By Elmer Beauregard
I was checking out the blogoshere and the latest on Michael Mann and how he has been cleared of all wrong doing. I noticed that they are now admitting he did hide the decline, but now their saying that its no big deal.
An End to Climategate? Penn State Clears Michael Mann
Wyatt Andrews, CBS News
Tree data showing global temps going down didn't mesh with actual recorded temperatures, so pains were taken, (most of the time disclosed, but sometimes not) to use actual temp recordings and "hide the decline" from trees. Sometimes, on the so called hockey stick charts that show global temps as a flat line and then a sharp upward spike are indeed mixing tree ring data and actual temps.
The five key leaked emails from UEA's Climatic Research Unit
Fred Pearce, guardian.co.uk
Jones and Mike Mann had been adding real temperatures to the end longer graphs of temperature estimates based on tree rings. The only thing being "hidden" was tree ring data that did not match reality.
This last statement is remarkable because it shows that what is being done in the realm of "Climate Science" is not science at all but rather politics.
Science should be about finding reality not knowing reality. The reality used to be that the earth was the center of the universe until new data came along that proved otherwise.
When the tree ring data didn't "match reality" this means either the tree ring data is flawed or the temperature record is. Chopping off parts of a data set that don't match a theory and keeping the parts that do is not science, I'm sorry.
It could be both that the temperature record and tree ring data are wrong
The number of weather stations has been changing since they first came online in the mid 1800s, Their numbers peaked in the mid 1970s and have been dropping ever since, and now they are cherry picking the weather stations that show the most warming. Plus 80% of the weather stations are defective.
A lot of scientists question whether tree rings are a good record of past temperature. The tree rings data set that Michael Mann used didn't show a Medieval Warming period so he used that portion of the graph because it fit with his theory. That same chart actually shows a decline after 1960 so he chopped off that part and spliced in the flawed temperature chart.
ummm, isn't that the definition of 'fraud' and 'data manipulation'
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