The academic at the centre of the ‘Climategate’ affair, whose raw data is crucial to the theory of climate change, has admitted that he has trouble ‘keeping track’ of the information.
Colleagues say that the reason Professor Phil Jones has refused Freedom of Information requests is that he may have actually lost the relevant papers.
Professor Jones told the BBC yesterday there was truth in the observations of colleagues that he lacked organisational skills, that his office was swamped with piles of paper and that his record keeping is ‘not as good as it should be’.
The data is crucial to the famous ‘hockey stick graph’ used by climate change advocates to support the theory.
Professor Jones also conceded the possibility that the world was warmer in medieval times than now – suggesting global warming may not be a man-made phenomenon.
And he said that for the past 15 years there has been no ‘statistically significant’ warming.
Here’s how settled science apparently works in 2010:
1. You make outlandish claims with no backing.
2. You falsify or “lose” data that proves that science wrong.
3. When questioned, you answer honestly because you know the true zealots will disregard whatever you say.
Climate change isn’t in question; anthropogenic global warming is.
Let’s be honest, though. That ship has sailed, and one of the main sources on which that settled science is based is no longer credible.
Enough with dismissing all disagreement in the name of settled science. If anything, over the past 12 months, we’ve figured out that, at the very least, that the consensus that has formed is based on very little if anything aside from people justifying their research grants and government funding.