PRESS RELEASE
Stockholm March 5, 2010
Climate scientist delivers false statement in parliament enquiry
It has come to our attention, that last Monday (March 1), Dr. Phil Jones, head of the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia (CRU), in a hearing with the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee made a statement in regards to the alleged non-availability for disclosure of Swedish climate data.
Dr. Jones asserted that the weather services of several countries, including Sweden, Canada and Poland, had refused to allow their data to be released, to explain his reluctance to comply with Freedom of Information requests.
This statement is false and misleading in regards to the Swedish data.
All Swedish climate data are available in the public domain. As is demonstrated in the attached correspondence between SMHI (Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute), the UK Met Office and Dr. Jones (the last correspondence dated yesterday March 4), this has been clearly explained to Dr. Jones. What is also clear is that SMHI is reluctant to be connected to data that has undergone “processing” by the East Anglia research unit.
STOCKHOLM INITIATIVE
Göran Ahlgren, secretary general
Kungsgatan 82
12 27 Stockholm, Sweden
Be sure to read the pdf files posted at WUWT.
Flashback: Blame Canada – has anyone checked with Jim Prentice’s office lately?
h/t Maz2
I think the operative term here is bitch slapped.
Sweden and Canada have spoken up, now it’s Poland’s turn.
“What is also clear is that SMHI is reluctant to be connected to data that has undergone “processing” by the East Anglia research unit.”
Bingo! A cigar Moment……
Unless I missed it, there did not seem to be anything in the bodget (John Crosbie’s words)regarding AGW. So, are the feds quietly ignoring the AGW scam until the public catches up or just what is going on?
It does however appear that both the Alberta and Saskatchewan Environment Ministries are still drinking the kool-aid and working on a carbon credit plan.
http://www.saskatoonhomepage.ca/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=23857&Itemid=424
What’s wrong with the Swedes? It’s a ripping good yarn based on a true story!!!
Looks like rats fleeing…
Haven’t we had enough of this charade??? When will these people finally be discredited???
TemP, Eureka Station, Nunavut 9:00 PM CST Mar 04-10 -42°C. Do icebergs melt at that temp??
Chief Scientician Jones steps in it again…
Temp, Eureka Station, Nunavut 9:00 PM CST Mar 04-10 -42°C. Do icebergs melt at that temp
Most definitely, just ask any geneticist with a television show.
My position is that those interviewing Jones have sufficient evidence with which to draw a final conclusion…..anymore inquiry is just a waste of their time.
“…anymore inquiry is just a waste of their time.”
But it’s like watching a slow roast…very entertaining…
I would chuckle if this weren’t such a serious threat to the global economy.
Apparently what Sweden is telling the Brits is that they can’t release the data because the Hadley people have altered it, so in the form requested, it doesn’t exist. At least not in Sweden.
I don’t know what this monkey business is about, to be brutally frank, the widely accepted data such as the CET series already gave sufficient evidence of a warming trend from the 19th century onward, until very recently at least, and before this sideshow of climategate started, the main debate in weather circles was more to do with what had caused this warming, and whether it was reversible or likely to accelerate.
I’m sure you recall that period, in fact, it hasn’t really ended, but the climategate fiasco is now muddying the waters even further with suggestions that data sets have been manipulated.
This may well turn out to be true, but data sets that are trusted and which have been in the public domain all along, have documented the actual changes taking place, so really the debate should be about what caused those changes, not whether the changes are real or not.
Now this does not touch on the somewhat separate issue of whether the Medieval Warm Period was downgraded to suit the warmist agenda. That will probably turn out to be the case.
Anyway, I’m probably not the only person in the weather field who wishes that it would either cool off so much that an ice age would start, or warm up so much that the ice would all melt, so that this infernal circus would finally end. I suspect that until one of those outcomes occurs, the debate will keep changing form and irritating the heck out of those of us who accept the rather obvious premise that natural variability did not end just because Al Gore put on fifty pounds.
Can somebody explain what the (Conservative) government ment by the following quote from the throne speach?
I cnnot shake the feeling that they still cling to Climate change/Global Warming.
Do they believe in Climate Change/Global Warming or not? If not, why do they make the statements that appear to support this lie?
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“Nowhere is a commitment to principled policy, backed by action, needed more than in addressing climate change. Our Government has advocated for an agreement that includes all the world’s major greenhouse gas emitters, for that is the only way to actually reduce global emissions. And it has pursued a balanced approach to emissions reduction that recognizes the importance of greening the economy for tomorrow and protecting jobs today.
The Copenhagen Accord reflects these principles and IS FULLY SUPPORTED BY THE GOVERNMENT OF CANADA. Together with other industrialized countries, Canada WILL PROVIDE FUNDING TO HELP DEVELOPING ECONOMIES REDUCE THEIR EMISSIONS AND ADAPT TO CLIMATE CHANGE. Here at home, OUR GOVERNMENT WILL CONTINUE TO TAKE STEPS TO FIGHT CLIMATE CHANGE by leading the world in clean electricity generation. And recognizing our integrated continental economic links, our Government will work to reduce emissions through the Canada-U.S. Clean Energy Dialogue launched last year with President Obama’s administration.”
http://rpc.blogrolling.com/redirect.php?r=6a01936e32ef30d57422c56f0aaed267&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stephentaylor.ca
Peter O’Donnell
[….Now this does not touch on the somewhat separate issue of whether the Medieval Warm Period was downgraded to suit the warmist agenda. That will probably turn out to be the case. ]
The discovery of 3 SKELETONS (circa 1000AD) embeded in perma-frost, at Brathhilde(Eric’s farm in Greenland) are irrefutable proof of the existance of a Medieval Warming….much warmer than current conditions.
Other historical events, throughout the Northern Hemisphere, the Dansgaard/Oeschger findings and the Vostok ice cores indicate it was a GLOBAL condition despite the ravings of a geneticist with a TV show.
The fabrication of the infamous “Hockey Stick” had the prime purpose of erasing the Medieval Climate Optimum from the historical record….for blantly obvious political purposes.
Peter O’Donnell
“””This may well turn out to be true, but data sets that are trusted and which have been in the public domain all along, have documented the actual changes taking place, so really the debate should be about what caused those changes, not whether the changes are real or not.”””
who trust these data sets, I certainly don’t. Tho they APPEAR to record a warming trend, they may only record a energy shift, or a “location” of recording shift (IE; heat island effect encroaching the recording locating)
sasquatch
“””indicate it was a GLOBAL condition “””
the phenomena you quote are in the northern hemisphere, thusly these may be records of northern hemispheric warming only
the main thrust of all this is that the science ISN’T settled, and that the “climatologists” are liars
GYM, and by extension we may start to view all scientists as liars.
“What is also clear is that SMHI is reluctant to be connected to data that has undergone “processing” by the East Anglia research unit.”
Dr. Jones (at about 1hr:21min) said that Canada did not want it’s iformation posted to the East Anglia web site.
It suggests that like Sweden, Canadian scientists/meteorologists don’t want to be contaminated by association.