Thank you for a wonderful reference.
This should be something to show your friends.
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The introduction of the poster is reproduced here:
On November 19, 2009 some 3,000 e-mails, files of software and other documents from University of East Anglias Climatic Research Unit were covertly released onto the Internet. In his November 28, 2009 telegraph.co.uk article Climate change:This is the Worst Scientific Scandal of Our Generation, Christopher Booker summarized the far-reaching ramifications of what was exposed in those documents:
The reason why even the Guardians George Monbiot has expressed total shock and dismay at the picture revealed by the documents is that their authors are not just any old bunch of academics. Their importance cannot be overestimated, What we are looking at here is the small group of scientists who have for years been more influential in driving the worldwide alarm over global warming than any others, not least through the role they play at the heart of the UNs Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Professor Philip Jones, the CRUs director, is in charge of the two key sets of data used by the IPCC to draw up its reports. Through its link to the Hadley Centre, part of the UK Met Office, which selects most of the IPCCs key scientific contributors, his global temperature record is the most important of the four sets of temperature data on which the IPCC and governments rely not least for their predictions that the world will warm to catastrophic levels unless trillions of dollars are spent to avert it.
Dr Jones is also a key part of the closely knit group of American and British scientists responsible for promoting that picture of world temperatures conveyed by Michael Manns hockey stick graph which 10 years ago turned climate history on its head by showing that, after 1,000 years of decline, global temperatures have recently shot up to their highest level in recorded history.
Given star billing by the IPCC, not least for the way it appeared to eliminate the long-accepted Mediaeval Warm Period when temperatures were higher they are today, the graph became the central icon of the entire man-made global warming movement.
Since 2003, however, when the statistical methods used to create the hockey stick were first exposed as fundamentally flawed by an expert Canadian statistician Steve McIntyre , an increasingly heated battle has been raging between Manns supporters, calling themselves the Hockey Team, and McIntyre and his own allies, as they have ever more devastatingly called into question the entire statistical basis on which the IPCC and CRU construct their case.
The senders and recipients of the leaked CRU emails constitute a cast list of the IPCCs scientific elite, including not just the Hockey Team, such as Dr Mann himself, Dr Jones and his CRU colleague Keith Briffa, but Ben Santer, responsible for a highly controversial rewriting of key passages in the IPCCs 1995 report; Kevin Trenberth, who similarly controversially pushed the IPCC into scaremongering over hurricane activity; and Gavin Schmidt, right-hand man to Al Gores ally Dr James Hansen, whose own GISS record of surface temperature data is second in importance only to that of the CRU itself. [16]
Good post...thanks!
Excellent, EXCELLENT post! Thank you, and Merry Christmas to you!
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Wow. I’m having a heard time viewing the chart, but I WILL take time to read the text (when I have time!) Please keep me on your ping list. I am dismayed at the scandalous success of lies.
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