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Dr. Mann defied the judge presiding over the case and refused to surrender his data for “open court examination”. This is routine practice for scientific study to determine if the results will stand up against examination. But Dr. Mann refused to turn over his data.
79-year-old Canadian climatologist Dr. Tim Ball is the defendant in the libel trial and told his attorneys to “trigger mandatory punitive court sanctions, including a ruling that Mann did act with criminal intent when using public funds to commit climate data fraud”.
Even back in 2017 scientists knew the defeat of Dr. Mann would only vindicate President Donald Trump in his claims that climate change is a hoax. The graph below from Principia Scientific shows “Mann’s cherry-picked version of science [that] makes the Medieval Warm Period (MWP) disappear and shows a pronounced upward ’tick’ in the late 20th century” – this is the blade of Mann’s now infamous “hockey stick”.
Mann had sued Ball for daring to publish the damning comment that Mann“belongs in the state pen, not Penn. State.” Dr Ball brilliantly backed up his exposure of the elaborate international money-making global warming scam in his astonishing book, ‘The Deliberate Corruption of Climate Science‘. In his books, articles, radio and television appearances, Dr. Ball has been resolute in his generation-long war against those who corrupted the field of science to which he had selflessly dedicated his life. Now aged 79, Ball is on the cusp of utter vindication. Despite the stresses and strains on himself and his family, Tim has stood at the forefront of those scientists demanding more openness and transparency from government-funded researchers.
originally posted by: AaarghZombies
a reply to: 727Sky
I have a really stupid question, why do both Israeli and Iranian scientists both say the exact same thing with regards to climate change?
These people hate each other, so they obviously can't be coluding, right?
From what I can see here the court case doesn't prove anybody right or wrong, it's just about access to data, yes?
originally posted by: AaarghZombies
a reply to: 727Sky
I have a really stupid question, why do both Israeli and Iranian scientists both say the exact same thing with regards to climate change?
These people hate each other, so they obviously can't be coluding, right?
From what I can see here the court case doesn't prove anybody right or wrong, it's just about access to data, yes?
originally posted by: AaarghZombies
a reply to: 727Sky
I have a really stupid question, why do both Israeli and Iranian scientists both say the exact same thing with regards to climate change?
These people hate each other, so they obviously can't be coluding, right?
From what I can see here the court case doesn't prove anybody right or wrong, it's just about access to data, yes?
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Indonesia has announced plans to move its capital from the climate-threatened megalopolis of Jakarta to the sparsely populated island of Borneo, which is home to some of the world’s greatest tropical rainforests.
President Joko Widodo said the move was necessary because the burden on Jakarta was “too heavy”, but environmentalists said the $33bn relocation needed to be carefully handled or it would result in fleeing one ecological disaster only to create another.
As well as dire problems of pollution and traffic congestion, Jakarta suffers from severe subsidence, which makes the coastal city extremely vulnerable to rising sea levels.
originally posted by: ManFromEurope
@ "Climate change is completely natural" - not when its happening simultanously in very, very large areas of earth.
@ "Keep Calm and continue!": Indonesia is seriously(!!) planning to build a new capital, as the old one is in danger to sinking.
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Indonesia has announced plans to move its capital from the climate-threatened megalopolis of Jakarta to the sparsely populated island of Borneo, which is home to some of the world’s greatest tropical rainforests.
President Joko Widodo said the move was necessary because the burden on Jakarta was “too heavy”, but environmentalists said the $33bn relocation needed to be carefully handled or it would result in fleeing one ecological disaster only to create another.
As well as dire problems of pollution and traffic congestion, Jakarta suffers from severe subsidence, which makes the coastal city extremely vulnerable to rising sea levels.
And last but not least: I like having clean water and clean air with less pollution. But you do yours. Maybe think about your kids and grandkids, they might have some questions in the future aimed at your denial.
originally posted by: AndyFromMichigan
a reply to: M5xaz
That medieval warming period is fascinating to consider. The Vikings first settled Greenland during that warming period. "Greenland" was probably not an inaccurate name when Erik the Red first landed. Many years later, falling temperatures and advancing glaciers drove European settlers away.
All of this pales in comparison to to temperatures back in the age of the dinosaurs. There was land at the North Pole back then, and it was habitable, with winters that were not too severe for dinosaurs and other reptiles to endure.
originally posted by: loam
If you're intending on saving the world from catastrophe, hiding your data on the grounds it's your intellectual property, it would seem to me at a minimum your priorities are completely out of order.