Georgie
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...no "statistically significant" warming...
 Tue Mar 16, 2010 12:58 am
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The main man behind "Climategate" confesses the lie..., and while this is a rather conservative comment, the matter is just getting BOILING HOT...!
‘Climategate’ has taken much of the heat out of global warming argument
March 15, 2010 - John Clinkard
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The release of a series of e-mails written by scientists at the University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit (now called “Climategate”) has triggered a sharp increase in uncertainty not only about the cause of climate change (manmade or not?), but also whether the world is actually getting warmer.
With respect to this latter issue, Professor Philip Jones, who recently resigned as head of research of the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Institute – and who was the author of many of the leaked e-mails – admitted in a BBC interview that rates of global warming from 1860-1880, 1910-1940 and 1975-1998 were not statistically significant.
This indicates that the world has not suddenly become hotter.
Moreover, it was recently reported in the Wall Street Journal that “Mr. Jones told the BBC there has been no ‘statistically significant’ warming over the past 15 years, though he considers this to be temporary.”
In the wake of the Climategate e-mails, the International Panel on Climate Change admitted that its Fourth Assessment Report, published in 2007, contained the scientifically unfounded statement that the Himalayan glaciers could melt by 2035.
These developments highlight the fact that the science being used to underpin government policy aimed at cooling the planet, or at least attempting to mitigate the effects of global warming, is much less settled than many have been led to believe.
Here's the link:
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