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Phil Jones: No Global Warming since 1995, Data disorganized, lost
2010-02-14
The academic at the centre of the 'Climategate' affair, whose raw data is crucial to the theory of climate change, has admitted that he has trouble 'keeping track' of the information.

Colleagues say that the reason Professor Phil Jones has refused Freedom of Information requests is that he may have actually lost the relevant papers.
Lost accidently on purpose, one suspects. A highly useful claim now that he's facing legal and university inquiries re: his attempts to obstruct freedom of information requests.
If he can't manage his lab properly, he should step down from the position and go back to teaching. This may keep him out of jail, but he is a disgrace to his profession.
Dog ate his homework, eh. Does the man understand just how lame that sounds?
Professor Jones told the BBC yesterday there was truth in the observations of colleagues that he lacked organisational skills, that his office was swamped with piles of paper and that his record keeping is 'not as good as it should be'.
Demote him to his level of competence, and put someone in charge who can do the science properly. Then in a decade or two we can readdress which direction the climate is headed.
The data is crucial to the famous 'hockey stick graph' used by climate change advocates to support the theory.

Professor Jones also conceded the possibility that the world was warmer in medieval times than now -- suggesting global warming may not be a man-made phenomenon.
He has to concede that, the records there, both historical and scientific, are irrefutable.
And he said that for the past 15 years there has been no 'statistically significant' warming.
How would he know? He has no data, only the faint memory of having had data, once upon a time.
Posted by:Nimble Spemble

#20  Do you mind if I burst out laughing.

Even a half witted architect could tell they were cooking the books. When you consider how everyone talked about how much warmer it was during the dinosaurs and how there was an ice age that melted as the earth warmed.

If the earth warmed and cooled millions/billions of years before Urk the caveman invented fire..how they heck could it have been a man made phenomenon?

Environazis are just communists with a different jersey color.
Posted by: Karl Rove   2010-02-14 21:19  

#19  AGW left the scientific realm a long time ago. It is more of a theology now. The true believers are never, ever going to say they were wrong no matter who says they basically pulled it all out of their @ss and, BTW, the dog ate their data, too.

I mean, c'mon. "Settled science" is their dogma, "peer review" is their priesthood, and the graphs made from data that can't be verified but must be taken on faith are all their holy scripture. Throw in mankind's original sin ~ the minute Urk the Caveman chopped down a tree and released that eeeeeevvvill carbon dioxide into the pristine atmosphere by burning it for heat ~ and you're set. Any deniers from the true faith (aka heretics) must be shouted down or ignored (excommunicated).

Just like the Catholic Church in the Middle Ages, they got a good, long run on dictating behavior (and a sizable take from the ruling classes) and they will not give it up without a fight.
Posted by: Cornsilk Blondie   2010-02-14 17:23  

#18  Maybe we should insist it's called the more accurate term "Programmer Modelling".

In the UEA's case it's extremely bad programmer modelling.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2010-02-14 17:02  

#17  Perhaps the least well understood aspect to this whole thing is that people have an irrational faith in what computers tell them.

This was first brought home to me about 15 years ago, when after many weeks of work, I finally proved the output from a large computer system was seriously wrong. When I finally unveiled my findings I expected congratulations for an impressive piece of work. What I got was emotional reactions.

I have never seen this phenomena documented anywhere, but I'm sure it was a major factor in the acceptance of the climate model's predictions, despite their increasing divergence from reality.
Posted by: phil_b   2010-02-14 16:42  

#16  I hope you read and understand this time.

Long Term prediction based on recursive models is impossible.

This is due to Exponential Error
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2010-02-14 16:11  

#15  Good one, TW
Posted by: badanov   2010-02-14 14:14  

#14  I was thinking along the lines of Physics 101-102 for Fine Arts majors, guys, not Climatology 753: long-term prediction from imaginary data sets.
Posted by: trailing wife   2010-02-14 14:13  

#13  "If he can't manage his lab properly, he should step down from the position and go back to teaching."

And allow him to devote himself to indoctrinating future generations of true believers in his global warming religion? Not a good idea.

Posted by: Dave D.   2010-02-14 13:21  

#12  Okay - why is the top climate guy a world bank "scientist".
Somehow "World Bank" and "scientist" seem to be mutually exclusive concepts...
Posted by: 3dc   2010-02-14 12:27  

#11  Another little tidbit here.
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2010-02-14 11:20  

#10  The US papers are still running interference for global warming

Probably because they're too 'understaffed' (or too lazy, stupid, etc.) to produce their own columns. Most of the AGW articles are coming from Rooters, APEE, and McClutchy
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2010-02-14 11:18  

#9  ...he should step down from the position and go back to teaching.

And teaching what?
Posted by: Willy   2010-02-14 10:48  

#8  The WaPost today was filled with half a dozen warmist columns and apologia ...

Ditto the Chicago Tribune this morning. The US papers are still running interference for global warming.
Posted by: Steve White   2010-02-14 10:48  

#7  he may have actually lost the relevant papers

No problemo. The Goracle has it all in his head.
Posted by: Matt   2010-02-14 10:25  

#6  Let me try again with that BBC link
Posted by: Nimble Spemble   2010-02-14 09:46  

#5  And the BBC is starting to hammer these guys. Watch to the very end to see the host virtually tell the expert Ph.D. that he doesn't believe him. The US media is really trailing the Brits.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble   2010-02-14 09:44  

#4  How would he know?

By looking at the actual data sets before he and his pseudo-scientific fellow travelers tampered with them. These guys would have failed high school science lab for not showing their work.
Posted by: SteveS   2010-02-14 09:38  

#3  Just denying these scoundrels what they want won't work, because, like career criminals, they will just keep trying. If one door is locked, they will try the windows. They want money and power.

Therefore, they must be removed from their positions of power, and prosecuted for fraudulently obtaining the monies they use to promulgate their schemes. Since they won't stop any other way, they have to be put in prison, just like other criminals.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2010-02-14 08:41  

#2  this was from a British paper

The WaPost today was filled with half a dozen warmist columns and apologia while the Climategate and IPCC stories have been buried or only partly reported.
Posted by: lord garth   2010-02-14 08:03  

#1  Wow! Double wow!
Posted by: phil_b   2010-02-14 07:40  

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