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Climate change, have the numbers been fudged? http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2011/11/23/climategate-2-0-new-e-mails-rock-the-global-warming-debate/ htt

Climate change, have the numbers been fudged? http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2011/11/23/climategate-2-0-new-e-mails-rock-the-global-warming-debate/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2011/11/23/climatega... I don't know if climate change is true or not, but if these leaked emails show anything there is a political agenda behind it and data was concealed and cherry picked to support climate change. Apparently they did not even follow the scientific method? If these emails are true and not fake of course. But why would they fake data? To manipulate the price of fossil fuels and sell carbon credits? How come more money is spent on climate change studying instead of finding alternatives to fossil fuels? Nobody knows. The news media is manipulated one way or another, to get ratings and page hits to sell more advertising. I fear that science has become this way as well. People will believe any report as long as it is stamped with 'peer reviewed' on it. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asi.22784/abstract http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asi.22784/abstrac... http://people.stern.nyu.edu/wstarbuc/Writing/Prejud.htm http://people.stern.nyu.edu/wstarbuc/Writing/Prejud.htm http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/26628/title/Tackling-peer-review-bias/ http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/26628/... Oh dear, quite a bit of bias there. Ah well find some peers who will review your papers and confirm them so you can continue to get grants and funding. If anyone asks about bias, keep your mouth shut, it was a double blind study done by a neutral third party even if it was biased in some way. Any peer reviews that find problems or find your paper is wrong, conceal such information and claim it does not exist. After all what is the worst that can happen?

dTal 13y ago
> if these leaked emails show anything there is a political agenda behind it and data was concealed and cherry picked to support climate change. They really, really don't. You never see more than a sentence or two out of context in what you would call "the news media", because as you say it is manipulated to provide the impression of a scandal, which sells much better than "climate scientists proven honest". "If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him." That there's barely anything even out of context that's quot-ably dishonest in 5000 emails is if anything a testament to their integrity, given that the whole premise is that they thought they were "talking freely".

dTal 13y ago

> if these leaked emails show anything there is a political agenda behind it and data was concealed and cherry picked to support climate change. They really, really don't. You never see more than a sentence or two out of context in what you would call "the news media", because as you say it is manipulated to provide the impression of a scandal, which sells much better than "climate scientists proven honest". "If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him." That there's barely anything even out of context that's quot-ably dishonest in 5000 emails is if anything a testament to their integrity, given that the whole premise is that they thought they were "talking freely".