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
Tom, looks like the deniers are running scared: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2009/dec/14/climate-change-sceptic-ian-plimer And this guy’s meant to be their leader!
george
anon
i’m working from the 1500 dataset released by met office last week. looks ok to me. the rise is obvious (though i haven’t corrected for weather station distributions) well before 2003. my graph is a little different from theirs probably due to this but I’m convinced anyway. the other advantage is i can construct the CRU curve equivalent form this dataset in about 100 lines of code, so no chance of ‘hiding’ anything, assuming the weather station data they released is ok.
i’m happy to move on from this, but i have big issues with the predictions, especially from the circulation models which have BIG error bars.
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