Hackers Leaked E-mails Stoke Climate
Debate
These leaked E-mails have exposed colusion between International
Government Sponsored Environtmental Organizations including Obama’s
climate czar in the falsifying of reporting to their
respective Governments and News Media
Services for the purpose of keeping the ferver going and keeping the money
rolling in with darker and darker future scenarios. while
all their records show temperatures stopped rising over a decade ago.
The
More than a decade of correspondence between leading British and
Some climate change skeptics and bloggers claim the information shows scientists have overstated the case for global warming, and allege the documents contain proof that some researchers have attempted to manipulate data.
The furor over the leaked data comes weeks before the U.N. climate
conference in
In one leaked e-mail, the research center's director, Phil Jones, writes to colleagues about graphs showing climate statistics over the last millennium. He alludes to a technique used by a fellow scientist to "hide the decline" in recent global temperatures. Some evidence appears to show a halt in a rise of global temperatures from about 1960, but is contradicted by other evidence which appears to show a rise in temperatures is continuing.
Jones wrote that, in compiling new data, he had "just completed Mike's Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (i.e., from 1981 onwards) and from 1961 for Keith's to hide the decline," according to a leaked e-mail, which the author confirmed was genuine.
One of the colleague referred to by Jones — Michael
Mann, a professor of meteorology at
The use of the word "trick" by Jones has been seized on by skeptics — who say his e-mail offers proof of collusion between scientists to distort evidence to support their assertion that human activity is influencing climate change.
"Words fail me," Stephen McIntyre — a blogger whose climateaudit.org Web site challenges popular thinking on climate change — wrote on the site following the leak of the messages.
However, Jones denied manipulating evidence and insisted his comment had been taken out of context. "The word 'trick' was used here colloquially, as in a clever thing to do. It is ludicrous to suggest that it refers to anything untoward," he said in a statement Saturday.
Jones did not indicate who "Keith" was in his e-mail.
Two other American scientists named in leaked e-mails — Gavin Schmidt of
NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in
The
"The selective publication of some stolen e-mails and other papers
taken out of context is mischievous and cannot be considered a genuine attempt
to engage with this issue in a responsible way," the university said in a
statement.
Associated Press Writer Meera Selva in
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