The Daily Express have attacked the Met Office, using flawed Russian State data to accuse them of falsifying evidence on climate change.
The increasing desperation of the Daily Express was laid bare today with yet another front page article denying climate change.
Parrotting the line spun by the semi-official Russian State RIA Novosti news agency, the paper claimed, without evidence, that the Hadley Centre “probably tampered with Russian climate data”.
The story, that Met Office climatologists ignored data that contradicted their assumptions, follows the Express’s front-page earlier this week listing “100 REASONS WHY GLOBAL WARMING IS NATURAL” – ‘evidence’ comprehensively demolished by the New Scientist.
Their latest piece is on even shakier ground, and appears to have been fed to them by the Russian Government, whose vast oil, gas and revenues could be imperiled if a world leaders agree strong measures to deal with climate change at Copenhagen.
The Institute of Economic Analysis, the group behind the smears, was founded by Andrey Illarionov – a former aide to Vladimir Putin.
The main attack on the Met Office, that they only select weather stations which favour their hypotheses, would appear to be entirely baseless. The set of stations they use are evenly distributed across the globe and aren’t even picked by them.
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20 Responses to “The Daily Pravda spin Moscow’s line”
Shamik Das
RT @leftfootfwd: The Daily Express spin Moscow’s line to smear Met Office: http://is.gd/5rrtT
Miljenko Williams
More from beady-eyed Brian: how the Daily Express peddles Moscow's line on climate change – http://bit.ly/6BHUlN
Billy Blofeld
Shamik,
You are getting increasingly hysterical on the subject of climate change. You need to explore the other side of the coin.
I read New Scientist every week (for the physics coverage) – about 3 weeks ago they had a cover story on climate. Did you see it?
It seems like there is strong evidence that our climate models are stuffed, because they don’t conform to the neat computational cubes that the computers in the Met Office like to calculate.
Instead, however, it seems there is evidence that we should re-write our climate models, since surprise, surprise, climate is chaotic and fractal.
That demands different maths. Different computational models. Way different models to crunching numbers where the earth is modelled one cube at a time.
Al Gore is a knob jockey and equally alarmist and he is equally idiotic as The Daily Express is in the other direction. Use you head. Stop being hysterical and explore the other side of the coin.
I’ll resist posting the link which shows evidence that the New Scientist appear to have been colluding in Climate-Gate……… cos I’m nice like that.
Tom
“You need to explore the other side of the coin” is like the suggestion by supporters of Intelligent Design to ‘teach the controversy’. Among competent scientific experts there simply isn’t another side of the coin: the earth is warming, fast. There are a few who suggest other reasons, apart from greenhouse emissions, for this warming, though none has yet found one which correlates well with recent warming patterns. But to suggest, as the Express story does, that warming simply isn’t happening is something that no reputable scientist would agree with.
Anon E Mouse
Tom – Where do you get your figures about the earth warming from?