Climate Scientist Speaks Out?

This is pretty funny--you guys were screaming for weeks that Phil Jones was a filthy con artist, and now when he says something you can twist into supporting you, you refer to him as a "lead[ing] scientist"!!!!!

Simple. Fox News and the Telegraph are lying to you. And it's not just Fox News; this story has been making it's way around denial outlets for a few days now. I'm not surprised that Fox News and Telegraph picked up on this story as well.

Phil Jones never said that global warming over the past 15 years was "insignificant", which is what the Fox News headline claims. What he actually says was that the climate has been warming an average of 0.12°C per year over the past 15 years.

Such warming is exceptional and falls within the 93 percentile. However, in statistics, it's the 95 percentile that is "significant." Therefore, according to Phil Jones, from 1995 to the present, there has been no "statistically significant" global warming.

Jones also stated, "Achieving statistical significance in scientific terms is much more likely for longer periods, and much less likely for shorter periods."

"Significant" and "statistically significant" are two different things. Phil Jones should have been more careful explaining this and should have assumed that (A) most people don't understand statistics; and (B) the denial machine would try to spin what he said and present a misunderstanding to those who don't really understand science or math.

You are so wrong. Look at the real take from one of your editors that actually read the interview:

http://voices.kansascity.com/node/7593

The inteview is available here:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8511670....

Stop reading media that lies to you. Read the actual interview and see that people are lying.

Because the debate on whether man is changing the climate has been fully settled for five years, and because people who want to deceive you cannot find a single published climate researcher who will take there side -- not one, nobody -- they are lying about what real climatologists are saying. This is not my opinion that FoxNews and other lied, you can read the same story they got, the actual transcript of the interview and see that they are lying. These are not real news sources.

This isn't news. News is supposed to be new. It's propaganda.