UEA Phil Jones BBC Interview: Admits No Global Warming Since 1995

by amyellensoden | February 15, 2010 at 11:48 am
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A recent revelation may confirm that there hasn't been any actual global warming since 1995. Professor Phil Jones from the UK's University of East Anglia has admitted that he lost track of vital data that proves the existence of global warming trends. Jones has stepped down from his position as director for the university's climate change unit, Climategate, as of December 2009. Jones stepped down after emails were leaked that confirmed data was being manipulated. Phil Jones recent BBC Interview confirmed this story and the cover-up behind the lost data.

The data collected about global warming was manipulated in such a way that it made humans seem more to blame for global warming. This particularly pertained to the "hockey stick" graph model that shows any rise in global warming through worldwide climate change readings of temperature records. Jones and his team had been supplying the UN with analyzed data on global warming. He admits he lost track of some of the data for the "hockey stick" graph.

The Climate Research Unit formerly headed by Prof Jones is responsible for analysing data from hundreds of weather stations to produce "evidence" of global warming which is used by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Prof Jones also admitted that his own lack of organisation had contributed to his reluctance to share crucial data with climate change sceptics, but denied that he deliberately distorted the evidence.


In light of this news emerging about the data loss and manipulation of climate change information, Jones has made a startling admission. He has conceded that there has been no global warming since 1995 that is "statistically significant." While Jones has not admitted that he manipulated evidence that goes against climate change, he has noted that the trail of weather stations that data is accumulated from could be more concrete.

It has also been revealed that all of this data collected from weather stations worldwide was more likely influenced by local factors that global warming. Jones has also recently acknowledged that the medieval period may have had higher global temperatures than we have now. This alone allows for the consideration that human activity might not be the sole or predominant cause of climate change.

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edfleur

Thanks for posting the truth about global warming. When will they figure it out?

The Farmers Almanac Predicted a heavy winter and I'm pretty sure that they didn't take into account global warming.

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Sputnic

So it is, in effect, young science. The hole in the ozone layer over ice, will, as logic dictates, make the ice melt. Unless the ice got bored and ran away, this is what is happening. Less ice = more water = rising sea levels = decreased salinity = no more gulf stream. Regardless of precisely what is happening, something is indeed happening, and something needs to be done about it.

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Hugh Askew

Something needs to be done?

If it is natural climate change, what is to be done?  Anything man does will just cause bigger problems.

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Sputnic

So, you think the hole in the ozone layer is natural ?

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Hugh Askew

Who knows?  We certainly don't

Being as we didn't start paying attention to until about 40-50 years ago, we have  no way of knowing.  Since we don't know, we simply presume our collective guilt, run around like chicken little, and create noise and excitement over what may well be a natural phenomenon.

Feel free, if you like, i have several more inches of global warming to shovel off my driveway.

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Sputnic

So the ice did get bored then and decided to migrate to your house ! The excess water has to go somewhere, jet streams are moving and so is the water around them

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Daniel Mayer

Let's see what Jones actually said, not what the misleading headlines say:BBC: "Do you agree that from 1995 to the present there has been no statistically-significant global warming"Phil Jones: "Yes, but only just. I also calculated the trend for the period 1995 to 2009. This trend (0.12C per decade) is positive, but not significant at the 95% significance level. The positive trend is quite close to the significance level. Achieving statistical significance in scientific terms is much more likely for longer periods, and much less likely for shorter periods."Per the above, he says there is warming and that warming trend is quite close to the 95% significance level. Too much noise in short time spans as well.

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