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New World Order Title: Lying, cheating climate scientists caught lying, cheating again [Left-Wing LOONS!!!] Oh dear. I really didn't want my first blog post in a week to be yet another one about global bloody warming. Problem is, if those lying, cheating climate scientists will insist on going on lying and cheating what else can I do other than expose their lying and cheating? The story so far: ten days ago a self-proclaimed "sceptical" climate scientist named Professor Richard Muller of Berkeley University, California, managed to grab himself some space in the Wall Street Journal (of all places) claiming that the case for global warming scepticism was over. Thanks to research from his Berkeley Earth Surface Temperatures (BEST) project, Professor Muller stated confidently, we now know that the planet has warmed by almost one degree centigrade since 1950. What's more, he told the BBC's Today programme, there is no sign that this global warming has slowed down. Cue mass jubilation from a number of media outlets which, perhaps, ought to have known better among them, the Independent, the Guardian, The Economist and Forbes magazine. To give you an idea of their self-righteous indignation at the supposed ignorance of climate change deniers, here is the Washington Post's Eugene Robinson in full spate: Nobodys fudging the numbers. Nobodys manipulating data to win research grants, as Perry claims, or making an undue fuss over a naturally occurring warm-up, as Bachmann alleges. Contrary to what Cain says, the science is real. Problem is, Eugene, almost every word of those two paragraphs is plain wrong, and your smugness embarrassingly misplaced. As you know, I had my doubts about Muller's findings from the start. I thought it was at best disingenuous of him to pose as a "sceptic" when there is little evidence of him ever having been one. As for his argument that the BEST project confounds sceptics by proving global warming exists this was never more than a straw man. Now, though, it seems that BEST is even worse than I thought. Here is what Muller claimed on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme: But this simply isn't true. Heaven forfend that a distinguished professor from Berkeley University should actually have been caught out telling a lie direct. No, clearly what has happened here is that Professor Muller has made the kind of mistake any self-respecting climate scientist could make: gone to press with some extravagant claims without having a smidgen of evidence to support them. Here, to help the good professor out, is a chart produced by the Global Warming Policy Foundation's David Whitehouse. It was plotted from BEST's own figures. Note how the 10 year trend from 2001 to 2010 in flat contradiction of Muller's claims shows no warming whatsoever. What's odd that BEST appears to have gone to great trouble shades of "hide the decline", anyone? to disguise this inconvenient truth. Here is a graph released by BEST: The GWPF's David Whitehouse is not impressed: Muller's colleague Professor Judith Curry who besides being a BEST co-author chairs the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Americas prestigious Georgia Institute of Technology is even less impressed.
Poster Comment: You GO, Al!
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#1. To: Capitalist Eric (#0)
His contrary argument is that Muller is part of a conspiracy, Junior. There's nothing but refuted or maipulated data in your article. And you wonder why a) noone whom you frantically *PING* when I'm kicking your ass ever comes to your defense or does so tepidly and b) everyone else laughs at you?
What specifically is refuted? What specifically is manipulated?
Do bears actually talk in your neck of the woods?
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