Tuesday, December 13, 2011

2009: An email called "Australia's Skeptic Problem" makes its way to Phil Jones; why does Jones' own graph show temperatures for the last 15 years stayed the same or fallen when CO2 levels have risen?

Email 1178

This is where you come in, and I apologise for the rambling intro. Fielding's
"question", which he says our scientists can't answer, is "why have temperatures for the
last 15 years stayed the same or fallen when CO2 levels have risen?" (you don't need to
answer this!) But as evidence of this he has "a graph(attached)", which according to
his website is YOURS! You can find this same graph in many skeptic publications,
sometimes only 2002-2009. I'm quite familiar with the Hadley Temp graph for the last 150
years and this section only has a slight resemblance to it. It does however have more
resemblance if you tilt the axis ---but why would you do that?

...What I would really like from you is a statement that the graph attributed to you seriously misrepresents the data and has evidently been re-packaged with the intention to mislead. The change is NOT a matter of "scientific interpretation". I would then forward your reply to Senator Fielding, along with your simple and adequate notes on "climate facts" -which are all the facts currently being peddled as myths around Australia.

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