First off, I recommend to everyone to read A. W. Montford’s book: The Hockey Stick Illusion (a charitable title: it should really be called, the Hockey Stick Deception). You will discover that the “science” of global warming used by the UN is science fiction. There is no there, there. The deception was that Michael Mann and other so-called scientists cherry-picked the dedrachronological data to eliminate the Medieval Warming Period and then hide behind some seemingly fancy statistics to validate the deception. When confronted with the fact that the fancy statistics didn’t show what they said the statistics showed, they lamely said, that were not statisticians. Of course, Mann would not share his data or methodology with the skeptics, making it all that harder to validate what he had done. Can you imagine a drug company trying to bring a drug to market without making its findings public? The FDA would slap it down in a nano-second. Why aren’t these so-called scientists held to the same standards? After all, what they want to do is turn the world upside-down. When skeptics wanted to pulished their findings contradicting Mann others, for the most part they couldn’t. Mann and his minions had more or less captured the peer-review process, thereby preventing skeptics from being published. Mann and others then said the skeptics were not peer-reviewed. When a peer review article by two skeptics was finally published, Mann pooh-poohed the peer review process and then had the editor, who had allowed to article to be published, removed. We can thank Steve McIntyre along with Ross McKitrick for their tireless and selfless work in unravelling the deception, and we can thank Mr. Montford for having recorded the entire sordid matter.
Second – to Lazar – I urge you to read up on just how bad average temperature data are. There appears to be an inverse correlation between number of reporting stations and average US (and/or global temperatures). Today, there are many fewer stations than in the 1970s and the remaining stations are at lower latitudes (i.e., further south) and less rural than the stations of the 1970s; and many of the remaining stations do not meet the standars for unbiased temperature readings. Furthermore the algorithm to account for the urban heat island index does not seem to be right. Finally, when others get hold of the raw data that have not lost (the dog ate my data) they find that there has not be a noticeable upward trend in termperatures. Indeed, Phil Jones of the East Anglia CRU, has admitted that there has been no globabl warming since the mid-nineties, which validates Dr. Carlin’s statements. Finally, I need to point out that whatever effect CO2 has on global warming, humnakind’s contribution is at best marginal. That is for two reasons: There are many other natural sources for CO2 besides human activity, and those would be there irrespective human activity, and more importantly, it is the logarithm of CO2 that affects temperature. The nature of the logarithm is that it is the first couple PPMs that have the greatest effect; when you get up to 350 PPM, adding another PPM has a very, very small effect.
