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dellinger63 11-30-2009 08:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Riot
"They" predicted a few years of far colder than normal weather back in the 1890's, too! Thank goodness science has advanced in leaps and bounds, especially in the last 30 years, hum? :tro:

and they didn't predict a 'few years' of cold in the 1970's (80 years before your moronic counterpoint) but an f'n ice age!!!!!

Oh yea Carter was President and started the EPA to rid us from foreign oil dependancy as I recall. Deep understanding you call it. :eek:

Cannon Shell 11-30-2009 09:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Riot
It's already been proven beyond any doubt that global warming is ongoing right now.
The only question is man's contribution to it, and can man attenuate it before we're truely screwed.

except for the years when it gets cooler

Riot 11-30-2009 10:19 PM

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Originally Posted by dellinger63
especially when 'new science' juggles and loses/destroys its evidence

No, Dell, all of "science" didn't juggle and lose or destroy evidence. A couple guys at one place averaged temps to show NZ temps increasing when they stayed the same.

Riot 11-30-2009 10:29 PM

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Originally Posted by dellinger63
and they didn't predict a 'few years' of cold in the 1970's (80 years before your moronic counterpoint) but an f'n ice age!!!!!

Oh yea Carter was President and started the EPA to rid us from foreign oil dependancy as I recall. Deep understanding you call it. :eek:

Nope. I never discussed Carter, the EPA, and foreign oil in relation to "deep understanding". That you keep bringing up all your little Carter hates is hilarious. I didn't vote for the guy.

Cannon Shell 11-30-2009 10:40 PM

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...p_mostpop_read

apparently the issues with the data and "science" run a bit deeper than ARiot trys to portray. Like some of the peers who review the peer reviewed studies are the same phonies who fudged the data. Among other things...

Cannon Shell 11-30-2009 10:43 PM

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...250205490.html

Another dirty little truth

SOREHOOF 12-01-2009 04:28 AM

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Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

How inconvenient.

Danzig 12-01-2009 06:08 AM

you guys did see that all the raw data that had been compiled had been destroyed? there's no way to go back and double-check the figures this group had been using-they erased all the figures.


http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle6936328.ece


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.



The CRU is the world’s leading centre for reconstructing past climate and temperatures. Climate change sceptics have long been keen to examine exactly how its data were compiled. That is now impossible

dellinger63 12-01-2009 08:13 AM

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Originally Posted by Riot
No, Dell, all of "science" didn't juggle and lose or destroy evidence. A couple guys at one place averaged temps to show NZ temps increasing when they stayed the same.

wrong as usual AGAIN!

Does Carter have a new book coming out?

Saw one titled simply 'For Dummies' and thought it was his.

Riot 12-01-2009 07:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Cannon Shell
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...p_mostpop_read

apparently the issues with the data and "science" run a bit deeper than ARiot trys to portray. Like some of the peers who review the peer reviewed studies are the same phonies who fudged the data. Among other things...

Not really. I'm talking about the same thing you are, and it involves the same men.

Riot 12-01-2009 07:37 PM

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Originally Posted by dellinger63
wrong as usual AGAIN!

Does Carter have a new book coming out?

Saw one titled simply 'For Dummies' and thought it was his.

Wow. Before you throw stones, you really need to get a clue. Maybe try and understand what we are talking about?

Riot 12-01-2009 07:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Danzig
you guys did see that all the raw data that had been compiled had been destroyed? there's no way to go back and double-check the figures this group had been using-they erased all the figures.


http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle6936328.ece


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.



The CRU is the world’s leading centre for reconstructing past climate and temperatures. Climate change sceptics have long been keen to examine exactly how its data were compiled. That is now impossible

I hope you guys realize that this is talking about a limited amount of data, not "all scientific data ever" on climate change?

Danzig 12-01-2009 07:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Riot
I hope you guys realize that this is talking about a limited amount of data, not "all scientific data ever" on climate change?



i guess the fact that most researchers got their data from this group means nothing to you?
i mean, i know i didn't learn enough in science class, but i did learn comprehension skills in english class, so i did pick up on that in the articles.

Riot 12-01-2009 07:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Danzig
i guess the fact that most researchers got their data from this group means nothing to you?
i mean, i know i didn't learn enough in science class, but i did learn comprehension skills in english class, so i did pick up on that in the articles.

Of course it means something, this was the assembly clearinghouse, but there is still alot of data they have, and that others have. It's not "all in the toilet" - gone.

You guys also have to realize that what is quoted was written by newsmen writing opinion about science they do not believe in or support. Look at some other sources. Try to find comment from within the scientific world.

Danzig 12-01-2009 07:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Riot
Of course it means something, this was the assembly clearinghouse, but there is still alot of data they have, and that others have. It's not "all in the toilet" - gone.

You guys also have to realize that what is quoted was written by newsmen writing opinion about science they do not believe in or support. Look at some other sources. Try to find comment from within the scientific world.


do you mean like scientists who have come out and shown they don't necessarily believe in this science? that they have other, dissimilar info that these scientists then attacked? that they don't agree, that not all scientists back the u.n. findings that were supported with tricks? these same guys who destroyed data, deleted FOI requested info that is illegal to get rid of once there has been an FOI request? why do i need a scientist to tell me that these guys have some shady dealings to explain? much of the original data is GONE, destroyed by these folks. gone forever, with no way of ever going back and redoing what they did. in other words, no split sample.

Danzig 12-01-2009 08:07 PM

“Since I am no longer affiliated with any organization nor receiving any funding, I can speak quite frankly….As a scientist I remain skeptical.” - Atmospheric Scientist Dr. Joanne Simpson, the first woman in the world to receive a PhD in meteorology and formerly of NASA who has authored more than 190 studies and has been called “among the most preeminent scientists of the last 100 years.”

Warming fears are the “worst scientific scandal in the history…When people come to know what the truth is, they will feel deceived by science and scientists.” - UN IPCC Japanese Scientist Dr. Kiminori Itoh, an award-winning PhD environmental physical chemist.

“The IPCC has actually become a closed circuit; it doesn’t listen to others. It doesn’t have open minds… I am really amazed that the Nobel Peace Prize has been given on scientifically incorrect conclusions by people who are not geologists,” - Indian geologist Dr. Arun D. Ahluwalia at Punjab University and a board member of the UN-supported International Year of the Planet.

“The models and forecasts of the UN IPCC "are incorrect because they only are based on mathematical models and presented results at scenarios that do not include, for example, solar activity.” - Victor Manuel Velasco Herrera, a researcher at the Institute of Geophysics of the National Autonomous University of Mexico

“It is a blatant lie put forth in the media that makes it seem there is only a fringe of scientists who don’t buy into anthropogenic global warming.” - U.S Government Atmospheric Scientist Stanley B. Goldenberg of the Hurricane Research Division of NOAA.

“Even doubling or tripling the amount of carbon dioxide will virtually have little impact, as water vapour and water condensed on particles as clouds dominate the worldwide scene and always will.” – . Geoffrey G. Duffy, a professor in the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering of the University of Auckland, NZ.

“After reading [UN IPCC chairman] Pachauri's asinine comment [comparing skeptics to] Flat Earthers, it's hard to remain quiet.” - Climate statistician Dr. William M. Briggs, who specializes in the statistics of forecast evaluation, serves on the American Meteorological Society's Probability and Statistics Committee and is an Associate Editor of Monthly Weather Review.

“For how many years must the planet cool before we begin to understand that the planet is not warming? For how many years must cooling go on?" - Geologist Dr. David Gee the chairman of the science committee of the 2008 International Geological Congress who has authored 130 plus peer reviewed papers, and is currently at Uppsala University in Sweden.

“Gore prompted me to start delving into the science again and I quickly found myself solidly in the skeptic camp…Climate models can at best be useful for explaining climate changes after the fact.” - Meteorologist Hajo Smit of Holland, who reversed his belief in man-made warming to become a skeptic, is a former member of the Dutch UN IPCC committee.

“Many [scientists] are now searching for a way to back out quietly (from promoting warming fears), without having their professional careers ruined.” - Atmospheric physicist James A. Peden, formerly of the Space Research and Coordination Center in Pittsburgh.

“Creating an ideology pegged to carbon dioxide is a dangerous nonsense…The present alarm on climate change is an instrument of social control, a pretext for major businesses and political battle. It became an ideology, which is concerning.” - Environmental Scientist Professor Delgado Domingos of Portugal, the founder of the Numerical Weather Forecast group, has more than 150 published articles.

“CO2 emissions make absolutely no difference one way or another….Every scientist knows this, but it doesn’t pay to say so…Global warming, as a political vehicle, keeps Europeans in the driver’s seat and developing nations walking barefoot.” - Dr. Takeda Kunihiko, vice-chancellor of the Institute of Science and Technology Research at Chubu University in Japan.

“The [global warming] scaremongering has its justification in the fact that it is something that generates funds.” - Award-winning Paleontologist Dr. Eduardo Tonni, of the Committee for Scientific Research in Buenos Aires and head of the Paleontology Department at the University of La Plata. # #

Danzig 12-01-2009 08:13 PM

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/...vKtgAD9CAOU800



The chief of a prestigious British research center caught in a storm of controversy over claims that he and others suppressed data about climate change has stepped down pending an investigation, the University of East Anglia said Tuesday.

Riot 12-01-2009 08:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Danzig
do you mean like scientists who have come out and shown they don't necessarily believe in this science? that they have other, dissimilar info that these scientists then attacked? that they don't agree, that not all scientists back the u.n. findings that were supported with tricks? these same guys who destroyed data, deleted FOI requested info that is illegal to get rid of once there has been an FOI request? why do i need a scientist to tell me that these guys have some shady dealings to explain? much of the original data is GONE, destroyed by these folks. gone forever, with no way of ever going back and redoing what they did. in other words, no split sample.

Yes there are scientists that "don't believe" in climate change (although science isn't a belief system, and there are scientists who don't believe the earth is older than 10,000 years, either). Over the past 20-30 years, their number have dwindled as more information was obtained. They are clearly a minority opinion.

The guys are undeniably shady. I hope their Universities investigate them. The question is how relative is this to the validity of the rest of the body of knowledge in this field. It's a pretty huge field. Hundreds of scientists across the world, many countries. A right-wing blogger isn't who I would listen to regarding this.

The "original data is GONE" - from these guys, yes some data. Not all the original data about everything about climate change that's ever been done.

We will have to hope that Fox News and the Telegraph are the Woodward and Berstein of Climategate.

Danzig 12-01-2009 09:18 PM

i don't watch/read fox news. they're far too slanted for me. and when i said 'don't believe in' those were my words, not theirs. no doubt they have data to back up their assertions and findings, much like the others had data to back up their assertions. of course, we may never know what all they had since so much is now gone, and no way to retrace it. guess we all have to just take it on faith. lol

sham 12-02-2009 05:41 AM

Don't like FOX? Try this:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/c...eneration.html

dellinger63 12-02-2009 08:29 AM

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Originally Posted by Riot
Wow. Before you throw stones, you really need to get a clue. Maybe try and understand what we are talking about?

You said and again I quote, "A couple guys at one place averaged temps to show NZ temps increasing when they stayed the same."

Now we know it was more than a couple guys and one place. Face it you were wrong as usual. And how in the hell do you know how much data was destroyed?

timmgirvan 12-02-2009 09:09 AM

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Originally Posted by Danzig
“Since I am no longer affiliated with any organization nor receiving any funding, I can speak quite frankly….As a scientist I remain skeptical.” - Atmospheric Scientist Dr. Joanne Simpson, the first woman in the world to receive a PhD in meteorology and formerly of NASA who has authored more than 190 studies and has been called “among the most preeminent scientists of the last 100 years.”

Warming fears are the “worst scientific scandal in the history…When people come to know what the truth is, they will feel deceived by science and scientists.” - UN IPCC Japanese Scientist Dr. Kiminori Itoh, an award-winning PhD environmental physical chemist.

“The IPCC has actually become a closed circuit; it doesn’t listen to others. It doesn’t have open minds… I am really amazed that the Nobel Peace Prize has been given on scientifically incorrect conclusions by people who are not geologists,” - Indian geologist Dr. Arun D. Ahluwalia at Punjab University and a board member of the UN-supported International Year of the Planet.

“The models and forecasts of the UN IPCC "are incorrect because they only are based on mathematical models and presented results at scenarios that do not include, for example, solar activity.” - Victor Manuel Velasco Herrera, a researcher at the Institute of Geophysics of the National Autonomous University of Mexico

“It is a blatant lie put forth in the media that makes it seem there is only a fringe of scientists who don’t buy into anthropogenic global warming.” - U.S Government Atmospheric Scientist Stanley B. Goldenberg of the Hurricane Research Division of NOAA.

“Even doubling or tripling the amount of carbon dioxide will virtually have little impact, as water vapour and water condensed on particles as clouds dominate the worldwide scene and always will.” – . Geoffrey G. Duffy, a professor in the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering of the University of Auckland, NZ.

“After reading [UN IPCC chairman] Pachauri's asinine comment [comparing skeptics to] Flat Earthers, it's hard to remain quiet.” - Climate statistician Dr. William M. Briggs, who specializes in the statistics of forecast evaluation, serves on the American Meteorological Society's Probability and Statistics Committee and is an Associate Editor of Monthly Weather Review.

“For how many years must the planet cool before we begin to understand that the planet is not warming? For how many years must cooling go on?" - Geologist Dr. David Gee the chairman of the science committee of the 2008 International Geological Congress who has authored 130 plus peer reviewed papers, and is currently at Uppsala University in Sweden.

“Gore prompted me to start delving into the science again and I quickly found myself solidly in the skeptic camp…Climate models can at best be useful for explaining climate changes after the fact.” - Meteorologist Hajo Smit of Holland, who reversed his belief in man-made warming to become a skeptic, is a former member of the Dutch UN IPCC committee.

“Many [scientists] are now searching for a way to back out quietly (from promoting warming fears), without having their professional careers ruined.” - Atmospheric physicist James A. Peden, formerly of the Space Research and Coordination Center in Pittsburgh.

“Creating an ideology pegged to carbon dioxide is a dangerous nonsense…The present alarm on climate change is an instrument of social control, a pretext for major businesses and political battle. It became an ideology, which is concerning.” - Environmental Scientist Professor Delgado Domingos of Portugal, the founder of the Numerical Weather Forecast group, has more than 150 published articles.

“CO2 emissions make absolutely no difference one way or another….Every scientist knows this, but it doesn’t pay to say so…Global warming, as a political vehicle, keeps Europeans in the driver’s seat and developing nations walking barefoot.” - Dr. Takeda Kunihiko, vice-chancellor of the Institute of Science and Technology Research at Chubu University in Japan.

“The [global warming] scaremongering has its justification in the fact that it is something that generates funds.” - Award-winning Paleontologist Dr. Eduardo Tonni, of the Committee for Scientific Research in Buenos Aires and head of the Paleontology Department at the University of La Plata. # #

:tro: :tro:

Danzig 12-02-2009 09:42 AM

the biggest question i have at this point? if this is such an airtight case, they KNOW what they have found to be true....then why the skulduggery? why the disappearing original data, the trickery, the changing of readings, the deletions of info under FOI requests? why all the secrecy, attacks on other scientists, 'peer reviews' that they did themselves but figured no one would know because peer reviews are anonymous?

Danzig 12-02-2009 09:45 AM

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Originally Posted by dellinger63
You said and again I quote, "A couple guys at one place averaged temps to show NZ temps increasing when they stayed the same."

Now we know it was more than a couple guys and one place. Face it you were wrong as usual. And how in the hell do you know how much data was destroyed?

if you paid attention in science class, you'd know how much was destroyed too.

timmgirvan 12-02-2009 10:12 AM

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Originally Posted by Danzig
the biggest question i have at this point? if this is such an airtight case, they KNOW what they have found to be true....then why the skulduggery? why the disappearing original data, the trickery, the changing of readings, the deletions of info under FOI requests? why all the secrecy, attacks on other scientists, 'peer reviews' that they did themselves but figured no one would know because peer reviews are anonymous?

1) they think we're all stupid
2) if they can entrench themselves in world thought as legitimate, they win
3) Untold Trillions in their hands/at their disposal
4) Free reign (as the 800lb gorilla) in govts around the world

dellinger63 12-02-2009 01:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Danzig
if you paid attention in science class, you'd know how much was destroyed too.

Or if I were an Obama loving, conservative Republican, who thought Carter is an authority on the middle east and knew people w/medical insurance who pay out-of-pocket instead of filling out forms. :zz:

Riot 12-02-2009 08:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dellinger63
You said and again I quote, "A couple guys at one place averaged temps to show NZ temps increasing when they stayed the same."

Now we know it was more than a couple guys and one place. Face it you were wrong as usual. And how in the hell do you know how much data was destroyed?

Please, I beg of you, read something besides the right-wing blogosphere.

No, the guys I spoke of are in the CRU. These guys.

Riot 12-02-2009 08:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Danzig
the biggest question i have at this point? if this is such an airtight case, they KNOW what they have found to be true....then why the skulduggery? why the disappearing original data, the trickery, the changing of readings, the deletions of info under FOI requests? why all the secrecy, attacks on other scientists, 'peer reviews' that they did themselves but figured no one would know because peer reviews are anonymous?

I don't know why I'm bothering :p , but try this (it's fairly accurate):

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/1..._n_371223.html

SOREHOOF 12-03-2009 05:11 AM

More hard hitting INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM from the HuffPooPoo. Always known for being unbiased. The NY Times Is another good one. Have you seen MSNBC lately? Govt. backed and endorsed propaganda.

SOREHOOF 12-03-2009 05:14 AM

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Originally Posted by Riot
Please, I beg of you, read something besides the right-wing blogosphere.

No, the guys I spoke of are in the CRU. These guys.

Like the Huffington Post!

dellinger63 12-03-2009 08:26 AM

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Originally Posted by Riot
Please, I beg of you, read something besides the right-wing blogosphere.

No, the guys I spoke of are in the CRU. These guys.

Those poor guys were subject to a crime.

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefi...criminal-probe

oops and now NASA may be facing some scrutiny.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/...-climate-data/

Are you as delusional in real life as you are here? Huffington???

As stated before if global warming was as clear-cut as some may believe there would NEVER be a need to juggle data. The fact that not only was data manipulated and destroyed, the process was discussed and now the hackers are at fault in Boxer's eye as opposed to the scientists? These hackers should be praised as whistle-blowers and receive compensation for exposing this fraud. IMO Look at the money we will save by avoiding Cap and Trade taxes. And if you want a project to do in between Jimmy Carter novelettes look up who originated the carbon credit bartering system. Hint it wasn't Al Gore though like other inventions he has taken the credit.

dellinger63 12-03-2009 08:49 AM

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Originally Posted by Riot
I don't know why I'm bothering :p , but try this (it's fairly accurate):

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/1..._n_371223.html

As climate czar Carol Brower says, "I'm sticking with the 2,500 scientists [of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.] These people have been studying this issue for a very long time and agree this problem is real."

Huffingtonpost.com

Me? I’ll stick with the 31,486 American Scientists (9,029 w/PHDs) who all have disenting oppinions from Brower’s 2,500

Petitionproject.org

Riot 12-03-2009 12:31 PM

Okay, try again with that evil, liberal, biased, left-wing organization, the Associated Press.

Meanwhile, I'm going to finish formulating my pick-6 tickets. And I'm going to use that trick of Steve Crist's to manipulate my numbers ;)

Quote:

Obama science advisers grilled over hacked e-mails
By SETH BORENSTEIN, AP Science Writer Seth Borenstein, Ap Science Writer – Thu Dec 3, 9:17 am ET

WASHINGTON – House Republicans pointed to controversial e-mails leaked from climate scientists and said it was evidence of corruption. Top administration scientists looking at the same thing found no such sign, saying it doesn't change the fact that the world is warming.

The e-mails from a British university's climate center were obtained by computer hackers and posted online about two weeks ago. Climate change skeptics contend the messages reveal that researchers manipulated and suppressed data and stifled dissent, and conservative bloggers are dubbing it "Climategate."

In the first Capitol Hill airing of the issue, House Republicans Wednesday read excerpts from at least eight of the e-mails, saying they showed the world needs to re-examine experts' claims that the science on warming is settled. One e-mail from 2003 was by John Holdren, then of Harvard University and now the president's science adviser.

The exploding controversy led Phil Jones to step aside as head of the climate research unit at the University of East Anglia, the source of the e-mail exchanges. The university is investigating the matter. Penn State University also is looking into e-mails by its own researcher, Michael Mann. House Republicans asked for a separate hearing or investigation into the issue, but were rebuffed by Democrats.

"These e-mails show a pattern of suppression, manipulation and secrecy that was inspired by ideology, condescension and profit," said U.S. Rep. James Sensenbrenner, R-Wis.

The science is proper and this is about a small fraction of research on the issue, said Holdren, a physicist who has studied climate change.

"The e-mails do nothing to undermine the very strong scientific consensus ... that tells us the earth is warming, that warming is largely a result of human activity," said another government scientist Jane Lubchenco. A marine biologist and climate researcher, she heads the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

The e-mails don't negate or even deal with data from both NOAA and NASA, which keep independent climate records and show dramatic warming, Lubchenco told members of the House global warming committee.

The hearing was supposed to focus on the latest in global warming scientific findings. Lubchenco even attempted a high school chemistry lesson with two quick experiments at the witness table. Donning one rubber glove, she demonstrated how adding carbon dioxide to water made it more acidic and said that is what's now happening in the world's oceans. Then she put chalk in acidic water compounds and showed it dissolving a bit, to demonstrate what will happen eventually to vital sea life.

But her bubble-inducing experiments were ignored in favor of the more explosive e-mails.

Among the messages that Sensenbrenner read was one from Jones, the East Anglia scientist, in which he wrote about a "trick of adding in the real temps" in an exchange about long-term climate trends. Holdren responded that the word "trick" did not mean manipulation of data, but about a "clever way" to tackle a problem. Another Jones' e-mail read, "I would like to see the climate change happen so the science could be proved right."

Defending the scientists, Rep. Jay Inslee, D-Wash., said somehow the e-mails aren't stopping the Arctic from warming, the oceans from getting more acidic, and glaciers from melting. He sarcastically asked Holdren and Lubchenco if they were part of a global conspiracy that even included fictional movie villain organizations. Holdren, played along, saying he was not.

After complaining of "scientific fascism" and "scientific McCarthyism," Sensenbrenner chastised Holdren for his 2003 e-mail, when he was at Harvard, that dealt with skeptics by "calling them names."

What the e-mail, not read by Sensenbrenner, showed was that Holdren used ironic quotes around the word "Harvard" in describing two of his colleagues who are global warming skeptics. Holdren also had forwarded to other scientists an article he described as "for your entertainment" in which he was quoted as saying the two skeptics were "wrong." Holdren defended his e-mail.

Sensenbrenner attacked the work of Penn State's Mann, who is frequently brought up in the communications. Mann is the author of what is called the "hockey stick" theory, first described in the late 1990s. It suggested that the past 50 years had been the hottest in several centuries, if not 1,000 years, and that man-made global warming was to blame. That research was so controversial that the National Academy of Sciences studied the work in depth; it was used in former Vice President Al Gore's documentary on global warming.

Sensenbrenner said the 2006 National Academy study showed Mann's hockey stick was incorrect and that Mann's theory was discredited. But Holdren said the NAS study had quibbles with Mann's methods but agreed with his results.

The chairman of the Academy of Science panel, Texas A&M University atmospheric scientist Gerald North, confirmed in an interview Wednesday that Holdren was right, not Sensenbrenner.

"The conclusions that we came to were essentially the same as the hockey stick" theory that Mann proposed, North told The Associated Press. North said even if Jones, Mann and others had done no research at all, the world would still be warming and scientists would still be able to show it.

Riot 12-03-2009 12:33 PM

[quote]
Quote:

Originally Posted by dellinger63
Those poor guys were subject to a crime.

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefi...criminal-probe

oops and now NASA may be facing some scrutiny.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/...-climate-data/

Scrutiny is excellent. For the scientists.

Riot 12-03-2009 12:35 PM

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Originally Posted by SOREHOOF
Like the Huffington Post!

I did say, "It's fairly accurate". It has it's little left wing rants. Feel free to completely ignore those. But the facts stand up.

phystech 12-03-2009 03:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Riot
I did say, "It's fairly accurate". It has it's little left wing rants. Feel free to completely ignore those. But the facts stand up.

You always leave yourself some wiggle-room, don't ya.....:)

Riot 12-03-2009 05:08 PM

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Originally Posted by phystech
You always leave yourself some wiggle-room, don't ya.....:)

No, I try not to be stupidly black and white.

SOREHOOF 12-03-2009 06:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Riot
I did say, "It's fairly accurate". It has it's little left wing rants. Feel free to completely ignore those. But the facts stand up.

No, it's not.

Danzig 12-03-2009 06:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dellinger63
As climate czar Carol Brower says, "I'm sticking with the 2,500 scientists [of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.] These people have been studying this issue for a very long time and agree this problem is real."

Huffingtonpost.com

Me? I’ll stick with the 31,486 American Scientists (9,029 w/PHDs) who all have disenting oppinions from Brower’s 2,500

Petitionproject.org

didn't the ipcc get it's numbers from the scientists who were hacked into?

Danzig 12-03-2009 06:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Riot
No, I try not to be stupidly black and white.


lol not in this instance. anyone questioning, skeptical, needed to study in science class. those of us who raise an eyebrow are evidently too stupid to know better, and are supposed to just take the scientists on one end of the spectrum at their word, while completely ignoring anyone else...yeah, that's grey in there. :rolleyes:


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