Friday, December 04, 2009

Fraudulent

clipped from wattsupwiththat.com

The usual armwaving denial that we should not trust our own lying eyes was delivered by a Harvard Professor in the Boston Globe:

James McCarthy, a respected Harvard professor who was a former Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change lead author, sent a letter to Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) today stressing that e-mails stolen from climate scientists do not undermine the evidenc[e] for manmade global warming.

McCarthy is board chair of both the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS).

In the words of Frank Drebin: “Nothing to see here, move along!”

And then comes this response
I am a climate scientist, and it is clear that the evidence that “human activity is prominent [sic] agent in global warming” is NOT overwhelming.
But the computer code is transparently fraudulent. Here, one finds matrices that add unexplained numbers to recent temperatures and subtract them from older temperatures
RTWT. Print this one out and study it for a good summary of the situation. As a computer scientist myself, I can confirm the fraudulence of the code. And he is correct about how utterly devastating that is.