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From the Times Online:

SCIENTISTS at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have admitted throwing away much of the raw temperature data on which their predictions of global warming are based.

It means that other academics are not able to check basic calculations said to show a long-term rise in temperature over the past 150 years.

The UEA’s Climatic Research Unit (CRU) was forced to reveal the loss following requests for the data under Freedom of Information legislation.

The data were gathered from weather stations around the world and then adjusted to take account of variables in the way they were collected. The revised figures were kept, but the originals — stored on paper and magnetic tape — were dumped to save space when the CRU moved to a new building.

 

In other words: “trust us.” But without the raw data, there is NO WAY to verify the claims made by the CRU. A truly scientifically valid approach would be to dump the CRU’s conclusions as they did the raw data, and start over from scratch.

And from the American Thinker:

Due to the fact that direct temperature measures for past epochs are lacking, climatologists utilize “proxy measures,” such as tree rings, glacial moraines, and lake sediments. Tree rings have played an important part in the warming controversy as evidence backing the claim that temperatures have been consistently lower worldwide until recently. A crucial series of measurements utilized by Mann, among others, involves trees located on the Yamal peninsula in Siberia. How many trees were measured, you ask? A hundred? A thousand? Ten thousand?

<>The answer is twelve: a number perfectly adequate to trigger international panic, overthrow the capitalist system, establish Green totalitarianism, and completely turn Western culture on its head.
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<>But it turns out that further measurements were in fact made in the area, involving at least thirty-four other trees. And when this data is added to the original twelve, then the warming evidence disappears into the same branch of the Twilight Zone as the grip of Mann’s hockey stick. Another “oversight”, you understand.
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Twelve? Fricken’ twelve? The future of mankind was predicated on examining a whole dozen trees? Really?

Take a look at Climate Audit to get an idea of what happens when you pick such a small dataset…

But lest you think that the revelations of chicanery and incompetance out of the CRU might cause some of the alarmists to back off on some of their overblown rhetoric, never fear! We’re All Going To Die!

Professor Kevin Anderson, director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change, believes only around 10 per cent of the planet’s population – around half a billion people – will survive if global temperatures rise by 4C.

Anderson’s warning comes just eight days before global leaders meet in Copenhagen for the most crucial talks on climate change reversal since the Rio summit in 1992. Current Met Office projections reveal that the lack of action in the intervening 17 years – in which emissions of climate changing gases such as carbon dioxide have soared – has set the world on a path towards potential 4C rises as early as 2060, and 6C rises by the end of the century.

Anderson, who advises the government on climate change, said the consequences were “terrifying”.

“For humanity it’s a matter of life or death,” he said. “We will not make all human beings extinct as a few people with the right sort of resources may put themselves in the right parts of the world and survive.

“But I think it’s extremely unlikely that we wouldn’t have mass death at 4C. If you have got a population of nine billion by 2050 and you hit 4C, 5C or 6C, you might have half a billion people surviving.”

Oh no! Surely after all the recent news, the only reason why professor Anderson would produce such dire predictions is because he has new data, right? RIGHT?!?!??

Ummmm....

Kevin is a qualified marine engineer and has 12 years industrial experience, principally in the petrochemical industry. He is currently a non-executive director of Greenstone Carbon Management – a London based company advising leading firms and public bodies on how to manage their carbon emissions and is commissioner on the Welsh Assembly Government’s ‘Climate Change Committee’.

Uhhh…. hmmm. Seems to me an alternate explanation might well have something to do with the fact that he works for/is probably invested in a company that makes it’s money off of fears about global warming… and if Copenhagen does not go the greenpisser’s way,  and if the unreasonable fear of global warming abates, then somebody might be out a load of cash.

So… think of Prof Anderson as a “non executive director” in, say, a tobacco company. And just after a report hits the news that there’s a major scandal – that the Tobacco Research Unit, say, has fudged it’s cancer numbers, and outright lied and “lost” data – good prof Anderson comes out and announces that if people stop smoking cigarettes, the moon is goign to crash into the Earth. Sure, we believe you.