BCT “news” article – 1/8/13

Below is a detailed critique of portions of this column.

Rather than address the whole piece, let’s take a look at the final two paragraphs: “Officials at the climate center were less cautious about assigning blame, both for 2012’s results and the warming weather over the last decade.  ‘It was off the chart,’ said Deke Arndt, head of climate monitoring at the climate center.  Last year will go down as ‘a huge exclamation point at the end of a couple decades of warming.’”

Now, let’s look at an excerpt from my paper entitled “Manmade global warming”: “If the data is legitimate and supports their positions, why would believers risk prosecution to hide the data?  We may have the answer from Phil Jones, former head of the East Anglia University Climate Research Unit.  During a February 2010 BBC Q&A, Mr. Jones conceded there has been no statistically significant warming since 1995.  Mr. Jones also conceded, though a trend, there was statistically insignificant cooling since 2002.  In a BBC interview, Mr. Jones said ‘two periods in recent times had experienced similar warming [to current alleged warming].  And he agreed that the debate had not been settled over whether the Medieval Warm Period was warmer than the current period.’  Mr. Jones then said his data was insufficiently organized and the data sources were insufficiently documented.  What a difference Climategate and the uncovering of bogus claims have made.”

So which is it?  Did we have “a couple decades of warming” or “no statistically significant warming since 1995 … [and,] though a trend, … statistically insignificant cooling since 2002” as of 2010?  With such divergent comments by manmade global warming believers, would someone tell me why we should believe a word they say?