{"id":1116,"date":"2009-09-24T07:47:54","date_gmt":"2009-09-24T11:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=1116"},"modified":"2009-09-25T15:03:50","modified_gmt":"2009-09-25T19:03:50","slug":"another-reason-why-theres-still-debate-over-climate-changeglobal-warming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2009\/09\/24\/another-reason-why-theres-still-debate-over-climate-changeglobal-warming\/","title":{"rendered":"Another reason why there&#8217;s still debate over Climate Change\/Global Warming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>True believers treat skeptics on the Climate Change\/Global Warming question as heretics because &#8220;the proof is right there&#8221; . . . except the data supporting the case <a href=\"http:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/2009\/09\/23\/taking-a-bite-out-of-climate-data\/\" target=\"_blank\">is not available to study<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>. . . the data needed to verify the gloom-and-doom warming forecasts have disappeared.<\/p>\n<p>Or so it seems. Apparently, they were either lost or purged from some discarded computer. Only a very few people know what really happened, and they aren\u2019t talking much. And what little they are saying makes no sense.<\/p>\n<p>[. . .]<\/p>\n<p>If we are to believe Jones\u2019s note to the younger Pielke, CRU adjusted the original data and then lost or destroyed them over twenty years ago. The letter to Warwick Hughes may have been an outright lie. After all, Peter Webster received some of the data this year. So the question remains: What was destroyed or lost, when was it destroyed or lost, and why?<\/p>\n<p>All of this is much more than an academic spat. It now appears likely that the U.S. Senate will drop cap-and-trade climate legislation from its docket this fall &mdash; whereupon the Obama Environmental Protection Agency is going to step in and issue regulations on carbon-dioxide emissions. Unlike a law, which can\u2019t be challenged on a scientific basis, a regulation can. If there are no data, there\u2019s no science. U.S. taxpayers deserve to know the answer to the question posed above.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>True believers treat skeptics on the Climate Change\/Global Warming question as heretics because &#8220;the proof is right there&#8221; . . . except the data supporting the case is not available to study: . . . the data needed to verify the gloom-and-doom warming forecasts have disappeared. Or so it seems. Apparently, they were either lost [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[245,240,39],"class_list":["post-1116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-climatechange","tag-globalwarming","tag-junkscience"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-i0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1116"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1135,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116\/revisions\/1135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}