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‘Trust Us, We’re Experts!’

Posted on | February 14, 2010 | 8 Comments

Another triumph of expertise:

The academic at the centre of the ‘Climategate’ affair, whose raw data is crucial to the theory of climate change, has admitted that he has trouble ‘keeping track’ of the information.
Colleagues say that the reason Professor Phil Jones has refused Freedom of Information requests is that he may have actually lost the relevant papers.
Professor Jones told the BBC yesterday there was truth in the observations of colleagues that he lacked organisational skills, that his office was swamped with piles of paper and that his record keeping is ‘not as good as it should be’.
The data is crucial to the famous ‘hockey stick graph’ used by climate change advocates to support the theory.
Professor Jones also conceded the possibility that the world was warmer in medieval times than now – suggesting global warming may not be a man-made phenomenon.
And he said that for the past 15 years there has been no ‘statistically significant’ warming.

(Via Memeorandum.) The big headline at Little Green Footballs? “Overnight Open Thread.” Lot of crickets chirping overnight, it seems.

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Comments

8 Responses to “‘Trust Us, We’re Experts!’”

  1. rain of lead
    February 14th, 2010 @ 6:14 pm

    the husky one at BVoAF (blog version of animal farm) now has a thread up about Phil Jones
    he is calling the paper the Daily fail and it
    is all ” he did not say what he said he said”
    wonder if he will dis the times of london

    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article7026317.ece

  2. rain of lead
    February 14th, 2010 @ 1:14 pm

    the husky one at BVoAF (blog version of animal farm) now has a thread up about Phil Jones
    he is calling the paper the Daily fail and it
    is all ” he did not say what he said he said”
    wonder if he will dis the times of london

    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article7026317.ece

  3. Adobe Walls
    February 14th, 2010 @ 6:34 pm

    somewhat off topic: speaking of experts Klugman at RCP

  4. Adobe Walls
    February 14th, 2010 @ 1:34 pm

    somewhat off topic: speaking of experts Klugman at RCP

  5. KingShamus
    February 14th, 2010 @ 7:14 pm

    So the dog ate Phil Jones homework?

    Amazing.

  6. KingShamus
    February 14th, 2010 @ 2:14 pm

    So the dog ate Phil Jones homework?

    Amazing.

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