You really do want 10s of millions of people to die from this global warming thing, don't you, Rick?
Why are you so attached to such tenuous science? Isn't it a hint to you that governments are behind the funding of all the research that shows there to be global warming? And questionable politicians such as Al Gore? --- In [email protected], "Rick Archer" <r...@...> wrote: > > Quite the opposite: > http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/nov/24/climate-professor-leaked-e > mails-uea > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of ShempMcGurk > Sent: Sunday, February 14, 2010 5:04 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [FairfieldLife] The jig is up! Phil Jones confesses! > > > http://tinyurl.com/ygwbn7v > > Climategate U-turn as scientist at centre of row admits: There has been no > global warming since 1995 > > By > <http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/search.html?s=y&authornamef=Jonathan+Petre> > Jonathan Petre > Last updated at 5:12 PM on 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 > Professor Phil Jones > <http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/02/13/article-1250872-0845A9BA000005DC- > 871_233x377.jpg> > 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 Anglia's Climatic Research Unit after the leaking > of emails that sceptics claim show scientists were manipulating data. > The raw data, collected from hundreds of weather stations around the world > and analysed by his unit, has been used for years to bolster efforts by the > United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to press > governments to cut carbon dioxide emissions. > > > More... > > * > <http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1250813/The-professor-s-amazing-c > limate-change-retreat.html> MAIL ON SUNDAY COMMENT: The professor's amazing > climate change retreat > Following the leak of the emails, Professor Jones has been accused of > `scientific fraud' for allegedly deliberately suppressing information and > refusing to share vital data with critics. > Discussing the interview, the BBC's environmental analyst Roger Harrabin > said he had spoken to colleagues of Professor Jones who had told him that > his strengths included integrity and doggedness but not record-keeping and > office tidying. > Mr Harrabin, who conducted the interview for the BBC's website, said the > professor had been collating tens of thousands of pieces of data from around > the world to produce a coherent record of temperature change. > That material has been used to produce the `hockey stick graph' which is > relatively flat for centuries before rising steeply in recent decades. > According to Mr Harrabin, colleagues of Professor Jones said `his office is > piled high with paper, fragments from over the years, tens of thousands of > pieces of paper, and they suspect what happened was he took in the raw data > to a central database and then let the pieces of paper go because he never > realised that 20 years later he would be held to account over them'. > Asked by Mr Harrabin about these issues, Professor Jones admitted the lack > of organisation in the system had contributed to his reluctance to share > data with critics, which he regretted. > > <http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/02/13/article-1250872-0847D53D000005DC- > 535_468x295_popup.jpg> Enlarge Chart > > But he denied he had cheated over the data or unfairly influenced the > scientific process, and said he still believed recent temperature rises were > predominantly man-made. > Asked about whether he lost track of data, Professor Jones said: `There is > some truth in that. We do have a trail of where the weather stations have > come from but it's probably not as good as it should be. > `There's a continual updating of the dataset. Keeping track of everything is > difficult. Some countries will do lots of checking on their data then issue > improved data, so it can be very difficult. We have improved but we have to > improve more.' > 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. > And he said that the debate over whether the world could have been even > warmer than now during the medieval period, when there is evidence of high > temperatures in northern countries, was far from settled. > 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. > `For it to be global in extent, the MWP would need to be seen clearly in > more records from the tropical regions and the Southern hemisphere. There > are very few palaeoclimatic records for these latter two regions. > `Of course, if the MWP was shown to be global in extent and as warm or > warmer than today, then obviously the late 20th Century warmth would not be > unprecedented. On the other hand, if the MWP was global, but was less warm > than today, then the current warmth would be unprecedented.' > 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. > Professor Jones criticised those who complained he had not shared his data > with them, saying they could always collate their own from publicly > available material in the US. And he said the climate had not cooled `until > recently - and then barely at all. The trend is a warming trend'. > Mr Harrabin told Radio 4's Today programme that, despite the controversies, > there still appeared to be no fundamental flaws in the majority scientific > view that climate change was largely man-made. > But Dr Benny Pieser, director of the sceptical Global Warming Policy > Foundation, said Professor Jones's `excuses' for his failure to share data > were hollow as he had shared it with colleagues and `mates'. > He said that until all the data was released, sceptics could not test it to > see if it supported the conclusions claimed by climate change advocates. > 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. > > > Read more: > <http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1250872/Climategate-U-turn-Astonish > ment-scientist-centre-global-warming-email-row-admits-data-organised.html?IT > O=1490#ixzz0fYQdHR1C> > http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1250872/Climategate-U-turn-Astonishm > ent-scientist-centre-global-warming-email-row-admits-data-organised.html?ITO > =1490#ixzz0fYQdHR1C >
