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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.

Fascinating habit those brits have. Here in The States, journalism has taken a severe beating over the last thirty years…mostly in the last two…but the people who pass as “reporters” and “editors,” I think, would at least wait for something to happen, inevitable as it may be, before reporting that it happened.

This skeptic is here to fulfill the prophecy. What’re we talking about?

The academic at the centre of the ‘Climategate’ affair, whose raw data is crucial to the theory of climate change, has admitted that he has trouble ‘keeping track’ of the information.

Colleagues say that the reason Professor Phil Jones has refused Freedom of Information requests is that he may have actually lost the relevant papers.

Professor Jones told the BBC yesterday there was truth in the observations of colleagues that he lacked organisational skills, that his office was swamped with piles of paper and that his record keeping is ‘not as good as it should be’.

Yeah okay, I have a lot of trouble condemning anybody for that. I’m sitting in here in my underwear on the couch, with a mini-netbook on my lap staring at a coffee table with a big stack of bills, some paid & some not, staring back at me and getting ready to tip over. With Netflix envelopes and NRA brochures kind of sprinkled into the mix.

But that isn’t the most impressive of the admissions. Keep reading…

The data is crucial to the famous ‘hockey stick graph’ used by climate change advocates to support the theory.

Professor Jones also conceded the possibility that the world was warmer in medieval times than now – suggesting global warming may not be a man-made phenomenon.

And he said that for the past 15 years there has been no ‘statistically significant’ warming. [emphasis mine]

Trillion…dollar…rip-off.

Is this even still an issue anymore? I mean, aside from the natural momentum an object of such incredible inertia will naturally possess…in the form of the vestigial chattering engaged by the intellectually vapid who can’t quite manage to keep up on things.

Once that dies down, this will all go away right? We’re done?

I mean seriously, if this doesn’t draw it all to a close, then what would?

What would bring this to a close would be prosecutions, jail time, humiliation, and quite possibly a couple of lynchings. Otherwise, it will just flare up again once the heat’s off. Pun optional.
- chunt31854 | 02/15/2010 @ 09:05
I like that. Jail time for Al Gore, Michael Mann and Phil Jones. Everyone else gets off with a warning. Great line in Rob Roy: “There’s a price for being a leader of men, Tam.” The line is spoken by the titular character, to a cattle thief, who is writhing around at the end of a blade stuck through his chest some thirty seconds later.

Going forward, we invoke Sharia law — this has the side benefit of further substantiating that the War on Terror is not a war against muslims. Global warming is a scam. Scams are theft. The penalty for theft is the removal of a hand. Pull this crap on us again, you lose a hand. Unless you’re one of the “useful idiots” who doesn’t stand to make any money off of it, in which case we go Puritan and slap you in old-fashioned wooden stocks in the village square for a day-long pelting with rotten vegetables.

You inspire me, chunt31854.
- mkfreeberg | 02/15/2010 @ 11:39
Exactly. This MMGW theory – like Darwinian evolution, communism, and every other discredited pile of crap out there – will always have its die-hard adherents who insist that the support for their side is “overwhelming,” that there is a “broad scientific consensus,” and that “urgent action” is needed.

The day this story about Phil Jones ran, I sat through one of the most ridiculous television programs I’ve seen in a long time. This was at work, mind you, where I do not have control of what’s on. It was a list of ten doomsday scenarios ranked in order of their actual livelihood – gamma ray burst, wandering black hole, asteroid impact, AI turning on humanity, disease outbreaks (think H1N1) and finally….

You guessed it. “Climate change.” The program then proceeded to put Al Gore on as a celebrity expert, never mind that the guy is a windbag and stands to personally make millions trading carbon credits if the MMGW crap gains more serious traction. They also cited the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which discredited itself by announcing its conclusions even before doing the research. In short, they recited every half-truth, out-of-context fact, and bald-faced lie told about global warming over the last ten-odd years.

I cannot recall the last time I heard that much bullshit in a single hour of television. Excepting maybe the combined hour of Jon Stewart-Steven Colbert on Comedy Central.
- cylarz | 02/18/2010 @ 01:11

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