"It is true that the climate panel published a flawed overestimate of the melting rate of debris-covered glaciers in the Himalayas, and used information about the Netherlands provided to it by the government, which was later found to be partly inaccurate. In addition, e-mail messages stolen from the University of East Anglia in Britain showed that scientists besieged by an onslaught of hostile, make-work demands from climate skeptics may not have adequately followed the requirements of the British freedom of information law."---
Right. Well, partly right. And the part that's missing is most significant. The email messages not only showed that public information was not being released, but, more importantly, that there was considerable bias by the scientists conducting what should be an unbiased, objective report on whether human activity is responsible for global warming. It also fails to mention the now-emerging topic that most of the monitoring stations have problems, mainly with their location being biased to show higher temperature due to their proximity to heat-emitting features such as roadways, buildings, exhaust, etc. And the whole bad math problem... not calculating an average correctly (/boggle). Yeah, there were problems, but more than just what he decided to include.
What Gore should have done was distance himself from the IPCC report and the people who produced it. It's a disaster that is happening in front of our eyes, a train wreck in slow motion. What Gore should have done is say something like, "Hey, it looks like this report should be tossed in the trash and that we need a massive effort to get the best data possible so that we, as humans, can proceed in an intelligent manner." Because right now, to proceed to act on a report where they can't even get basic facts straight, is lunacy.
Yes, forget about anthropogenic global warming for now, because not only were biased scientists running the show, but, most importantly, the data simply is not reliable. Yet, despite this, Gore wants us to keep going... what, on faith? Faith the he's right? Faith that a report based on bad data, and stupid errors is ultimately right? WTF?
No no no no no. Sorry, I'll have none of that. I'm all for the environment, and I'm all for tough laws or whatever if anthropogenic global warming is convincingly proven. However, I'm not about to start getting on that bandwagon based on the shit, and that's probably being nice, provided thus far.
I understand about being passionate about a cause. But when you go about it in a reckless way and ostensibly deceive people, you're going to lose the fight, no matter if you were ultimately correct. That's my concern. I'm concerned that if this issue continues to be mismanaged, if Gore continues to try and push an undoubtedly flawed report down people's throats, that the issue will be forever lost. We need to know, without doubt. The effort should be a human one, not a political one or a personality one. We simply need reliable data, make it public, and do the math correctly.
First things first. Get the data. Place monitors in areas at least 100 feet away from any bias source. As part of the monitoring, a gps of the station's location should also be sent (China had a problem with undocumented movement of stations). That, and any other sampling protocol needs to be followed, calibrations documented, etc.
Until we get usable data, forget the rest because it's just guessing.
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