Sunday, December 13, 2009

AP Climategate Graywash

Well the most trustworthy of all news media services has weighed in on all the CRU emails. The headline says it all I think - Report says hacked emails don't disprove climate change. Or maybe not.

This article admits that the scientists involved have displayed poor judgement in how they expressed themselves. Though the part I love in their portrait of these put upon scientists valiantly putting up the good fight is this -

The scientists were keenly aware of how their work would be viewed and used, and, just like politicians, went to great pains to shape their message.

When scientists shade their message to conform to some preconceived notion, its not science. Instead it's hucksterism pure and simple. They are trying to pull a fast one over everyone else.

And to prove how above aboard this piece is, well one of the AP writers admits they are part of the email trail from the CRU files. You will find this admission way at the bottom. Nice.

9 comments:

  1. Frankly this was one of the worst reportage of science and statistics i have ever seen. The author, who does not seem to have taken courses in either, nor logic, has misunderstood the entire problem. It is not so much that the base or actual measure is unavailable (this this the evidence that CRU sought to deny others, but that since 1961 the tree rings that they thought evidenced global warming until that date actually shrunk and became denser. Under their hypotheses that theorized the temperatures of the previous 2,000 years this meant that the world was cooling. Now a normal person would suppose that the supposition should be reversed: that large, nondense tree rings mean that the past was warmer. But not these clowns. They just threw the tree ring proxies under the bus when convenient. Actually the use of tree rings as a temperature proxy is absurd. While seemingly a measure of something, it is not a measure of temperature.

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  2. http://deathby1000papercuts.com/2009/12/ap-verdict-climategate-sham-experts-biased-ties-to-climate-change-global-warming/

    A piece on the loony reporter.

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  5. Very valid analysis there Pat. And it seems people are dying in Europe due to severe cold weather. Things do not add up which means AlGore and his cultists will be screaming more loudly while awaiting a snake to be born from a chicken egg.


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