CLIMATEGATE--Now we know who the real "deniers" are., WILL AL GORE RETURN HIS OSCAR? Options

[twistnshout]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columni...generation.html

[allie]

The author of this piece also believes in Intelligent Design, so I believe everything he says.

[Soup]

NICE!!! I'm going to re-start my backyard tire-fire as soon as I get home now!!!! WOO HOO!!!!

[JodyThePig]

Golly, it's been a long time since twistnshout put down the poetry thread and essayed to prove that he's not falling for all those liberal bromides that hold the rest of the populace in thrall.

Has he still, as they say, got it?

Let's watch!

[Maximum Tor]

Golly, it's been a long time since twistnshout put down the poetry thread and essayed to prove that he's not falling for all those liberal bromides that hold the rest of the populace in thrall.

Has he still, as they say, got it?

Let's watch!

I think he's lost the momentum to win the title back from Dan Electro.

[tom from out of town]

next shocking revelation: Edgar Allen Poe's real killer unmasked!

[screeg neegis]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columni...generation.html

by Christopher Booker

A review of Booker's last claim to have destroyed climate science:



The power of the pen, when used irresponsibly, serves not to illuminate and progress human discourse, but to confuse and stifle it. Christopher Booker’s article does a disservice to climate skeptics and climate activists alike.
http://ecoworldly.com/2008/11/17/the-bias-...-freezing-heat/

http://conservationreport.com/2008/12/31/g...ooker-is-wrong/

How to disprove Christopher Booker in 26 seconds
Arctic ice levels above average? Perhaps the Telegraph's columnist should take just half a minute to check the facts
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/geor...cism-arctic-ice

[Maximum Tor]

next shocking revelation: Edgar Allen Poe's real killer unmasked!

Thomas Jefferson told me that the Federal Reserve had Poe killed.

[Soup]

next shocking revelation: Edgar Allen Poe's real killer unmasked!

BELI-CHEAT *

[screeg neegis]

Sunday, 22 November, 2009
What do the hacked CRU emails tell us?
....Some of the emails must be embarrassing for the authors. One email responds in poor taste to the death of a well known skeptic. There's scathing discussion of skeptics such as Steve McIntyre and Roger Pielke, including imaginings of violence.

However, the crucial question is whether these emails reveal that climate data has been falsified.

The most quoted email is from Phil Jones in 1999 discussing paleo-data used to reconstruct past temperatures (emphasis mine):

"I've just completed Mike's Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) and from 1961 for Keith's to hide the decline."


What do the suggestive "tricks" and "hiding the decline" mean? Is this evidence of a nefarious climate conspiracy?

"Mike's Nature trick" refers to the paper Global-scale temperature patterns and climate forcing over the past six centuries (Mann 1998), published in Nature by lead author Michael Mann.
http://www.elmhurst.edu/~richs/EC/FYS/Mann...iginalPaper.pdf

The "trick" is the technique of plotting recent instrumental data along with the reconstructed data. This places recent global warming trends in the context of temperature changes over longer time scales.

The "decline" refers to the "divergence problem". This is where tree ring proxies diverge from modern instrumental temperature records after 1960. The divergence problem is discussed as early as 1998, suggesting a change in the sensitivity of tree growth to temperature in recent decades (Briffa 1998).
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P...MH9H_353_65.pdf

It is also examined more recently in Wilmking 2008 which explores techniques in eliminating the divergence problem.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P...MH9H_353_65.pdf

So when you look at Phil Jone's email in the context of the science discussed, it is not the schemings of a climate conspiracy but technical discussions of data handling techniques available in the peer reviewed literature.
In the skeptic blogosphere, there is a disproportionate preoccupation with one small aspect of climate science - proxy record reconstructions of past climate (or even worse, ad hominem attacks on the scientists who perform these proxy reconstructions). This serves to distract from the physical realities currently being observed.

Humans are raising CO2 levels.

We're observing an enhanced greenhouse effect.

The planet is still accumulating heat.

What are the consequences of our climate's energy imbalance?

Sea levels rise is accelerating.

Greenland ice loss is accelerating.

Arctic ice loss is accelerating.

Globally, glacier ice loss is accelerating.

Antarctic ice loss is accelerating.

When you read through the many global warming skeptic arguments, a pattern emerges.

Each skeptic argument misleads by focusing on one small piece of the puzzle while ignoring the broader picture.

To focus on a few suggestive emails while ignoring the wealth of empirical evidence for manmade global warming is yet another repeat of this tactic.

http://www.skepticalscience.com/What-do-th...ls-tell-us.html

[Soup]

Sunday, 22 November, 2009
What do the hacked CRU emails tell us?
....Some of the emails must be embarrassing for the authors. One email responds in poor taste to the death of a well known skeptic. There's scathing discussion of skeptics such as Steve McIntyre and Roger Pielke, including imaginings of violence.

However, the crucial question is whether these emails reveal that climate data has been falsified.

The most quoted email is from Phil Jones in 1999 discussing paleo-data used to reconstruct past temperatures (emphasis mine):

"I've just completed Mike's Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) and from 1961 for Keith's to hide the decline."
What do the suggestive "tricks" and "hiding the decline" mean? Is this evidence of a nefarious climate conspiracy?

"Mike's Nature trick" refers to the paper Global-scale temperature patterns and climate forcing over the past six centuries (Mann 1998), published in Nature by lead author Michael Mann.
http://www.elmhurst.edu/~richs/EC/FYS/Mann...iginalPaper.pdf

The "trick" is the technique of plotting recent instrumental data along with the reconstructed data. This places recent global warming trends in the context of temperature changes over longer time scales.

The "decline" refers to the "divergence problem". This is where tree ring proxies diverge from modern instrumental temperature records after 1960. The divergence problem is discussed as early as 1998, suggesting a change in the sensitivity of tree growth to temperature in recent decades (Briffa 1998).
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P...MH9H_353_65.pdf

It is also examined more recently in Wilmking 2008 which explores techniques in eliminating the divergence problem.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P...MH9H_353_65.pdf

So when you look at Phil Jone's email in the context of the science discussed, it is not the schemings of a climate conspiracy but technical discussions of data handling techniques available in the peer reviewed literature.
In the skeptic blogosphere, there is a disproportionate preoccupation with one small aspect of climate science - proxy record reconstructions of past climate (or even worse, ad hominem attacks on the scientists who perform these proxy reconstructions). This serves to distract from the physical realities currently being observed.

Humans are raising CO2 levels.

We're observing an enhanced greenhouse effect.

The planet is still accumulating heat.

What are the consequences of our climate's energy imbalance?

Sea levels rise is accelerating.

Greenland ice loss is accelerating.

Arctic ice loss is accelerating.

Globally, glacier ice loss is accelerating.

Antarctic ice loss is accelerating.

When you read through the many global warming skeptic arguments, a pattern emerges.

Each skeptic argument misleads by focusing on one small piece of the puzzle while ignoring the broader picture.

To focus on a few suggestive emails while ignoring the wealth of empirical evidence for manmade global warming is yet another repeat of this tactic.

http://www.skepticalscience.com/What-do-th...ls-tell-us.html

eh...didn't even read this. I kinda figured out on my own that pumping shit into the atmosphere in massive quantities is probably not good. Where's my Nobel?

[the other dave]

In the next episode - Twistnshout debunks the "Tuck Rule"