Global Hoax?

[AUTiger1]

EDITORIAL: Hiding evidence of global cooling

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Scientific progress depends on accurate and complete data. It also relies on replication. The past couple of days have uncovered some shocking revelations about the baloney practices that pass as sound science about climate change.

It was announced Thursday afternoon that computer hackers had obtained 160 megabytes of e-mails from the Climate Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia (UEA) in England. Those e-mails involved communication among many scientific researchers and policy advocates with similar ideological positions all across the world. Those purported authorities were brazenly discussing the destruction and hiding of data that did not support global-warming claims.

Professor Phil Jones, the head of the Climate Research Unit, and professor Michael E. Mann at Pennsylvania State University, who has been an important scientist in the climate debate, have come under particular scrutiny. Among his e-mails, Mr. Jones talked to Mr. Mann about the "trick of adding in the real temps to each series ... to hide the decline [in temperature]."

Mr. Mann admitted that he was party to this conversation and lamely explained to the New York Times that "scientists often used the word 'trick' to refer to a good way to solve a problem 'and not something secret.' " Though the liberal New York newspaper apparently buys this explanation, we have seen no benign explanation that justifies efforts by researchers to skew data on so-called global-warming "to hide the decline." Given the controversies over the accuracy of Mr. Mann's past research, it is surprising his current explanations are accepted so readily.


There is a lot of damning evidence about these researchers concealing information that counters their bias. In another exchange, Mr. Jones told Mr. Mann: "If they ever hear there is a Freedom of Information Act now in the UK, I think I'll delete the file rather than send to anyone" and, "We also have a data protection act, which I will hide behind." Mr. Jones further urged Mr. Mann to join him in deleting e-mail exchanges about the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) controversial assessment report (ARA): "Can you delete any emails you may have had with Keith re [the IPCC's Fourth Assessment Report]?"

In another e-mail, Mr. Jones told Mr. Mann, professor Malcolm K. Hughes of the University of Arizona and professor Raymond S. Bradley of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst: "I'm getting hassled by a couple of people to release the CRU station temperature data. Don't any of you three tell anybody that the UK has a Freedom of Information Act!"

At one point, Mr. Jones complained to another academic, "I did get an email from the [Freedom of Information] person here early yesterday to tell me I shouldn't be deleting emails." He also offered up more dubious tricks of his trade, specifically that "IPCC is an international organization, so is above any national FOI. Even if UEA holds anything about IPCC, we are not obliged to pass it on." Another professor at the Climate Research Unit, Tim Osborn, discussed in e-mails how truncating a data series can hide a cooling trend that otherwise would be seen in the results. Mr. Mann sent Mr. Osborn an e-mail saying that the results he was sending shouldn't be shown to others because the data support critics of global warming.

Repeatedly throughout the e-mails that have been made public, proponents of global-warming theories refer to data that has been hidden or destroyed. Only e-mails from Mr. Jones' institution have been made public, and with his obvious approach to deleting sensitive files, it's difficult to determine exactly how much more information has been lost that could be damaging to the global-warming theocracy and its doomsday forecasts.

We don't condone e-mail theft by hackers, though these e-mails were covered by Britain's Freedom of Information Act and should have been released. The content of these e-mails raises extremely serious questions that could end the academic careers of many prominent professors. Academics who have purposely hidden data, destroyed information and doctored their results have committed scientific fraud. We can only hope respected academic institutions such as Pennsylvania State University, the University of Arizona and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst conduct proper investigative inquiries.

Most important, however, these revelations of fudged science should have a cooling effect on global-warming hysteria and the panicked policies that are being pushed forward to address the unproven theory.

[AUTailgatingRules]

Glabal warming a hoax?  No fucking way!

I guess this is why AlGore doesn't feel guilty using enough electricity in a month to run most households for 2 years.

[AUTiger1]

Glabal warming a hoax?  No phuking way!

I guess this is why AlGore doesn't feel guilty using enough electricity in a month to run most households for 2 years.

I am sure that this Editorial is wrong, besides, it's all Bush's fault anyways.

[GH2001]

Didn't read the ENTIRE article but I did see something on either Hannity or O'Reilly where some guy that had exposed human caused Global Warming as a hoax is getting threatened and hacked. There was also a memo from a pro-global warming organization I believe that was stating that they could not prove if there was actually any global warming and when they could they still couldnt prove it was caused by human activites, and that it was very frustrating to them not to be able to do this because the evidence goes contrary to what they lobby/stand for. If someone knows what I am talking about and finds the article, please post.  It sounds like it may be related to what you posted above.

The environmental loons (Al Gore) are just like the race baiters (Sharpton, Jackson). Its all a money game. There is no real problem. So problems are "fabricated" so that they have jobs and a purpose. Its a money train they ride. Notice when things get real quiet on either front, they start making noise?  Kind of like the firefighter who gets bored and wants to be a hero so he goes and sets fire to a house so he can put it out. Don't laugh - Ive read stories where this has happened.

Oh yeah - here's to Al Gore and his 27,000 gigawatt a day house...  

[AUChizad]

This is a pretty huge deal. Surprised you guys aren't more on top of this.

Isn't it ironic that Al Gore's global warming cause was exposed by the very Internetz that he invented?

[Saniflush]

This is a pretty huge deal. Surprised you guys aren't more on top of this.

Isn't it ironic that Al Gore's global warming cause was exposed by the very Internetz that he invented?

The problem is many of us have been screaming this for so long we are hoarse.

[Tarheel]

The problem is many of us have been screaming this for so long we are hoarse.

Exactly.

Naturally the blind followers of The Church of Climatology are more concerned about the illegal hacking of emails then they are about the damning evidence against their religion that is in the content:

Senator Boxer: Climate Gate Scandal E-Mail Hacking 'a Criminal Matter'
December 03, 2009 by Mark Whittington 

Senator Barbara Boxer, the chair of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, is pretty sure she knows who the real villains in the climate-gate scandal are. Oddly enough they are not the scientists accused of data suppression and fraud.

According to The Hill, Senator Boxer believes that the hacking of the e-mails from the University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit is a "criminal matter" worthy of investigation of the United States Senate and will be part of any hearings conducted by her
...

Full story:
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2453332/senator_boxer_climate_gate_scandal.html

[GarMan]

The environmental loons (Al Gore) are just like the...

What's this?  More lies... 

http://www.sphere.com/world/article/al-gore-fudges-numbers-at-climate-change-summit-in-copenhagen/19281919