--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "BillyG" <wg...@...> wrote: > > http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/nov/24/hiding-evidence-of-global-cooling/
Sorry, but that's a highly misleading and most likely deliberately disinenuous editorial. The much-quoted "trick of adding in the real temps to each series ... to hide the decline" is perfectly innocuous. "Trick" refers to a neat way of handling something; and the data that's being "hidden" is widely known and has been since 1998. It's an apparent minor anomaly that nobody quite understands yet, but it isn't anywhere near enough to warrant throwing out the entire thesis. But when this anomalous data isn't "hidden," it tends to obscure the overall trend. So far, no "smoking gun" has been found in these hacked emails that would cast doubt on the theory of anthropogenic global warming. They *do* raise questions about the unwillingness of the scientists involved to release all their data and methodology. But to claim this means there's a conspiracy to hide fraud at this point makes even less sense than to claim there was a conspiracy to hide the Bush administration's participation in 9/11.
