Monday, November 30, 2009

Climategate!

From the Timesonline via Instapundit:
SCIENTISTS at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have admitted throwing away much of the raw temperature data on which their predictions of global warming are based. It means that other academics are not able to check basic calculations said to show a long-term rise in temperature over the past 150 years.
The issue is not a long-term temperature increase over the last 150 years. 150 years ago was the end of the Little Ice Age, so no one really disputes that temperatures have increased since then. The real issue that has been deliberately obfuscated is (1) how warm the Medieval Warm Period was and (2) whether the divergence of temperature behavior from historical trends over the last 50 years is the result of how the historical data has been subjected to a moving average while recent data has not.

7 comments:

Jeff the Baptist said...

Links are:

Timesonline
Instapundit

Jim said...

The Little Ice Age ended in 1859???

Jeff the Baptist said...

Give or take a few years, yes.

bob said...

Liars can figure and figures can lie. Anything to keep getting research grants.

Anonymous Jones said...

Repost?
I thought we've been saying this for years, but all I keep hearing back is something like:

"You're not a climatologist--and they ALL agree!"

"All of the scientist who are trustworthy say this is true--anyone else has a financial interest in polluters, a rightwing nutjob, or a geologist."

"You can't prove it's not happening, and the dangers outweigh the costs, and it only costs money to those that have it, so what are you worried about?"

...ending rant now lest I go on forever. Also, add comment about analysis being analysis and anyone with sense can see when it's not done with rigor.

John said...

Anonymous Jones wrote:

I thought we've been saying this for years, but all I keep hearing back is something like:

"You're not a climatologist--and they ALL agree!"

"All of the scientist who are trustworthy say this is true--anyone else has a financial interest in polluters, a rightwing nutjob, or a geologist."



Yes, there do seem to be a lot of No True Scotsmen roaming about in the climate debate.

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