Let's see, Ziggy...

* Data for vital 'hockey stick graph' has gone missing
* There has been no global warming since 1995
* Warming periods have happened before - but NOT due to man-made changes

Data: Professor Phil Jones admitted his record keeping is 'not as good as it should be'

The academic at the centre of the ‘Climategate’ affair, whose raw data is crucial to the theory of climate change, has admitted that he has trouble ‘keeping track’ of the information.

Colleagues say that the reason Professor Phil Jones has refused Freedom of Information requests is that he may have actually lost the relevant papers.

Professor Jones told the BBC yesterday there was truth in the observations of colleagues that he lacked organisational skills, that his office was swamped with piles of paper and that his record keeping is ‘not as good as it should be’.

The data is crucial to the famous ‘hockey stick graph’ used by climate change advocates to support the theory.

Professor Jones also conceded the possibility that the world was warmer in medieval times than now – suggesting global warming may not be a man-made phenomenon.

And he said that for the past 15 years there has been no ‘statistically significant’ warming.

The admissions will be seized on by sceptics as fresh evidence that there are serious flaws at the heart of the science of climate change and the orthodoxy that recent rises in temperature are largely man-made.

Professor Jones has been in the spotlight since he stepped down as director of the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit after the leaking of emails that sceptics claim show scientists were manipulating data.

The raw data, collected from hundreds of weather stations around the world and analysed by his unit, has been used for years to bolster efforts by the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to press governments to cut carbon dioxide emissions.

Armon Ayers wrote:If it is warm, it is Global Warming.
If it is cold, it is Global Warming.
If the air is moist, it is Global Warming.
If the air is dry, it is Global Warming.
If it rains, it is Global Warming.
If there is a drought, it is Global Warming.
If there are earthquakes, it is Global Warming.
Even if there is no science, it is Global Warming.
Even if scientists lie and distort facts, it is a consensus proving Global Warming.
Man has caused or exacerbated Global Warming; but, no Global Warmingist can explain why the polar caps on Mars have melted.

Do I have it right, Ziggy?

ziggy wrote:

Armon Ayers wrote:If it is warm, it is Global Warming.
If it is cold, it is Global Warming.
If the air is moist, it is Global Warming.
If the air is dry, it is Global Warming.
If it rains, it is Global Warming.
If there is a drought, it is Global Warming.
If there are earthquakes, it is Global Warming.
Even if there is no science, it is Global Warming.
Even if scientists lie and distort facts, it is a consensus proving Global Warming.
Man has caused or exacerbated Global Warming; but, no Global Warmingist can explain why the polar caps on Mars have melted.

Do I have it right, Ziggy?

I do not know, Armon. I am still trying to figure that out- about Global Warming. I see conflicting science, and I see conflicting political hype.

Where is that Solomon guy when we really need him?