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Friday 12th Mar 2010 21:17:53
The bizarre workings of climatic research
 
Just been watching Phil Jones and some dude Professor Acton being grilled by the UK Parliament. Fascinating stuff. It's on YouTube in five parts. This is part 2. And the complete transcript is here. Loads of it is of great interest but around 06:18, Graham Stringer (himself a scientist) gets to the bottom of a fundamental problem: the data used to produce all these graphs and models showing rises in temperature, CO2, etc., a lot of that data is not available to other scientists, so how can the results be challenged? Craziness. When asked how the science can progress if it's not standard practice to make available all your source data, Phil Jones says, "Maybe it should be standard practice but it is not standard practice across the subject." Well, in that case, it sounds like there's a serious and fundamental problem with how climatic research is conducted. Not that anyone really cares . . . Just as we had global cooling (AARRRGHHH! THE ICE AGE COMETH!!!), pole shifts, acid rain, the millennium bug . . . people love a good disaster story, even if it's got no basis of truth. I wonder what's next?
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