{"id":262680,"date":"2010-02-02T00:01:57","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T05:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/papundits.wordpress.com\/?p=30717"},"modified":"2010-02-02T00:01:57","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T05:01:57","slug":"climategate-%e2%80%93-now-the-guardian-discovers-what-was-always-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/262680","title":{"rendered":"Climategate \u2013 Now The Guardian Discovers What Was Always There"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"<\/a>By Andrew Bolt<\/strong><\/p>\n

The only real things that\u2019s changed now is the media\u2019s willingness to see the fraud and fiddling that was always part of the great global warming scam. To finally see the fraud and fiddling that bloggers have written about for years.<\/p>\n

Example? Well, take the Guardian<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For nearly three years, mathematician Douglas Keenan <\/a>has campaigned to get the University of East Anglia, the University of Albany, the IPCC and the media to accept that a key piece of evidence behind the IPCC\u2019s claims that the world was warming was based on a study that was wrong, if not outright fraudulent<\/a>. Keenan described not just the tricking up of results to hide the urban heat island effect, but the disgraceful efforts by climate scientists and University of Albany administrators to hush up the scandal.<\/p>\n

When Climategate broke last year (again, through the blogs), I discovered and noted that one Climategate scientist, Australian Tom Wigley, was so shocked <\/a>by this particular scandal that he had written scathing (private) emails to the head of the now discredited Climatic Research Unit, Phil Jones, damning what had been done.<\/p>\n

I also summarised the scandal, which had also been well-covered <\/a>by other blogs<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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One of the biggest problems with calculating temperature trends over the past century is how much to allow for the fact that measurements in our fast-growing concrete jungles will suffer from the \u201curban heat island\u201d effect of all those extra machines and concrete. How much of the warming until 2001 must be discounted as a result?.. <\/em><\/p>\n

<\/span>The IPCC\u2019s 2007 report made an allowance that drew heavily on a 1990 paper by Phil Jones that dismissed the UHI effect as largely trivial. That in turn drew heavily on a paper by Professor Wang Wei-Chyung of Albany, State University of New York, which presented data from China which both Wang and Jones claimed came from stations that had \u201cfew, if any, changes in instrumentation, location or observation times\u201d, and so could be relied upon. <\/em><\/p>\n

Mathematician Doug Keenan and others obtained the original Wang data and used it to track down the Chinese weather stations. They found that 49 of the 84 stations used actually had no records of station location, eight had inconsistent histories, 18 had been moved a considerable distance, and only seven were known not to have been relocated. One station had five different locations in 30 years as far as 41 km apart. <\/em><\/p>\n

Wang seemed to have lied. His data was essentially worthless, and Jones\u2019 (and the IPCC\u2019s) claim that the Urban Heat Island effect was trivial now seemed unsupported by solid evidence. <\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

For all this time, the Guardian <\/em> kept up its alarmist campaign on global warming, and ignored this particular scandal.<\/p>\n

But today I read that the Guardian has a \u201cscoop\u201d thanks to its \u201cinvestigation\u201d and \u201ctoday reveals\u201d what it last year wouldn\u2019t:<\/p>\n

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Phil Jones, the beleaguered British climate scientist at the centre of the leaked emails controversy, is facing fresh claims that he sought to hide problems in key temperature data on which some of his work was based. <\/em><\/p>\n

A Guardian investigation of thousands of emails and documents apparently hacked from the University of East Anglia\u2019s climatic research unit has found evidence that a series of measurements from Chinese weather stations were seriously flawed and that documents relating to them could not be produced<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And Wigley and his emails are \u201crevealed\u201d, too:<\/p>\n

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Today the Guardian reveals how Jones withheld the information requested under freedom of information laws. Subsequently a senior colleague told him he feared that Jones\u2019s collaborator, Wei-\u00adChyung Wang of the University at Albany, had \u201cscrewed up\u201d. <\/em><\/p>\n

The leaked emails from the CRU reveal that the former director of the unit, Tom Wigley, harboured grave doubts about the cover-up of the shortcomings in Jones and Wang\u2019s work. Wigley was in charge of CRU when the original paper was published. \u201cWere you taking W-CW [Wang] on trust?\u201d he asked Jones. He continued: \u201cWhy, why, why did you and W-CW not simply say this right at the start?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This example actually suggests how complicit the media has been in keeping the global warming scare alive by failing to report what was actually under its nose.<\/p>\n

But now there\u2019s a great change. There is now a race on to uncover the next big IPCC scandal, and I doubt the great climate change scare can survive. The papers will, of course, take the credit.<\/p>\n

Andrew Bolt<\/em><\/a> is a journalist and columnist writing for <\/em>The Herald Sun<\/em><\/a> in Melbourne Victoria Australia.<\/em><\/p>\n

Read more excellent articles from Andrew Bolt\u2019s Blog<\/a><\/p>\n

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