As Andrew Orlowski reports in The Register, the issue is the use of tree rings as a temperature proxy in order to ‘reconstruct’ past temperatures. The papers in question incorporated data from trees at the Yamal Peninsula in Siberia: This dataset gained favour, curiously superseding a newer and larger data set from nearby. The older Yamal trees indicated pronounced and dramatic uptick in temperatures. How could this be? Scientists have ensured much of the measurement data used in the reconstructions remains a secret -- failing to fulfill procedures to archive the raw Members of the Iraqi parliament have accordingly expressed their deep concern at this ‘arbitrary action, a violation of...
Friday, 2nd October 2009
The great global warming scam (ctd)
2:47pm
Yet another scientific scandal has come to light which knocks another whopping crater in the already shattered theory of anthropogenic global warming. Eight peer-reviewed studies, which for years have played a significant supporting role behind the IPPC’s claims of AGW, have been shown to be fraudulent.
...The Iraq/Iran axis steps up its attack on Iranian dissidents
1:36pm
I wrote here and here about the attack by Iraqi forces -- at the behest of the Iranian regime -- upon the Iranian opposition group, the PMOI, at its headquarters in Ashraf, as a result of which 36 of its members were taken prisoner. In recent days, the situation has got far worse. According to the National Council of Resistance of Iran, yesterday afternoon the 36 prisoners -- who are on hunger-strike -- were beaten up and tortured for more than two hours before being bundled into vans and transferred from Khalis city prison to Baghdad. The NCRI say this took place on the orders of Iraq’s Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, despite three Iraqi court rulings ordering the prisoners’ release.
Saturday, 3 October 2009
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