{"id":7476,"date":"2010-02-14T00:04:39","date_gmt":"2010-02-14T05:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=7476"},"modified":"2010-02-14T00:04:39","modified_gmt":"2010-02-14T05:04:39","slug":"climategate-director-of-the-climatic-research-unit-admits-he-is-not-well-organised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/climategate-director-of-the-climatic-research-unit-admits-he-is-not-well-organised\/","title":{"rendered":"Climategate: director of the Climatic Research Unit admits he \u201cis not well organised\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

What a surprise<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Phil Jones, the professor behind the “Climategate” affair, has admitted some of his decades-old weather data was not well enough organised.<\/p>\n

He said this contributed to his refusal to share raw data with critics – a decision he says he regretted.<\/p>\n

His colleagues said that keeping a paper trail was not one of Professor Jones’ strong points. Professor Jones told BBC News: “There is some truth in that”.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The thing is, if the data was not well-organised enough to show to critics, how could it be well-organised enough to be fed into a program and produce graphs?<\/p>\n

In a BBC interview<\/a>, Jones admits there were rates of global warming from 1860-1880, 1910-1940 and 1975-1998 that were essentially identical and that from 1995 to the present there has been no statistically-significant global warming. It has been cooling since 2002, although that is not long enough to be statistically significant.<\/p>\n

Of the now infamous email where Jones referred to a \u201ctrick\u201d, he says it was:<\/p>\n

“a convenient way of achieving something”, in this case joining the earlier valid part of the tree-ring record with the recent, more reliable instrumental record.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Lord Monckton points out<\/a>, though, that the computer program used to process the raw data has the comment:<\/p>\n

\u201cThese will be artificially adjusted to look closer to the real temperatures.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Liberally sprinkled through it – a bit of a giveaway. This goes to show that you should not put comments in your computer programs other than: \u201cthis code was hard to write; it\u2019s *supposed* to be hard to understand\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/em><\/p>\n

Poor Professor Jones says that his life has been awful since the emails were exposed. Based on this interview, I don\u2019t think it is about to get much better; I found his protestations of innocence quite unconvincing.<\/p>\n

Even if the climate is not heating up, the scandal over climategate is: Nature editor Philip Campbell was forced out of an independent panel<\/a> after saying there was nothing to suggest a cover up by scientists at the University of East Anglia.<\/p>\n

In contrast, here in Canada climate experts who question global warming are still vilified and ostracised<\/a>; we are so <\/em>politically correct.<\/p>\n

A member of an independent panel to investigate claims that climate scientists covered up flawed data on global warming has been forced to resign after sceptics questioned his impartiality.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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