Climategate U-turn as scientist at centre of row admits: There has been no global warming since 1995

Climategate U-turn as scientist at centre of row admits: There has been no global warming since 1995
By Jonathan Petre
Last updated at 5:12 PM on 14th February 2010

- Data for vital 'hockey stick graph' has gone missing
- There has been no global warming since 1995
- Warming periods have happened before - but NOT due to man-made changes

The academic at the centre of the ‘Climategate’ affair, whose raw data is crucial to the theory of climate change, has admitted that he has trouble ‘keeping track’ of the information.

Colleagues say that the reason Professor Phil Jones has refused Freedom of Information requests is that he may have actually lost the relevant papers.

Professor Jones told the BBC yesterday there was truth in the observations of colleagues that he lacked organisational skills, that his office was swamped with piles of paper and that his record keeping is ‘not as good as it should be’.

The data is crucial to the famous ‘hockey stick graph’ used by climate change advocates to support the theory.

Professor Jones also conceded the possibility that the world was warmer in medieval times than now – suggesting global warming may not be a man-made phenomenon.

And he said that for the past 15 years there has been no ‘statistically significant’ warming.

They should stop teaching this crap in every public school - right now. It's over.

From the Maha -

RUSH: This global warming fraud is so massive, so pervasive, so significant, it has sunk in yet with most of the literate world. Think about everything, folks... Seriously, now. Think about everything that's changed: The demonization of cars, the demonization of oil, human life has been blamed, the CO2-carbon trading fraud, the horror of carbon footprints, the flooding of the coasts, all of these lies! Middle Ages-like thinking has re-infected Western Civilization thanks to scam artists like Dr. Phil Jones at Hadley and the stupid Algore. The few brave scientists like our climatologist here, Dr. Roy Spencer (University of Alabama-Huntsville) who have spoken up have been nearly driven out of existence. They have been targeted as heretics! Freedom of speech has been under assault. The idea of damning so-called deniers when it comes to climate science is at best shameful and at worst... Well, if there are feminazis, there are "environazis" on this issue, and they're all over the place.

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_021510/content/01125109.guest.html

http://blog.algore.com/2010/02/worse_than_we_thought.html

Al Gore, Feb 12, 2010:

More evidence of the climate crisis is unfolding before our eyes. The situation in the Arctic is worse than data from satellite pictures have told us:

“For scientists studying the health of Arctic sea ice, satellite observations are absolutely essential for providing the big picture. It was satellites that revealed in September 2007 a record minimum ice coverage in the region — the result of a massive summer melt. And it was satellites that showed in 2008 and 2009 the modest recovery of late-summer Arctic ice that suggested to some that the specter of a totally ice-free polar ocean might be somewhat less imminent than feared.”

“But those high-altitude observations need occasional reality checks from scientists down on the surface. It was during one such on-the-ground research expedition last fall that David Barber, an Arctic climatologist at the University of Manitoba, got an unwelcome surprise.”

“Barber was aboard the Canadian research icebreaker Amundsen, checking on ice in the Beaufort Sea north of Alaska and Western Canada. The ship was well inside a region the satellites said should be choked with thick, multiyear-old ice. “That’s pretty much a no-go zone for an icebreaker of the Amundsen’s size,” says Barber. But the ship kept going, at a brisk 13 knots — its top speed in open water is 13.7 knots — and even when it finally reached thick ice, he says, “we could still penetrate it easily.””

“In short, as Barber and his colleagues explain in a recent paper in Geophysical Review Letters, the analysis of what the satellites were seeing was wrong. Some of what satellites identified as thick, melt-resistant multiyear ice turned out to be, in Barber’s words, “full of holes, like Swiss cheese. We haven’t seen this sort of thing before.””

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100215/ts_alt_afp/usweathercoralflorida

Cold snap killing Florida’s coral reefs
Mon Feb 15, 6:37 pm ET
MIAMI (AFP) – The polar snap enveloping much of the United States in record cold has been killing off coral reefs in the normally balmy warm waters off the Florida Keys, experts said Monday.

The unusually chilly weather so far this year has seen sea temperatures plummet in southern Florida — a fatal development for the coral, which dies when exposed for an extended time to temperatures below 15 degrees Celsius (59 degrees Fahrenheit).

We talked to friends who had spent the last two plus weeks in the Grand Bahamas, and they said it was darn cold there:

http://jonesbahamas.com/?c=45&a=7531

February 14th, 2006
Grand Bahama Experiences Cold Snap
By Courtnee Romer
It was not nearly as cold as it was in the north-east United States, but Grand Bahama residents were yesterday bracing for another day of what meteorologists called the coldest snap of this winter season.
According to meteorologist, Trinard Tynes of the Freeport Weather Department, yesterday saw a high of 60 degrees Fahrenheit, with a wind chill factor making it feel like 48 degrees.

Some residents enjoyed the cool weather, dressing in warm jackets, caps, and even mittens.

But one resident, Patrick Laing, said he did not even need the extra attire as this type of weather suits him just fine.

“I’m enjoying this cold weather very much. I don’t like it when it’s hot because I get sticky; it makes me feel uncomfortable and restless. It seems like there is nothing to cool you down,” Mr. Laing said.

Another resident, Faye Laing, admitted that “it’s kind of cold” but she was enjoying it, while another resident, Khambrel Farrington, said this weather was “good cuddling weather”, just in time for Valentine’s Day.

“I don’t mind this at all,” Mr. Farrington said.

Ashburne Lewis, another Grand Bahamian, echoed similar sentiments.

“I’m enjoying it a lot, but in the evening time, I stay inside because it gets real cold and I bundle up or should I say, cuddle up,” Mr. Lewis said.

But another resident said it was just too cold and she was not enjoying the weather all.

In fact, it was so cold that District Superintendent of Freeport, Sandra Edgecombe, dismissed all public schools in her district half day on Monday because of the weather.

Mrs. Edgecombe told The Bahama Journal that “it was unbearably cold” and some students were not dressed appropriately for the weather. She said that some of the schools’ windows were not closing properly and so she felt the need to dismiss school.

Mrs. Edgecombe, who was bundled up herself, said she also asked the principals to be lenient in what the children will wear today, saying that if the weather persisted schools may also get out half today.

Mr. Tynes said last night was expected to be the coldest night of the week, with temperatures expected to plunge to 48 degrees Fahrenheit, with the wind chill factor making it feel like 35.

“Not only did we just recently have a passage of a strong cold front that brought all the cold temperatures, we have a secondary frontal boundary that has rapidly slipped through some time [Sunday] morning and all it did for this second one was to keep the colder temperatures over us. The winds are also going to stay on the strong side,” Mr. Tynes said.

However, for residents who prefer the warmer weather, good news is on the way.

Mr. Tynes said as the week continues it should get progressively warmer.

For the month of February, the lowest temperature recorded was 41.7 degrees in 1996, although the coldest day on record for Grand Bahama was 39, when it snowed in January 1977.

We non believers of Gorebull Warming want to thank Al Gorebull Warming for inventing the internet before he invented global warming. We can go around the world and prove that he and the other Gorebull Warmers are liars.

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