Climate Change Data

Recently, it has surfaced that some of the data "scientists" and provided about climate change may be wrong. Someone hacked University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit and posted a bunch of emails (over 1,000, some between prominent scientists) showing a possible conspiracy to distort science to a political gain. In one on the emails, Phil Jones, head of the climate unit wrote to Michael Mann, "“I’ve just completed Mike’s Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) amd [Sic] from 1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline.” This obviously doesn't paint the scientific community in a good light. Phil Jones has temporarily stepped down from his position for investigation.

The big three (ABC, NBC, and CBS) have refused to mention this story on their nightly broadcasts. It took Jon Stewart, Comedy Central's more liberal comedy-news reporter to bring this out in the light. This is somewhat oxymoron-ish and hypocritical of the news media because in 2007 they accused the Bush administration of "cooking the books on climate change." This is from Brian Williams' lead off on January 30, 2007: “Did the Bush administration in any way try to cook the books on the topic of global warming?”

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2009/12/03/dan-gainor-climategate-media-journalists/

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,578990,00.html

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-december-1-2009/scientists-hide-global-warming-data


My opinons: I think that climate change is true, but climate change that is man-influenced is mostly a hoax. I feel this way based on personal convictions and studies in Astronomy that have related our Earth's climate to the amount of sunspots on the sun.

http://anhonestclimatedebate.wordpress.com/2008/10/31/evidence-of-sunspot-involvement-in-climate-change-compelling/

I also feel that the mainstream media is being kind of hypocritical with this whole issue. Once again, they need to report the news. I guess that's why there's two sides and news services to everything.