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> For several months, the “Monthly CO2 Reports,” compiled by me at www.scienceandpublicpolicy.org> , have been pointing out that there has been no statistically > significant “global warming” for 15 years. Regular attacks on my > calculations and graphs have appeared on blogs by the usual suspects > — Gavin Schmidt of NASA being, as usual, the most venomously ad > hominem and the least scientifically plausible.
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> Then came Climategate. Kevin Trenberth, one of the many scientists > whose activities I had been following with suspicion for some years, > had privately been saying to his colleagues that there had been “no > global warming for a decade” and that it was “a travesty” that they > could not explain why. Publicly, of course, the Climategate > conspirators had been saying that the last ten years were the > warmest decade on the instrumental record — true, but not surprising > given that there has been 300 years of global warming.
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> Now, Professor Phil Jones of the University of East Anglia has > admitted publicly, and — as far as I know — for the first time, that > there has been no statistically significant “global warming” for 15 > years. He has also admitted that his Climatic Research Unit has lost > much of the data behind the “hockey-stick” graph, via which Michael > Mann and other Climategate conspirators had falsely attempted to > demonstrate that the Medieval Warm Period was not warmer than the > present.
> For several months, the “Monthly CO2 Reports,” compiled by me at www.scienceandpublicpolicy.org> , have been pointing out that there has been no statistically > significant “global warming” for 15 years. Regular attacks on my > calculations and graphs have appeared on blogs by the usual suspects > — Gavin Schmidt of NASA being, as usual, the most venomously ad > hominem and the least scientifically plausible.
>
> Then came Climategate. Kevin Trenberth, one of the many scientists > whose activities I had been following with suspicion for some years, > had privately been saying to his colleagues that there had been “no > global warming for a decade” and that it was “a travesty” that they > could not explain why. Publicly, of course, the Climategate > conspirators had been saying that the last ten years were the > warmest decade on the instrumental record — true, but not surprising > given that there has been 300 years of global warming.
>
> Now, Professor Phil Jones of the University of East Anglia has > admitted publicly, and — as far as I know — for the first time, that > there has been no statistically significant “global warming” for 15 > years. He has also admitted that his Climatic Research Unit has lost > much of the data behind the “hockey-stick” graph, via which Michael > Mann and other Climategate conspirators had falsely attempted to > demonstrate that the Medieval Warm Period was not warmer than the > present.
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