It seems no matter where you look, “hockey stick” shapes pop out of data related to climate. Today, the most extraordinary day in climate science seen in quite some time, was no exception.
And, the day is not over. But honestly I’m too tired to continue. Thus I’m going to present the dataset gleaned today in raw form, but without the final endpoint. There’s no smoothing nor splicing of dissimilar datasets, but granted it is not a complete dataset. I’ll have complete data tomorrow.
Readers will recognize that even though the endpoint has not been established, the conclusion from the graph is clear. We are living in times of extraordinary data, never before seen. It’s accelerating, and worse than we thought.
UPDATE: the final number at midnight Nov 20th, 2009 was 187,988 hits.
Sometimes, there is irony.
In other news, WUWT’s post on the CRU data hack was the number one post on WordPress today, beating out CNN, People magazine, and other well known media outlet posts.
I wish to offer my sincerest thanks to the WUWT moderation team. Thanks also to readers who spread the word and participated in the largest ever thread.
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One more hockey stick like that and you , me and the NASA team of climatescientologists can have a game.
Now we can start looking at adaptation, if necessary.
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And how about a donation to Mr Watts at WUWT??
http://www.surfacestations.org/donate.htm
If you are a regular viewer of WUWT, you must get as much enjoyment from this site as two or three trips to the cinema, or one ball-game. That has got to be the equivalent of $50 – surely!!
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Come on everyone. If you want to see a political change, it will not happen in a vacuum. Campaigns require money, and WUWT and CA do not run on fresh air and Hail-Marys.
Dig into your pockets, and dig deep. Let’s keep this ball rolling.
Ralph
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Ditto!!
I hope this all leads to corrective action at the state, legal and media levels.
The entire world has been defrauded. THERE HAS TO BE COMPENSATION FOR DAMAGES.
When I think about all
1. The “green taxes” I’ve paid,
2. The costly regluations that had to be dealt with
3. The tax money paid to fund this fraud
4. The tax money paid forall these bogus studies
5. The taxes paid to fund the IPCC
6. those damn expensive climate conferences
7. the political time devoted to a non-problem
8. all the scientists who had their careers ruined
9. all those green subsidies for renewables
10. all the kids in hunger because of biofuels
and so on,
It’s time that these people be investigated, indicted and juste meeted out.
Yes, I think if we all assembled in a class action suit, we could finally get this ball rolling.
Reconcilliation? No way!
Those fraudsters can thank their lucky stars they aren’t living in the Old West days.
I’m gonna bring this up with a lawyer I know and see what avenues are possible. They took, correction, THEY STOLE, enough of my money.
The news have now been featured in the on line version of the British Telegraph here http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/6619796/Climate-scientists-accused-of-manipulating-global-warming-data.html
They are mainly focusing on “One of the emails under scrutiny, dated November 1999, reads: “I’ve just completed Mike’s Nature [the science journal] trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie, from 1981 onwards) and from 1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline.”
Scientists who are alleged to be the authors of the emails in question have declined to comment on the matter. “
Speaking of olfactory organs… Good for the ego and nutritious too!
http://startthinkingright.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/nobel-peace-prize.jpg
If someone in the states knows a lawyer competent in these matters, then I think we ought to band together legally and go on the offensive.
I’m ready to contribute $500.00 (five hundred) into a legal fund to address this. If everyone puts in $5, $10 or $20, multiply it by a thousand, and we have formidable war chest.
I think the best place to start would be a British or US Court.
If there are lawyers in this blog sympathetic to our cause, please step forward.
Congratulations to everyone involved in exposing this (assuming it all turns out to be true).
I have this uneasy feeling that this is a complex rouse, designed to prove the evils of climate change deniers ahead of the Copenhagen conference….
But if it turns out to be true, the I hope Anthony Watts & Stephen McIntyre are nominated for the Nobel prize. They truely deserve it.
Anthony, you are a hero of modern era. Thank you for you unbelievable effort. Take care.
Wonder of wonders, Thank you (King for the day) Anthony
Just watched BBC news on the satellite, floods in England disasters left and right but not a word of global warming, normally it would be the big news ”England is drowning in global warming’
As others have already said:
Major kudos to WUWT; and
long live THIS hockey stick.
Ditto ruthlessly objective science.
Difficult to know for sure without the benefit of hindsight sometime in the future, but it’s tempting to wonder if this might turn out to be one of those critical-mass ignition days; when the sandy foundation of the whole AGW house of cards started to visibly wash away. . . .
The exposure process we have watched so far mirrors the exposure of the MP’s expenses scandal closely.
For our ex-imperial cousins from across the pond, I should note that the British Members of Parliament are currently embroiled in a scandal about their expenses. As the highest authority in the land, they signed them off themselves, and were getting quite creative about what they charged for.
A journalist had spent many years trying to uncover details of the frauds, but at every turn she was stymied by the refusal of Parliament to cooperate – in exactly the same way as CRU. Then, a few months ago, an internal ‘hacker’ copied a lot of the expenses claims and sent them to a newspaper – and the scandal was exposed.
Compared to the MPs, who were lying blatently, I think the CRU e-mails I have seen are embarrassing, but can be presented as minor – internal discussions about a topic can well sound extreme when taken out of context. What interests me far more is the apparent plotting to deny Steve any publication outlet, followed by ignoring his work on the grounds that it has not been published. This strikes at the heart of science, and should be grounds for dismissal…
The British Brainwashing Corporation’s Gravy Train Heads for Copenhagen
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1229695/BBC-dispatches-35-staff-climate-talks–creating-carbon-African-village-does-year.html
“BBC dispatches 35 staff to climate talks – creating as much carbon as an African village does in a year
20th November 2009
The BBC is sending 35 people to next month’s climate change talks in Copenhagen – creating as much carbon dioxide as an African village does in a whole year. The corporation said its delegation of 12 presenters, along with a backup team of researchers, producers and camera crews, will spend up to two weeks in the Danish capital on expenses to cover the global summit.
Critics said the numbers were ‘absolutely staggering’ and accused the BBC of playing fast and loose with licence payers’ money. If all 35 BBC staff go by plane, they will generate around six or seven tons of carbon dioxide.
Conservative MP Philip Davies said: ‘It’s absolutely staggering. It’s yet another example of how wasteful the BBC is. It begs the question what all of these people will be doing when they are there. On the subject of climate change, the BBC seems to lose all its critical faculties and it will probably be just a fawning exercise over these environmentalists anyway. It would be nice if one of these 35 people asked some pertinent and critical questions about climate change. But I suspect they will all be subscribers to the extreme environmental agenda.’
The BBC delegation is expected to include the corporation’s environment analyst Roger Harrabin along with a team of science and environment reporters. Political editor Nick Robinson may also attend, given the expected presence of Gordon Brown, while the BBC is considering presenting the Ten O’Clock News live from the summit at some point during the fortnight.
Next month’s United Nations talks were intended to create a new global climate treaty that would commit developed and developing countries to cutting greenhouse gas emissions. Without a deal, most scientists and environmentalists say the world is heading for a ‘dangerous’ rise in global temperatures of between 2c and 6c by the end of the century. However, world leaders now concede there is not enough time to get a formal treaty in place, and that another climate summit will be needed next year.
Earlier this month the BBC came under fire for spending £20million on an army of advisers, strategists and ‘decision makers’ at a time when programme makers were facing fierce budget cuts.
A spokesman for the BBC defended its decision to send such a large team to Copenhagen. ‘The BBC will provide in-depth multimedia coverage across a wide range of outlets, including the main network news bulletins, BBC Breakfast, the BBC News channel, BBC World News, BBC Radio including Five Live and Radio Four, and the BBC News website,’ he said. ‘The Copenhagen conference is a major global news story and we will deploy 12 on-air presenters and reporters, supported by 23 producers, camera operators, engineers in total. They will be phased over the course of the ten-day event – and won’t all be there at the same time.’ However, he refused to say how much the corporation was spending on the talks or how many of its staff would be going to the capital by plane.
The Government has yet to announce how many people it is sending to Copenhagen. Mr Brown has promised to go, along with Energy and Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband. One insider said: ‘It’s a standing joke here that the BBC will have more people there than the Government. On the last summit we sent around 30 people.’ In contrast to the BBC’s delegation, Greenpeace is sending just two people from the UK, while Friends of the Earth pans to send 12.
Susie Squire, of the Taxpayers’ Alliance, said: ‘It’s unnecessary for the BBC to send so many people – and hypocritical. It’s out of touch with what most licence fee payers are thinking. After the scandal about BBC waste, you’d think they would be tightening their belts.’
Six to seven tons of carbon dioxide is equal to the carbon footprint of 18 Kenyans for one year.”
…not that it makes a blind bit of difference to the climate how much carbon dioxide is produced by anybody doing anything. It’s just that those BBC staffers don’t even believe their own propaganda anymore.
Thanks for your great work Anthony, you are a hero of all Life on Earth.
Can’t wait to see the self inflicted incitements that fall out from this leaked information assuming it’s not been falsified.
How do we know it’s good leaked information anyhow?
RE J.Hansford (23:48:09)
In the end, it is the science that wins.
Unfortunately the focus in the mainstream press at the moment is on the criminal act of hacking not the criminal act of falsifying data.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8370282.stm
Hopefully a sea-change, (no pun intended):
Climate scientists accused of ‘manipulating global warming data’
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/6619796/Climate-scientists-accused-of-manipulating-global-warming-data.html
That is perhaps the most disquieting image I have seen this morning.
Thank you Hacker …for your courage.
Regards
Mihcael
“Because comments were posted quoting excerpts apparently from the hacked Climate Research Unit e-mails, and because there are potential legal issues connected with publishing this material, we have temporarily removed all comments until we can ensure that watertight oversight is in place.”
Will they also temporarily remove all comments about AGW by the AGW alarmists now that it has been exposed as a likely fraud? All scientists must now rethink their positions and come clean. We need to know the truth. If we don’t know then get together and find it. This is serious, not some joke as billions of dollars and millions of lives are at stake.
Anthony, you are the Best!
I`m very interested in the further evolution…
breaking news
the WUWT hockey stick passed the peer review by Michael Mann!
“First they ignore you; then they laugh at you; then they fight you; then you win.”
Mahatma Gandhi
Ironically this is quoted on the back of the Futerra Communications “Rules of the Game.pdf”
Sweet – bring on the endgame
You also outdid CNN in ‘fair and balanced’, if I may say.
Mods: This is all very interesting, but what people really want to know – assuming this revelation about Hadley is significant enough to dismember or seriously damage the entire AGW hypothesis – is:
How will this debunking/scandal effect my 401K, my house value, what kind of car I drive, the value of the dollar, international trade, my job, the cost of groceries, gas, and electricity, etc. ? How it will impact the political balance of power over the next 3 years, and other mundane issues of concern to the average ( US ) citizen.
Ordinary folks don’t give a rat’s fanny about the “science” or the internal shenanigans of some obscure research center. They care about how and when it might impact them personally in ways they may not even realize.
How about some words of wisdom for all the “Joe Sixpacks” out here in the real world?
Reply: Stay out of show business. ~ ctm
@steven mosher (00:35:05) :
“It would please me to no end if we just referred to this collection as “The CRUTAPE letters”
with a hat tip to CS lewis.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Screwtape_Letters
screwtape played by jones
wormwood played by mann”
A great analogy, I must dust off my copy.