Coppcock please take note ...
January 09, 2008
An email from David Whitehouse [david@davidwhitehouse.com]:
Here is a good example of how to 'interpret' scientific data. I can't
help
thinking that the public has been fed the most outrageous spin - not by
politicians but by scientists who should know better, but hey, this is
global warming and the UK's Met Office is seeing what it wants to see.
It's just released the 2007 global temperature figures and its forecast
for
2008. 2007 it says was a top ten year but it's what it doesn't say in
the
main part of the press release (usually the only part that is read by
journalists) that is alarming. Look further down the press release and
you
will see, tucked away in a list of notes to editors the admission that
2007
was, temperature wise, the same as 2006 and every year since 2001 - it
admits there has been no global warming for 7 years!
But how does that square with the comment by Prof Phil Jones, Director
of
the Climatic Research Institute of the University of East Anglia, who
produced the figures, "The fact that 2008 is forecast to be cooler than
any
of the last 7 years (and that 2007 did not break the record that was set
in
1998) doesn't mean that global warming has gone away. What matters is
the
underlying rate of warming."
That is misleading. The data obviously suggests that for the past 7
years at
least global warming has gone away. Of course the past decade has been
warmer than previous decades but the recent decade's underlying rate of
warming, the parameter by which Prof Jones sets so much store, is ZERO.
No
global warming. Anyone can see that if they look at the figures.
The press release put out by the Met Office, and swallowed by many media
outlets, including the BBC, misrepresents the data of global warming.
The
public are not being given the whole truth.
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Regards
Bonzo
"If the atmosphere was a 100 story building, our annual anthropogenic
CO2
contribution today would be equivalent to the linoleum on the first
floor"
D'Aleo
"...and I think future generations are not going to blame us for
anything except for being silly, for letting a few tenths of a degree
panic us"
Dr. Richard Lindzen, Professor of Meteorology MIT and Member of the
National Academy of Sciences
"What most commentators-and many scientists-seem to miss is that the
only thing we can say with certainly about climate is that it changes"
Dr. Richard Lindzen
[most of the current alarm over climate change is based on] "inherently
untrustworthy climate models, similar to those that cannot accurately
forecast the weather a week from now." Dr. Richard Lindzen
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