No global warming since 1995?
Guess companies across the globe must have succeeding in curbing carbon emissions, so, kudos particularly to the Chinese and Indians for growing their economies without increasing their carbon output.
Professor Phil Jones, “whose raw data is crucial to the theory of climate change . . ., said that for the past 15 years there has been no ‘statistically significant’ warming.” Apparently, Mr. Jones organizational skills are lacking–and he has had trouble keeping track of his data:
Asked about whether he lost track of data, Professor Jones said: ‘There is some truth in that. We do have a trail of where the weather stations have come from but it’s probably not as good as it should be.
‘There’s a continual updating of the dataset. Keeping track of everything is difficult. Some countries will do lots of checking on their data then issue improved data, so it can be very difficult. We have improved but we have to improve more.’
He also agreed that there had been two periods which experienced similar warming, from 1910 to 1940 and from 1975 to 1998, but said these could be explained by natural phenomena whereas more recent warming could not.
UPDATE: Commenting on a line in the article about how this impacts the global warming debate, “The admissions will be seized on by sceptics as fresh evidence that there are serious flaws at the heart of the science of climate change and the orthodoxy that recent rises in temperature are largely man-made”, Althouse offers:
Everyone should perceive flaws! To talk about “sceptics” as the ones who will “seize” upon “evidence” of flaws is unwittingly to make global warming into a matter of religion and not science. It’s not the skeptics who look bad. “Seize” sounds willful, but science should motivate us to grab at evidence. It’s the nonskeptics who look bad.
Read the whole thing. Dunno that I agree with Ann’s interpretation here, but, as usual, she does create food for thought.
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OK, let’s forget the man-made global warming and just go with man-made climate change instead. If everybody is going to jump on picky little points like whether it is warming or cooling or whatever, we will never get around to the important stuff of saving the planet through controlling the people. Algore was right, this is too complicated for people who think rather than feel.
On another topic, I think I have discovered the slime of the rare snow snail. Hopefully, we can ban all plowing and salting of the highways until its territory is marked and preserved.
Comment by heliotrope — February 14, 2010 @ 9:56 am - February 14, 2010
I was going to post that when it broke yesterday, but I was working on my car and didn’t get around to it. Plus, it was already covered on Watts Up With That.
PS. Holy Crap! I can believe the amount of comments I’m getting at Sonicfrog.net on the Jones topic. I really touched a nerve.
Comment by Sonicfrog — February 14, 2010 @ 11:00 am - February 14, 2010
Sonic, part of it is likely that you were cited in the headlines over at Hot Air. Not quite an Instalanche, but very good nonetheless.
Comment by North Dallas Thirty — February 14, 2010 @ 12:08 pm - February 14, 2010
Holy crow. THe main global warming guy is an absent minded professor.
And we’re gonna change the world for this guy? Come on.
Comment by Gene in Pennsylvania — February 14, 2010 @ 1:53 pm - February 14, 2010
Sonic, you were also linked on Instapundit! Congrats!
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American Power tracked-back with, ‘Phil ‘Hide the Decline’ Jones Admits Faked Data’.
Comment by Americaneocon — February 14, 2010 @ 2:30 pm - February 14, 2010
Funny story. Go get all the FREE carbon offsets you want:
http://www.freecarbonoffsets.com
I got 14 billion.
Comment by Horton — February 14, 2010 @ 11:25 pm - February 14, 2010
reposted:
Ha ha ha
It seems you Althouse and Glen are duped by the lies of the daily mail:
http://initforthegold.blogspot.com/2010/02/journalism.html
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/35781_The_Daily_Mails_Latest_Lie_About_Climate_Change
Phil Jones waits for your apology
Comment by gillie — February 15, 2010 @ 12:14 am - February 15, 2010
Global Warming and Climate Change is the biggest environmental issue that we face these days. the long term effects of these environmental changes to a nations economy is quite damaging. there would be a shortage in food supply as well as on water supply too.
Comment by Alicia Meyer — February 15, 2010 @ 12:51 am - February 15, 2010
It seems you Althouse and Glen are duped by the lies of the daily mail:
Or, more precisely, gillie, your belief in global warming allows you to ignore obvious scientific flaws and spin for people who simply lied.
We don’t expect you and your fellow cultists to be honest, gillie. You don’t understand science, and you certainly aren’t able to make intelligent comments, so there’s no way you could do anything other than repeat the leftist talking points you cited that lack any scientific basis or proof.
Comment by North Dallas Thirty — February 15, 2010 @ 2:25 am - February 15, 2010
so, gillie, you offer two link, one to an article quoting the other and neither addresses all the points raised in the two articles I linked, both in this post and in the prior one (you know, the one where I referenced the Daily Mail piece)
Comment by B. Daniel Blatt — February 15, 2010 @ 3:27 am - February 15, 2010
Poor gillie,
I understand it’s hard when your faith is challenged by science, but stand strong!
Jews and Christians have for thousands of years and are often valdiated, much to our amusement and your consternation.
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No. It’s not. Safe drinking water is MUCH MORE VITAL immediate environmental problem than global warming. Not having enough water to grow crops and provide drinking water to small cities because the government restricts its flow due to a little threatened non-native fishy, decreasing produce production, is a much greater problem than global warming. And these things are happening NOW. They are real, and not exaggerations, lies, or some wet dream scenario created by computer models that serve only to give environmental extremists more power over our everyday lives. That is why this commercial was so unpopular; because it reflected the truth of what the environmental movement has become.
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