Researcher Got Away With Mass Fraud By Saying ‘Trust Me, It’s Science’

Without release of raw data and methodology, research amounts to little more than “‘trust me’ science,” in which intentional fraud and unintentional bias remain hidden behind the numbers.

Manatee deaths skyrocket in Volusia - News

Overall, it appears the state will finish the year with the second highest number of manatee deaths since record-keeping began in 1974, said Martine DeWit, veterinarian with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. As of Dec. 23, the commission had recorded 444 manatee deaths. The record, 730, was set in 2010.

"Last winter was really, really unusual because we had that massive cold event," DeWit said. Unusually frigid temperatures started in December (2010) and continued through January, and that "really had its impact" on manatees.

Virginia's chief medical examiner speaks up for dead | HamptonRoads.com | PilotOnline.com

23 people died from being too cold (hypothermia), 5 from being too hot (hyperthermia).

Deke Arndt of NCDC : “shifts in seasonality now on display are in line with the warming the United States has experienced in recent years” « Reasonable Doubt on Climate Change

So far 2011 is a half a degree cooler than 2001, and more than a full degree cooler than 2006.

Note to Deke Arndt: 1990s winters were warmer « Reasonable Doubt on Climate Change

In fact the average winter temperature for the contiguous United States in 1992 was 36.90 degrees F, as compared to 32.15 degrees F in 2011 and 31.12 degrees in 2010. So we are talking about recent winters being about 5 degrees cooler. It was even warmer in 1999 and 2000: it cooled nearly 6 degrees F from 2000 to 2010. Yet these people want us to believe it is actually getting warmer.