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Disappearing the Medieval Warm Period in Wikipedia

“If a consensus of the majority is all it takes to determine what is right, then having and controlling information becomes extraordinarily important.” – Masamune Shirow Financial Post – Wikipedia’s climate doctor: All told, (U.K. scientist and Green Party activist … Continue reading

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Send that climate data to the Siberian gulag

WattsUpWithThat – Russian IEA claims CRU tampered with climate data – cherrypicked warmest stations: Climategate has already affected Russia. On Tuesday, the Moscow-based Institute of Economic Analysis (IEA) issued a report claiming that the Hadley Center for Climate Change based … Continue reading

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Vee haf vayz of making zee climate data talk, yah?

Pajamas Media – Climategate: Something’s Rotten in Denmark … and East Anglia, Asheville, and New York City: In this story, see how Central Park data was manipulated in inconsistent ways. The original U.S. Historical Climate Network (USHCN) data showed a … Continue reading

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Tales from the Climategate File

IPCC hid the decline by hiding part of their graph: Steve Schnieder claims the IPCC didn’t use the now-discredited hockey stick as part of the evidence for the IPCC report. Roger Pielke corrects him. Inconvenient truth for Al Gore as … Continue reading

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Lord Monckton schools a Greenpeace warming activist

So good. He corrects her on temperature changes over the last decade (down, rather than up), sea ice changes (not changing significantly), and Atlantic hurricanes (decreasing, not increasing).

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Torturing (I mean “homogenizing”) Nashville’s climate data

WattsUpWithThat – Would You Like Your Temperature Data Homogenized, or Pasteurized? So what would appear to be a general cooling trend over the past ~130 years at this location when using the unadjusted HadCRUT3 data, becomes a warming trend when … Continue reading

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If you torture climate data it tells you whatever you want

WattsUpWithThat – The Smoking Gun At Darwin Zero: YIKES! Before getting homogenized, temperatures in Darwin were falling at 0.7 Celcius per century … but after the homogenization, they were warming at 1.2 Celcius per century. And the adjustment that they … Continue reading

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Follow the global warming money

WattsUpWithThat – Quote of the week – Krugman’s LOL on skeptics: Noel Sheppard writes: Skeptics get almost equal time in the media? Yeah, that’s why this appears to be the first time ABC addressed this ClimateGate issue. As for there … Continue reading

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Climategate: Phil Jones admits post-1998 cooling trend

iTulip: From: Phil Jones To: John Christy Subject: This and that Date: Tue Jul 5 15:51:55 2005 The scientific community would come down on me in no uncertain terms if I said the world had cooled from 1998. OK it … Continue reading

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Jonathan Adler on science and public policy

Jonathan Adler – “‘We’re the Experts, Trust Us,’ Has Clearly Gone by the Wayside”: The effort to compile an “official” scientific “consensus” into a single document, approved by governments, has exacerbated the pressures to politicize policy-relevant science.  So too has … Continue reading

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CimateGate: 2006 WSJ story on Michael Mann’s clique

Wall Street Journal – Hockey Stick Hokum: In addition to debunking the hockey stick, Mr. Wegman goes a step further in his report, attempting to answer why Mr. Mann’s mistakes were not exposed by his fellow climatologists. Instead, it fell … Continue reading

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BBC had ClimateGate files for a month, didn’t publish them (UPDATED)

Ace of Spades – Of Course: ClimateGate File Was Leaked to BBC In October… And Of Course They Failed to Report Their Scoop. The question now is why the files weren’t published. Did the reporter who received the files sit … Continue reading

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Media losing faith in global warming?

So says Tim Blair, quoting Marc Marano. “We have reached the ‘tipping point.’ 2009 can now be officially declared the year the media lost their faith in man-made global warming fears.” And from The Daily Mail, Whatever happened to global … Continue reading

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“What happened to global warming?”

BBC – What happened to global warming?: This headline may come as a bit of a surprise, so too might that fact that the warmest year recorded globally was not in 2008 or 2007, but in 1998. But it is … Continue reading

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North Pole ice was completely melted March 17

March 17, 1954, that is. “Bastardi used this photograph of a U.S. submarine at the North Pole on March 17, 1954 to illustrate his point that Arctic ice can be highly variable.”

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More evidence backing solar-based global warming/cooling

Reason – Sunspots Do Really Affect Weather Patterns, Say Scientists: A new study in the journal Science by a team of international of researchers led by the National Center for Atmospheric Research have found that the sunspot cycle has a … Continue reading

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