The United Kingdom's Daily Mail reported yesterday that Professor Phil Jones, who has been at the center of the climate change debate, has refused Freedom of Information requests because he may have actually lost the relevant papers. In speaking to the BBC, Professor Jones admitted that there was a possibility that the world was warmer in medieval times than it is now. This is seen as an indication that climate change or global warming might not be man made.
The article points out:
"But Dr Benny Pieser, director of the sceptical Global Warming Policy Foundation, said Professor Jones's 'excuses' for his failure to share data were hollow as he had shared it with colleagues and 'mates'.
He said that until all the data was released, sceptics could not test it to see if it supported the conclusions claimed by climate change advocates.
He added that the professor's concessions over medieval warming were 'significant' because they were his first public admission that the science was not settled."
There are two interesting facts about this story. The first is that it was published in a British newspaper rather than an American newspaper. The American media has been very hesitant to cover any story concerning the collapse of man-made climate statistics and data. The other interesting fact about this story is contained in the following quote from the story:
"Even more strikingly, he (Professor Jones) also sounds much less ebullient about the basic theory, admitting that there is little difference between global warming rates in the Nineties and in two previous periods since 1860 and accepting that from 1995 to now there has been no statistically significant warming."
It is always a good idea to study weather trends in order to uncover patterns and new information about the earth's climate. However, until we have at least a hundred years of reliable date, we really don't have enough information to really understand the long-range trends of climate change.
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