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So That’s Why They Call It Climate Change

Unfortunately for Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and the Copenhagen crew, it looks like the people in charge of documenting the science that keeps the Left’s green ambitions in bloom have been cooking the books.  In emails and other documents hacked, stolen, and posted from Britain’s Hadley Climatic Research Centre several high profile climatologists discuss ways to “hide the decline” of global temperatures.

One of the first reports on the now publicized documents can be found here.

Update: Here's a helpful paper (PDF) from the Heartland Institute discussing the use of misleading charts and graphs in the global warming debate.  The reference to "Mike's Nature trick" in the smoking gun email from Phil Jones is to the famous "hockey stick graph" showing a dramatic uptick in global…[more]

November 20, 2009 • 02:32 pm

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