Monday, December 07, 2009
Climategate reveals 'the most influential tree in the world' - Telegraph
If the facts speak for themselves, why would they destroy evidence that supports their claims?
If the facts speak for themselves, why not welcome an independent audit?
If Greenland was never green, why did it get named Greenland?
If there was no medieval warming, how come there's a Medieval Warming Period?
If they are for peer review, why are certain peers excluded?
For me, I believe the earth has always had warming and cooling cycles that cannot be attributed to any human causes...
If the facts speak for themselves, why not welcome an independent audit?
If Greenland was never green, why did it get named Greenland?
If there was no medieval warming, how come there's a Medieval Warming Period?
If they are for peer review, why are certain peers excluded?
For me, I believe the earth has always had warming and cooling cycles that cannot be attributed to any human causes...
In the U.K. Telegraph, Christopher Booker writes about "ClimateGate":
"To appreciate its significance, as I observed last week, it is first necessary to understand that the people these incriminating documents relate to are not just any group of scientists. Professor Philip Jones of the CRU, his colleague Dr Keith Briffa, the US computer modeller Dr Michael Mann, of 'hockey stick' fame, and several more make up a tightly-knit group who have been right at the centre of the last two reports of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). On their account, as we shall see at this week's Copenhagen conference, the world faces by far the largest bill proposed by any group of politicians in history, amounting to many trillions of dollars.
It is therefore vitally important that we should trust the methods by which these men have made their case. The supreme prize that they have been working for so long has been to establish that the world is warmer today than ever before in recorded history. To do this it has been necessary to eliminate a wealth of evidence that the world 1,000 years ago was, for entirely natural reasons, warmer than today (the so-called Medieval Warm Period)."
