ClimateGate Update
Posted November 30th, 2009 at 4:44pm in Energy and Environment 
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See ya later climate data:
“SCIENTISTS at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have admitted throwing away much of the raw temperature data on which their predictions of global warming are based.
It means that other academics are not able to check basic calculations said to show a long-term rise in temperature over the past 150 years.
The UEA’s Climatic Research Unit (CRU) was forced to reveal the loss following requests for the data under Freedom of Information legislation.”
Noel Sheppard of Newsbusters provides video and transcript of the Paul Krugman versus George Will debate on Roundtable this weekend. Here’s a quote each from Will and Krugman; one is downright laughable while the other is downright scary. We’ll let you be the judge on which is which.
From Will:
“But what I was going to say there is that the United States pledges to reduce its carbon emissions 83 percent below the 2005. That will not even be seriously attempted, and here is why. That would mean we would have total carbon emissions equal to the United States in 1910, when there were 92 million Americans. Furthermore, our per-capita carbon emissions in 2050, when he says this is going to happen, when there’s going to be 420 million Americans, would be on a per-capita basis what we had in 1875.”
From Krugman:
“There is tremendously more money in being a skeptic than there is in being a supporter. It’s so much easier, come on. You got the energy industry’s behind it. There are 20 times as many believers as there are skeptics in the scientific community. They get almost equal time in the media.”
Megan McArdle weighs in:
“The emails seem to describe a model which frequently breaks, and being constantly “tweaked” with manual interventions of dubious quality in order to make them fit the historical data. These stories suggest that the model, and the past manual interventions, are so poorly documented that CRU cannot now replicate its own past findings.
That is a big problem. The IPCC report, which is the most widely relied upon in policy circles, uses this model to estimate the costs of global warming. If those costs are unreliable, then any cost-benefit analysis is totally worthless.”
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2 Responses to “ClimateGate Update”
Freedom of Speech, TX on November 30th, 2009 at 4:44pm said:
How can our President even go to Copenhagen in light of this revelation?
I wonder if any incriminating documents are being shredded? This is not a conspiracy theory. Shredding has happened before and then some silly politician says “you have no proof”.
Ardath, New Hampshire on November 30th, 2009 at 4:44pm said:
It will be fun when someone gathers a host of the “skeptics” remarks over the last 15 or 20 years: allegations of cooked facts, manipulated data, a list of corrections that have had to be made, invalid conclusions, improperly devised models, etc. that will now be true!