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Politics : Manmade Global Warming, A hoax? A Scam? or a Doomsday Cult? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Don Hurst who wrote (1295)	7/9/2010 2:58:05 PM
From: J.B.C.	4 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4326

So you drank the kool-aid?

To: Don Hurst who wrote (1295)	7/9/2010 3:56:11 PM
From: MichaelSkyy	Respond to of 4326

Go Hug a Tree,,,,you'll feel better....and lay off the "Kool Aid".. The press and the scientific establishment—especially in America—is busy whitewashing the ClimateGate scandal. But they cannot escape its impact, and here's proof. What was the whole point of the ClimateGate conspiracy? Well, mostly it was to promote and protect Michael Mann's "hockey stick" graph, which used "tricks" to "hide the decline" and make recent decades look like an unprecedented warm period. The conspirators were so successful, they managed to put the graph on the cover of a UN report on global warming, making it a symbol of global warming claims. But now, after ClimateGate, Mann is running for cover, telling the BBC that there are too many uncertainties about past global temperatures and that "I always thought it was somewhat misplaced to make it a central icon of the climate change debate." So never mind, then. "Michael Mann Says Hockey Stick Should Not Have Become 'Climate Change Icon'," Louise Gray, Daily Telegraph, June 28 The scientist behind the controversial "hockey stick" graph has said it was "somewhat misplaced' to make his work an 'icon of the climate change debate." Professor Michael Mann plotted a graph in the late 1990s that showed global temperatures for the last 1,000 years. It showed a sharp rise in temperature over the last 100 years as man-made carbon emissions also increased, creating the shape of a hockey stick. The graph was used by Al Gore in his film An Inconvenient Truth and was cited by the United Nations body the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) as evidence of the link between fossil fuel use and global warming. ... The issue became a central argument in the climate change debate and was dragged into the "Climategate" scandal, as the skeptics accused Prof Mann and his supporters of exaggerating the extent of global warming. However, speaking to the BBC recently, Prof Mann, a climatologist at Pennsylvania State University, said he had always made clear there were "uncertainties" in his work. "I always thought it was somewhat misplaced to make it a central icon of the climate change debate," he said.