Global warming? Not in the last fifteen years.

The concession of this fact by one of the leading advocates of the theory of manmade climate change is the latest development in the rocky post-Climategate world.

Prof. Phil Jones, the former director of the Climate Research Unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia, was among the scientists who was embarrassed by the Climategate revelations.

In the aftermath of Climategate, Jones stood as one of the individuals at the very nexus of the scandal.

As scientists and independent journalists began to demand the data to verify claims of anthropogenic global warming, Jones and the CRU found themselves at the center of undesired attention as it became clear that a release of all the original data would not be forthcoming.

Actually, it turned out that the CRU destroyed much of the original data. As the Times of London reported,

   The data were gathered from weather stations around the world and then adjusted to take account of variables in the way they were collected. The revised figures were kept, but the originals — stored on paper and magnetic tape — were dumped to save space when the CRU moved to a new building.
    The admission follows the leaking of a thousand private emails sent and received by Professor Phil Jones, the CRU’s director. In them he discusses thwarting climate sceptics seeking access to such data.
    In a statement on its website, the CRU said: “We do not hold the original raw data but only the value-added (quality controlled and homogenised) data.”

At one point, Jones claimed that some climate data could not be released for independent scientific verification because of “confidentiality agreements”—meanwhile claiming that he could not remember with which governments such agreements had been made.

Now, Prof. Jones is blaming his poor record keeping for the troubles, and is conceding that the past fifteen years have shown no sign of climate change. According to a Daily Mail report:

   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 organisational 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.

The notion that the nations of the world gathered in Copenhagen in December of last year to consider treaties which would have fundamentally altered the global economy, and could have ended national sovereignty in any meaningful sense of the term, on account of the contended theory of manmade global warming is unbelievable enough. To now learn that such inexcusable sloppiness regarding the handling of the alleged data which is being invoked to support such actions strains credulity.

The fiasco known at the "climate change theory" ought to call into question the presumptions of elements of the scientific community which have become accustomed to delivering pronouncements from on high. Credentials are no substitute for science, and the assertion of a theory does not establish that theory as fact.

Photo of UN's climate chief Yvo de Boer: AP Images

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Elmer said:

The issue is settled. The debate is over. AGW is fantasy. 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. "possibility that the world was warmer in medieval times"??? It isn't a possibility... it's a fact! "suggesting global warming may not be a man-made phenomenon." I think you could be a little more specific than that. There is no way in hades that global warming is man made. In fact, by Jones' own admission, there is not and has not been any "global warming" for the last fifteen years! Hey! Gore and you pseudo-scientists... it is time to wake up and smell the roses. The issue is settled! The debate is over! AGW is (and always has been) a fantasy.

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February 18, 2010
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Bonnie said:

	"possibility that the world was warmer in medieval times" That "possibility" is what made Greenland conducive to farming until the advent of the little ice age. The last I checked, there isn't a lot of farming going on in Greenland yet. So, yes, it WAS warmer in the past. AGW is still the nonsense it always was. It was never about the climate... it was (and remains) all about economic control.
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February 18, 2010
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Flu-Bird said:

	The greenhouse scam The whole GLOBAL WARMING is based on junk science,lies,and fruad and being perpatraited by unscruplious persons like AL GORE,JAMES HANSEN and the varuous eco-nazis under the green swastika
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February 18, 2010
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Anti Liberal said:

	Jones needs to go to jail... Jones, Mann, and everyone else that has taken public money and contributed to the fraud that is the theory of man-made global warming need to be jailed. They've all participated in the largest fraud in the history of man!
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February 18, 2010
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Bonnie said:

	Anti Liberal I totally agree except on one tiny point. AGW is the SECOND largest fraud in history. The largest is recorded in Genesis 3: 4 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: 5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
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February 18, 2010
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Flu-Bird said:

	The green scam This whole entire enviromental movment is based on lies,junk science and fruad the facts were that DDT wasnt harming birds as RACHEAL CARSON claimed in her book SILENT SPRING in fact many birds were thriving at the time when DDT was being used and like with DDT this GLOBAL WARMING is also a lie and fruad as well
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February 19, 2010
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Johnny said:

	Whoa there Hold on a second. I read the actual interview http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/sci...511670.stm and while Jones admits that the last 15 years of warming doesn't reach the 95% confidence level, he hardly claims there wasn't any. The two things are completely different, and let's not mess up bad science and good math.
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February 19, 2010
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Bonnie said:

	Read it too, Johnny "he hardly claims there wasn't any" What Phil Jones is attempting to do is what is called "damage control". Never flat out admit you are wrong. Never flat out admit that you lied. Bend a little to buy time while you and your cronies get the new story straight.
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February 19, 2010
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John A. Jauregui said:

Finally, We Hear the Truth Thanks to the revelations of ClimateGate the rest of the climate science community can now speak without overt and covert government, media and academic censorship. After all these years we will be allowed to hear the rest of the story. We now know without doubt Climate Change “science” is a complete fraud. It is as we suspected. Clearly we cannot trust Obama and the Democratic Party to tell the true. There is no integrity there. None. What do think the chances are their pronouncements concerning National Health Care legislation are anywhere near the truth? Pay a tax, change the climate? Pay a tax, get government provided health care? Fraud and more fraud. Like Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, it’s just another Ponzi scheme. Bring in more unwilling players to keep the game going.

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February 21, 2010
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xEODGuy said:

"Statistically significant"... In other words, "Nothing we could continue to bang the Global Warming drum over." Phil, you need to learn how to read the language of the politically motivated. Believe me, if this con artist had even 1 degree of warming to play with, he would've been using it to protect the party line. It's this kind of mushy doublespeak that keeps the argument alive. Here's a hint to help you see the con coming next time... Anytime ANYONE comes at you, saying you have to change your way of life because it's evil and selfish, and that Y-O-U have to pay for it, it's a snowjob and they're making boodles off of you.

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February 22, 2010
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Mongo said:

RTFM Here is what Phil Jones really said: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8511670.stm How confident are you that warming has taken place and that humans are mainly responsible? I'm 100% confident that the climate has warmed. As to the second question, I would go along with IPCC Chapter 9 - there's evidence that most of the warming since the 1950s is due to human activity. From 1975-2009 (35 years), the warming trend is 0.161 degrees C per decade, at the 95% significance level. Do you agree that from 1995 to the present there has been no statistically-significant global warming ? Yes, but only just. I also calculated the trend for the period 1995 to 2009. This trend (0.12C per decade) is positive, but not significant at the 95% significance level. The positive trend is quite close to the significance level. Achieving statistical significance in scientific terms is much more likely for longer periods, and much less likely for shorter periods. -------------- You clowns have no clue as to what's coming. Laugh now, monkeyboys.

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February 23, 2010
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Bonnie said:

	Also in the news - 3/5/2010 Dozens of ships including a passenger ferry with nearly 1,000 people on board were trapped in heavy pack ice in the Baltic Sea off Sweden's east coast. Heavy ice cover is not uncommon further north, but the ice rarely gets thick enough in the Stockholm archipelago to trap powerful ferries like the Amorella.
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