Mar
The University of East Anglia CRU comes clean: there WAS a medieval warm period
University of East Anglia Professor Phil Jones
Finally, after all this time we start hearing the truth out of a government inquiry.
Next to him, holding a metaphorical hand, was Professor Edward Acton, his vice-chancellor, who interrupted at intervals to tell the committee what a splendid fellow Jones was and how his unit was doing magnificent work warning the world.
Acton conceded that not everything pointed in the same direction. It’s acknowledged that several hundred years ago Earth became much warmer. If we knew why, we could explain a lot. “The early medieval period is something we should spend more time researching,” he mused.
The infamous ‘hockey stick graph’ is now debunked even by those who used to worship it.
If you use a graph as evidence, then the data you used to make it up is therefore equally exposed as being faulty.
All around it was a bad day for warmism and Dr Phil Jones.
The sight of another scientist being skewered makes for painful viewing. Whatever your view on man-made global warming, you had to feel sorry for Professor Phil Jones, the man behind the leaked emails from the University of East Anglia
Feel bad? You’ve got to be kidding me.
Source: UK Guardian
We came so close to having these “Junk Scientists” force their contrived religion (AGW) upon the entire World. Unfortunately, the politicians presently in power in Washington continue to try to legislate for the reduction of CO2 emissions (Cap & Trade) since they perceive that it would be a “cash cow” for the government.
I have always laughed when they considered that terribly inefficient electric vehicles would reduce global warming. That electricity has to be produced, transmitted, stored in batteries, used in electric motors to propel these vehicles through transmission losses and friction. Each one of these steps produces waste heat with nuclear power plants being the most prodigious producers of wasted BTU’s added to the atmosphere.
I suggest they devote their efforts to planting trees since that will biochemically store some of the solar heat/energy
The temperature at the Earth’s surface = function solar irradiance plus function heat from the earth’s interior – loss of heat to outer space.
The first two functions are calculable and the third could be estimated from a satellite measuring the earth’s radiation loss into space.
What have “data sets” to do with this?
I do not actually understand what they are trying to prove by looking at relatively recent historical temperatures. It is rather like looking at past Grand Nationals and trying to predict a winner for the next.
The data trends I see support a cooling Earth and not a warming Earth.
I’m a sceptic but I do have a soft spot for Dr. Jones. He’s letting out the truth a snippet at a time, unlike the arrogant Mann and that Gavin A**hole. I want to see Congress grill Mann and Gavin until they cry like little girls — dreams do come true.
Jack I agree totally regarding Mann and that A**hole Gavin. In fact Gavin is by far the worst. He’s the Goebels of the group. But any time you feel sorry for Jones just remeber these lines…
(paraphrase)
‘Even if I have to redefine what the Peer Review litariture is….’
and regarding the death of a great Australian researcher..
‘Oddly, this is cheering news….’
I hope he dies! In pain and I am enjoying watching him grow old before my eyes!
You have Gavin pegged. Despicable, loathsome creature.
Don’t forget Jones wished for a disaster ‘to prove the science’, too.
They call it post normal, formerly known as abnormal.
John,
You’re right I was soft on Phil Jones — thanks for reminding me of those emails.
Selected publications by Dr. Acton:
* Alexander Herzen and the Role of the Intellectual Revolutionary (1979)
* Rethinking the Russian Revolution (1990)
* Russia: the Tsarist and Soviet Legacy (1995)
* Critical Companion to the Russian Revolution 1914-21 (co-ed, 1997)
* The Soviet Union: A Documentary History (2 vols, 2005, 2007)
He doesn’t have ANYTHING to do with climate science. He is NOT an authority in this issue. Your conclusions are so full of s**t it hurts to even read your mumbo jumbo.
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Whilst it is abundantly clear that Acton, like Jones and others, is struggling to defend the indefensible, I can’t find in the ‘Uncorrected Minutes’ the quote:
‘The early medieval period is something we should spend more time researching’
attributed to him.
Can anyone help?
Try here Ted
http://www.climategate.com/the-full-bbc-qa-of-phil-jones
Oooops – it wasn’t the Harrabin interview sorry.
It was reported to have been said by Acton, Jones’ Vice Chancellor, as they sat, side by side, at the UK Government inquiry.
Finally, after all this time we start hearing the truth out of a government inquiry.
“Next to him, holding a metaphorical hand, was Professor Edward Acton, his vice-chancellor, who interrupted at intervals to tell the committee what a splendid fellow Jones was and how his unit was doing magnificent work warning the world.
Acton conceded that not everything pointed in the same direction. It’s acknowledged that several hundred years ago Earth became much warmer. If we knew why, we could explain a lot. “The early medieval period is something we should spend more time researching,” he mused.”
Acton’s actual words, as reported in the HoC ‘Uncorrected Evidence’, were:
‘It is in a way the most deeply confirmed and affirmed, the major issue of a temperature graph from about 1850. The early medieval period – we should be spending more money on the research, but the latter is so overly endorsed by scientists I am puzzled that we should welcome a savouring of doubt where scientists say “but there is no doubt”.’
[http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200910/cmselect/cmsctech/uc387-i/uc38702.htm]
This rambling utterance conveys nothing to me. It will be interesting to see whether Acton offers any ‘correction’.