One of the most telling emails to come out of the Climategate fiasco contained the following:
“Well
I have my own article on where the heck is global warming? We are
asking that here in Boulder where we have broken records the past two
days for the coldest days on record. We had 4 inches of snow. The high
the last 2 days was below 30F and the normal is 69F, and it smashed the
previous records for these days by 10F. The low was about 18F and also a
record low, well below the previous record low. This is January weather
(see the Rockies baseball playoff game was canceled on saturday and
then played last night in below freezing weather)…
The
fact is that we can’t account for the lack of warming at the moment and
it is a travesty that we can’t. The CERES data published in the August
BAMS 09 supplement on 2008 shows there should be even more warming: but the data are surely wrong. Our observing system is inadequate.”
Bold
has been added. The email was written by Kevin Trenberth to Michael
Mann in 2009. It appears that the lack of warming was known by climate
scientists long before the recent admission by the MET.
Somehow
Kevin ‘knows’ the theory is correct and concludes that the data must be
wrong. Yet, how do you know a theory is correct unless it agrees with
Mother Nature who provides the data. Only a politically motivated
scientist would draw such a conclusion.
Science
would draw the opposite conclusion: if the theory doesn’t agree with
the data then it is time to modify or abandon the theory because it is
wrong as it stands.
There
exist among us many people who have fooled themselves about CAGW and
Nature doesn’t care about that. Is this another example of that?
Is
that another example of blaming humans for the fact that Nature does
not support their coveted CAGW narrative? And these guys call themselves
scientists?
A Phd does not come with a direct line to the truth or a guarantee of infallibility.
Let’s put up some more fans on the hillsides to cool us off.
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