Monday, February 22, 2010

Dominoes (no, not the pizza)

It seems that the Global Warming data is falling like dominoes. Every week we get more information about the defects in the "data". And today, perhaps the "death knell"...

First, Thomas Karl, the "scientist" who has been put in charge of the Commerce Department's new climate change office is coming under attack from both sides of the global warming debate over his handling of what they say is contradictory scientific data related to the subject, and has been accused of such by none other than Roger Pielke Sr., a climatologist affiliated with the University of Colorado who resigned from the U.N.'s International Panel on Climate Change because his data had been suppressed.

But this next blow is a doozie: Scientists have been forced to retract a paper that claimed sea level were rising thanks to the effects of global warming, after mistakes were discovered that undermined the results. The study was published in Nature Geoscience and predicted that sea levels would rise by as much as 2.7 feet by the end of the twenty-first century and was used by the U.N. to bolster their own claims which warned of the dangerous of "man-made climate change".

As reported by Fox News, " mistakes in time intervals and inaccurately applied statistics have forced the authors to retract their paper -- the first official retraction ever for the three-year-old journal, notes the Guardian. In an officially published retraction of their paper, the authors acknowledged these mistakes as factors that compromised the results."

The authors of the report, Mark Siddall, Thomas Stocker and Peter Clark now state, "We no longer have confidence in our projections for the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and for this reason the authors retract the results pertaining to sea-level rise after 1900," wrote authors .

Can any of these "scientists" be believed?

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