Climategate: Falsified Research Scandal Rocks the UK
By Robert Romano
“[T]he criterion is the scientific status of a theory is its falsifiability, or refutability, or testability.”—Karl Popper, “Science as Falsification,” 1963.
Karl Popper must be rolling over in his grave.
As world leaders prepare to meet in Denmark next month to discuss the implementation of the Copenhagen Protocol (the continuation of the Kyoto Protocol designed to cap carbon emissions in industrialized nations) one topic certain to be the buzz amongst attendees—at least unofficially—will be the growing “Climategate” scandal that currently rocking the United Kingdom.
Apparently, computer hackers broke into the servers of the University of East Anglia’s (UEA) Climatic Research Unit. There, they found and published emails showing that researchers deliberately manipulated climate “change” data to hide the actual decline of the Earth’s temperatures.
What makes this highly significant is that, according to UEA’s website, the Climatic Research Unit’s data sets are “widely used in climate research, including the global temperature record used to monitor the state of the climate system.” (my emphasis)
What makes this highly significant is that, according to UEA’s website, the Climatic Research Unit’s data sets are “widely used in climate research, including the global temperature record used to monitor the state of the climate system.”
The site also boasts that the “Climatic Research Unit is widely recognized as one of the world's leading institutions concerned with the study of natural and anthropogenic climate change.” At least, they were.
To summarize: the scientists that have been the keepers of the data that the United Nations and the developed countries have used to promote their theory that the burning of fossil fuels and other gaseous emissions by humans and animals cause changes to the protective layer in the sky.
This makes the earth hotter cause more of the sun shines through or heat from the sun stays trapped. The theory then goes that glaciers are melting and the seas are rising and the weather is getting nastier - all making life on earth much less inhabitable to animals and humans. In short: humans are destroying the earth and especially the rich gluttons in Western Europe - and the United States. We need to pay.
But the theory begins with this data at East Anglia that shows that since we started driving cars and burning coal to generate electricity the earth is getting hotter.
This scandal shows that the data was manipulated at best and falsified at worst - to hide falsifying evidence of the theory that we are unnaturally getting warming. In fact, it seems the earth has been getting cooler.
Amongst the gems released is one email from the Unit’s director Phil Jones in 1999: “I've just completed Mike's Nature [the science journal] trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie, from 1981 onwards) and from 1961 for Keith's to hide the decline.” (my emphasis)
And this scandal of hiding falsifying evidence is not isolated in the U.K. or the U.N. Barack Obama's EPA is suppressing the same data to fit its agenda.
The UK Climategate scandal comes on the heels of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) suppressing a paper by Dr. Alan Carlin highly critical of the “science” behind the “global warming consensus”.
According to Carlin’s paper, “the EPA’s “Technical Support Document for Endangerment Analysis for Greenhouse Gas Emissions under the Clean Air Act” (TSD) uses data that is out-of-date and ignores the decade-long decline in the earth’s temperature despite CO2 levels rising and CO2 emissions accelerating.
The EPA’s official findings, Carlin reported, are based largely on the International Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) AR4 report published in 2007. That report’s data, according to Carlin, “is at best three years out of date in a rapidly changing field.”
Carlin wrote that the “IPCC projections for large increases [in temperature] are looking increasingly doubtful” in light of “recent substantial decreases in global temperatures”.
There is a principle called “falsifiability,” pioneered in 1963 by Karl Popper. It asserts that “the criterion of the scientific status of a theory is its falsifiability, or refutability, or testability.” Therefore, the only way to test a theory in real science is to try to show that it is false. Popper's famed "black swan" example shows the demarcation between science and myth or religion: the only way to prove that all swans are not white is to produce one that is black. You can't prove that all swans are white.
The folks at the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) decided that the only way to prove that their theory was true was to fake data. They basically painted the "black swan" white; hiding falsifying data - that the earth is actually cooling in the last decade not warming - that would falsify the theory.
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