Tracking yearly temperature data is relatively easy and hard to refute. Scientists tracking the earth’s temperatures agree that for the past 11 years our earth has been cooling. What is more difficult is modeling the future of our climate based on information from the past. This requires scientists to use the best available data and then adjust their predictions as data changes.

Junk science is different: when new data becomes available that doesn’t support the predictions, the data is changed or distorted. In the climate change debate, this is fairly easy to do, as very few people outside an inner circle are privy to the computer modeling of this data.

Unfortunately for this inner circle, namely Phil Jones, director of the Climatic Research Unit, along with Tom Wigley of the same agency, they have been caught manipulating data in what is now being called “Climategate.” It appears that plenty of the original climate data that reinforced Al Gore’s Nobel Peace Prize winning efforts has been rigged. It’s junk, to echo Myron Ebell.

Two challenges on this from TuCARE: to the Union Democrat to aggressively report on this huge development in the climate change debate, and to our critics…next time come to the Summit…you won’t be attacked and may be surprised at what you learn.

Mike Albrecht, President
TuCARE