More Inconvenient Truths
Global Warmist George Monbiot succinctly explains the latest developments in ClimateGate:
“This is a tough time for climate science. The Guardian’s new revelations about the hacked emails from the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia might help to explain the university’s utter failure to confront its critics. They could also explain why the head of the unit, Phil Jones, blocked freedom of information requests and proposed that material subject to those requests be deleted. He has been spared a criminal investigation only because the time limit for prosecutions has expired.
The emails I read gave me the impression that Phil Jones had something to hide. Now we know what it might have been. The Guardian has discovered that Jones appears to have suppressed data that undermines a paper he published in Nature in 1990. The paper claimed that Chinese weather stations show that local heating caused by urbanisation has very little effect on the temperature record. It now seems that much of the data they used is worthless and the documents required to validate it do not exist. The paper might be 20 years old, but in a way that makes the scandal worse: Phil Jones has had 20 years in which to issue a correction. Even after the hacking in October last year, he has still not done so.
When the emails were first published in November, I called for Professor Jones’s resignation as head of the CRU. Though he has stepped down temporarily, his position is now even less tenable. The longer he leaves it, the worse this will get.
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The head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Rajendra Pachauri, is also in hot water. In November he dismissed as “voodoo science” a report for the Indian government showing that the IPCC’s date for the disappearance of Himalayan glaciers was wrong. It’s now clear that, actually, the IPCC’s claim was voodoo science. It reproduced a speculative suggestion – that the glaciers were going to disappear by 2035 – that had not been published in any peer-reviewed journal. Pachauri’s immediate dismissal of the Indian government’s refutation was unscientific as well as wrong.
Now the Sunday Times alleges that he first heard that the glacier date was wrong in November, and failed to act. Pachauri was busy preparing for the Copenhagen summit, so perhaps it’s not surprising if he didn’t pay much attention, but someone at the IPCC should have done so, rather than letting the issue fester.”
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February 3rd, 2010 at 8:50 am
Poli:
I am waiting for Pluto to show up to claim you were “cherry picking” headlines.
February 3rd, 2010 at 11:44 am
I was thinking the lefties were gonna claim Gore, Jones, and Pachauri are really part of Bush/Cheney/Halliburton…
February 3rd, 2010 at 1:30 pm
I am waiting for Pluto to show up…
Wait long, Tiger? Were there magazines for you to read?
February 3rd, 2010 at 1:40 pm
Dang. He’s practically speechless… But still off topic…
February 3rd, 2010 at 1:57 pm
Unfortunately we haven’t heard the end of this fraud as Walter Williams points out.
Here is the money part:
Mounting evidence of scientific fraud might make little difference in terms of the response to man-made global warming hysteria. Why? Vested economic and political interests have emerged where trillions of dollars and social control are at stake. Therefore, many people who recognize the scientific fraud underlying global warming claims are likely to defend it anyway.
• Automobile companies have invested billions in research and investment in producing “green cars.”
• General Electric and Philips have spent millions lobbying Congress to outlaw incandescent bulbs so that they can force us to buy costly compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFL).
• Farmers and ethanol manufacturers have gotten Congress to enact laws mandating greater use of their product, not to mention massive subsidies.
• Thousands of major corporations around the world have taken steps to reduce carbon emissions, including giants like IBM, Nike, Coca-Cola and BP, the oil company. Companies like Google, Yahoo and Dell have vowed to become “carbon neutral.”
Then there’s the Chicago Climate Futures Exchange that plans to trade in billions of dollars of greenhouse gas emission allowances (Goldman Sachs will make tons). Corporate America and labor unions, as well as their international counterparts have a huge multitrillion-dollar financial stake in the perpetuation of the global warming fraud. Federal, state and local agencies have spent billions of dollars and created millions of jobs to deal with one aspect or another of global warming.
And that is why our MSM is acting like this incredible scandal isn’t even happening.
February 3rd, 2010 at 2:28 pm
But still off topic…
You mean, like your post?
Poli’s post was so far off the topic of AGW, as was Bruce’s, that there is nothing left to do but chat with the nutters.
February 3rd, 2010 at 3:30 pm
I hate when Brit leftists pollute American blog comment sections, Pluto. Don’t you guys have your own conservative blogs to troll?
February 3rd, 2010 at 4:56 pm
Is this a Star Wars ad?
February 3rd, 2010 at 6:59 pm
Setnaffa:
“He’s practically speechless…:
It took him four hours to think of something to say. He just couldn’t hold back. Like I said, obsession.
February 3rd, 2010 at 7:03 pm
Pluto’s life is based on believing myths and partisan lies.
But he sleeps well at night.
February 4th, 2010 at 2:21 am
Brrrr…it sure is cold over here in the UK. Global warming…riiiiight.
Everyone now knows about the great cover-up that the bloggers and Anthony Watts have uncovered, and “they” (I’m looking at you, commie scientists) don’t seem to want to talk about:
Mt. Pinatubo caused a tilt in the Meluvian Solar Cycle 16.
February 4th, 2010 at 5:43 am
Pluto is still trying to distract us from the fact that the two forces behind AGW are the Progressives who want to control us and their corporate buddies who stand to make Billions off the sale of so-called “green” products (many of which are greater polluters than the “wasteful” products they replace…
Maybe enough of these losers will figure out the scam before the accelerator sticks or the brakes fail on their hastily-under-engineered Prius…
February 4th, 2010 at 8:20 am
…the fact that the two forces behind AGW are…
Fact, no, right wing meme, yes.
If you demanded the same rigor of proof for these tin foil hat conspiracies of yours that you demand for AGW, then you would believe in nothing at all.
February 4th, 2010 at 9:21 am
Pluto contemplating his oracle.
February 4th, 2010 at 10:00 am
Pluto attempts to disbelieve the Goracle and fails…
February 4th, 2010 at 10:03 am
…meanwhile the IPCC chief knew about rerrors and refuses o apologize or take any blame for enriching himself and his cronies… AGW proponents around the world do likewise…
February 4th, 2010 at 10:05 am
…and Pluto still has to answer “baaaa…baaaa…baaaaaaaaaaa”
February 4th, 2010 at 10:10 am
BTW, is the Pluto that graces our presence the comical buffoon of the Disney comics or the hapless pagan god trapped below ground in Hades?
You’d think these libtards would at least attempt to sound like they had graduated from some formal education other than a Montessori preschool…
February 4th, 2010 at 10:23 am
I have been upfront about this all along: I am a dog with minimal typing skills and an irrational fascination with right wing memes. Gold mine with setnaffa in that regard, he can bleat the nutter talking points with the best of them. It is as if he walked off the pages of Animal Farm. Here are two nuggets:
…enriching himself and his cronies…
… AGW proponents around the world do likewise…
Why do I enjoy these flights of fancy from the right? I don’t know, perhaps Ken is correct and my love of right wing memes is an obsession.
February 4th, 2010 at 1:26 pm
flights of fancy=AGW
February 4th, 2010 at 1:34 pm
Pluto accuses me of being a sheep… It is to laugh…
And what is this “right wing” stuff? I think you’re trying to call me names or something… I reject the advice of people who lie to me about everything and hire tax-cheats and ex-cons–does that make me right-wing?
Is this a Hilary Clinton joke? VRWC? Is the tinfoil slipping?
Maybe this is Bipartisanship? Maybe Pluto goes both ways? You know, I heard Bill Ayres forced all the other guys in the Weather Underground to do that…
Can we ask? Will you tell?
I really think it’s funny how he repeats himself… Maybe it’s a preteen with a Turing machine?
February 4th, 2010 at 2:16 pm
Bill Ayers
Now we’re cooking, that’s what I am talking about, the free association flights of conflation.
repeats…Turing machine
A Turing machine is designed to manipulate complexity, like the infinite combinatorics of the 4 bases within a strand of DNA, and so repetition would not be the first thing to come to a learned mind.
February 4th, 2010 at 4:03 pm
Pluto:
combinatorics?
You’re kidding, right?
February 4th, 2010 at 7:20 pm
No. The combinatorics are infinite: zeros and ones, the four bases of DNA, symbols, whatever. But, to encode information there has to be some sort of order. Not to say that repetitive order can’t encode information, such as a crystal lattice; but it can also be labile, such as the repetition underlying Fragile X, or a feedback loop.
Whatever, I prefer a touring machine than a Turing machine; say, my Harley motorbike.
February 4th, 2010 at 7:57 pm
say, my Harley motorbike.
Pluto is so Butch.
February 5th, 2010 at 12:12 am
Harley = motorbike? MOTORBIKE?
That’s so butch…../
February 5th, 2010 at 3:42 am
motorbike?
Yes, all of my motorbikes are motorbikes. I like the sound of the three syllables rather than four. You know, threes:
(((motorbike)))