Climate Data Re-examined (updated)

An anonymous reader writes "An important paper that re-examines historical climate data was published on 28 October in the respected journal Energy & Environment. (The paper is also available here.) According to an article in Canada's National Post, the paper shows that a "pillar of the Kyoto Accord is based on false calculations, incorrect data and an overtly biased selection of climate records." (USA Today also has a story.) This paper will undoubtedly be controversial and should stir a vigourous data review." Update: 11/05 14:54 GMT by T : newyhouse points out a similarly contrarian 2001 Economist article by Bjorn Lomborg, author of The Skeptical Environmentalist .

Comments

Re:Only in Canada

[commodoresloat]

Now I don't want to respond to the article's claims, since that'll only spark a flame war I don't want to fight

Right. Much easier to start a flame war by bashing Canadians than by reading and responding to the actual article.

Re:Biased Bush administration energy whores?

[Yogurtu]

Silly environmentalists, there's a lot more money to be done selling out to corporations to tell dying people they have nothing to worry about.

Re:Biased Bush administration energy whores?

[caitsith01]

?

So they're filthy commies? I knew it! That means we can witch-hunt them! Call Joe McCarthy, we's gonna have us a lynchin'!

Wow

[Badanov]

This is pretty cool. Seeing posts which treat environMENTALists like the loonies they actually are and NO flambaits or trolls mods. You oughta see how many of mine in the past have been treated that way. Enjoy it while it lasts, though, folks.

Re:Thought of evaluating the data, not the biases?

[Brandybuck]

Pinatubo expelled more CO2 into the atmosphere than the entire history of industrialized civilization.

I'm not saying that humans should just keep on polluting, I'm only saying that the extremist scaremongering is wrong. We can solve our problems with logic and reason, without having to resort to panicked emotionalism.