Beam me to Planet Gore !
http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/images/stories/papers/monckton/monckton_man_made.pdf
For the Full Report in PDF Form, please click here. (above)
[Illustrations, footnotes and references available in PDF version]
In late January 2009, the once-respected “science” journal Nature published the results of a computer model apparently showing that nearly all of the Antarctic continent had not cooled over the past 50 years, as the real-world observational data showed, but had warmed instead. The newly-created “warming” was achieved not by direct observation, which has long produced inconvenient cooling, but by “statistical climate-field-reconstruction techniques to obtain a 50-year-long, spatially complete estimate of monthly Antarctic temperature anomalies.”
The authors used “the special covariance structure of the surface temperature field to guide interpolation of the ... records of ... temperature from occupied weather stations,” on the ground that, “although it has been suggested that such interpolation is unreliable owing to the distances involved, large spatial scales are not inherently problematic if there is high spatial coherence, as is the case in continental Antarctica.”
The “reconstructions” were said to “demonstrate” warming of 0.17 °C/decade over the past 50 years in West Antarctica, 0.10 in East Antarctica and 0.12 continent-wide; however, their own analysis, when tested against detrended data, found that the continent-wide warming was not demonstrably different from zero.
The international alarmist movement swung swiftly and expensively into action, actively supported by the more scientifically-illiterate news media, to say that the “warming” of Antarctica, illustrated in the widely-reproduced “before-and-after” images above, “proved” that “global warming” was truly global after all. The usual solemn warnings about the need for urgent and costly action to close down the economies of the West were added.
For full paper, see pdf.
short version... they didn’t have enough data for 50 years, so they made it up.
i don’t think people are that important.
The parts of Antarctica that have experienced measurable warming are the same parts of Antarctica that have been experiencing volcanic activity...
Coincidence? I think not!
"Figures don't lie but liars figure." Seem true.
Bump for later reading
It seems that men were altering the data and these were the men that created global warming out of thin air! Hence, "man made" global warming! Or should that be "Mann made" global warming?
Well, I can't say they lied about the name, they told everyone straight out.
My (very) liberal sister is raising her boys to be very liberal, activist, metrosexual types. It’s a shame, as the oldest boy showed signs of having a very good scientific mind. Unfortunately, activists make very poor scientists. A true scientist says “let’s follow the data and see where it leads.” An activist says “let’s create a study that proves.....” All objectivity is lost. There is very little true scientific study done any more.
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Great link to a great site. Thanks.
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