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Global “warming” data? Yeah, I’ll get back to you on that!

Or, as Patrick Michaels headlines it, “The Dog Ate” it.  Excerpt:

Imagine if there were no reliable records of global surface temperature. Raucous policy debates such as cap-and-trade would have no scientific basis, Al Gore would at this point be little more than a historical footnote, and President Obama would not be spending this U.N. session talking up a (likely unattainable) international climate deal in Copenhagen in December.

Steel yourself for the new reality, because the data needed to verify the gloom-and-doom warming forecasts have disappeared.

Or so it seems. Apparently, they were either lost or purged from some discarded computer. Only a very few people know what really happened, and they aren’t talking much. And what little they are saying makes no sense.

If you have any inkling as to what science is and how it works, prepare yourself for this jaw-dropping statement:

Now begins the fun. Warwick Hughes, an Australian scientist, wondered where that “+/–” came from, so he politely wrote Phil Jones in early 2005, asking for the original data. Jones’s response to a fellow scientist attempting to replicate his work was, “We have 25 years or so invested in the work. Why should I make the data available to you, when your aim is to try and find something wrong with it?”

Reread that statement, for it is breathtaking in its anti-scientific thrust. In fact, the entire purpose of replication is to “try and find something wrong.” The ultimate objective of science is to do things so well that, indeed, nothing is wrong.

Wow.  “You’ll try to find something wrong with it”?  Seriously?

I mean, data is available that shows that the sun is hot, so even if I were hellbent on finding “something wrong with the data”, I wouldn’t be able to do so.  The heat of the sun stands up to scientific scrutiny.  The junk science fad known as global “warming” survives no such scrutiny, and it seems that this “scientist” knows that.

September 25, 2009 - Posted by crushliberalism | global warming