re: #43 lawhawk

re: Climategate emails: Penn State is advancing an investigation into whether Michael Mann violated certain academic standards:

The profession has to do a better job of policing itself and not opening itself up to claims of coverups and other malfeasance, which allow peoples’ attention to move away from the fact that emissions are increasing and that they can have negative consequences.

Then again, the media and those quoted in stories can’t jump on the global warming bandwagon at every turn either - such as claiming that because there’s insufficient snow in Vancouver it’s a sign of global warming. That’s not any different than a report noting that parts of the NE US have seen several times their average snowfall thus far this season and saying that it’s just weather. Would help to be consistent.

Umm you are aware that Mann was already attacked by no less than the GOP congress under Bush and that they ordered the NAtional Academy to look into his work and that the National Academy vindicated him. You are alos aware that as of the time of the report on Mann, six other groups had produced similar graphs from other proxy data sets and they all tell the same story?

Here is his revised paper following the NAS recommendations

pnas.org

The full report that vindicates Mann is also available online and I have linked it here before but I am having difficulty finding it. Though I will note in passing that it was also referred to in a video that Charles posted.

What is very, very disappointing is that the press keeps beating this dead horse and good folks like you keep falling for it. This is not just a witch hunt but a double jeopardy witch hunt conducted for pure politicking.