Out of thousands of stolen emails, just a couple seem to have caught the attention of the very erudite Glenn Beck Climate Institute or the Rush Limbaugh School of Oxycontinology. And we’re hearing those two emails over and over, quoted out of context as if they proved… something. And that something is:
Well not much, really. The emails aren’t evidence of fraud; even the opposite. The climate has normal cycles that go up and down, and the trick – not in the sense of “deception” but of “complicated and difficult task” is to detect the signal in all that noise. This is something climate scientists have gotten pretty good at analyzing. But it’s also important to just step back and look at bird migrations, seasonal changes, and ice. Nature does a good job of aggregating the whole trend. Are the geese getting here earlier or later every year? Is the ice retreating or advancing? Stuff like that is impossible to fake, no matter what you do with tree rings. (Watch the video for that last reference)
I’m putting all my incandescent bulbs back in, the ones I saved when I put in the compact fluorescents.
(No, not really)
I’m a bit perplexed as to how the paperwork in some university I’ve never heard of invalidates all research (and conclusions drawn from said research) in the rest of the scientific world.
By force of that logic, since Rush Limbaugh is drug addict, all right-wingers in the world are drug addicts!