Phil Jones, the British scientists at the center of the “climategate” controversy made a number of stunning admissions to the BBC yesterday. Among the admissions were that the data supporting the ‘hockey stick graph’ are missing, the Medieval Warming Period might have been warmer than the current period, and there has been no statistically significant warming for 15 years.
He further admitted that in the last 15 years there had been no ‘statistically significant’ warming, although he argued this was a blip rather than the long-term trend.
And he said that the debate over whether the world could have been even warmer than now during the medieval period, when there is evidence of high temperatures in northern countries, was far from settled.
Sceptics believe there is strong evidence that the world was warmer between about 800 and 1300 AD than now because of evidence of high temperatures in northern countries.
But climate change advocates have dismissed this as false or only applying to the northern part of the world.
Professor Jones departed from this consensus when he said: ‘There is much debate over whether the Medieval Warm Period was global in extent or not. The MWP is most clearly expressed in parts of North America, the North Atlantic and Europe and parts of Asia.
‘For it to be global in extent, the MWP would need to be seen clearly in more records from the tropical regions and the Southern hemisphere. There are very few palaeoclimatic records for these latter two regions.
‘Of course, if the MWP was shown to be global in extent and as warm or warmer than today, then obviously the late 20th Century warmth would not be unprecedented. On the other hand, if the MWP was global, but was less warm than today, then the current warmth would be unprecedented.’
Sceptics said this was the first time a senior scientist working with the IPCC had admitted to the possibility that the Medieval Warming Period could have been global, and therefore the world could have been hotter then than now.
I’m sure these admissions will do nothing to cause the true believers to waver but the idea that man-made global warming is settled science is clearly not the case. There were no SUVs in Medieval times and there were no evil Americans around to screw up the planet.
We’ve been told that capitalism is to blame and we can’t drive SUVs and eat what we want in order to stop the global warming menace. We’ve been told that to question the “settled science” of global warming makes you on par with Holocaust deniers and a traitor. Oh, and if about 6.7 billion of you people would just die, the planet could be saved.
Heck, we’ve been told we shouldn’t use more than one sheet of toilet paper. All because of global warming that hasn’t been happening.
Nothing will change. The accolades for Al Gore will continue, ridiculous proposals like cap and trade will continue to be treated seriously, and kids will forever be pawns of the climate change zealots because their stupid parents can’t be trusted to save the planet. Of course it’s Republicans who twist science for political purposes, not the proponents of global warming. They have our best interests at heart. Right.
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