And no, it’s not Al Gore, this time.
Related: “The Climategate Timeline: 30 years visualized” The Watt’s Up With That blog notes: “Here’s a Spectacular Poster of ClimateGate covering 3 decades.” They link to Australia’s Joanne Nova, who writes:
You have to see this to believe it. Look up close and admire the detail while you despair at how long science has been going off the rails. To better appreciate the past and what was exposed by the CRU emails, the time-line chart consolidates and chronologically organizes the information uncovered and published about the CRU emails by many researchers along with some related contextual events. That the chart exists at all is yet another example of how skilled experts are flocking in to the skeptics position and dedicating hours of time pro bono because they are passionately motivated to fight against those who try to deceive us.
Click on the image to see it enlarged, but download the full PDF to see the detail.
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Mohib Ebrahim has created this amazing document. I’ve created a permanent Home page for this beautiful poster that will host the latest updates of this enormous Timeline as a PDF. There are also printable versions in A4, A3, A2, US letter and US tabloid for those of you (like me) who need printed versions to scribble on, and scrawl exclamation marks.
Like I said, that a lot of decline to try to hide. Click over and read the whole post.
Update: Welcome Insta-readers! On the other side of the world, Nova’s fellow Australian journalist Tim Blair examines the above linked poster and deems it “beautiful, and would make perfect wallpaper to improve dull East Anglia offices.”
Perhaps documentarian Phelim McAleer, who invariably receives a warm response when asking really inconvenient questions on this topic could videotape himself delivering a copy.
“That the chart exists at all is yet another example of how skilled experts are flocking in to the skeptics position and dedicating hours of time pro bono because they are passionately motivated to fight against those who try to deceive us.”
Exactly.
Our trust in the scientific method itself is at stake here.
Rush Limbaugh pointed this out weeks ago. How can any scientist ever accept that science is “settled” and it only remains to enrich selected politicians by passing science laws?
Where are the scientists attacking this hoax? It is their own credibility going up in smoke.
It’s as if medical doctors were revealed to be used car salesmen who bought their MD’s on line.
Close observers know that even the hard contemporary data shows a complete flattening at the least for a decade with sharp cooling over the last couple years and this year’s temps, last I checked, were .7C down from average. Of course these #s will book shortly. But we also know for a certainty which was long a supposition; that the thumb is on the scale for warming and has been for a long time. Doesn’t this mean that the cooling is actually of a much older vintage and far more precipitous than even these data state? Doesn’t that mean what has failed now is the ability of the manipulators to push the needle? If we adjust the stats in light of the currently known facts we get a much lower overall temperature and a steeper decline that is in line with more traditional climate prognosticators who measure solar activity. So it seems that providentially the Greenies abandoned their sham of global cooling for the sham of global warming just in the nick. Could they pivot again? They will try. Oh yes, they will try, which is just one good reason why it is important for Anti-Greens to not let them get away with the genius level obfuscation “climate change”. If they can alter their banner from Global Warming to Climate Change they will realize their great ambition to ban fire from human activity. That might be okay if we had nukes up and running but as we know, even solar and wind farms are bitterly opposed by the highest levels of even Democrat politics.
This is a holy shit moment. Whoever did the work here should be commended…loudly.
koblog, you tapped into a good point. As a scientist (physiology, not climate), this debacle weakens ALL fields, not just climatology, who hope to make discoveries that can help to enrich humankind.
isaac, I think your last few words highlight a critical distinction between those who vehemently pursued the farce of AGW and the rest of us in the scientific field. At this point, I am starting to believe that enriching humankind is, in fact, not on their agenda. This revelation has saddened and, I must admit, frightened me. I can’t think of another instance where such scientific nihilism was allowed to run rampant for so long, aided and abetted by so many governments. The irony being that at least one of those governments was founded for the sole purpose of caring for “We the People…”
I think this is just the first salvo in the struggle between scientists who hope to make discoveries that can help to enrich humankind, and those who simply want humankind to go away. It’s the logical conclusion of decades of postmodern thought that our scientists were steeped in on their way to the laboratory- if there’s nothing about humanity that makes us worthwhile, and we’re destructive to the rest of the universe, then there’s no reason for us to prosper- or even to exist.