Kulapavana 0 Report post Posted July 21, 2004 Source: mélaiephilllips.com Published: July 21, 2004 Author: Melanie Phillips. As readers of this website will know, there is copious evidence showing that the 'man-made global warming' theory is no more than a global scam. Now, however, the theory is in serious trouble. A key tenet on which the entire theory is based has just been blown into the stratosphere. This is the so-called 'hockey-stick' image, created by Michael Mann of the University of Virginia and Phil Jones of the University of East Anglia, which purportedly shows a 700-year period where temperatures remained relatively constant followed by the last 100-plus years where temperatures have shot upwards. This image was crucial to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's political conclusion that global warming was happening and that human activities were responsible. But now, no fewer than five separate studies have concluded that Mann and Jones's calculations were fatally flawed. The findings of these studies, reported by the National Centre for Policy Analysis, are devastating. Not only did Mann and Jones manage to miss both the Medieval Warm Period and the Little Ice Age -- a bit of a slip, that, to miss a mere 850 years out of 1700 -- periods which indicated both that the world was once a lot warmer than it is now, and that any warming taking place over the past century is hardly surprising since it followed the Little Ice Age. They also 'unjustifiably truncated or extrapolated trends from source data, used obsolete data, made incorrect calculations, and associated data sets with incorrect geographical locations' and had further 'methodological problems' including unjustifiably excluding bore-hole data which was described as 'just bad science' and a 'selective and inappropriate presentation' of results, not to mention 'incorrect representation of longer-term trends' and fatal errors in all three components of their temperature reconstruction. In other words, as the NCPA author David Legates concludes, the primary assessment used by the IPCC appears to be 'more junk science than solid evidence'. The 'research' on which the whole global warming theory has been based is, in short, utter, unscientific tripe. Nevertheless, Sir David King, the UK's Chief Scientific Adviser, has been making ever more bizarre claims. The Guardian reported a few days ago: 'There is more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere than for 55m years, enough to melt all the ice on the planet and submerge cities like London, New York and New Orleans, Sir David King, the government's chief scientific adviser has warned..."We are moving from a warm period into the first hot period that man has ever experienced since he walked on the planet." ' Has Sir David too, perhaps, managed to miss the Medieval Warm Period? Shouldn't someone do him a kindness and slip the NCPA analysis into his in-tray? Man-made global warming was the great scientific fraud of the last century. When this eventually sinks in, the way in which certain eminent scientists allowed themselves to be duped will surely take its place among the infamous pseudo-scientific scandals of history. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
