Scientist accused of hiding truth by colleague
By David Rose, Mail Online 6:11 PM on 30th October 2011
It was hailed as the scientific study that ended the global warming debate once and for all – the research that, in the words of its director, ‘proved you should not be a sceptic, at least not any longer’.
Professor Richard Muller, of Berkeley University in California, and his colleagues from the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperatures project team (BEST) claimed to have shown that the planet has warmed by almost a degree centigrade since 1950 and is warming continually.
Published last week ahead of a major United Nations climate summit in Durban, South Africa, next month, their work was cited around the world as irrefutable evidence that only the most stringent measures to reduce carbon dioxide emissions can save civilisation as we know it.
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It was cited uncritically by, among others, reporters and commentators from the BBC, The Independent, The Guardian, The Economist and numerous media outlets in America.
The Washington Post said the BEST study had ‘settled the climate change debate’ and showed that anyone who remained a sceptic was committing a ‘cynical fraud’.
But today The Mail on Sunday can reveal that a leading member of Prof Muller’s team has accused him of trying to mislead the public by hiding the fact that BEST’s research shows global warming has stopped.
Her comments, in an exclusive interview with The Mail on Sunday, seem certain to ignite a furious academic row. She said this affair had to be compared to the notorious ‘Climategate’ scandal two years ago.
Like the scientists exposed then by leaked emails from East Anglia University’s Climatic Research Unit, her colleagues from the BEST project seem to be trying to ‘hide the decline’ in rates of global warming.
In fact, Prof Curry said, the project’s research data show there has been no increase in world temperatures since the end of the Nineties – a fact confirmed by a new analysis that The Mail on Sunday has obtained.
A graph issued by the BEST project also suggests a continuing steep increase.
But a report to be published today by the Global Warming Policy Foundation includes a graph of world average temperatures over the past ten years, drawn from the BEST project’s data and revealed on its website.
This graph shows that the trend of the last decade is absolutely flat, with no increase at all – though the levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere have carried on rising relentlessly.
Media storm: Prof Muller’s claims received uncritical coverage in the media this weekThis, too, went around the world, with The Economist, among many others, stating there was now ‘little room for doubt’.
The oceans, they argue, warm more slowly and this is why earlier global measurements which also cover the sea – such as those from the Climatic Research Unit at East Anglia University – have found no evidence of warming since the Nineties.
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It’s very important that “climatologists” are put in proper perspective.
Scientific Heresy
Matt Ridley
Angus Millar Lecture of the Royal Society of the Arts
Edinburgh, 31 October 2011
http://www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2011/11/1/scientific-heresy.html
Damn, and if we reduce carbon emissions we would have improved our quality of life and stopped our dependence on a depleting fuel source that causes wars and profits a small number of elites, while at the same time causing the accelerated plunging of the majority worlds population into poverty for nothing. Them’s the breaks I guess. Lies from scientists aside, climate change doesn’t matter. Who cares if the climate is changing, who cares who’s fault it is, the fact is we are continuing to use fuel and coal at an accelerated rate and it is a finite resource. When it runs out, no more. More importantly when it becomes too expensive to extract, no more.
Maybe we should stop criticising the government for what they are doing ‘wrong’ and try to make suggestions about what they can do or try to solve the problem ourselves.
Why should you?
Maybe because it is the right, ethical and sustainable thing to do. Maybe because we are constantly letting the environment and people in majority world countries suffer for us to live our first world lives.
My only hope is that people who read this website, specifically your non-peer reviewed propaganda headed under “What is a carbon tax?”, explore the subject themselves and don’t just latch on to the first “common man/woman” that comes along preaching something that will guarantee them that there is no need to change. That everything is fine and that there are no limits to growth.
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