Our National Climatic Data Center has been manipulating weather data by dropping the number of weather stations used to calculate global surface temperatures from 6000 to 1500 (keeping the warmer-region ones). The British Climate Research Unit is currently being investigated by the British Parliament for destroying e-mails and manipulating data to hide a decline in global temperatures.
The UN's Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change has already admitted it fabricated data. Its chief, Rajendra Pachauri, apparently is more interested in writing novels about the spiritual and sexual past of a retired bureaucrat than scientific truth.
India is forming its own agency to study global warming because it can't rely on the IPCC (which won a share of the 2007 Nobel Prize along with Al Gore). Al, incidentally, advises the president on global-warming issues while owning investments that benefit economically from spending government money on ameliorating this so-called problem. His private jet also contributes quite a bit to Al's "carbon footprint."
Politics obviously trumps science when it comes to "climate consensus." The federal budget for 2011 calls for spending $2.6 billion on global climate change, more "hot air" for your tax dollars. Of the $2 billion the US has spent on wind power, 80 percent went to foreign companies which manufacture wind turbines, especially Chinese manufacturers.
ALAN GLASER, ROCHESTER
Comments for "CLIMATE CHANGE: Politics and global warming" (6)
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stuart naylor said on Mar. 09, 2010 at 4:39pm
What absolute news rubbish and misinformation of a crucial topic.
You are a disgrace to your newspaper. You can't even represent a single fact.
Very sad!
Special K (NJ) said on Mar. 09, 2010 at 5:18pm
"Our National Climatic Data Center has been manipulating weather data by dropping the number of weather stations used to calculate global surface temperatures from 6000 to 1500 (keeping the warmer-region ones). The British Climate Research Unit is currently being investigated by the British Parliament for destroying e-mails and manipulating data to hide a decline in global temperatures."
Believe it or not.
Your reference to computing indices of global temperatures based on N local weather stations is the first such reference I have encountered. Interestingly,
the mean surface temperature for the "world" and corresponding means for the major climate regions have been kept under wraps. Why not take your reporting one step ffurther toward "enlightenment" and beseech NOAA and NWS to compute such means for a defined body of weather-station locations world wide? And, of course, get them to do so for the same (or demonstrably "comparable") set of weather stations for as far back as comparable data are available. Then manage to report daily/weekly/monthly summaries on a regular basis. Perhaps, then, we'll get some information that we can think of as "understandable" and valid.
R James said on Mar. 09, 2010 at 5:55pm
An excellent brief summery of the current status of AGW. Pachauri has a lot to answer to. His obvious conflicts of interests in this would be tolerated in no other position. No, hang on, I'm wrong. What about Al Gore who makes a fortune out of selling carbon credits through his company. Yet the gullible believe every word from these people.
The adjustments made to temperature data from ever changing sources is a scientific joke. This isn't good science, and the data should be treated with regard to the uncertainties, instead of trying to change the world on their basis, plus failed mathematical models.
donald said on Mar. 10, 2010 at 9:02am
Stuart, you are the one who is a disgrace! You and your dishonest cohorts refuse to believe that climate change is not man-made but historical.
Doug said on Mar. 10, 2010 at 2:21pm
Top notch journalism. Scan the denialosphere for all the talking points without fact checking and throw them together in a few short paragraphs. Wow, no wonder newspapers are dying.
Eric said on Mar. 10, 2010 at 2:36pm
To Doug and Stuart: Just to be clear, this was not a journalistic piece written by City Newspaper. This is a letter to the editor. It is an opinion piece, submitted by a reader.
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