"Instrumental temperature data for the pre-satellite era (1850-1980) have been so widely, systematically, and uni-directionally tampered with that it cannot be credibly asserted there has been any significant “global warming” in the 20th century." - Anthony Watts (June 2nd 2010)
"The world is warming. It has been for centuries. Rather than saying anything about anthropogenic global warming, all the BEST dataset does is confirms that. How that’s gotten twisted into some supposed “victory” for the AGW crowd escapes me." - Willis Eschenbach (October 22nd 2011)
How indeed Willis. It's as if the Skeptics had been denying the warming at some point isn't it?
If you need to deny a body of scientific evidence, make sure your argument takes advantage of whatever hypothesis is convenient at the moment. Some days the world hasn't warmed, some days it actually has. Some days, it has been cosmic rays all along, some days it is the sun. This is the way WUWT operates, along with suppressing dissent, such as in the potholer54 versus Monckton issue.
ReplyDeleteWatts' statement of June 2 ,2010 is so blitheringly stupid and trivially debunkable,even Watts himself had rejected it by the next year!
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