko and Charles Dawson (Piltdown Man). You should be so proud of yourself.
On an IRS audit, “the dog ate my homework” excuse doesn’t work. In order to prove to the government that you have a tax deduction that lowers your taxes, good records are required. In order to prove to our government a theory designed to have us shell out billions, no records are required.
"The dog ate my research."
"In order to prove to our government a theory designed to have us shell out billions, no records are required."
Worth repeating in bold.
criminal charges? Bunch of Con-men
How convenient. This "professor" must think we're as gullible as the mush-headed students he indoctrinates every semester. Sorry professor, nobody believes your lame BS story.
thanks for the ping
I think we might see some huge lawsuits from Gore’s backers and others who invested heavily in carbon trading.
Yes, but it's gone downhill since then.
The US media's slow and steady transformation from a Free Press, into a state-controlled propaganda agency is now nearly complete.
Today, they're not simply parroting the government line, they're actively engaged in shaping the desired public perception and awareness (or lack thereof) of world events.
In short, they're not just dupes for the gov't anymore. They're now active cohorts and co-conspirators.
Yes!
Coming Leftard Attractions: GLOBAL COOLING!!!
The New And Improved Algore:
“We gonna FREEZE if we don’t quit burning fossil fuels that makes the planet COOLER and blah, blah”....Get the picture?
TRAITORS! Shoot’em all!
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