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Hiding Evidence of Global Cooling

source: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/nov/24/hiding-evidence-of-global-cooling/

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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.
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3 comments // Hiding Evidence of Global Cooling

  • idealist
  • thedirtman
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      thedirtman  

    • There has been a mild and short cooling trend. The cooling trend is due to unusually low solar activity that will return to normal by 2012. In the near future, expect the former trend in global temperatures to resume where they left off in 2005.

      A correlation between atmospheric temperature and atmospheric CO2 concentrations is stronger when we develop a correlation that considers both human-caused global warming and solar activity. This correlation;

      .09x + .91y = z

      where x is the normalized sunspot total
      y is the normalized atmospheric CO2 concentration
      and z is the Temperature Anomaly in degrees Celsius

      I can use the regression to project a Temperature Anomaly of 0.74 by 2013. That's off the charts. Global warming is being underestimated because sunspots were low on the cycle when Al Gore's movie came out. Look out when the sunspot cycle returns to normal in 2012. Al Gore, being the non-scientist that he is, needed to make it appear that global warming was caused by CO2 alone in order to discredit the efforts of skeptic pseudo-scientists funded by corporate interests. The cumulative projection, which seems more true, is much worse, but required more explanation.

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