Mike's Nature Trick

This will no doubt this post will get lost in all the excellent posts above and still to come.
It seems to me that the Editors of Science, Nature and other journals that dabble in climate matters are in this up to their eyeballs and have been a part of and totally complicit in perpetrating this entire scam on the world of science, the public and the political systems of every western nation.
Had these editors stuck to their supposed policies of requiring complete documentation and archiving of every aspect pertaining to every paper presented by the HADCRU / GISS Team so that papers were totally open to scrutiny by all comers and could be checked and verified in an open forum then this situation would probably never had arisen as the Team would have had to come clean with the presentation of their papers for publication.
The editors of those so called prestigious science journals did not enforce their policies if they ever had any, and it now seems that they were also quite open to overt manipulation by members of the Team.
If the science journals wish to retain credibility and they alone are totally responsible for publishing the now discredited papers without any real checks, then the the Editorial and Governing boards of those journals should immediately take vigorous action to remove the offending and complicit editors and completely revamp and rigidly enforce their editorial policies on requiring full declarations and archiving of ALL relevant materials pertaining to a paper.
No action by these science journals just means that this scam will just be repeated again and again and in the long run, the tax paying public’s trust in the integrity of science will be drastically eroded and the discipline of science will suffer an unjustifiable collapse in the public’s regard for it’s high status.

Disagreement between
Benjamin D. Santer & John Christy
Benny is pissed at John
Seems John doesn’t drink the Kool Aid
1248993704.txt

‘The spin doctors
Of climatology
will deny any bias
In their tricky methadology.’
Thanks to Steve Mc., Anthony , Jeff, Finn, et al for your dogged pursuit for real data. Time to put on my fire works display.

IANAL but it seems to me that Mr. Mann and Al Gore are quite possibily guilty of conspiring to defraud governments of hundreds of billions of dollars.

What will gordon brown do now?.He was relying on green taxes to get the uk deficit down.I’m raising your taxes due to government incompetence doesn’t sound good does it?

“… I’ve just completed Mike’s Nature trick of adding in the real temps
to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) amd from
1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline.”
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…..and one way a person could construe RC’s excuses for this strange graphing “trick”.
…. Well they used the word “Trick” to cover up the fact that they misrepresented a graph which is “fraud”, but sorted all that out by redefining “Trick” to mean “Science” and fixed the “fraud” by using the “Science” to get Funding…..
You know it makes sense…..;-)

It’s quite obvious from the emails and the posts at RC that there really is only one ‘team’. Don’t they understand that you don’t get to be your own judge and jury in this world?

Working on the hockey stick:

We need to focus on fundementals. Apart from the odd troll, everyone here will, for some time, have had a pretty good idea whether Phil Jones or Richard Lindzen is a more credible scientist. Or indeed whether or not RC is more reliable than CA or WUWT.
The important thing to focus on is the fact that the ‘scientific consensus’ is being used to support (ostensibly) a move from a ‘High Carbon’ to a ‘Low Carbon’ economy. And to do this as a matter of NOW, with great urgency, irrespective of how ‘robust’ the science is.
In fact there are some fairly good arguments in researching and in implementing ‘Low Carbon’ energy production when mature and commercially attractive alternatives (without ginormous subsidies) to burning fossil fuels become available.
But, in my book, the worst sin of Jones, Mann and the rest is that they have deliberately panicked the politicians and the media into the belief that this must be done NOW in order to save the planet. Mainly motivated by arrogance and the desire to keep their comfortable, very well paid jobs, lavish research funding, index linked pensions. And, of course the all expenses paid jollies to Tahiti.
Cooler heads in industry and finance – and some more intelligent politicians – may realise this but see enormous potential profits from the carbon trading scam. That and the chance to fulfil their ambition to set up an eco-fascist superstate, a glorified version of the EU, where the ‘Political Elite’ will be able to control the lives of all the rest of us, accountable to nobody.
In that sense, whilst Briffa, Jones and the rest think perhaps that Gordon Brown is just a pawn in their AGW game, the reality is that the ‘Team’ are actually pawns in a much bigger game.
And this game will cause incalculable damage to the real economy, plunge hundreds of thousands even deeper into fuel poverty and destroy hope for millions in the Third World who could be provided with clean water, affordable and reliable energy, education and health (and, eventually, good governance?) for a fraction of what is being proposed to ‘save the planet’.
I wish I believed, as many commentators do, that this hack (if it was a hack) will make much difference. I wish I believed that Jones would get his ass kicked, even behind closed doors. I wish they would be punished for their blatant & barefaced violations of FOI laws. But I doubt it will happen.
The powers that be are far more interested in closing ranks.

Bernie Madoff wanted to hide a decline too.
He also got away with it for years.