Why I'm a global warming skeptic
- Saturday, June 07 2008 @ 09:15 AM CST
- Contributed by: filbert
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This is not how science is done:
Dear Phil Jones: that is the entire POINT of science. You think you've discovered something interesting, then you release your results and data to the rest of the scientific community, who do their darnedest to prove you wrong. That's where science gets its authority. That's what the climate-change zealots have forgotten, and why I can not bring myself to trust the "consensus." Release your data. If you've found something true, it will stand up to scrutiny. If you haven't, it won't. That's science.
(Emphasis mine)After unveiling the Hadley Center adjustment error that has been used in all temperature compilations for the past 20 years, Phil Jones stated:
Climate scientists should think about data quality more often, says Jones, so that there is no opportunity for incorrect data to sow seeds of doubt in people’s minds about the reality of climate change.
This is the same Phil Jones who said:
We have 25 or so years 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. There is IPR to consider.
Dear Phil Jones: that is the entire POINT of science. You think you've discovered something interesting, then you release your results and data to the rest of the scientific community, who do their darnedest to prove you wrong. That's where science gets its authority. That's what the climate-change zealots have forgotten, and why I can not bring myself to trust the "consensus." Release your data. If you've found something true, it will stand up to scrutiny. If you haven't, it won't. That's science.