The Radical Right can go bite tacks.
Yes, I know that makes no sense whatsoever.
I went online and looked into Climategate (not really, it was just something that popped up on Youtube). It turns out that of about 13 years of emails, there are exactly two passages that the media honed in on:
“I’ve just completed Mike’s Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series to the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) and from 1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline.”
and
“We can’t account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can’t.”
So either these are the most noticeable frauds, or these are the only frauds and this entire story is a giant load of bovine feces. As it turns out, both “evidences” can easily be explained as the aforementioned bovine feces.
For the first one, it turns out that the “Nature trick” doesn’t refer to fraud, but to a technique, as in “Substitution is a great trick for solving systems of equations.”
Also, the decline mentioned is actually the apparent decline in temperatures shown by tree rings. The issue that the quote is from is whether or not tree rings should be used as a guide for constructing temperature models from before the industrial evolution, as they are known to vary with temperature but are also unreliable.
The only potential problem here is the word “hide,” which might indicate fudging, but regardless of what it reflects, it will have no effect on the veracity of global warming itself.
The second quote is only talking about the past one or two years, and it is common knowledge among scientists that the Earth has cooled slightly over the past few years due to the influence of an eleven-year cycle, at the nadir of which the Earth’s temperature drops from the factors responsible for El Nino/La Nina. In fact, the given quote actually appears in multiple emails, from different climatologists, who disagree with this claim, made by another climatologist, Tremberth.
In fact, Tremberth wasn’t expressing this privately; he even wrote a paper - and was kind enough to provide a link to it - expressing these same doubts. Additionally, this is his personal opinion, not that of the scientific community.
And let’s face it, this entire story violates common sense. Remember the 9/11 “conspiracy”? The fact was then that for the President, Congress, the military, the firefighters, the state of New York, the police, the construction crew, the salvages, the bloggers, the political hopefuls and all the families to be coerced or convinced into such a conspiracy would be completely ludicrous.
Likewise, which of these three scenarios seems the least likely?
The right-wing news stations are perpetuating a story without fact-checking, as they have been known to do?
The hackers faked a few thousand emails?
The entire scientific community, in unison, faked millions of data points across twenty years, keeping them consistent with each other and cross-referencing them so that they tell a story completely contrary to reality?
Yeah, that’s what I thought.
For an internet blogger, or a layman to spread this story without looking too far into it is understandable thanks to the daily grind, but for a news station? Especially Fox News, one of the largest in America? I wouldn’t say it’s preposterous, but at the very least, it demonstrates horrible reporting, inconsistency, reckless disregard, and pure incompetence. At worst, it is lying, propoganda, and fraud.
Dangit Fox.
-T
December 29th, 2009 at 3:51 am
По моему у Вас украли эту статью и поместили на другом сайте. Я её уже видела.
December 29th, 2009 at 4:51 am
забрала в цитатник, спасибо!
December 29th, 2009 at 7:44 am
Сенкс, очень полезная информация.
December 29th, 2009 at 10:57 am
“Прямо даже не верится”
December 29th, 2009 at 1:17 pm
Красота, особенно первая фотка
December 29th, 2009 at 2:00 pm
Отличный пост, прочитав несколько статей на эту тему понял, что всё таки не посмотрел с другой стороны, а пост как-то очень заинтересовал.
December 29th, 2009 at 5:13 pm
Отличная работа!
January 4th, 2010 at 4:31 am
“мысли здравые, но тяжело читать, не знаю почему”
January 4th, 2010 at 1:27 pm
их больше было О_о
January 4th, 2010 at 3:45 pm
“таааакс, что тут еще интересненького пишут?”
January 4th, 2010 at 8:15 pm
Спасибо! У Вас часто замечательные посты! Прямо с утра поднимаете настроение.
January 4th, 2010 at 9:38 pm
Поставка приборов украинского и российского производства. Инфракрасные настенные обогреватели, электрические обогреватели, алкотестеры, газонализаторы, дымомеры, газосигнализаторы. термостаты. Поставка во все регионы Украины и РФ. Безналичный расчет
January 4th, 2010 at 11:46 pm
“решил помочь и разослал пост в соц. закладки. надеюсь поднимется популярность”
January 5th, 2010 at 3:56 am
Делать добро дуракам - все равно что подливать воду в море. - М. Сервантес
January 5th, 2010 at 4:28 am
Автор, а вы из какого города ?
January 5th, 2010 at 9:23 am
их больше было О_о
January 5th, 2010 at 9:43 am
Когда все думают одинаково, не думает никто. У.Липпманн
January 5th, 2010 at 1:16 pm
ммм)) так клёво))
January 5th, 2010 at 7:35 pm
Понравилась статья. Обязательно буду ждать продолжения. Эта тема конечно же интересна всем.
January 5th, 2010 at 10:52 pm
А что вы тут панику подняли? Я вот полностью согласен с автором! Кстати с наступившем Вас!
January 6th, 2010 at 9:04 am
Вот решил вам немного помочь и послал этот пост в социальные закладки. Очень надеюсь ваш рейтинг возрастет.
January 6th, 2010 at 2:36 pm
a chto takoe molocnik?
January 6th, 2010 at 11:45 pm
Большое спасибо! Есть ещё повод получить удовольствие… С вашего разрешения, беру.
January 7th, 2010 at 8:30 am
Пост в закладки
January 7th, 2010 at 12:53 pm
Вот решил вам немного помочь и послал этот пост в социальные закладки. Очень надеюсь ваш рейтинг возрастет.
January 8th, 2010 at 5:16 am
круто..взяла почти все))
January 8th, 2010 at 9:24 am
“Мне очень помогали ваши записи”
January 8th, 2010 at 5:57 pm
Прикольно))
January 8th, 2010 at 9:39 pm
ммм)) так клёво))
January 9th, 2010 at 1:16 am
Невероятно красиво!
January 9th, 2010 at 4:01 pm
Попытайтесь, пробуйте, и все у вас получится!
January 9th, 2010 at 7:31 pm
мда… это тебе не рио дежанейро… круто…кстати когда постишь инфу пиши первоисточник
January 10th, 2010 at 3:59 am
Очень интересно!!! Только не очень могу понять как часто обновляется ваш блог?
January 12th, 2010 at 2:36 pm
очень занимательно было почитать
January 12th, 2010 at 8:31 pm
Очень даже замечательно. В особенности первое.
January 13th, 2010 at 2:59 am
Информация бесспорно интересная. Уверен что любой читатель не сможет остаться равнодушным к тексту
January 13th, 2010 at 5:52 am
Поставка приборов украинского и российского производства. Инфракрасные настенные обогреватели, электрические обогреватели, алкотестеры, газонализаторы, дымомеры, газосигнализаторы. термостаты. Поставка во все регионы Украины и РФ. Безналичный расчет
January 13th, 2010 at 2:30 pm
“Прямо даже не верится”
January 13th, 2010 at 7:30 pm
С чистым юмором.
January 13th, 2010 at 10:15 pm
Огромное человеческое спасбо!
January 14th, 2010 at 4:03 am
Спасибо аффтару за хороший пост. Полностью прочел, почерпнул много ценного для себя.
January 15th, 2010 at 4:22 pm
…
Хм.. …
January 18th, 2010 at 11:09 am
…
Спс …
January 19th, 2010 at 12:00 am
Классно всё: и картинка ,и информация
January 21st, 2010 at 12:50 pm
“Спасибо за такой пост”
February 15th, 2010 at 8:29 am
March 10th, 2010 at 1:07 am
I would appreciate more visual materials, to make your blog more attractive, but your writing style really compensates it. But there is always place for improvement