A high-level whistleblower has told this newspaper that America's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) breached its own rules on scientific integrity when it published the sensational but flawed report, aimed at making the maximum possible impact on world leaders including Barack Obama and David Cameron at the UN climate conference in Paris in 2015.
The report claimed that the 'pause' or 'slowdown' in global warming in the period since 1998 – revealed by UN scientists in 2013 – never existed, and that world temperatures had been rising faster than scientists expected. Launched by NOAA with a public relations fanfare, it was splashed across the world's media, and cited repeatedly by politicians and policy makers.
But the whistleblower, Dr John Bates, a top NOAA scientist with an impeccable reputation, has shown The Mail on Sunday irrefutable evidence that the paper was based on misleading, 'unverified' data.
It was never subjected to NOAA's rigorous internal evaluation process – which Dr Bates devised.
His vehement objections to the publication of the faulty data were overridden by his NOAA superiors in what he describes as a 'blatant attempt to intensify the impact' of what became known as the Pausebuster paper.
More details can be found in his own words here:
They promised to begin an archive request for the K15 datasets that were not archived; however I have not been able to confirm they have been archived. I later learned that the computer used to process the software had suffered a complete failure, leading to a tongue-in-cheek joke by some who had worked on it that the failure was deliberate to ensure the result could never be replicated.
https://judithcurry.com/2017/02/04/climate-scientists-versus-climate-data/
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 06 2017, @06:21PM
Fake news to the right. Fake news to the left. It's all fake. Ready to collapse. Not long now.
(Score: 5, Funny) by Bogsnoticus on Monday February 06 2017, @09:25PM
Fake news to the left of me
Liars to the right
Here I am
Stuck in the middle with SoylentNews
Genius by birth. Evil by choice.
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Monday February 06 2017, @11:47PM
That sounds like it's a well-known quote or song or some such, changed to make it about news. But I can't think what the original is. Can anyone let me know?
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 07 2017, @12:24AM
"Stuck in the Middle with You" - Stealers Wheel, 1973 [google.com]
One of the writers was Gerry Rafferty (the "Baker Street" guy).
Gerry's had previously been in a duo called The Humblebums with comedian/actor/musician Billy Connolly.
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 2) by el_oscuro on Tuesday February 07 2017, @01:46AM
That actually seems to be pretty much right.
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