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| Scientist who said climate change sceptics had been proved wrong accused of hiding truth |
| 2011-10-30 |
| It was hailed as the scientific study that ended the global warming debate once and for all – the research that, in the words of its director, ‘proved you should not be a sceptic, at least not any longer’. Professor Richard Muller, of Berkeley University in California, and his colleagues from the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperatures project team (BEST) claimed to have shown that the planet has warmed by almost a degree centigrade since 1950 and is warming continually. Published last week ahead of a major United Nations climate summit in Durban, South Africa, next month, their work was cited around the world as irrefutable evidence that only the most stringent measures to reduce carbon dioxide emissions can save civilisation as we know it It was cited uncritically by, among others, reporters and commentators from the BBC, The Independent, The Guardian, The Economist and numerous media outlets in America. The Washington Post said the BEST study had ‘settled the climate change debate’ and showed that anyone who remained a sceptic was committing a ‘cynical fraud’. But today The Mail on Sunday can reveal that a leading member of Prof Muller’s team has accused him of trying to mislead the public by hiding the fact that BEST’s research shows global warming has stopped. Prof Judith Curry, who chairs the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at America’s prestigious Georgia Institute of Technology, said that Prof Muller’s claim that he has proven global warming sceptics wrong was also a ‘huge mistake’, with no scientific basis. Prof Curry is a distinguished climate researcher with more than 30 years experience and the second named co-author of the BEST project’s four research papers. Her comments, in an exclusive interview with The Mail on Sunday, seem certain to ignite a furious academic row. She said this affair had to be compared to the notorious ‘Climategate’ scandal two years ago. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #11 "No funding for YOU." |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2011-10-30 21:33 |
| #10 RENSE > {Telegraph.UK] COLLISION COURSE: THE SPACE ROCKS THAT THREATEN OUR LIVES. POst-GWOT? OWG-NWO? in protractive "Global Econ Recession/Depression"? + Lack of Govts, Perts' Consensus + Comet APOPHIS "KEYHOLE" Problematic Scenarios + other???? = 2029/2030 GUAM, EARTH-VISIBLE MOON EXPLOSIONS??? Espec iff as per BLOGGERS = iff the US can no longer afford either NASA or SPACE DEFENSE, ETC. + has to rely on OTHER WORLD POWERS FOR SAME. Iff Apophis is a "Continent-killer", the Moon is a "Planet-Killer". IFF OUR FUTURE OWG-NWO SCIENCE PERTS CANNOT AGREE ON THE APOPHIS "KEYHOLE", WILL OUR OWG-NWO GOVTS, POLITICIANS DEMAND IN OPTION [error?]THAT APOPHIS BE DE FACTO DESTROYED WID LRBMS, ETC. TO PROTECT THE EARTH, IN THE NAME OF "CERTAINTY"??? Yeah, I think so. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-10-30 21:05 |
| #9 As a witness to both the Guam/Earth-visible 1960's SIRIUS flare = CME event + others, etc. phenomenae since then. I do believe that SUN-CAUSED GWCC is broadly taking place, NOT MAN-MADE GWCC, although this is not to argue that human activities don't affect GWCC. AFAIK or remember the original SIRIUS Event + followon did only ultra-light damage or no damage to US grids - IMO, IFF THE NASA-JPL + SOLAR, SPACE PERTS ARE GOING TO BE ARGUING "PERMAMENT/INTENSIVE" GLOBAL WARMING + THAT UPCOMING "2012" OR AFTER SOLAR STORMS MAY HEAVILY/SERIOUSLY-DAMAGE-IFF-NOT-DESTROY US-WORLD GRIDS, THEN BY DEFINITION THEY ARE INFERRING SOLAR CMES THAT ARE muh much Much MUCH MUCH M-U-C-H MMMMUUUUCCCHHHH ...@ STRONGER + DESTRUCTIVE THAN SIRIUS OR LATER FLARES. IOW, FROM EARTH'S = HUMANITY'S VIEW THE SUN MAY [or may not] SEEMINGLY "EXPLODE" in "2012", etc. BUT OUR PERTS ULTIMATELY DON'T KNOW THE REALISTIC MAGNITUDE = HOW STRONG ANY FUTURE CMES WILL BE!? AFAIK again, most US-only Perts do not believe that the Sun is going into RED GIANT or EARLY RED GIANT phase - however, THE LACK OF OVERT OR PUBLIC US-WORLD CONSENSUS ON THE SCIENTIFC CAUSE(S) OF GWCC, SOLAR ANDOR MAN-MADE, CASTS DOUBT ON THAT ARGUMENT. Ditto for PEAK OIL, FOOD, WATER, ETC. RESOURCES. Test of "Globalism" + "OWG-NWO", etc. that no American = Amerikan has yet formally voted for in local andor nationwide vote - YEAH, I THINK SO! * MSM-NET = PERTS' "2012" TECH-DESTROYING SOLAR STORMS = 1960's-70's GUAM TAOTAMONAS "QUAKE HEARD/FELT THE WORLD" [Universal Quake]??? * SUN'S "DARK" "TWIN STAR" = PHOEBUS APOLLO + his Sister PHOEBUS CYNTHEIA/CINDY. D *** NGED LEFTY HIPPIE YIPPIE YUPPIE KIDS! [Shaking AM Coconut Donut angrily]. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-10-30 20:15 |
| #8 Progressives having some difficulty selling the old snake oil? |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2011-10-30 18:29 |
| #7 Go with the flow. The Vicar of Bray Syndrome. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2011-10-30 16:48 |
| #6 Why does it have to be either/or, Don Francisco? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2011-10-30 16:14 |
| #5 Religion, or grant-whoring? There's money to be made in both; the amount depending inversely on your scruples. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2011-10-30 15:27 |
| #4 Religion, or grant-whoring? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2011-10-30 14:55 |
| #3 It's Global Cooling, Population Bomb, DDT all over again. All attempts to rule citizens by their self appointed betters. |
| Posted by: Hellfish 2011-10-30 14:33 |
| #2 ...this isn't related to science at all, it's a religion. Most successful religions have checks and safeguards built in to prevent the faith from descending into the equivalent of alarmist climate hysteria. Climate Scientology does not have these defenses- ergo: "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule." (Mencken) |
| Posted by: Free Radical 2011-10-30 13:47 |
| #1 The lying involved with the warmers seems to be pathological. This sort of denial in the face of evidence makes me think that Rush is right about them, this isn't related to science at all, it's a religion. |
| Posted by: Silentbrick - Halliburton Lost Drill Bit Division 2011-10-30 12:06 |