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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begin an archive request for the K15 datasets that were not archived; however I have not been able to confirm they have been archived.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: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 06 2017, @08:52PM
Red China was/is NOT "Communist"; it was/is Totalitarian.
How many examples do you jibronies need before you realize Communism and Totalitarianism is one and fucking same! Your lofty ideals of Communism are totally divorced from reality. Only thing a Communist will ever receive from me is a free helicopter ride (I realize it is de-humanizing and amoral approach towards dealing with useful idiots, but upon deep reflection it is ethical).
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 06 2017, @09:47PM
Now tell us how USA's gov't is "a Democracy" (AKA "the majority rules") when supermajorities want single-payer healthcare and can't get that.
Repeat for less military spending; an end to The War on Drugs; a move back to non-regressive taxation; ending corporate welfare and bailouts of failed Capitalists.
Don't forget to mention how The 1 Percent get what they want.
Properly denoted, USA is an Oligarchy, but the mainstream news media^W^W^W^W corporate propaganda won't ever say that.
The Nazis were "The National Socialist German Workers Party".
...yet they put trade unionists and Socialists/Communists in concentration camps (when they didn't kill them outright).
You can name your political party / governmental form anything you want.
That doesn't make that description of yourself accurate.
...and having other governments repeat your made-up term doesn't make it legit either.
Socialism is a bottom-up system; Communism is Socialism perfected.
What China has is is top-down.
That is the OPPOSITE of Communism.
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You are deeply confused about governmental and economic forms.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 07 2017, @07:56AM
How many examples do you jibronies need before you realize Communism and Totalitarianism is one and fucking same!
Well, all of them, obviously, since none of the ones you have provided proves your point. Are you a Papist? Or a member of the Chamber of Commerce? Perhaps of the Knights of Malta, or the Knighets who say "Niiii!"? In any case, your understanding of politics, economics, and the ranking of sci-fi television shows from the sixties, is sorely lacking, and is would probably be better if you just shut the fuck up. Like, Now?