Jen,
As you know The Great Global Warming Swindle has been available for sometime (on places like YouTube) and screens on ABC this Thursday evening at 8.30pm.
This documentary is seriously misleading about the science of climate change.
I thought you might be interested in a review* which has been published by the Bulletin of the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society. You can see a html version at http://www.amos.org.au/BAMOS_GGWS_SUBMISSION_final.htm . Feel free to use this on your blog - I saw on your blog the other day that you invite contributions.
Kind Regards,
David Jones
Bureau of Meteorology
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* The Great Global Warming Swindle: a critique by David Jones, Andrew Watkins, Karl Braganza and Michael Coughlan, National Climate Centre, Bureau of Meteorology
Downloadable and prinable at http://www.amos.org.au/BAMOS_GGWS_SUBMISSION_final.htm
We've all heard the saying, "lies, damn lies and statistics". The HS falls into the category of statistics that this saying embodies. Ender and Luke saying it was vindicated doesn't make it so, no matter how often they repeat it.
http://www.climateaudit.org/pdf/others/07142006_Wegman_Report.pdf
"Overall, our committee believes that Mann’s
assessments that the decade of the 1990s was the hottest decade of the millennium and
that 1998 was the hottest year of the millennium cannot be supported by his analysis."
Bad luck Ender.. As much as you and the AGW fraternity wish to bury the hockey stick, it has come back courtesy of the IPCC's latest report.
That the IPCC has had to dredge up this thoroughly discredited and seriously misleading graph again, just shows the paucity of credible data they have to promote the cause.
That David Jones and co. at the BoM have to dredge up this thoroughly discredited and seriously misleading material, again shows the paucity of credible data they have available to promote their cause.
And thanks to Paul Williams for the pic. of Drs Pittock, Whetton and Jones viewing, adoring and endorsing Gore's AIT.
That says it all...And explains the silence.
Ooops wrong thread
Sid you missed Williams on 666 as he cooked up some more film titles for that mob, Why women are inferior, Why whales make the best fertilizer for tobacco crops……..
HELLO Sid - you have an answer from me !!
"seriously misleading hockey stick graphs" - how about explaining yourself for a change ? addressing my response above.
Sid - "The silence of David Jones and ors. (who published the above critique on TGGWS), on the above questioning of their use of Mann's hockey stick material, is noted on this thread."
No Sid it is not at all. Most of us are veterans of the Hockey Stick wars of a few years ago and do not want to restart them yet again. Silence does not imply anything other than the proxy studies have been EXHAUSTINGLY debated and other than the strange parallel universe where McIntyre exists the proxy studies including MBH99 are robust, stand up to scrutiny and give us an accurate picture of past climate as much as noisy, incomplete data can.
So give it up.