Posted on 11/27/2009 6:13:21 PM PST by Kaslin
Stop hyperventilating, all you climate change deniers.
The purloined e-mail correspondence published by skeptics last week — portraying some leading climate researchers as petty, vindictive and tremendously eager to make their data fit accepted theories — does not prove that global warming is a fraud.
If I'm wrong, somebody ought to tell the polar ice caps that they're free to stop melting.
That said, the e-mail episode is more than a major embarrassment for the scientists involved. Most Americans are convinced that climate change is real — a necessary prerequisite for the kinds of huge economic and behavioral adjustments we would have to make to begin seriously limiting carbon emissions.
But consensus on the nature and scope of the problem will dissipate, and fast, if experts try to obscure the fact that there's much about the climate they still don't know.
Here's what happened: Someone hacked into the servers at one of the leading academic centers in the field — the Climatic Research Unit of the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England — and filched a trove of e-mails and documents, which have been posted on numerous Web sites maintained by climate skeptics.
Phil Jones, the head of the Climatic Research Unit, released a statement Wednesday saying, "My colleagues and I accept that some of the published e-mails do not read well." That would be an example of British understatement.
In one message sent to a long list of colleagues, Jones speaks of having completed a "trick" with recent temperature data to "hide the decline." The word "trick" is hardly a smoking gun — scientists use it to refer to clever but perfectly legitimate ways of handling data. But the "hide the decline" part refers to a real issue among climate researchers called the "divergence problem."
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The fraud train has left the station and nothing but 10' of ice on the complete earth surface will stop it.
It is well established that Eugene Robinson’s opinion is worthless. Why waste any time on him?
Even a stupid person can figure out that there are too many factors to come up with a plan to reverse the workings of the universe. The whole thing is stupid!!
I agree.
It is just as real after the emails were released as it was before them.
That's true. There had been no 'global warming' for a decade before the publishing of these emails, and there isn't now.
And the band played on.
Don’t you like to ridicule him?
This reminds of an incident a few weeks ago where these impostors passed themselves off as U.S. Chamber of Commerce representatives and called a press conference to "announce" that the Chamber was endorsing UbamaCare.
During the middle of the fake press conference, a REAL representative of The Chamber showed up to expose the whole thing as a hoax and ran the two guys out of the room.
The real rep then said he would be happy to answer any questions the reporters had but they didn't want to hear anything the REAL, ACTUAL, AUTHENTIC Chamber rep had to say.
They wanted to hear more from the impostors!
I'm telling you, people. We're living in Alice's Wonderland. Nothing makes sense.
Dear IRS. My client was not hiding his income. He had a "divergence problem" wherein he spent more than he earned or borrowed.
Yeah, lies, deception, fraud, destruction of evidence, fudging of data - doesn’t mean a thing.
Come on, the universe is only 15 billion years old and they’ve been working on this for two or more decades now with really neat computers.
Sorry, but you agree with what?
PAY NO ATTENTION TO THAT MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN!!!
I believe he meant that it was as real before as it was after the e-mails were released. Or, said another way, its just as fake before as after.
The reality before the emails is the same as the reality before the emails. Global warming is a fraud.
Let me get this straight. E-mails that prove the data has been fabricated don’t disprove the data.
“Don’t you like to ridicule him?”
I’d much rather ignore him. When lunatics are babbling nonsense on the street I don’t stop to debate them.
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