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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Well, Andrew Bolt (bless his heart) has for one:
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/the_warmist_conspiracy_the_australian_link/
The lies and conspiracies of the global warming scoundrels have been exposed.
It’s the End of the Global Warming Gravy Train.
Tout le monde descend, s’il vous plait.
Simon Filiatrault (03:11:42) :
Don’t be so sure about that.
I was in my local Lidl store & mentioned that the sh1t was hitting the fan over climate science and the disclosures/leaks from CRU. The cashier at the till actually knew what I was talking about! He hadn’t heard of Lucias blackboard but you can’t have everything. He had heard of CA & WUWT though.
DaveE.
Now you’re being misleading just like RealClimate. Show us a larger set that goes back to early October!
As a (retired) professional engineer from Canada, I am truly shocked by the contemptible behaviour of the scientists at Britain’s CRU. A total lack of ethics.
Canadian Order of the Engineer inductees wear a stainless steel ring on the little finger of their working hand as a visible reminder of the oath of integrity and ethics that they’ve taken. This Oath of the Obligations of an Engineer, heart of the “Iron Ring Ceremony”, governed my 40 years in the field of electronics. The various provincial Orders in Canada closely monitor the activities and professionalism of the practice of engineering in Canada.
These shameful and “so-called” scientists wouldn’t have lasted a day in the Engineering Profession in Canada. Well, at least that’s my impression after working with hundreds of colleagues for 40 years. What these men and women have done, and apparently continue to do, is despicable in the worst sense of the word.
@ur momisugly Phillip Bratby (00:43:24) :
“Closing the stable door?”
No, I don’t think so. There are legal implications for publishing leaked emails. I’d sooner blame fear of legal repercussions rather than political bias.
This is my first time commenting although I have used this sites information to back up points in various arguments. But while in the War the “skeptics” are winning with this leak, the data still needs to be verified.
E-mails need to be correlated to information released at the time of their publishing and more importantly the code that was included needs to be gone through and deciphered. I have no doubts that the information that was leaked is real, just by judging the reactions of the “faithful”. They are in mega-overdrive damage control and it doesn’t appear to be working.
Even though is a major blow to the “faithful” it is also a major blow to climate science in general. It will take years for it to gain back its credibility. Although it shouldn’t be a challenge as long as the scientist follow standard scientific protocol.
You have done a great service to mankind,humanity and science.Thank you.
From: Phil Jones
To: Tim Johns , “Folland, Chris”
Subject: Re: FW: Temperatures in 2009
Date: Mon Jan 5 16:18:24 2009
Cc: “Smith, Doug” , Tim Johns
Tim, Chris,
I hope you’re not right about the lack of warming lasting
till about 2020. I’d rather hoped to see the earlier Met Office
press release with Doug’s paper that said something like –
half the years to 2014 would exceed the warmest year currently on record, 1998!
Still a way to go before 2014.
I seem to be getting an email a week from skeptics saying
where’s the warming gone. I know the warming is on the decadal
scale, but it would be nice to wear their smug grins away.
I just can’t believe that I am reading something like this.
CRU hack, search page, use word ’subjective’, as in not being objective. Interesting results including:
http://www.anelegantchaos.org/cru/emails.php?eid=192&filename=969652057.txt
Us brits love words like subjective,
So has anybody heard from the Goracle?
Isn’t there some investigative reporter somewhere willing to shove a microphone in his face and DEMAND A COMMENT!
Will the Nobel Committee DEMAND THE RETURN OF THE MEDAL AND FUNDS FROM THE fRAUD THAT IS THE GORACLE?
The Grauniad is still a hockey-stick believer (climate-wise, that is).
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/nov/20/climate-sceptics-email-hacking
“If this story is true it will probably be the final nail in the coffin of AGW. Unfortunately it will give science a huge black eye.” – David S
My greatest fear regarding “climate change” has for several years been not the damage it will do to the Earth but the damage it will do to the reputation and authority of science when the myth eventually came crashing down. What chance controversial vaccinations, genetic modification or nuclear power when any scientific assertion will inevitably be met with “Science says? Yeah, like it did over climate change!” And frankly, who could blame them when science and its “authorities” have lost the plot this badly?
One just has to read the distortions of the peer review process, the abuse for any who do not toe the party line, the sheer dripping contempt for those who dare to question their science and their blatant desire to rig the data (“about 0.15 degrees”) to “look right” to despair that people like this could ever lay claim to the title of “scientist”.
I know it’d be stooping to their “denier” level, but seeing the sheer self-righteous religious fervour and blindness in these mails, I keep thinking the term “climate scientologists” is all too painfully close to the truth.
There’s something wrong with Watts’ daily activity graph.
How does he explain the Presidential Election Period? Everyone knows the period surrounding elections produce extreme internet activity, especially at political-oriented sites, and even more-so at hot issue related sites.
Watts does nothing to explain the low increase in early Nov 08. I’d like to see his code and raw data.
Folks,
It’s easy – vote every politician who is out to save the world from “”””””Climate Change”””””out of office – and don’t frequent businesses who claim to be green.
OK, so we recycle and try not to mess up the nest, that’s intellegent – not world domination.
Mike
Just for the record:
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts1990/UKpga_19900018_en_1.htm
1
Unauthorised access to computer material .(1)
A person is guilty of an offence if— .
(a) he causes a computer to perform any function with intent to secure access to any program or data held in any computer; .
(b) the access he intends to secure is unauthorised; and .
(c) he knows at the time when he causes the computer to perform the function that that is the case.
Let me join in the CELEBRATION from the other side of the big basin.
It has only just begin, and what I mean is the backpedaling and denying that now begins by those we know were involved in these cover ups. It’s always the cover up that gets you the jailtime.
I even saw the MWP at 11:01 and the LIA at 11:14. Great job. You have succeeded to keep all the information without sacrificing legitimate knowledge. You are the guy IPCC need. Everybody will be happy.
PS, does this lead to Wikipedia finally changing their http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming website?
I can’t wait for them to F’ing choke on it.
WHAT A GREAT 24HOURS OR MORE. I just hope that some of our goverment leaders here in New Zealand have seen this as the goverment here on Tuesday looks likly to pass ETS into law. They say we will be paying $2000 a person till the year 2050. I just hope this will wake up our leaders eyes so that they can see the fraud that they have all been lead to belive.
Annei (07:33:41) :
Steven Mosher @ur momisugly 00:35:05
‘The CRUtape Letters’….utterly brilliant.
I agree. I move that we employ that term hereafter. Do I hear any objections? (None.) Passed by acclamation.
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Roll on the revolution.
Step 1 Abolish the IPCC.
Step 2 Defund the entire UN
…………
Step 5 Make it a strictly one-way ticket to Copenhagen, with subsequent expulsion to Siberia (old, Stalin style Siberia).
Hear, hear!
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Arthur Glass (06:54:25) :
‘Circling the wagons’ indeed! Consider this paragraph from Real Climate’s response to this delightful contretemps.
“More interesting is what is not contained in the emails. There is no evidence of any worldwide conspiracy, no mention of George Soros nefariously funding climate research, no grand plan to ‘get rid of the MWP’, no admission that global warming is a hoax, no evidence of the falsifying of data, and no ‘marching orders’ from our socialist/communist/vegetarian overlords. The truly paranoid will put this down to the hackers also being in on the plot though.”
Let’s give the devil his due. It could have been worse, much worse. Most of us here would have said, if we were asked how bad the content of their e-mails would be if they were hacked, that the revelations therein would have been considerably more Nixonian.
If we try to overdo what these e-mails show, it’ll backfire. As Pyromancer said, the evidence in them is circumstantial, not dispositive. Hence we shouldn’t act as though it is. Most warmists and middle-of-the-roaders won’t want to join a lynching party. We should use understatement, and merely claim that these revelations take the shine of their halos. Say no more than that, and it’ll sink in.
This is just great, as well as exposing fraud and corruption it has presented us, for a few years , a true litmus test of scientific or political integrity. What conclusions do we come to when it is mainly left leaning (and I include you Mr D Cameron) people who bought in to and sold on this bovine effluent?
As to our leaders having been “lead” to believe, does this infer that all of us here, commenters as well, have extra-ordinary intelligence? without doubt there are lots here who are way smarter and better educated than me, mathematicians and real scientists, but all of us outshining the politicians by this gulf, cannot be, they knew where this train was going and now they and they alone should pay the fare, That nice Mr Soros who bought his good buddy that nice house in Washington has the money to pay us back(http://www.burmalibrary.org/reg.burma/archives/199701/msg00153.html)
Well done to all involved
Outstanding!
so, where do we now get reliable global warming (or not) data?
he scientific community has done a great diservice to us.
John