NASA scientist speaks out

A couple of days ago the news feeds were full of a story that Antarctica was warming up, overturning earlier views that it was cooling down - an embarrassing flaw in the global warming case. Now NASA scientist Ross Hays, who works in Antartica, has spoken out against the paper.

With statistics you can make numbers go to almost any conclusion you want. It saddens me to see members of the scientific community do this for media coverage.

Comments

[Tony N]

Bishop

The BBC's Richard Black did a long story on this new Arctic warming research for their website, and I noticed that, for once, there were some fairly conspicuous caveats.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7843186.stm

The name of Michael Mann, one of the authors of the paper, is also conspicuously absent.

I am certain that six months ago either the 10pm News or Newsnight would have run this as a lead story, with Roger Harrabin pontificating over dazzling images of crumbling ice. So far there has been no mention of it.

[jpt]

Lies damned lie etc..........

[Neal Asher]

Seen this little nugget?

http://ccgi.newbery1.plus.com/blog/?p=147

THe BBC editing Obama's speech to get it more on message for AGW.

[Bishop Hill]

Indeed I have. In fact I posted a link to it yesterday.