The Great Global Warming Coverup

Or this post could be titled The Great Global Warming Scandal.  Someday the truth will be fully known how scientists, in search of research dollars manipulated data and cherry picked results in an attempt to show that there was a thing as Global Warming.  With the recent Climategate Scandal which showed researchers ignored evidence showing cooling and evidence that Ice Sheets are actually growing not shrinking the religion of Global Warming is being denigrated more everyday.  Now comes a report from the man at the center of the Climategate story admitting "There has been no warming since 1995."

The academic at the centre of the ‘Climategate’ affair, whose raw data is crucial to the theory of climate change, has admitted that he has trouble ‘keeping track’ of the information.  Colleagues say that the reason Professor Phil Jones has refused Freedom of Information requests is that he may have actually lost the relevant papers. Professor Jones told the BBC yesterday there was truth in the observations of colleagues that he lacked organizational skills, that his office was swamped with piles of paper and that his record keeping is ‘not as good as it should be’.  The data is crucial to the famous ‘hockey stick graph’ used by climate change advocates to support the theory.Professor Jones also conceded the possibility that the world was warmer in medieval times than now – suggesting global warming may not be a man-made phenomenon.  And he said that for the past 15 years there has been no ‘statistically significant’ warming.  Read the entire article here.

 At Common Cents we posted a blog titled Is a New Ice Age Coming? in December.  And of course we have regular Global Warming Updates which mock the religion of Global Warming.  Even the liberal Washington Post has a story today about the cover-up and more:

With its 2007 report declaring that the "warming of the climate system is unequivocal," the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change won a Nobel Prize -- and a new degree of public trust in the controversial science of global warming. But recent revelations about flaws in that seminal report, ranging from typos in key dates to sloppy sourcing, are undermining confidence not only in the panel's work but also in projections about climate change. Scientists who have pointed out problems in the report say the panel's methods and mistakes -- including admitting Saturday that it had overstated how much of the Netherlands was below sea level -- give doubters an opening.It wasn't the first one. There is still a scientific consensus that humans are causing climate change. But in the past year, a cache of stolen e-mails, revealing that prominent climate scientists sought to prevent the publication of works by their detractors, has sullied their image as impartial academics. The errors in the U.N. report -- a document intended to be the last nail in the coffin of climate doubt -- are a serious problem that could end up forcing environmentalists to focus more on the old question of proving that climate change is a threat, instead of the new question of how to stop it.