Phil Jones Confession

[LordTimothytheWise]

Climategate U-turn: Astonishment as scientist at centre of global warming email row admits data not well organised | Mail Online

American Thinker: Climategate's Phil Jones Confesses to Climate Fraud

To some extent I don't think this changes much, but while I to ascent to the idea that the main issue of global warming hasn't been addressed:

1 CO2 is a greenhouse gas
2 Accumulation of CO2 will cause the earth to warm
3 We are accumulating CO2
4 Therefore the earth will warm

Would it be fair to say that the scepticism and even high suspscion was both probably well founded, and justified?

I know this forum seems to lean predominantly toward the veiw of the scientific "authorities" (for lack of a better term). So what are the opinions here?

 

[Tenka]

Regardless of how much we are altering the climate all of the steps they've suggested we take should be done anyway. Starting decades ago.

Huge shift needs to be made to renewable and clean energy as well as reducing energy consumption and finding a sustainable rate of living.

This whole scepticism of global warming things strikes me as unbelievably petty and a waste of effort, like disputing who the captain of a sinking ship is.

 

[Cabal]

BBC News - Q&A: Professor Phil Jones

When you look at what he actually said (honestly, as advice from a Brit, don't bother with the Daily Fail, it's basically the Fox News of the UK):

B- 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.

Emphasis mine.

 

[Frattracide]

You should read the BBC transcript that article references instead of blindly accepting the article as truth.

 

[plindboe]

Climategate U-turn: Astonishment as scientist at centre of global warming email row admits data not well organised | Mail Online

American Thinker: Climategate's Phil Jones Confesses to Climate Fraud

I recommend that you watch the following video, addressing these claims:

YouTube - 8a. Climate Change - supplement

His last video I also highly recommend.

Peter