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About Global Warming: Never Mind!

By Doug Bandow on 2.14.10 @ 9:17AM

Let's concede that not all climate alarmists are dishonest. Still, Climategate keeps on getting worse (or better, depending upon one's point of view). Now Phil Jones, the man at the center of the scandal at East Anglia's Climate Research Unit, admits that maybe we aren't currently warming.

Reports the Daily Mail:

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.

True, Prof. Jones argues that the recent warming halt is just a "blip." But it's increasingly hard to take anything he says seriously.

(H/t to Mark Tapscott.)

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Bob the Engineer| 2.14.10 @ 10:36AM

AGW is and always will be a hoax. "Global warming" never was a real scientific theory because there was no experiment you could do to prove it was false. Using anecdotes of extreme weather as proof of "global warming" is not science. In fact, if global temperatures are normally distributed, then there will always be some measurement that is five or six standard deviations from the mean. This outlier will then be touted as the hotest or coldest temperature ever recorded there.

Weatherbot| 2.14.10 @ 1:44PM

Refreshing to see someone who understand statistical analysis.

ACynic| 2.14.10 @ 8:06PM

AGW is a hoax because science cannot explain, much less model the historical climate.
If you cannot explain the historical climate, you cannot predict the future climate nor model it.
Earth has experience numerous periods - some very lengthy - of ice ages (all of which ended in global warming), and global warming (all of which, eventually end in ice ages).
Other than rather good correlations with the sun's activity, the earths orbit and precession as it rotates, science is unable to explain any of this.
They merely provide conjectures (i.e. guesses).

stmichrick| 2.14.10 @ 11:19AM

The clue was in the earliest statements by Al Gore, " The science is settled." Not likely.

Best entertainment of the week: Rush played clips of 2003 statements by Sen. Robert Byrd and Rep. Nancy Pelosi, distressed about the lack of snow back then. 'Something is going on!'

stmichrick| 2.14.10 @ 11:21AM

Correction: Barbara Boxer, not Nancy Pelosi.

Yosemeti Sam| 2.14.10 @ 11:22AM

" Let's concede that not all climate alarmists are dishonest...."

Notwithstanding their propensity?

LOL.

Pete| 2.14.10 @ 11:25AM

NBC is on board...can't escape global warming talk watching the Olympics. They just keep trying to hammer it into people's consciousness. I thought this was the US and not the former USSR?

Tish| 2.14.10 @ 11:27AM

This is what happens when scientists are following an agenda instead of searching for evidence.

Weatherbot| 2.14.10 @ 1:41PM

I have laerned over the years that just because you are a scientist doesn't make you good at math. I have done several statistical studies of temperatures in various cities around the US and am not finding the kinds of trends the experts predict. You can view my research on Weatherbot.blogspot.com.

Franklin| 2.14.10 @ 5:44PM

I often wonder how people can miss the obvious. How can 46% still approve of little o?

I think that I glimpsed a tiny window into the why. In lunch-time discussions with co-workers this week I mentioned Climategate, and three of the six people at the table said, "What's Climategate"?

Either they are totally not paying attention, or are only watching the MSM. Without hearing any truth, how can we expect them to make informed choices?

It's up to us to inform them. We cannot allow ourselves to be quiet any longer.

But don't run from them, ridicule or despise them – feel sorry for them. Help them learn, but be patient and kind. Remember what it was like to learn there was no Santa Clause or Easter Bunny. Be gentle.

Lullaby's, Legends and Lies| 2.14.10 @ 6:27PM

Franklin: I feel you pain man, I really do!! I suffer through the same stupid looks from most people I work with too, anytime I bring up politics, or global (cough cough!!) warming, or anything that may be construed as being in the news. It looks like, if it's not on American Idol, (which I have never seen, nor will I ever watch) most people don't have a clue about what's going on, and that's pretty sad. Most of them believe that Global Warming is happening, just because it's been repeated so many times, so they assume, it has to be true (it's not, it's a lie).

As a representation, of just how sad it really is out there, I recently read an article, about how college doesn't make you smarter, just more liberal, and they had the civic test results, to prove their point. The average American, if I remember correctly, scored a 49% on this test, with college educators, scoring a 55%. So I figured, what the hell, I'll see how I do on it, and hopefully I can beat a 49%. Well it turns out, I'm a friggin' genius or something, because I scored a 78.79%, and I'm only a High School graduate (class of 85), and I wasn't that good in school either, just average. So it appears to me, that American's are getting "more stupid" by the minute. So if you want to feel superior, like I do now, to all the stupid people walking around (believing in stupid things), go take this civics test, and see how you do, it's only 33 questions long. If you beat my score by a lot, don't rub it in too much, okay?

http://www.americanciviclitera...../quiz.aspx

Debra Poore| 2.14.10 @ 8:17PM

Thanks for the link. I enjoyed taking the test. I scored 81.85% which makes me smarter than the average college educator, and that with a high school education - graduated 1976. I just like to read a lot!

Lullaby's, Legends and Lies| 2.15.10 @ 8:33AM

You got an 81.85% Debra? Well I guess I'm not the friggin' genius that I thought I was. I feel sad now!!

WhiteBikerTrash| 2.15.10 @ 10:23AM

I am so ashamed of myself, I only got a 90.93%

Franklin| 2.14.10 @ 5:58PM

Wait a minute ... I just thought of something -

Does anyone share my skepticism about this turn of events? Do you possibly think that Jones is positioning himself to declare that the AGW scare was wrong because we are actually experiencing AGC and we need to give him gobs of money to study it???

Eric Cartman| 2.14.10 @ 6:18PM

Well, thanks a lot, Franklin! Had to go give them the idea, didn't ya?! I hope you're happy, now! Why don't ya just tell 'em to say that CO2 is responsible for the cooling, while you're at it! Couldn't keep your thoughts to yourself! Jeeeeeeeez!

Victory67| 2.14.10 @ 7:23PM

LOL very funny. But you mever know it might happen!

Victory67| 2.14.10 @ 7:24PM

If we all could just get this mainstream we would sigh with relief..how to do that. Pester the press.

Nick| 2.14.10 @ 9:45PM

Hey Methuselah, did you get that?

ChuckD| 2.14.10 @ 10:25PM

Where are all the liberal toads excoriating us for our skepticism? They've run out of talking points, I think. Not to worry, the NY times ran an article yesterday that explains it all. Apparently the recent spat of freezing cold weather and record snow fall is the result of global warming. Any extreme weather condition anywhere any time is the result of GW. How can you argue with that? They can twist and shape anything to fit their weird fantasies. I give up. Now I understand why wars are fought.