The global-cooling cover-up
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EDITORIAL: The global-cooling cover-up
By THE WASHINGTON TIMES
The climate-gate revelations have exposed an unprecedented coordinated
attempt by academics to distort research for political ends. Anyone
interested in accurate science should be appalled at the manipulation of
data "to hide the decline [in temperature]" and deletion of e-mail
exchanges and data so as not to reveal information that would support
global-warming skeptics. These hacks are not just guilty of bad science.
In the United Kingdom, deleting e-mail messages to prevent their
disclosure from a Freedom of Information Act request is a crime.
The story has gotten worse since the global-cooling cover-up was exposed
through a treasure trove of leaked e-mails a week ago. The Climatic
Research Unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia has been incredibly
influential in the global-warming debate. The CRU claims the world's
largest temperature data set, and its research and mathematical models
form the basis of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change's (IPCC) 2007 report.
Professor Phil Jones, head of the CRU and contributing author to the
United Nation's IPCC report chapter titled "Detection of Climate Change
and Attribution of Causes," says he "accidentally" deleted some raw
temperature data used to construct the aggregate temperature data CRU
distributed. If you believe that, you're probably watching too many Al
Gore videos.
Mr. Jones is the same professor who warned that global-warming skeptics
"have been after the CRU station data for years. If they ever hear there
is a Freedom of Information Act now in the UK, I think I'll delete the
file rather than send to anyone."
Other revelations hit at the very core of the global-warming debate. The
leaked e-mails indicate that the people at the CRU can't even figure out
how their aggregate data was put together. CRU activists claimed that
they took individual temperature readings at individual stations and
averaged the information out to produce temperature readings over larger
areas. One of the leaked documents states that their aggregation
procedure "renders the station counts totally meaningless." The benefit:
"So, we can have a proper result, but only by including a load of
garbage!"
Academics around the world who have spent years working on papers using
this data must be in full panic mode. By the admission of the global-
warming theocracy's own self-appointed experts, the data they have been
using is simply "garbage."
For global-warming advocates, there is an additional problem: The
aggregated data appear to have been constructed to show an increase in
temperatures. CBS' Declan McCullagh finds that the computer code
contains programmer-written notes addressed to themselves or future
people who will be working with the program. The notes include these
revealing instructions: "Apply a VERY ARTIFICIAL correction for
decline!!" and "Low pass filtering at century and longer time scales
never gets rid of the trend - so eventually I start to scale down the
120-yr low pass time series to mimic the effect of removing/adding
longer time scales!"
The programmers apparently had to try at least a couple of adjustments
before they could get their aggregated data to show an increase in
temperatures.
Other global-warming advocates privately acknowledge what they won't
concede publicly, that temperature changes haven't been consistent with
their models. Kevin E. Trenberth, head of the Climate Analysis Section
at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and a prominent man-
made-global-warming advocate, wrote in one of the discovered e-mails:
"The fact is we can't account for the lack of warming at the moment and
it is a travesty that we can't."
Still other e-mails document how global-warming advocates tried to
silence academic journals and professors who questioned whether there is
significant man-made global warming.
We read and reread these CRU documents in stunned amazement. But rather
than investigating all the evidence of so much academic fraud and
intellectual wrongdoing, the University of East Anglia is denying there
is a problem. Professor Trevor Davies, the school's pro vice chancellor
for research, issued a defensive statement on Tuesday claiming: "The
publication of a selection of the emails and data stolen from the
Climatic Research Unit (CRU) has led to some questioning of the climate
science research published by CRU and others. There is nothing in the
stolen material which indicates that peer-reviewed publications by CRU,
and others, on the nature of global warming and related climate change
are not of the highest-quality of scientific investigation and
interpretation."
Unlike these global-warming propagandists, we expect research to be done
in the open. Scientists who refuse to share their data, who plot to
destroy information and fail to tell other scientists how their results
were calculated should be severely punished.
Frank Pittel
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The science is in and global warming has been proven to be a fraud!!
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> The science is in and global warming has been proven to be a fraud!!
Not simply a fraud, a fraud that's being used to collapse the United
States into globalist socialism.