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Federal scientist cooked climate change books ahead of Obama presentation
Posted on 2/13/17 at 6:04 pm
Posted on 2/13/17 at 6:04 pm
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Federal scientist cooked climate change books ahead of Obama presentation, whistle blower charges
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A key Obama administration scientist brushed aside inconvenient data that showed a slowdown in global warming in compiling an alarming 2015 report that coincided with the White House participation in the Paris Climate Conference, a whistle blower is alleging.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), in a major 2013 report, concluded global temperatures had shown a smaller increase from 1998 to 2012 than any similar period over the past 30 to 60 years. But a blockbuster, June 2015 paper by a team of federal scientists led by Thomas Karl, published in the journal Science in June 2015 and later known as the “pausebuster" paper sought to discredit the notion of a slowdown in warming.
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"In the summer of 2015, whistleblowers alerted the Committee that the Karl study was rushed to publication before underlying data issues were resolved to help influence public debate about the so-called Clean Power Plan and upcoming Paris climate conference," Smith said in a statement. "Since then, the Committee has attempted to obtain information that would shed further light on these allegations, but was obstructed at every turn by the previous administration’s officials."
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“They had good data from buoys,” Bates told the Daily Mail. “And they threw it out and ‘corrected’ it by using the bad data from ships. You never change good data to agree with bad, but that’s what they did – so as to make it look as if the sea was warmer.”
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Bates is not the first to question Karl’s conclusions. A paper by Canadian climate modeler John Fyfe questioned the 2015 study. As he put it, in a 2016 article from the journal Nature Climate Change, “there is a mismatch between what the climate models are producing and what observations are showing. We can’t ignore it.”
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Posted on 2/13/17 at 6:05 pm to member12
This has been posted like 100 times already
Posted on 2/13/17 at 6:08 pm to member12
Man-made climate change/global warming is fake.
Posted on 2/13/17 at 6:09 pm to member12
Nothing new here.
Posted on 2/13/17 at 6:11 pm to member12
This has been debunked 100 times
This is what this board likes to call "fake news"
This is what this board likes to call "fake news"
Posted on 2/13/17 at 6:11 pm to member12
This proves GW is fake
Posted on 2/13/17 at 6:11 pm to member12
While I remain a skeptic...
Bates has been proven to be a jilted lover who "retired" and went on a trash-talking binge to any media who would listen, only to backpedal faster than Deon Sanders and try to save some manner of credibility. The dude is a lying-arse liar. Nothing that motherfricker says can be trusted. Period. Don't be fooled by that piece of shite.
Bates has been proven to be a jilted lover who "retired" and went on a trash-talking binge to any media who would listen, only to backpedal faster than Deon Sanders and try to save some manner of credibility. The dude is a lying-arse liar. Nothing that motherfricker says can be trusted. Period. Don't be fooled by that piece of shite.
Posted on 2/13/17 at 6:12 pm to member12
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Fox News
Fake news
Posted on 2/13/17 at 6:39 pm to member12
Some people are clearly upset about this inconvenient article.
Posted on 2/13/17 at 8:20 pm to member12
quote:quote:I suspect I will be reposting this AP link roughly one bazillion times
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Bates said in an interview Monday with The Associated Press that he was most concerned about the way data was handled, documented and stored, raising issues of transparency and availability. He said Karl didn't follow the more than 20 crucial data storage and handling steps that Bates created for NOAA. He said it looked like the June 2015 study was pushed out to influence the December 2015 climate treaty negotiations in Paris.
However Bates, who acknowledges that Earth is warming from man-made carbon dioxide emissions, said in the interview that there was "no data tampering, no data changing, nothing malicious."
"It's really a story of not disclosing what you did," Bates said in the interview. "It's not trumped up data in any way shape or form."
- Bates designed a new, complicated set of procedures (20 steps!) for climate data archiving which required changes in documentation and software
- There were delays in implementation because of the usual software problems that crop up when a bureaucracy changes things
- Papers were published before their underlying data conformed to these procedures (not to the degree that other scientists couldn't replicate them, just not to Bates' standards)
- Bates retires and stews over this a bit while finding sympathetic ears at the House Science Committee and the Daily Mail, to whom he gives an interview
- They then publish and hype a story taking his complaints about data archiving and making them sound like "CLIMATEGATE II OR MAYBE III I'VE LOST COUNT"
- Bates then realizes what he's done and gives a second interview to the AP affirming this is about how to properly archive the data, not about the provenance or accuracy of the data itself
- Nobody reads the second interview and the first interview is posted twice a day by people who don't read carefully and think it proves AGW is a hoax
Posted on 2/13/17 at 10:08 pm to member12
This is very similar to the IC analysis that led to the invasion of Iraq. That Colin Powell presentation was abysmal, in hindsight.
Posted on 2/14/17 at 7:45 am to member12
Lock him up and fine the hell out of him. I'd also make him work on our wall.
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