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Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on December 14, 2009

The data used to create the 'hockey stick' graph were 'fudged' to create the illusion of global warming

More bad news at the Copenhagen global warming fest… more are saying “no” to the climate change fraud.

From DailyMail.co.uk: very unhappy with what they are finding:

Another British scientist – Chris Folland of the Met Office’s Hadley Centre – wrote the same day that using Briffa’s data might be awkward, because it suggested the past was too warm. This, he lamented, ‘dilutes the message rather significantly’.

Over the next few days, Briffa, Jones, Folland and Mann emailed each other furiously. Mann was fearful that if Briffa’s trees made the IPCC diagram, ‘the sceptics [would] have a field day casting doubt on our ability to understand the factors that influence these estimates and, thus, can undermine faith [in them] – I don’t think that doubt is scientifically justified, and I’d hate to be the one to have to give it fodder!’

Finally, Briffa changed the way he computed his data and submitted a revised version. This brought his work into line for earlier centuries, and ‘cooled’ them significantly. But alas, it created another, potentially even more serious, problem.

According to his tree rings, the period since 1960 had not seen a steep rise in temperature, as actual temperature readings showed – but a large and steady decline, so calling into question the accuracy of the earlier data derived from tree rings.

This is the context in which, seven weeks later, Jones presented his ‘trick’ – as simple as it was deceptive.

All he had to do was cut off Briffa’s inconvenient data at the point where the decline started, in 1961, and replace it with actual temperature readings, which showed an increase.

On the hockey stick graph, his line is abruptly terminated – but the end of the line is obscured by the other lines.

‘Any scientist ought to know that you just can’t mix and match proxy and actual data,’ said Philip Stott, emeritus professor of biogeography at London’s School of Oriental and African Studies.

‘They’re apples and oranges. Yet that’s exactly what he did.’

More record cold and snow in Australia:

The mile-high Mount Baw Baw in Australia saw a dusting of snow in December (the meteorological equivalent of June in the Southern Hemisphere).

The Weather Zone: “A cold front crossed the nation’s southeast during Thursday, bringing gusty winds and some good falls to southern Victoria.

“Mount Baw Baw was one of the many locations to receive these falls, 31 millimetres in fact. Part of this was snow, around five centimetres, not enough to rejuvenate the ski season, but enough to create an excited buzz.”

In Northern Hemisphere news, the Australian ABC News reported: “People in the north-central part of the Canadian province of Ontario are digging out after one of the worst snow storms on record. Some areas north of Toronto received as much as 100 centimetres of snow over the past three days.”

100 centimeters is a meter, or 40 inches of snow.

The agency also reported: “Meanwhile, western Canada is in the grip of a cold snap with temperatures plummeting anywhere from -40 to -50 degrees Celsius.”

40 below in Celsius is the same as 40 below Farenheit.

The Cape Cod Times reported that cold, stormy weather is wreaking havoc on marine mammals and sea turtles: “The past week and a half has brought almost ‘a dolphin a day’ stranding on Cape shorelines, said C.T. Harry, assistant coordinator of the International Fund for Animal Welfare’s stranding network.”

PeTA should protest and blame Al Gore for this.

Remember, as always, everything proves global warming.

Michael Savage on ClimateGate – Global Warming Frauds are Attacking our Liberties: Broadcast November 24, 2009

More on ClimateGate and the criminal global warming scam:
Ace of Spades HQ: Sure, Why Not: Scientists in Met Office (Overseeing CRU) “Pressured” to Sign Circular Defending AGW “Or Risk Losing Work”
The Powers That Be: Climate Change Causing Dramatic Rise in Levels of BS
Christopher C. Horner, Big Government: ClimateGate: This Can’t Help
RedState: Fun Facts About Methane
Gateway Pundit: Busted– Goracle Confronted on His Wacky North Pole Melting Claims and Ahmadinejad, Chavez and Mugabe Will Speak at UN Junk Science Summit and Barack Obama: Climate Change Is a National Security Issue and Junk Scientist Al Gore Takes On “Denier” Sarah Palin and Danish Speaker Warns About Global Warming Junk Science and Sarah Palin Tells Obama to Boycott Copenhagen in Light of Climategate and Man Crashes TV Shot to Call on Media to Cover Climategate (Video) – Winter Storm Dumps Snow In Houston and Climategate: Mann Throws Jones Under the Bus and Barbara Boxer: “You call it Climategate — I Call it E-Mail-Theft-Gate” (Video)
GayPatriot: Dems want to drop Boxer-Kerry; let’s hope CA just drops Boxer
Hot Air: EPA declares air a danger to human health and Do hacked e-mails show global-warming fraud? and Weird science: East Anglia CRU threw out their raw data
Half-Baked Sourdough: A Climate Scientist Speaks
Nice Deb: Video: Climategate Christmas and Soros Behind Massive Eco-Redistribution Scheme in Copenhagen
Dana Loesch: Coal Company Cuts 500 Jobs, Blames Environmentalists
Wizbang: Einstein and Climategate
Maura Flynn, Big Government: Build-A-Climate-Scare: Why You Should Boycott Build-A-Bear
Frugal Café Blog Zone: Einstein’s Error & Another Bogus Claim from Gore: “Earth’s Core Is Millions of Degrees” and Liar, Liar, EPA Chief Lisa Jackson’s Pants Are on Fire… about Her Contrived “Air Is Bad for People” Announcement and More Power-Grabbing: EPA Rules Air Is a Danger, Now Is the Wolf Guarding the Chicken Coop and “It’s My Nation’s Carbon Footprint, and I’ll Enlarge It if I Want To…” Copenhagen Attendees Ignore ClimateGate Scandal, Will Negatively Impact World’s Environment & Don’t Care and Shaky House of Cards… Australia Parliament Has Voted “NO” on Global Warming/Cap and Trade Bill and ClimateGate’s Lies and Deception to Hide the Decline: The Heat’s On, Dump the Data! and Global Warming Scam: Scientific Data in “Hockey Stick” Graph Bogus, Uh, ‘Fudged’ (video) and Climategate: Rush Limbaugh on Global Warming Hoax & Three Siberian Tree Rings… There Is No Global Warming

Patterico’s Pontifications: AGW Defender: Let’s Not Engage in Character Assassination and Overheated Debate . . . You Asshole
Alfonso Rachel, Big Hollywood: Save the Planet, Hold Your Breath… Liberals first
Ztower: Copenhagen weather forecast for Friday, December 11, 2009
Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion: Just A Giant Iceberg Story
The Foundry, Heritage.org: Climategate: From Skepticism to Investigation
Michelle Malkin: Hey, Al Gore: You lie! and The EPA’s war on carbon and Save the planet: Erase Copenhagen’s carbon footprint! and All the president’s ClimateGate deniers
JunkScience: Feature: Checking their homework and Are we really sure the world is too warm? and Welcome to a Short Course on “Junk Science Judo”
Greg Gutfeld, Big Hollywood: Daily Gut: I Can’t Copenhagen
GOP Exiles: IPCC Climate Change scientists lied
Watts Up With That?: American Thinker: Understanding Climategate’s Hidden Decline
Per Strandberg, Global Warming And The Climate: The causes of global warming and climate change and Facts About Global Warming!
Politiken.dk: Parliamentary Speaker: Climate debate derailed?
VotingFemale Speaks!: EPA to Attack US Economy by declaring CO2 toxic; without CO2, all plant life would die and Saudi Arabia drops ClimateGate Bomb on Copenhagen
Robert Robb, Real Clear Politics: Climategate and Copenhagen: History as Farce
Left Coast Rebel: Sarah Palin, Copenhagen and Obama, New Rasmussen Poll on Global Warming
Small Dead Animals: How Important Is CRU Data?
Planet Gore, National Review: Tipping Point for the Climate Horror Show?
Hooda Thunk?: Current climate far from “unprecedented” – time for a little larger context to the climatology discussion.
Another Black Conservative: Sarah Palin To Obama: Boycott Copenhagen
Green Hell Blog: Skeptics winning in UK and India rejects global warming junk science and Electricity projected to skyrocket in Georgia under carbon law

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