James Delingpole of the UK Telegraph tipped his hat to Watts Up With That and Ian Wishart and then wrote:
The alleged villains this time are the climate scientists at the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NiWA) – New Zealand’s answer to Britain’s Climate Research Unit. And to judge by this news alert by the Climate Science Coalition of NZ, both institutions share a similarly laissez-faire attitude to scientific accuracy.
Compare and contrast these two graphs and you’ll see.
This is the graph from NiWA’s website, showing mean annual temperature over New Zealand from 1853. Note the dotted straight line showing the upward trend. Worrying, isn’t it? Almost enough to make you fall in love your flickery, yellowy new eco-light bulbs, recycle your kids and commit yourself to a binding agreement at Copenhagen.
Now have a look at this analysis of the raw data taken from exactly the same temperature stations.
Can you see the difference? I can – and I know as little about science as Al Gore. But lets allow the experts at Climate Science Coalition of NZ to explain:
Straight away you can see there’s no slope—either up or down. The temperatures are remarkably constant way back to the 1850s. Of course, the temperature still varies from year to year, but the trend stays level—statistically insignificant at 0.06°C per century since 1850.
Putting these two graphs side by side, you can see huge differences. What is going on?
Why does NIWA’s graph show strong warming, but graphing their own raw data looks completely different? Their graph shows warming, but the actual temperature readings show none whatsoever!
For explanations of how New Zealand got hotter without actually getting hotter, read on here.
Meanwhile, Gerald Warner, also of the Telegraph, intrepidly suggested that Phil Jones of the East Anglia Climate Research Unit and Michael Mann of Penn State move their climate propaganda show from the world stage to kids' TV, thus:
Hi, kids, now I’ve finished working with the computer, let’s see what Michael is holding. It’s a graph, showing how hot the world is getting because of motor cars and American Republicans and horrid people called Deniers – Oh, look, Michael is holding his graph upside down. No, he’s not being silly, he’s being responsible. Because, you see, although the words are upside down, the lines are pointing upwards, which is what matters. And when we send it to our colleagues in New Zealand, who are becoming almost as famous as we are, the words will be the right way up, because it’s an upside-down country…
It's funny, but not really. As everybody knows, the weight of an imminent, human-caused global warming catastrophe has already been moved to the frail shoulders of our innocent ones, and children around the world firmly believe that they are responsible for the killing off of the world's polar bear population and the drowning of Pacific Islanders and the end of the world, and they don't even know that it's all a fiction.
Today starts the One-Week Countdown to the Copenhagen Climate Conference, officially known as COP15, the United Nations Climate Conference Copenhagen Dec 7-Dec 18 2009.
The Children's Climate Forum in Copenhagen has already begun.
Shame on you, Phil and Mike, and your friends in New Zealand, too.
The scientific method was invented to prevent this sort of thing, as if you didn't know.
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