Comments on: Hacked emails and the hockey stick graph http://worldisgreen.com/2009/11/21/hacked-emails-and-the-hockey-stick-graph/ Exploring the role of entrepreneurship in the social sector Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:34:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: bdalacross http://worldisgreen.com/2009/11/21/hacked-emails-and-the-hockey-stick-graph/#comment-7746 Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:58:37 +0000 http://worldisgreen.com/?p=1274#comment-7746 Hari, The problem is the earth has been cooling for nearly 10 years – not 2. When the “scientists” in these emails refer to this cooling as a “travesty” you have to question their motives and their data. Too bad that data was thrown out and all we have now is “value-added” data to check it with. If a banker or lawyer did this they would be jailed for fraud we should hold our scientists to a higher standard.
We should always approach new discoveries and ideas with skepticism. Especially when the new ideas are being funded to provide solutions to supposed climate change. I can find lots of problems that do not exist and perpetuate them to get grant money from the federal government but I don’t because I have a smidgen of integrity.

]]> By: Suhit Anantula http://worldisgreen.com/2009/11/21/hacked-emails-and-the-hockey-stick-graph/#comment-7737 Thu, 26 Nov 2009 23:53:37 +0000 http://worldisgreen.com/?p=1274#comment-7737 Hi Hari:

You are right. Very tough to prove these things from a bunch of emails.

I think climate change is not the issue. The earth is heating. Is it CO2 or not is the issue?

]]> By: Hari Batti http://worldisgreen.com/2009/11/21/hacked-emails-and-the-hockey-stick-graph/#comment-7726 Sat, 21 Nov 2009 09:44:07 +0000 http://worldisgreen.com/?p=1274#comment-7726 I’ve read some of this stuff and am not buying it. Here’s the problem: numbers are tricky and most good scientists think we are in a lot of trouble. Climate denial forces are jumping to take data out of context and say that, for example, two years of relative cooling means we are ok. Independent experts looked at that data blindly and found that it doesn’t make any sense, but that’s another story.

We’ve all said stupid things in emails and if someone with an agenda came along and broke into them, they could probably make us look bad. I’d love to see the emails of these guys. Wouldn’t be at all surprised to see Big Oil is funding a lot of them. They’ve done it before and they learned that trick from Big Tobacco! Who are they kidding? We’d all love to find out that climate change is nothing to worry about, wouldn’t we? But if we act on those assumptions and find out that we were wrong, as I think we would, then how will we explain that to our children?

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