No, not about Manbearpig, the famous mythical creature said to be half man, half bear, and another half pig created on Southpark in a spoof of Al Gore. Rather, there are reports that Congress will or is looking into the email hack that has become popularly referred to as climategate:
Climategate scientists are under congressional investigation in the wake of information gleaned from e-mails pirated from a global-warming research center in England. ... Senator David Vitter (R-La.) is another outspoken critic of AGW research and its effect on cap-and-trade legislation. Vitter's legislative staffer for environmental issues, Bryan Zumwalt, reportedly sent an e-mail on November 23 in which he called Climategate "the greatest act of scientific fraud in history."
As long as we're talking scandal and attacking people's motives and ethics, it should be noted that that's the same family-values, married David Vitter who was busted frequenting a ring of high priced call girls where it's rumored he liked to be dressed in an adult diaper as part of his sexual escapades. And no doubt Hezbollah and Al Qaeda are cheering on the climate skeptics and praying to Allah that Americans keep that stream of fossil fuel dollars flowing through Saudi Arabia and Tehran into their terrorist checking accounts for decades to come.
As long as we're having fun here, this one of the funniest emails I've read in weeks. It's referring to the swift-boat attacks now in play on climate scientists:
Since you're BFF with that liar Michel Mann [sp?], why don't you explain to him there's this thing called water vapor. Maybe he can take that into account the next time he try to scare everyone.
OK, no problem, I told my buddy Dr. Michael Mann about 'this thing' called water vapor. Based on his reaction, which sounded something like hysterical laughter, I'm pretty sure he already knew about it. But as long as I was visiting the wingnut zone, I also called the head of geology at Exxon-Mobil and explained about this thing called a drill. Maybe they can use one the next time they're looking for oil.
Anyway, back to the purported investigation, I'm unable to confirm if there's an official congressional investigation in the works or not. Personally, I hope there is, I'd like to see the record set straight. But right now it looks more like a bunch of anti-science extremists who think the earth is 6000 years old being whipped into a spittle flecked fury by cynical politicians and media celebrities looking to make political hay out of the situation. That's not to say Cap-n-Trade is an effective solution. Something is usually better than nothing. But as noted climatologist James Hansen says in the preface of his new book, Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth About the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity : "Politicians think that if matters look complicated, compromise is a good approach. Unfortunately, nature and the laws of physics cannot compromise -- they are what they are." It'd be nice if someone could pry Obama away from Axelrod and Rahm for a few minutes and mention that inconvenient truth to him.
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The human contribution to global warming:
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valadj=[0.,0.,0.,0.,0.,-0.1,-0.25,-0.3,0.,-0.1,0.3,0.8,1.2,1.7,2.5,2.6,2.6,2.6,2.6,2.6]*0.75 ; fudge factor
yearlyadj=interpol(valadj,yrloc,x)
densall=densall+yearlyadj
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That code is from the IDL program:
FOI2009/FOIA/documents/harris/tree/briffa_sep98_e.pro
Those numbers where typed in by a human to adjust the results of the data.
They are not from the data.
Those number may be the cause of the data that supports the idea of human induced global warming.
Caused by one human, using one computer, corrupting the output data.
I'm cereal too! No, not really. AGW is a complete lie for the whole world to see. The tide has turned and the concluded science that was previously non-debatable is now for the very first time up to debate.
The "scientists" that manipulated, suppressed, destroyed, and committed outright fraud finally have to defend their arguments. I can only assume that their AGW argument were indefensible to begin because of their complete fear of any form of intellectual inquiry. “Hide the decline”.
Any true science should be able to stand the test of intellectual inquiry. The world is flat, the sun revolves around the earth, eugenics, the list goes on…
Dear Deniers,
Cry me a river.
World leaders believe in science and won't dismiss facts based on out-of-context e-mail.
@Andrew,
It'd be a scandal... if the variable was actually used to
produce the plot -- it's not. Why it's there, is uncertain,
but adjustments entered with manual numbers here usually come
from a reference source, say carbon adjustments for tree rings.
But regardless, this particular piece of code isn't a smoking
gun or anything of the like -- it's an artifact of development
or testing that wasn't used in the final calculations.
It's "I'm serial".
The milk has been spilt, but the wing nuts continue to cry.
AGW is real. Wing nut deniers are constructing a conspiracy where none exists.
Stay tuned for eggs and bacon.
wow. you actually choose to keep believing in this fraud called global warming. wake up! put down the Kool Aid! I know it's hard to accept that you've been suckered, that your beliefs are based on hocum, but it's true. The sooner you accept it, the better off you'll be.
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