Posted on 11/30/2009 5:19:02 PM PST by ricks_place
If you have not delved into the thousands of e-mail messages and files hacked from the computers of British climate scientists, let me give you the closest thing to an executive summary. It is taken from a file slugged HARRY_READ_ME, which is the log of a computer expert’s long struggle to make sense of a database of historical temperatures. Here is Harry’s summary of the situation:
Aarrggghhh!
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In fact, one skeptic raised this very issue about tree-ring data in a comment posted in 2004 on RealClimate, the blog operated by climate scientists. The comment, which questioned the propriety of “grafting the thermometer record onto a proxy temperature record,” immediately drew a sharp retort on the blog from Michael Mann, an expert at Penn State University:
“No researchers in this field have ever, to our knowledge, ‘grafted the thermometer record onto’ any reconstruction. It is somewhat disappointing to find this specious claim (which we usually find originating from industry-funded climate disinformation Web sites) appearing in this forum.”
Dr. Mann now tells me that he was unaware, when he wrote the response, that such grafting had in fact been done in the earlier cover chart, and I take him at his word. But I don’t see why the question was dismissed so readily, with the implication that only a tool of the fossil-fuel industry would raise it.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Now it is seems wrong but soon it will be prosecute!
*ping*
So, its just a ‘fracas’ now, eh?
So, its just a ‘fracas’ now, eh?
LLS
The article links to Watts Up With That...for the New York Times, that is pretty good.
Is the MSM dam cracking in regard to the black out of this debacle?
Wonder when the Gray Hag’s leashed little gelded toy poodles at ABCMSNBCBSCNN will get up the nerve to cover it?
This is big.
Mark
“Trying to prevent skeptics from seeing the raw data was always a questionable strategy, scientifically...”
Having unsafe sex is a questionable strategy. Destroying the data you’re using to enslave an entire world is outright fraud!
here ya go... 
Please translate the above sentence for us.
Gotta agree with that. Frankly, I'm a bit stunned to see an article that comes so close to an outright indictment of fraud in the NY Times.
Could this be something akin to the reaction of a spouse who's suddenly discovered that they've been lied to for years and years?
Unless, of course, the records have been destroyed...
They sent poor Harry into the jungle to try to sort out the data. He brought back a database, all adjusted and everything. "Here, see if this suits you," I picture him saying. I keep seeing visions of Marty Feldman as "Igor", with his hunchback, rolling his eyes upward and saying, "It was Abby something... Abby Normal."
Is the MSM dam cracking in regard to the black out of this debacle?
Wonder when the Gray Hag’s leashed little gelded toy poodles at ABCMSNBCBSCNN will get up the nerve to cover it?
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I so hope you’re right. It will mean capitulation to the truth - as happened in the ACORN and Van Jones stories - driven by conservative and new media.
I love that second sentence there - funny.
All your emails are belong to us?
John Tierney,the author, has never drunk the leftist kool-aid.
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