Comments on: Hide the Decline: Misunderstood Term or Smoking Gun?

By: guest

guest — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 11:32:53 +0000

God did not come out with a new and improved tree circa 1960. Either the tree ring data is accurate from 800 till present or it is not accurate at all.

other thoughts are McIntyre is hardly a "lone wolf" in climate change dissent, here is a link to at least 450 peer reviewed papers which questions the science of climate change

By: VGI

VGI — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 01:11:45 +0000

How are they going to explain this one away?
Its prison time for some of the methinks
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/12/08/the-smoking…

By: jallen

jallen — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 10:10:06 +0000

From the National Academy of Sciences, Here is the crux of climategate (assuming the reader is familiar with the FOIA and the "lost" source data aspects of the issue):

Ensuring the Integrity, Accessibility, and
Stewardship of Research Data in the Digital Age

ISBN: 978-0-309-13684-6 National Academy of Sciences.

http://www.nap.edu/html/12615/12615_EXS.pdf

Data Access and Sharing Principle: Research data, methods, and other information integral to publicly reported results should be publicly accessible.

Data Stewardship Principle: Research data should be retained to serve future uses.

Recommendation 9: Researchers should establish data management plans at the beginning of each research project that include appropriate provisions for the retention of research data.

The solution to this problem — as with so many others — is honesty.

At the minimum, the CRU utterly failed in the Data Access and Data Stewardship principles. Unforgivable.

By: Andrew30

Andrew30 — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 06:39:59 +0000

The science must stand on its own.

In science the burden of proof is on the theory.

The theory must provide the proof.

If the theory makes a prediction, which it must to not simply be a hypothesis, and the prediction is wrong then the theory is discarded.

That is part of the scientific method.

The AGW theory predicts that CO2 causes global warming.

CO2 is higher now then it was in 1998.

Average global temperature has been declining since 1998

The prediction made by the theory is wrong therefore the AGW theory must be discarded.

QED.

It is called the scientific method. It only takes one wrong result to discard a theory.

'No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.' Albert Einstein

Please see also:

scienceandpublicpolicy.org/originals/climategate.html

For a satirical look at the climategate computer programming:

Anthropogenic Global Warming Virus Alert.

http://www.thespoof.com/news/spoof.cfm?headline=s5i64103