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i read through some of the emails using search words like tree ring kyoto ice core hockeystick mann, etc.
in the emails, it was admitted that some of the data was adjusted to resemble global warming. there were also emails that said even if human activity was limited to the full restraints of the kyoto protocol it wouldn't make a significant difference. there was also an acknowledgement of 'global cooling'. that we are in a cooling phase that may last until 2020. here's another graph, see its black line, used to correct the hockeystick profile shown on the previous page:
most interesting is that distinguished scientists lost all objectivity and turned into global warming advocates to endorse the kyoto protocol. this was in 1997 when there was no scientific basis to believe that human activity was involved. here's a quote from one of the emails that shows their non-scientific fervor - collecting signatures endorsing the kyoto protocol in order to support 'the cause':
"...i am very strongly in favor of as wide and rapid a distribution as possible for endorsements. i think the only thing that counts is numbers. the media is going to say "1000 scientists signed" or "1500" signed". no one is going to check if it is 600 with PhDs versus 2000 without. they will mention the prominent ones, but that is a different story...conclusion -- forget the screening, forget asking them about their last publication(most will ignore you.) get those names!" - prof. dr. joseph alcamo, director. center for environmental systems research, university of kassel, germany.
very disappointing, but interesting reading.
Hmm, since I cannot find my post from another thread about global warming, let me reproduce it:
The global temperature is rising.
Global temperature is clearly linked to C02 levels.
C02 levels are higher than they should be in the natural cycle because of human emissions.
Observed temperatures correlate most closely with climate forecasts that take into account human emissions than 'natural' C02 levels.
That should help clear things up. Honestly, the debate to be had on global warming isn't whether it is occuring, but what the effects of it will be on our planet. All alternate theories as to why the earth is warming have been discredited by the wider scientific community.
The 'they're biased' argument doesn't really work either for two reasons. Firstly, the oil lobby has been very busy bribing scientists to come up with alternative explanations to the warming of the planet. The argument it has been fabricated for monetary gain doesn't really work, since both sides are at it.
Secondly and more importantly, the peer review process ensures that any bias is eliminated, giving an objective view. That view is that global warming is happening, and that it is man made. We just aren't sure of how severe the consequences will be.
this was the source of the graph i posted on page 2:
YAD06
the YAD06 series is the source of the drastic increase of temperatures seen on page one graphs by goumas13. here it is shown with yellow highlight as an anomaly compared with other series:
source of the second graph: influence
the climatologists were using tree-ring data as indicators of temperature, since trees are very old, and grow faster in warm and slower in cold. they are questioning whether the YAD06 series of trees should ever have been used to estimate temps shown in goumas13's graphs. compare the YAD06 series above, to goumas13's graphs on page 1, why did they pick it? because they had started becoming advocates rather than scientists.