Statement from the UK Science Community

We, members of the UK science community, have the utmost confidence in the observational evidence for global warming and the scientific basis for concluding that it is due primarily to human activities.... As professional scientists, from students to senior professors, we uphold the findings of the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report, which concludes that "Warming of the climate system is unequivocal" and that "Most of the observed increase in global average temperatures since the mid-20th century is very likely due to the observed increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations".

William M. Briggs, Statistician & Consultant » Homogenization of temperature series: Part II

...we have to guess what the temperature would have been if either the city was always there or always wasn’t. Either way, we are guessing a counterfactual.

The thing to take away is that the guess is complicated and surrounded by many uncertainties. It is certainly not as clear cut as we normally hear. Importantly, just as with the credit card example, we can never verify whether our temperature guess is accurate or not.

Global warming, flying saucers take your pick - Sacramento Opinion - Sacramento Editorial | Sacramento Bee

There has to be a compelling reason to spend two weeks at a U.N. conference nothing more than a malign charade to address a fake crisis based on insidiously manipulated data. Maybe that's why Copenhagen's prostitutes have heightened the allure of the trip by offering free tricks to conference delegates needing to relieve their stress.

Examiner Slideshows

An environmentalist holds a banner reading 'Recruting e-mail hackers' in the main venue hall at the UN Climate summit in Copenhagen, Denmark, Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2009.

Chicago Boyz » Blog Archive » Journalists and Rocket Scientists

It appears that some of the attributes of the NYT which make it so untrustworthy and unlovable today are actually cultural characteristics of long standing.

Worth keeping in mind when reading NYT analyses of Climategate.

The NYT does Climategate - Maggie's Farm

The NYT drank the Kool-Aid years ago - for political, not scientific reasons. They know nothing about science or math (how much stats did Pinch take in college?), but they do know that they approve of any kind of authoritarianism of the elites and the experts as long as they and their Manhattan pals are the elites and experts.