Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
Elizabeth Barrette
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Global Warming Is Real

My partner Doug sent me this link for an article on global warming. The lead is long, but there's some valid stuff farther down.

The climate is warming. It is almost certain this is caused by emissions of greenhouse gases caused by human activity. Nobody has come up with an alternative explanation that stands up. If the present warming trend continues, nasty things will probably start happening to humans within the next century, possibly the next decade. Something must be done. If nothing is done, then the benign climatic conditions that have sustained human civilisation for 10,000 years are in danger of collapse to be replaced by… well, write your own disaster movie.
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"The rumblings from people that think climate change is merely a conspiracy seem to be growing, at least based on what I've seen recently"

Yes, because 160 MB of emails between some of the biggest names in the debate revealed an outrageous pattern of fooling with the data, stacking the peer-review deck, and stifling debate. I DO know how science works, and I'm telling you that what I saw in those emails IS UNETHICAL. VERY VERY UNETHICAL. If that's how science really works on this planet, we're all doomed for reasons that have nothing to do with climate change. If you want to stifle freedoms and spend trillions of dollars on the word of those people then I'll be honest with you, you're either crazy or you've got your head stuck in the sand.

But please, don't take my word for it. Read the emails yourself.

http://www.eastangliaemails.com/emails.php

And to get you started, here are a few tips. To check them out and get full context, just type the number at the end of each email into the search bar:

* Phil Jones writes to University of Hull to try to stop sceptic Sonia Boehmer Christiansen using her Hull affiliation. Graham F Haughton of Hull University says its easier to push greenery there now SB-C has retired.(1256765544)
* Michael Mann discusses how to destroy a journal that has published sceptic papers.(1047388489)
* Tim Osborn discusses how data are truncated to stop an apparent cooling trend showing up in the results (0939154709). Analysis of impact here. Wow!
* Phil Jones describes the death of sceptic, John Daly, as “cheering news”.(1075403821)
* Phil Jones encourages colleagues to delete information subject to FoI request.(1212063122)
* Phil Jones says he has use Mann’s “Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series”…to hide the decline”. Real Climate says “hiding” was an unfortunate turn of phrase.(0942777075)
* Letter to The Times from climate scientists was drafted with the help of Greenpeace.(0872202064)
* Mann thinks he will contact BBC’s Richard Black to find out why another BBC journalist was allowed to publish a vaguely sceptical article.(1255352257)
* Kevin Trenberth says they can’t account for the lack of recent warming and that it is a travesty that they can’t.(1255352257)