Alot of passionate opinion here, alot has been shared, to get back to the point I was originally making that contentious issues need a platform with 'Climategate' as an example for those who are still interested in what's happening.
The Telegraph and Times have published this article on the University of East Anglia destroying the climate data for the past 150 years upon being pressed under the Freedom of Information act. Pretty shocking to me that this has occurred preventing other scientists to verify the results. Climate change: this is the worst scientific scandal of our generation Our hopelessly compromised scientific establishment cannot be allowed to get away with the Climategate whitewash, says Christopher Booker. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/6679082/Climate-change-this-is-the-worst-scientific-scandal-of-our-generation.html Climate change data dumped http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6936328.ece “The CRU is basically saying, ‘Trust us’. So much for settling questions and resolving debates with science,” he said." "(Jones) He and his colleagues say this temperature rise is “unequivocally” linked to greenhouse gas emissions generated by humans. Their findings are one of the main pieces of evidence used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which says global warming is a threat to humanity." Also other IPCC scientists are turning on each other. Dr. Eduardo Zorita writes: “CRU files: Why I think that Michael Mann (Of Hockey Stick debacle fame), Phil Jones and Stefan Rahmstorf should be barred from the IPCC process.” "These words do not mean that I think anthropogenic climate change is a hoax. On the contrary, it is a question which we have to be very well aware of. But I am also aware that in this thick atmosphere -and I am not speaking of greenhouse gases now- editors, reviewers and authors of alternative studies, analysis, interpretations,even based on the same data we have at our disposal, have been bullied and subtly blackmailed. In this atmosphere, Ph D students are often tempted to tweak their data so as to fit the 'politically correct picture'. Some, or many issues, about climate change are still not well known. Policy makers should be aware of the attempts to hide these uncertainties under a unified picture. I had the 'pleasure' to experience all this in my area of research." http://coast.gkss.de/staff/zorita/myview.html Doesn't surprise me. Lots more revelations to come, great resources to talk around the science and politics of climate change with students. Cheers -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]
