Not exact matches
Chris V. CO2 goes up, temp goes down, oceans cool, sea levels decrease, arctic sea ice is within 1979 -2000 mean, AGW theory of catastrophic warming is B U S T... Even the
fraudulent manipulation of the GISS
data set does not change that.
On a broader point this contribution by BBC just diverts attention from the essence of climategate, which was the
fraudulent distortion and elimination of basic
data and the
manipulation of the peer - review process.
In this case the co-incidence is the result of
fraudulent manipulation of the
data, ordinarily criminal were the public involved.
Mann et al are being «hounded» for two major reasons:
fraudulent manipulation of
data to produce «results» that would support political actions advocated by fellow «progressives» and conspiring with other prominent progressive climatologists and organizations to suppress conflicting
data by trashing, personally and professionally, and blackballing the scientists who collected and attempted to disseminate it.
The difference is that unlike Mann et al, their «errors», if any, have not been arrived at through
fraudulent manipulation of
data to support a preordained conclusion.