Friday, December 12, 2008

Lies, damn lies and statistics

Since this blog is not primarily about climate, I only post here about 1% of articles that I come across which provide evidence to show that man-made climate change is a delusion.

We have "climate change experts" in Poland, the scene of a UN conference on the topic, saying that the balmy conditions there prove that climate change is real-- the maximum temperatures there each day have been around 5 to 7 degrees C, pretty close to average for that region.

This one though is a real doozie and goes to the heart of the issue. We know that atmospheric CO2 has been increasing since the early 1800s due to the burning of fossil fuels. We know that CO2 levels were 100 ppm lower when people started measuring them and have been increasing steadily since then.

In this article by climate science Professor Tim Ball, we discover that it's not that simple and in fact the raw data from that times has been edited to ignore high readings and only accept the low figures.

And the polar ice cores that go back thousands of years and reliably prove that CO2 and temperature are linked? Well they forgot to mention that under the pressure that exists at great depths of ice, the ice becomes fluid and is not as reliable as you would think.

But still the lies multiply. It is the hijacking of good science by political ideology that really makes me angry.

Here is the article

2 comments:

  1. I actually started my Opera blog after being involved with the MSN forums during the Live Earth concerts. I realized within a few days that the envirowackos can not be swayed. They are so steeped in their nonsense that any attempt to actually use logic is futile. Oh well, let them have their little movement, we all know who really controls the earth. If anyone is to save the earth it will be God as it has been since creation.

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  2. You're right of course.The tragedy is that the zillions of dollars wasted on this could conceivably used on much more useful things- like keeping financial CEOs in the style to which they are accustomed... or providing safe water in Africa etc.

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