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Climate Change: Not long ago, we were pestered almost daily with another global warming scare. But the weather has changed. Now, it seems, each sunrise comes with fresh evidence that the scare is a fraud.
The latest setback for global warm-mongers is a probe conducted by the British Guardian newspaper, which discovered a prominent climate scientist "sought to hide problems in key temperature data on which some of his work was based."
The Guardian, which has a history of pumping the global warming scare, looked over the leaked e-mail exchanges from the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia and "found evidence that a series of measurements from Chinese weather stations were seriously flawed and that documents relating to them could not be produced."
At the center is the familiar Phil Jones, the CRU director who's been temporarily relieved of his duties. He and the University at Albany's Wei-Chyung Wang, named as a collaborator by the Guardian, are accused of making "apparent attempts to cover up problems with temperature data from the Chinese weather stations."
These data, the Guardian reported Monday, "provide the first link between the e-mail scandal and the U.N.'s embattled climate science body, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, as a paper based on the measurements was used to bolster IPCC statements about rapid global warming in recent decades."
Researchers apparently failed to provide as a matter of public record the location history of 49 of the 84 Chinese weather stations used to generate the data. Jones and Wang are also thought to have neglected to consider the movement of Chinese weather stations. They failed as well to adjust for the heat-island effect in stations that had been in rural regions but are now in urban areas.
"The story has a startling postscript," says the Guardian. "In 2008, Jones prepared a paper for the Journal of Geophysical Research re-examining temperatures in eastern China. It found that, far from being negligible, the urban heat phenomenon was responsible for 40% of the warming seen in eastern China between 1951 and 2004."
A day later, the Guardian continued the serial reporting of its e-mail probe, this time focusing on the researchers' efforts to suppress the work of skeptics and critics. Again, Jones plays a central role.
Fred Pearce wrote in Tuesday's edition that Jones "was regularly asked to review papers and he sometimes wrote critical reviews that may have had the effect of blackballing papers (criticizing) his work." Jones also vowed to keep skeptical papers out of "the next IPCC report ... even if we have to redefine what the peer review literature is!"
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Posted By: dwdrury(575) on 2/4/2010 | 12:15 AM ET
In a related bit of news, saw a blurb recently that the Germans had unearthed three Neanderthal teeth. Recall that species died out near the end of the last ice age as our species out competed theirs. No doubt a follow up DNA study will show Mr. Gore, who apparently prefers the cold of an ice age, has 95.86% common DNA with the Neanderthal teeth. Let's see THAT speculation make it into a UN report!
Posted By: LesterDent(30) on 2/3/2010 | 10:20 PM ET
You forgot to note another fraud revealed last week, where the IPCC had quoted AGW could lead to a loss of 40% of rain forests, when the "study" quoted in WWF publication was based upon a Nature piece which discussed logging and burning, not AGW effects. http://www.newstrackindia.com/newsdetails/146304
Posted By: emerich(5) on 2/3/2010 | 10:14 PM ET
A point not generally made is that real scientists spend their energies testing results of previous studies. That's the essence of the scientific method. The best thing for a young scientist's career is to come up with results that question received wisdom, and such efforts inject energy into the community as a whole--if it's truly a scientific one. Attacking those who present evidence questioning widely accepted premises is a religious impulse, not a scientific one.
Posted By: MadMtnScot(190) on 2/3/2010 | 9:42 PM ET
And just how many democrats said "the science is settled" from OBlahblah on down. That was their mantra. Remember those lies and who told them, as it is very likely more will follow from the same sources.
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