6. Climate Change -- Those hacked e-mails

Now that the conspiracy theorists have blown off steam, it's time for a more sober analysis of those e-mails and what they mean. I can't go through all of them, there are far too many, and . So I've taken the two that seem to be getting conspiracy theorists most worked up -- Phil Jones's e-mail about "Mike's Nature trick" and Kevin Trenberth's e-mail about a "travesty." I'm glad to see that skeptic websites that cover the science understand what these e-mails actually mean. As you'll see, very few commentators who jumped on the conspiracy bandwagon even before reading the e-mails managed to get it right.

The Trenberth paper can be found at http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products...

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[atoz7983]

It is a tragic travesty that ALLLLL those people who tell us, "Climate Change has been debunked by uncovered emails..." won't ever see this video.

[Nullfactory]

Someone doesn't like conservatives......

[killgaz motron]

fuck .......alex jones, your an embarrassment.....ugh...

[smarteffort1]

"climate change" is the earth's natural process

[Vot63]

Oh dear. Before you totally melt down, would you mind actually telling us why you don't believe in natural cycles of climate? Do you have some compelling evidence that the ice-ages didn't occur, or that General Motors secretly teleported industrial production into the deep past and fucked the climate?

[Szriko]

The fuck are you even talking about anymore? If you can't stick to a single topic, why are you still prattling on? This is at least the third time in as many responses that you've utterly changed topic. It's pointless saying anything to you, because you don't want to have anything remotely resembling a conversation. Can't you go find a video on creation to fellate or something?

[Vot63]

Pointing out that recent fluctuations in climate are totally insignificant with respect to historical,natural changes, and that they do not even begin to exceed the parameters of known, non-anthropogenic changes, is now a "conspiracy theory" is it? Still playing with Al Gore's much debunked hockey stick are we?

[Szriko]

I don't need to say anything intelligent when you haven't put forth anything but conspiracy theories. Since you're a high IQ anti-global warming cashew arcade, why don't you show some basic understanding of peer review? Conclusions are part of the methodology, or more accurately, aren't part of it. Peer review, considering scientists are only too happy to rip apart anything put in front of them, is a very good indicator of reliability. You can also check it yourself, which is important.

[Vot63]

Since you have said nothing intelligent, or even pertinent, your assurance is of little relevance.