How the global warming industry is based on one MASSIVE lie

Well, the dirty secrets of climate change alarmism are slowly reaching a wider audience. James Delingpole from the Daily Telegraph in the UK has the latest revelation. (You can follow him on Twitter here http://twitter.com/JamesDelingpole) Other than the recently released data pertaining to the Yamal tree ring series from Russia, (though the story of Steve McIntyre's endless battles trying to get access to what is supposed to be freely available data is one of the great ignored scandals of science), this is in a sense not much in the way of new news. It was already obvious from the available evidence that the Hockey Stick graph was based upon data carefully selected to produce a predetermined result. But in another sense it is dynamite. The supposed spike in temperatures in the late 19th Century and going into the 20th Century disappears once more complete data is added, and not just the carefully selected data of Michael Mann and co. What we see with the green merged data line is the gentle warming one would expect as the Earth recovers from the Little Ice Age (from about AD 1300 to about AD 1850), the coldest it has been in the last 10,000 years. If you have to tell lies to advance your case, then how strong is your case? For the growing band of AGW “Sceptics” the following story is dynamite. And for those who do believe in Al Gore’s highly profitable myth about “Man-Made Global Warming”, it will no doubt feel as comfortable as the rectally inserted suicide bomb that put paid to an Al Qaeda operative earlier this week. Now read on. Those of you who saw An Inconvenient Truth  may remember, if you weren’t asleep by that stage, the key scene where big green Al deploys his terrifying graph to show how totally screwed we all are by man-made global warming. This graph - known as the Hockey Stick Curve - purports to show rising global temperatures through the ages. In the part representing the late twentieth century it shoots up almost vertically. To emphasise his point that this is serious and that if we don’t act NOW we’re doomed, Al Gore - wearing a wry smile which says: “Sure folks, this is kinda funny. But don’t forget how serious it is too” - climbs on to a mini-lift in order to be able to reach the top of the chart. Cue consensual gasps from his parti pris audience. Except that the graph - devised in 1998 by a US climatologist called Dr Michael Mann -  is based on a huge lie He concludes: We “Global Warming Deniers” are often accused of ignoring the weight of scientific opinion. Well if the “science” on which they base their theories is as shoddy as Mann’s Hockey Stick, is it any wonder we think they’re talking cobblers?

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