[ExI] Phil Jones acknowledging that climate science isn'tsettled

[Christopher Luebcke]

I was actually looking for independently verifiable evidence of intentional forgery, not a list of accusations that anybody with a keyboard could make. I must presume that you're not actually interested in providing such, because you couldn't possibly believe that the response you gave would sway anybody who didn't already agree with your point of view.


----- Original Message ----
> From: Rafal Smigrodzki <rafal.smigrodzki at gmail.com>
> To: ExI chat list <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
> Sent: Sat, February 20, 2010 5:00:40 PM
> Subject: Re: [ExI] Phil Jones acknowledging that climate science isn'tsettled
> 
> On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 11:41 PM, Christopher Luebcke
> wrote:
> >> The core group of about 50 climate activists (The Team, as they
> >> refer to themselves), are wicked. They intentionally forged and
> >> misrepresented data to advance a preconceived position.
> >
> > I wonder if you could cite some examples of this intentional forgery?
> 
> ### Probably the most egregious ones are the use of a subset of
> treering data from the Yamal series that resulted in a spurious
> lowering of temperatures in the middle ages, the use of inverted
> graphs of sedimentation in Finnish lakes (both related to calibration
> of proxies for global temperatures before the instrumental age), and
> grafting of instrumental data on the proxy graph after 1960, done by
> the CRU team and by Michael Mann. More recently there appears to be a
> highly selective use of existing thermometer records to exclude or
> adjust upwards the rural thermometers which hides the urban heat
> island effects, and the use of a single thermometer located at an
> airport to stand for the whole continent of Antarctica (these are more
> the domain of GISS and NOAA).
> 
> Rafal
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