[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif][FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]Lying, Cheating Climate Scientists Caught Lying, Cheating Again[/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]The story so far: ten days ago a self-proclaimed "sceptical" climate scientist named Professor Richard Muller of Berkeley University, California, managed to grab himself some space in the Wall Street Journal (of all places) claiming that the case for global warming scepticism was over. Thanks to research from his Berkeley Earth Surface Temperatures (BEST) project, Professor Muller stated confidently, we now know that the planet has warmed by almost one degree centigrade since 1950. What's more, he told the BBC's Today programme, there is no sign that this global warming has slowed down.[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]Cue mass jubilation from a number of media outlets which, perhaps, ought to have known better ? among them, the Independent, the Guardian, The Economist and Forbes magazine. To give you an idea of their self-righteous indignation at the supposed ignorance of climate change deniers, here is the Washington Post's Eugene Robinson in full spate:[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]As you know, I had my doubts about Muller's findings from the start. I thought it was at best disingenuous of him to pose as a "sceptic" when there is little evidence of him ever having been one. As for his argument that the BEST project confounds sceptics by proving global warming exists ? this was never more than a straw man.[/FONT]
[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif][FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]by James Delingpole[/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif][FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]Daily Telegraph[/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]Oh dear. I really didn't want my first blog post in a week to be yet another one about global bloody warming. Problem is, if those lying, cheating climate scientists will insist on going on lying and cheating what else can I do other than expose their lying and cheating?[/FONT][FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif][FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]Daily Telegraph[/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]The story so far: ten days ago a self-proclaimed "sceptical" climate scientist named Professor Richard Muller of Berkeley University, California, managed to grab himself some space in the Wall Street Journal (of all places) claiming that the case for global warming scepticism was over. Thanks to research from his Berkeley Earth Surface Temperatures (BEST) project, Professor Muller stated confidently, we now know that the planet has warmed by almost one degree centigrade since 1950. What's more, he told the BBC's Today programme, there is no sign that this global warming has slowed down.[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]Cue mass jubilation from a number of media outlets which, perhaps, ought to have known better ? among them, the Independent, the Guardian, The Economist and Forbes magazine. To give you an idea of their self-righteous indignation at the supposed ignorance of climate change deniers, here is the Washington Post's Eugene Robinson in full spate:[/FONT]
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</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>[FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]We know that the rise in temperatures over the past five decades is abrupt and very large. We know it is consistent with models developed by other climate researchers that posit greenhouse gas emissions ? the burning of fossil fuels by humans ? as the cause. And now we know, thanks to Muller, that those other scientists have been both careful and honorable in their work.[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]Nobody?s fudging the numbers. Nobody?s manipulating data to win research grants, as Perry claims, or making an undue fuss over a ?naturally occurring? warm-up, as Bachmann alleges. Contrary to what Cain says, the science is real.[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]Problem is, Eugene, almost every word of those two paragraphs is plain wrong, and your smugness embarrassingly misplaced.[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]Nobody?s fudging the numbers. Nobody?s manipulating data to win research grants, as Perry claims, or making an undue fuss over a ?naturally occurring? warm-up, as Bachmann alleges. Contrary to what Cain says, the science is real.[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]As you know, I had my doubts about Muller's findings from the start. I thought it was at best disingenuous of him to pose as a "sceptic" when there is little evidence of him ever having been one. As for his argument that the BEST project confounds sceptics by proving global warming exists ? this was never more than a straw man.[/FONT]
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