The global warming emails are firing up critics. AP Photo Eugene Hoshiko
The climate change skeptics believe that they have finally found their proof that global warming is all a myth propped up by scientists and various organizations. The "smoking gun" are 61MB's of emails that were hacked from the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit. The emails contain various statements which seem to suggest the purposeful manipulation of data by scientists to conceal cooling trends. In addition some emails seem to suggest that scientists worked to keep the work of skeptics from being published or recognized. Copies of many of the emails can be read here. Some of the highlights include the following quotes:
"I've just completed Mike's Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) amd [sic] from 1961 for Keith's to hide the decline."
I think we have to stop considering Climate Research as a legitimate peer-reviewed journal. Perhaps we should encourage our colleagues in the climate research community to no longer submit to, or cite papers in, this journal. We would also need to consider what we tell or request of our more reasonable colleagues who currently sit on the editorial board…What do others think?"
For sure the quotes are damning but needless to say the climate change consensus has not yet waved the white flag of surrender. One of the scientists involved in the email said that the "trick" involved with date simply involved a way of solving a data problem not an intent to deceive. Anyone who hangs out with math nerds for any amount of time knows that they use various "tricks" to solve problems. Another chief climatologist notes that reading the entire exchange of emails rather than selective quotes actually reveals the "integrity of these scientists" who were merely talking about science.
It is also worth noting that the emails only involve one group of scientists out of the thousands who research and work on climate change. The emails also deal with a very limited set of data and do not discredit the numerous other studies and models showing an increase in CO2 levels and temperatures across the globe. In fact as Fox News released the article above which details the email "smoking gun" they also released another article stating that CO2 levels were higher in 2008 than ever before and warning that temperatures could rise by as much as 11 degrees Farenheit by 2100. So in the end the supporters of climate change legislation argue that the email do point to a smoking gun, but on that only fires blanks.
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When we have record breaking 'cold' in this country for several years in a row, it becomes more difficult to keep up the pretense that the globe is 'warming'.
We are now supposed to call it 'climate change'. Therefore the farce can continue no matter what happens with the temperature.
google "Good climate news bad for alarmists" "Lorne Gunter Edmonton Journal"
All us deniers have been saying all along is "SHOW US THE MATH!" well we have now seen the math....All personal perspectives aside, out of context vs. smoking gun, the real issue is not about the sanctity of science but much simpler. TO create false information for the purpose of financial gain whether it is grant money or sustainable business is called FRAUD and the hacked e-mails and more importantly the codeing in the models SHOW that this group of scientists KNEW exactly what they were doing in "smoothing data" colluding among themsleves and stifyling critism of skeptics are GUILTY OF FRAUD!
Being that most of us are not scientists, we tend to believe who we trust. I don't trust Al Gore as far as I can throw him. It's obvious to anyone who is paying attention that this is just a way to burden Americans with another tax, and one that will bring our economy to its knees. Can't we all chip in and send Al and Leonardo, and all the other climate whack jobs on an extended to cruise to the north pole so that they can see for themselves that the polar bears are doing just fine?
Fear: Post it under the ACORN article and I will let it stay. Even if I still think you are wrong...I don't have time to explain why. Busy night. Maybe I will later though.
I will still carry a life jacket and inflatable raft (in my hemp backpack) just in case the jet exhaust from Algore's Gulfstream melts the glaciers and floods the earth the next time he flies around the world to collect a trophy.
Skeptics and conspiracy buffs need to understand that even without any CRU data nor the publications of it scientists, there are MULTIPLE lines of evidence for AGW:
1) UAH, RSS, and GISS show warming
2) Rapidly warming Arctic
3) Rapidly decreasing sea ice extent
4) Rapidly thinning sea ice
5) Rising ocean heat content
6) Cooling stratosphere
7) Net increase in downwelling LW
8 ) Net decreasing TOA LW emission
9) Increased species migrations/extinctions
10) Increased severe weather occurrences
11) Glacier mass loss and retreats increasing
12) Rising sea levels
13) Most importantly: rapidly rising human emissions of GHGs that have not been seen in millions of years.
None of these things read emails and have decided to play along in a massive international conspiracy.
Scott A. Mandia, Professor - Meteorology
www2.sunysuffolk.edu/mandias/global_warming/
Global Warming emails not only reveal a 'smoking gun', they reveal a HOAX.
I don't care what Professor Mandia says, too much information is available to the contrary. We're not 'buying it' and we're not 'paying for it'.
Tell the white jackrabbits with nowhere to hide, the borers killing your trees all year round without a harsh enough cold to slow them down, the bears with insomnia, and my mum melting in Australia, that it's all a hoax- none of them can read very well.
Hope your athletes have fun in the new Olympic mud-sledding event.
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