{"id":115171,"date":"2009-12-30T11:16:57","date_gmt":"2009-12-30T16:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/climaterealists.com\/index.php?id=4761"},"modified":"2009-12-30T11:16:57","modified_gmt":"2009-12-30T16:16:57","slug":"a-response-to-michael-mann-by-paul-c-knappenberger-sppiblog-org","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/115171","title":{"rendered":"A Response to Michael Mann by Paul C. Knappenberger, SPPIblog.org"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Article Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/climaterealists.com\/index.php?tid=383\" title=\"click to view more articles tagged &quot;ClimateGate&quot;\">ClimateGate<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/climaterealists.com\/index.php?tid=253\" title=\"click to view more articles tagged &quot;Pat Michaels&quot;\">Pat Michaels<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/climaterealists.com\/index.php?tid=298\" title=\"click to view more articles tagged &quot;Paul C. Knappenberger&quot;\">Paul C. Knappenberger<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/climaterealists.com\/index.php?tid=433\" title=\"click to view more articles tagged &quot;Reply To Article&quot;\">Reply To Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p>  Back of December 18, 2009, the Washington Post ran an editorial <a  href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/12\/17\/AR2009121703682.html\">E-mail furor doesn&#8217;t alter evidence for climate change<\/a> by Penn State\u2019s Dr. Michael Mann, who attempted to explain why the recent release of the Climategate emails \u201cdoesn\u2019t alter evidence for climate change.\u201d But Dr. Mann\u2014a central figure in the released emails\u2014is speaking only from one side of the issue\u2014his side.  While the contents of the Climategate emails may not alter the evidence of climate change published in the scientific \u201cpeer-reviewed\u201d literature, it is an entirely different matter when it comes to evidence of climate change that may have been kept out of the peer-reviewed literature.  And the Climategate emails illuminate continual efforts from Dr. Mann and colleagues to limit the contents of the peer-reviewed scientific literature to only those types of results and conclusions that they liked.  As such, the extant scientific literature of the past 5 to 10 years cannot be considered to be a fair representation of what it would have been had it not been manipulated. Thus, it is impossible to judge whether or not the evidence for climate change has been altered by the Climategate emails, contrary to Dr. Mann\u2019s claims.<\/p>\n<p>Below is a letter-to-the editor of the Washington Post that I submitted is response to Dr. Mann\u2019s December 18th op-ed. Since it has been more than 10 days since I submitted it, I\u2019ll assume that the Post has decided not to run it (they did not run any letter-to-the-editor on this topic, despite having received 651 comments on-line, the majority of them quite negative).  My letter is reproduced here:<br \/>\n<br \/>\nSource: sppiblog.org<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/climaterealists.com\/index.php?id=4761\">Read in full with comments \u00bb<\/a>  &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/DcVt7c_yYWizzyArEhBncUKdABk\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/DcVt7c_yYWizzyArEhBncUKdABk\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/DcVt7c_yYWizzyArEhBncUKdABk\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/DcVt7c_yYWizzyArEhBncUKdABk\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/ClimaterealistsNewsBlog\/~4\/AxmI-n7I9eE\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Article Tags: ClimateGate, Pat Michaels, Paul C. Knappenberger, Reply To Article Back of December 18, 2009, the Washington Post ran an editorial E-mail furor doesn&#8217;t alter evidence for climate change by Penn State\u2019s Dr. Michael Mann, who attempted to explain why the recent release of the Climategate emails \u201cdoesn\u2019t alter evidence for climate change.\u201d But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}