I remembered, among other things, a lot of the same people screaming about it screaming about the ice age we were about to start because of man-caused global cooling(and failed crops, and spread of disease, etc.). And then, when they AGW pushers do things like this:
Given star billing by the IPCC, not least for the way it appeared to eliminate the long-accepted Mediaeval Warm Period when temperatures were higher they are today, the graph became the central icon of the entire man-made global warming movement.
I knew they were largely full of crap. The Medieval Warm Period was without question; hell, they used to grow grapes and make wine(quite good wine from what I've read) in England during that period, Greenland was settled then. And yet, to make AGW 'real', they wanted the records of that to go away(preferably) or be ignored(at least). That's not good science. That's not even bad science, that's people defending a virtual religious viewpoint.
The reason why even the Guardian's George Monbiot has expressed total shock and dismay at the picture revealed by the documents is that their authors are not just any old bunch of academics. Their importance cannot be overestimated, What we are looking at here is the small group of scientists who have for years been more influential in driving the worldwide alarm over global warming than any others, not least through the role they play at the heart of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Professor Philip Jones, the CRU's director, is in charge of the two key sets of data used by the IPCC to draw up its reports. Through its link to the Hadley Centre, part of the UK Met Office, which selects most of the IPCC's key scientific contributors, his global temperature record is the most important of the four sets of temperature data on which the IPCC and governments rely – not least for their predictions that the world will warm to catastrophic levels unless trillions of dollars are spent to avert it.
Dr Jones is also a key part of the closely knit group of American and British scientists responsible for promoting that picture of world temperatures conveyed by Michael Mann's "hockey stick" graph which 10 years ago turned climate history on its head by showing that, after 1,000 years of decline, global temperatures have recently shot up to their highest level in recorded history.
I remember when that graph first came out. I also remember the stories(small ones) when some of those troublesome people wanted to see the raw data so they could work through it themselves to confirm or disprove the conclusion, and Mann having fits to prevent that; BIG warning sign(as was the way the major media refused to cover it). When a scientists refuses to release data for review, it means he's afraid someone might- or will- find something that doesn't agree with him*. Which means bad science was done.
Now we're sitting here with compromised studies that were being used to seize more control over our lives, politicians playing "The science is settled" games to try to keep going with this mess, and the people involved in this bad science still trying very hard to hide as much data as possible. And the major media, for the most part, is still trying to either ignore the story or slant it as much as possible to prevent the AGW weenies from being held to account. Just friggin' wonderful, isn't it?
*If some data has some kind of privacy or security matter attached, that can be dealt with so the data can still be properly reviewed and tested; claiming that as a reason to never release it is either a result of not thinking it through, or using that as an excuse to hide the data.
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