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proxies, and was generated by a computer algorithm. Oregon Institute for Science and Medicine, posted his But a detailed analysis of the data and the algorithm by first global warming sceptics petition on the Institute's Steve McIntyre and environmental economist Dr Ross _ website (www.oism.org). It eventually attracted the McKitrick demonstrated very improper and unscientific signatures of more than 17,000 Americans with science conduct in the graph's creation. degrees. Widely known as the Oregon Petition, it For example, the "hockey stick" chart does not show —_ became a counterweight for the "all scientists agree" he well-known warmer times of the Medieval Warm mantra of the man-made climate change crowd. Period (MWP) about 1,000 years ago. This was a time In late 2007, Robinson mailed a new copy of the when Vikings lived and farmed in Greenland for petition to the original signatories, asking them to centuries. The chart also does not show the Little Ice recruit additional qualified scientists. Now his list Age, which extended from about 1350 to 1850 CE. The — includes around 31,500 man-made warming sceptics istory of those times includes snow falling in Paris in with science qualifications. More than 9,000 hold uly, ice festivals held on four feet of ice on the Thames _ scientific PhDs. Almost 31,500 sceptics happens to be River in London, people walking from more than 12 times as many Denmark to Sweden across the frozen scientists as the 2,500 scientific Baltic, as well as people walking from reviewers claimed by the IPCC to form Manhattan to New Jersey across the a scientific consensus. rozen New York Harbor. In May 2008, Robinson held a press What McIntyre and McKitrick found conference at the National Press Club was that the algorithm could produce in Washington, DC, followed by a a "hockey stick"-shaped graph from a What McIntyre luncheon on Capitol Hill, to which able of random numbers. No valid and McKitrick members of Congress and their aides emperature data were necessary. And were invited. Unsurprisingly, it was ha _ seems nothing short of found Was that the not well attended. mene pungatataer er tee.) algorithm could | hove hs th mht not Equally, on 6 December 2006, produce a hockey truth: “There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gasses is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth's atmosphere’ and disruption of the Earth's climate.""* Full stop. No convincing scientific evidence. The Oregon chemist warns tha "no other major scientific tom the CRU has now confirmed problem has ever been tackled hat the global warmists were the way the UN has approached aware of the absence of the Medieval Warm Period on — global warming".'’ The UN hosted a big meeting o he graph but deliberately kept it hidden—a most _ scientists, Robinson said, and then a small group o geophysicist Dr David Deming of the University of Oklahoma gave some telling testimony to the US Senate. He testified that, around he time that a paper of his was published in Science in 1995, he received an email from a prominent climate change researcher, stating: "We have to get rid of the Medieval Warm Period.” The series of leaked memos stick"- shaped graph from a table of random numbers. unscientific method. "authors" summarised the discussions into a globa It should therefore not come as a surprise that the action plan. ikes of Dennis Avery, an environmental economist, and But, he added, the UN has never produced any Professor Fred Singer have looked at the work of more evidence that humans are warming our climate. The U han 500 scientists and concluded that it is very panel says that CO2 became the culprit "by the process doubtful that man-made global warming exists. They — of elimination", he noted—but such a process is neither also say that temperature increase can actually be a scientific nor admissible in a court of law. good thing as, in the past, sudden cool periods have illed twice as many people as have warm spells. The "cap and trade" game Wihaw ann lanka at tha ard What McIntyre and McKitrick seems algorithm could produce a "hockey stick"— shaped of random numbers. No The "cap and trade" game When one looks at the evidence used by man-made global warming promoters, it is a fact that the evidence for no global warming is equally present. One example cited in favour of global warming is a well-publicised World Wildlife Fund report of 14 March 2005, claiming Global warming sceptics petition When it comes to global warming and climate change, it is apparent that white is black and black seems to be white. In 1998, Dr Arthur Robinson, Director of the 14 * NEXUS found was that the graph from a table FEBRUARY - MARCH 2010 www.nexusmagazine.com