Monday, February 15, 2010

Dr. Jones admits the hockey-stick graph was crap

and that- well, hell, just take a look; lots of parts of the q&o with HUGE admissions:
There is much debate over whether the Medieval Warm Period was global in extent or not.
Whereas, before, these clowns basically said the MWP didn't exist.


[Question:] When scientists say "the debate on climate change is over", what exactly do they mean - and what don't they mean?

[Jones:]It would be supposition on my behalf to know whether all scientists who say the debate is over are saying that for the same reason. I don't believe the vast majority of climate scientists think this. This is not my view. There is still much that needs to be undertaken to reduce uncertainties, not just for the future, but for the instrumental (and especially the palaeoclimatic) past as well
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Translation: "Al, you're on your own, I won't say "The science is settled" anymore."


Ooops: I forgot a key admission. Phil Jones justifies his "hide the decline" tactics by admitting he includes tree ring proxies which are congruent with his theory and tossing out proxy series which undermine it.

Yes, I posted on this interview the other day; it just needs to be kept up as much as possible. And after having myself and others compared to Holocaust deniers for doubting AGW, it just cheers the hell out of me to bring this up again. Plus, in another example of the British press covering what our up-Obama's-ass media won't,
In an interview with The Times Robert Watson said that all the errors exposed so far in the report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) resulted in overstatements of the severity of the problem.

Professor Watson, currently chief scientific adviser to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, said that if the errors had just been innocent mistakes, as has been claimed by the current chairman, Rajendra Pachauri, some would probably have understated the impact of climate change.

...Professor Watson, who served as chairman of the IPCC from 1997-2002, said: “The mistakes all appear to have gone in the direction of making it seem like climate change is more serious by overstating the impact. That is worrying. The IPCC needs to look at this trend in the errors and ask why it happened.”

...Professor Watson has held discussions with Al Gore, the former US Vice-President, about creating a new climate research group to supplement the work of the IPCC and to help restore the credibility of climate science.

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