Phil Jones - Global Warming Science Not Settled After All

Professor Phil Jones, a global warming advocate whose observations has fueled world-wide efforts to curb carbon emissions, has made a number of startling admissions that will surely undermine the entire issue of climate change.

According to the UK Daily Mail:

"The academic at the centre of the 'Climategate' affair, whose raw data is crucial to the theory of climate change, has admitted that he has trouble 'keeping track' of the information.

"Colleagues say that the reason Professor Phil Jones has refused Freedom of Information requests is that he may have actually lost the relevant papers.

"Professor Jones told the BBC yesterday there was truth in the observations of colleagues that he lacked organisational skills, that his office was swamped with piles of paper and that his record keeping is 'not as good as it should be'.

"The data is crucial to the famous 'hockey stick graph' used by climate change advocates to support the theory. "

Phil Jones was forced to step down as director of the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit after a series of leaked emails and other documents suggested that the data supporting global warming theories had been "cooked" and that opposing theories were being suppressed.

But this was not the end of the revelations.

"Professor Jones also conceded the possibility 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."

The implications of these admissions are as wide ranging as they are breath taking. Phil Jones, one of the leading scientists who are advocates of the global warming theory, has now admitted that virtually everyone of the points made by global warming skeptics is correct. Such skeptics have been pilloried, not only in the scientific community, but also in political circles as being "deniers" and worse.

Just a few days ago, former Vermont Governor, Presidential candidate, and DNC Chairman Howard Dean sneered at Republicans and others who, "don't believe in science anymore" because they don't believe in global warming.

But now it seems that it is Howard Dean, Al Gore, and other global warming acolytes who don't believe in science. The main scientific advocate of global warming theory has recanted.

Mind, global warming was never about science, but rather was about a desire by politicians to scare people into allowing them to transfer trillions of dollars of wealth from one set of people to another, thus remaking the world to suit them. The theory of global warming was supported, not with data or rational argument, but with threats and intimidation.

While transitory climate events do not suggest a trend, it can be noted that the admission by Phil Jones has taken place against the backdrop of unprecedented snow storms in the American Northeast and in Europe. It is very hard to convince people that the world will soon burn up when they are digging themselves out from under snow drifts.

Sources: Climategate U-turn as scientist at centre of row admits: There has been no global warming since 1995, Jonathan Petre, Daily Mail, February 14th, 2010

Dean: Republicans don't believe in science, Ed Morrissey, Hot Air, February 12th, 2010