Thursday, August 4, 2011

You don't say!

The public seem to think that Climate Scientists are a bunch of feather-bedding, lying bastards:
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of American Adults shows that 69% say it’s at least somewhat likely that some scientists have falsified research data in order to support their own theories and beliefs, including 40% who say this is Very Likely.
Now where, oh where might they have gotten that idea?
From: Phil Jones To: ray bradley ,mann@virginia.edu, mhughes@ltrr.arizona.edu
Subject: Diagram for WMO Statement
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 13:31:15 +0000
Cc: k.briffa@uea.ac.uk,t.osborn@uea.ac.uk


 Dear Ray, Mike and Malcolm,
   Once Tim's got a diagram here we'll send that either later today or
 first thing tomorrow.
   I've just completed Mike's Nature trick of adding in the real temps
 to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) amd from
 1961 for Keith's to hide the decline. Mike's series got the annual
 land and marine values while the other two got April-Sept for NH land
 N of 20N. The latter two are real for 1999, while the estimate for 1999
 for NH combined is +0.44C wrt 61-90. The Global estimate for 1999 with
 data through Oct is +0.35C cf. 0.57 for 1998.
   Thanks for the comments, Ray.

 Cheers
 Phil
Emphasis mine.  The poll continues:
Fifty-seven percent (57%) believe there is significant disagreement within the scientific community on global warming, up five points from late 2009.

Stupid non-scientists!  Oh, wait:



I now have a list of people whose papers I won't read anymore.

Is that similar to scientists have falsified research data in order to support their own theories and beliefsp > 0.95 ...

5 comments:

Stranger said...

My granddaughter and I disassembled the "climate modeling software" that FOIA released along with the incriminating e-mails.

It looked about as professional as one of my first attempts at basic programming. But the notes were hilarious.

Stranger

Borepatch said...

Stranger, the HARRY_READ_ME.TXT file should be sufficient to change pretty much anyone's mind.

Borepatch said...

Stranger, the HARRY_READ_ME.TXT file should be sufficient to change pretty much anyone's mind.

Quizikle said...

I'm accidentally sideways in the tech side of the climate biz and I place the current state of climate "science" up there with other old science standbys like alchemy, numerology, astrology, phrenology, and tarot.
Q

Matthew said...

Just read a nice story positing that there is no "tipping point" for Arctic ice.

They got creative and went out and looked at ancient driftwood instead of picking the answer they wanted and creating a "model" to fit.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14408930

WV rougha: It's getting rougha and rougha to be a global warming alarmist.