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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begin an archive request for the K15 datasets that were not archived; however I have not been able to confirm they have been archived.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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 06 2017, @09:04PM
You are spouting off the government's propagandist party line taught to gullible school children in the... wait for it... government-dominated schooling system.
The Government (including the Federal Reserve) caused the Great Depression; the Federal Reserve admits this openly these days—don't forget that in 1929, the Federal Reserve had been around for a very long time already. Furthermore, the policies of FDR prolonged and worsened the structural problems in the economy; read about the Forgotten Depression of 1920–21.
It was only after WWII that the economy boomed, and that followed both a massive reduction in federal spending and a massive reduction in regulation (and the boom undoubtedly also reflected the fact that the rest of the world was totally fucked).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 06 2017, @10:30PM
The Federal Reserve is "Federal" only in its name.
It is a cartel of PRIVATE bankers.
If you want to take the topic from there ("Fascism"), that might be worthwhile.
You could go into how a previous Populist president[1] destroyed The Bank of the United States.
[1] Andrew Jackson is routinely found on a list of USA's worst presidents.
I disagree with the goal of patrician FDR to "save Capitalism".
...but all that Hoover did for 4 calendar years was sit on his thumb and hope that The Market would fix everything.
Did I already mention "downward spiral"? {Checks} Yeah, I did.
Did I already mention "the Capitalists weren't hiring"? {Checks} Yeah, I did.
I don't think that FDR went far enough, not using eminent domain to nationalize failed/failing corporations and not reselling those to worker-owner cooperatives at a zero-interest rate.
That said, this quote from FDR shows the difference between him and (failed president) Hoover:
"DO SOMETHING. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else."
The results that FDR got were "good enough", so he stopped there. 8-(
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 07 2017, @02:06AM
... it ain't private. You really cannot get more governmental than that.
FDR prolonged and worsened the depression; what don't you get about that?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 07 2017, @04:04AM
The Fed is ordained by the goddamn Constitution
Actually, no.
The Constitution grants the federal gov't the exclusive right to mint money.
That's all that that document has to say about money or banking.
FDR prolonged and worsened the depression
Right. Had USAians just left Hoover in there, doing what he had been doing (or, more specifically, not doing), with the corps continuing to do what they were doing (or, again, not doing), that downward spiral that was already at 25 percent unemployment, with few folks having the money to buy anything, things would have magically straightened out all by themselves. /sarc
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