* Data for vital 'hockey stick graph' has gone missing
* There has been no global warming since 1995
* Warming periods have happened before - but NOT due to man-made changes
Climategate U-turn as scientist at centre of row admits: There has been no global warming since 1995
Professor Jones also conceded the poshttp://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=2142923729102078512&postID=6578793569973399834sibility that the world was warmer in medieval times than now – suggesting global warming may not be a man-made phenomenon.
And he said that for the past 15 years there has been no ‘statistically significant’ warming.
Update: Climategate: What Did Phil Jones Actually Admit? Was He Correct?
Update: A comment from African crops yield another catastrophe for the IPCC from the Telegraph columnist Christopher Booker. "One more alarming claim in the IPCC's 2007 report is disintegrating under closer examination..."
Worth a read as it follows some of the money in that reports generation.
and SOme reaction to the 2007 IPCC report before many of the recent simple questions on the sources and Climategate have shown that some of the statements it made should be questioned.
In 2001, it placed the probability that human activity caused most of the warming of the previous half century at 66 percent to 90 percent — a “likely” rating.