Inconvenient Emails Heat Up Battle Over Global Warming

As a good doctor, Dr. Thomas in Columbus Ohio, once said to my wife, “the situation will at some point dictate it’s solution”

Really? Tabloid tactics on World News? I am very disappointed that you have resorted to this low in broadcast news… no matter how you couch it… Tiger Woods scandal should not be fodder for this news program… what was it a slow news day…

The whole world emits 28,431,741 tons of CO2 annually, with the top two contributors being China and the United States. China emits 6,104,493 tons of CO2 a year and the United States emits 5,752,289 tons of CO2 a year. This was a 2006 estimate, so the numbers are probably higher now. Seriously, global warming can cause serious and devastating consequences. The historic average of parts per million of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere was around 280. Now that number has significantly risen to more than 387 ppm. That means that it has risen by more than 100 parts per million since the Industrial Revolution. Before the Industrial revolution, the average annual increase of CO2 was less than 0.3 ppm, but now it is over 2.3 ppm. With the increase in carbon dioxide, there is a increase in temperature. The average temperature in the winter in Alaska has risen 15 degrees Fahrenheit and in the winter, 12 degrees. 2 trillion tons of ice have melted since 1980, half of which melted in Greenland. The Columbian Glacier in Alaska has melted 9 miles in length since 1980, 80 cubic feet a day, and is projected to retreat another 9 miles in length within the next 15 years. The temperature in Alaska has increased 15ºF in the winter and 12ºF in the summer since 1980. The Larsen B ice Shelf depleted to a size not seen in 12,000 years and melted 3520 km2. Within the last 50 years, the temperature of the Antarctica Peninsula has risen 2.5ºC. The Sea level is projected to rise more than a meter within the century, which will put many places underwater, and will force billions of people living on the coast to move. A major contributor to the rising sea levels is water expansion due to the heating of the water. Other consequences of global warming are the increase of diseases due to the increase of population of mosquitoes, there will be more drought, tornadoes, more frequent and violent hurricanes due to the warming of the oceans, more tsunamis, typhoons, flooding, etc.

I have known ALL along that Al Gore and his push for changes to occur for the purpose of reversing Mankinds so called deleterious effect on the environment was all spurious and, most of all, driven by greed for the multiple BILLIONS of dollars that MOST of us are being FORCED to sacrifice for this gargantuan global FRAUD. It is a house of cards, and it HAS FALLEN DOWN; of COURSE, we will see that those who have set themselves up to PROFIT HANDSOMELY (hand over fist) will be especially vocal in ensuring all of us that the smoking gun e-mails reveal NOTHING that should put an end to the process. RIDICULOUS! UNACCEPTABLE! Climate Change? THAT emperor has NO CLOTHES and so many people are NAKED TOO and wanting the REST of us to strip ourselves too; I WON’T drink the Kool-Aid! COUNT on me to FIGHT the BS ’til the EMPEROR covers up his nasty bod!

Nothing in these e-mails takes away from the fact that climate change is occurring and to a large extent caused by human activity. I will trust the fact that there are thousands of reputable peer-reviewed studies out there that demonstrate this. Were these two scientists arrogant? Were they innappropiate? Yes – but that doesn’t disprove all the rest. And even their study – someone point out to me a specific example where these two particular scientists fudged data. I want the listing of the exact study. Come on, naysayers show me the money.

10,000.00 years ago long before man made emissions 3/4 of the earth was covered in ice. All you smart Libs know this was called the ice age. What made the earth warm then??? Obamas stimulus and the democrats voted to spend 900 million of our tax money to study man made global warming. All I can say is keep voting democrat. PS Did anyone watch the weather channel today???

The reason that china puts out more c02 is because they let all their citizens exhale that c02 and there are lots of them but of course that is all natural JUST LIKE EARTHS WARMING AND COOLING CYCLES that have been going on for millions of years if you go to Nebraska they have what they refer to as sand hills, those were left by the reocuring glaciers, There are rocks there that are bigger than a house totaly smooth and polished flat from being carried by the glaciers, and there were hundreds of glaciers ocurring thousands of years apart, then the warming would melt them and nobody was driving around in a car poluting the planet to cause that warming a million years ago.

You are an ignorant idiot if you say that the reason that China emits that much CO2 is simply because of exhalation! It is because of the massive amount of factories and production!

The isssue isn’t whether or not warming is occuring but whether or not it is caused by–and therefore correctable by–humans. It isn’t even whether these emails, documents, and computer codes were posted by a hacker, a whistleblower (more likely), or an intelligence operation (less likely, but possible).
These emails and especially the computer code show very clearly that the data coming out of both CRU/UEA and NASA’s data from Michael Mann have been fudged. Much of the remaining data for the IPCC’s reports have come from these two sources or other sources that relied on them. ALL of that data is now suspect.
If the raw data has been hidden, compromised, or worse, destroyed, how can we trust it enough to bet the entire world’s economic future on it? Because that is exactly what we will be doing. Everything, even storage, takes energy.
When you ask a math teacher “why does one plus one equal two?” he tells you. If you ask a chemist how he knows water is two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen, he tells you. They don’t say “Trust me.” They don’t immediately show you pictures of cuddly looking polar bear cubs and tell you these poor animals will die if you don’t believe. That may work for Tinkerbell, but it won’t change the climate if this ISN’T something caused by humans.
And, right now, it’s looking as if humans added very little to this.
Now is time for a Sherlock Holmes or a Perry Mason, not a time for politicians and treaties.

People that don’t believe in global warming are just misinformed ignorant people who refuse to believe it because they are afraid. They think that the Earth is so big and we really small compared to the enormity of the planet, but you are WRONG! If you think about it, we have almost inhabited every square inch of this planet and we have transformed it to our desires. We are rapidly destroying and cutting down rain forests. Countless species are becoming extinct every day in the rain forest, probably some of which we have never discovered and we never will witness in the future :( The annihilation of the Earth’s rain forests also releases carbon dioxide.

What a poor excuse for a story. The real news here is not the emails, but the associated documents and source code released with the emails. These clearly shows how results were fabricated to give the researchers the results they wanted.
With the number one rule of science being the ability to reproduce results. The fact that the researchers have discarded the original data to “save space” invalidates any science on this subject and any research based off of it, and anyone who claims to have done a peer review of it.
There is no science linking climate changes to anything that has been done by man. Anyone who claims otherwise is lying or ignorant.

Significance: The Earth’s land ice holds 75% of all of the world’s freshwater. The temperature is rising across the globe, especially in the poles
Consequences: The sea level is projected to rise by 1 meter at the end of the century, if we do not do something soon. This rise in sea level could put states like Florida and Pacific islands underwater. Most of the world’s population lives on the coast, and all of those people would need to be evacuated. 75% of the Earth’s freshwater supply is held in ice, so if all or most of the ice melts, millions of people would die of dehydration. It would mess up the flow of water through rivers and rivers might not reach their destinations. This would destroy the habitats of many animals that live in for instance, the Arctic, Antarctica, or the permafrost of Siberia. It would also have a great cultural impact on native peoples like Intuits. It will cause the collapse of many buildings built in the permafrost as well.
Variables: The variables that need to be addressed are how much the temperatures are increasing by, the amount of sea level rise, the thickness and expanse of the ice, how much ice there is, where the ice is located

Out of the 2 trillion tons of ice that has melted in the last 20 years, half of which has melted in Greenland.
It wouldn’t seem uncommon to see that a glacier in Greenland to recede a few miles a year.
Glacial shifts usually occur over centuries or millenniums, but the Jakobshavn glacier’s path towards the sea has sped up rapidly since 2000
It moved forward at a pace of 3.54 miles a year between 1992 and 1997. In 2003 the speed of its path increased to 7.83 miles per year.
It nearly doubled the amount of ice it discharged and it has lost about 49 feet vertically every year since 1997
The Jakobshavn Isbrae Glacier is Greenland’s largest outlet glacier and it drains 6.5% of the continent’s ice sheet area.
The melting of this glacier increases sea level by .002 inches a year, 4% of the annual increase in 20th century sea level rise.
The water melting in Greenland from the last five years would fill up 11 Chesapeake Bays
If all of the ice in Greenland were to melt there would be a 7 meter sea level rise.

The Columbian Glacier is about three miles wide in some places, up to 3,000 feet thick, and has thinned 1,300 feet in places in the last 25 years
It is 34 miles long and is sliding in at a rate of 115 feet a day
The Columbia Glacier has shrunk 9 miles in length since 1980 and is projected to retreat another 9 miles within the next 15-20 years.
It is discharging nearly 2 cubic miles of ice a year into the Prince William Sound (Equal to 100,000 ships packed with ice, each of which 1– feet long)
It melts at a rate of 80 feet per day
It contributes the largest amount of sea level rise out of all of the North American glaciers and produces 10% of the water volume entering the sea from all Alaskan glaciers each year

Montana park had 150 glaciers in 1850, and now only 26 of these glaciers remain
The glaciers that remain are mere fragments of what they were before.

Thiek, sorry to break this to you but the climate of the earth has been changing since there has been a climate. The argument is if there are any man made causes to the changes, and there is no science to show that there is.
To your assertion that the climate is currently warming, please provide evidence – but there is none since it was all thrown away by the researchers at the CRU.

I am not trying to say that things are not going wrong with the world. There is no denying that. But, my question is has anyone ever thought that maybe we are experiencing the start of a polar shift? The earth over millions of years has changed greatly. So, who says that the changes we are seeing are not natural and will continue despite our efforts. Ice caps have came and gone before, the earth has flooded before, it has been hot and cold, wet and dry. We know this, so maybe we are just seeing that change that has happened time and time again over millions of years.

The Climate HOAX exposes the fake science the predatory proponents of this bogus data. The earth always has and always will be undergoing change.
Check out the following link for accurate information on the global CO2 HOAX.

Regardless of the global warming debate, humans are increasing the level of CO2 at an alarming rate. Only an idiot would think it a good idea to allow this to continue, let alone increase CO2 output. Ignorant greedy pigs who care for nothing but the crap they get from their sloven greed ought to be required to suck up the excess CO2 from corporate smokestacks and everyone’s auto tailpipes. In the long run it may be better that humans choke themselves to death on CO2. Better that than the supreme human idiocy of nuclear war. Only creatures as stupid as humans could debate over two equally horrible options. I’m ashamed to be human amongst such idiocy.

Now let us report on the illegal alien occupying the white house and how he has spent 2 million dollars on lawyers keeping everything sealed.

Thiek, I am impressed with how fast you can type and post comments. Unfortunately, you have missed the point. I doubt anyone will argue the world didn’t warm from about 1975 to about 1998. But, there has been no detectable warming since 1998. That’s what the emails were talking about when they regretted being unable to explain the “lack of warming” even though CO2 continued to rise through these years.
All the concern and good will in the world will not save the glaciers if the cause is solar or some other non-human reason. Only if humans are the first cause will any of your points matter. God bless you. Live your life as you choose. But, let the rest of us have the comfort of knowing–before trashing our economy and way of life–that this isn’t just a bunch of hooey.

What a biased news story — only good that came of it was that “global warming deniers” are now being called “global warming skeptics”. I guess that’s a step up. How about a real in depth investigation into the parsed and altered data — that’s the bad science. It’s much more likely this data wasn’t stolen — it was released by a whistleblower who had finally gotten sick of the coverup. How about a real new media investigation into how any science that doesn’t support the global warming position is vilified and the scientists are ostracized.
The end of the Roman Warming (warm, dry) brought the “Mongol hordes” out of the steppes because their civilization couldn’t survive the cold. This was the start of the Dark Ages (cold, wet). Followed by the Medieval Warming (warm, dry), then the Little Ice Age (cold, wet). See a pattern? Check it out. PBS aired a three-part series recently on Becoming Human that clearly indicated 200 or more cycles of warming and cooling on a global scale based on ice cores. Watch the Series!! Perfectly fits the solar cycles described in “Unstoppable Global Warming Every 1500 years”. Don’t think PBS intended to have it support us “skeptics” but they have done so accidentally.
Need another reference — try “Climate Confusion: How Global Warming Hysteria Leads to Bad Science, Pandering Politicians and Misguided Policies that Hurt the Poor” by Roy Spencer, a former NASA climatologist. He takes the science down to the grade school to high school level so you don’t have to have a PhD to understand the arguments.
Consider it a challenge, ABC, to act like a real investigative news agency rather than a liberal mouthpiece.

I just think that it’s incredibly arrogant to believe that we completely, 100% understand the Earth’s climate regulatory system, to the point that we can pinpoint “exactly” what causes what. I remember it was only a few 100 years ago that Galileo said that the solar system was centered on the sun, not the earth. And the “establishment” rediculed him.
That same establishment wants me to believe that they know exactly how to “stablize” the earth’s climate control system. Frankly, I’m terrified that in their “tweaking” they are going to send us into another ice age.
What’s the hurry? Why can’t we spend the time to get the science exactly right?
And this scientific concensus that the mainstream media keeps assuring us exists, doesn’t. Over 150 scientists, including at least one Nobel Prize winner say that global warming is hogwash. That’s not concensus.
I’ve also noticed that all these altruistic environmentalists seem to be making a ton of money off of terrifying the world into “buying and selling” carbon credits. Hmmmmmmm, maybe they have a vested interest in convincing us that global warming is real.

The greenhouse effect is a natural cycle that made the average temperature of the Earth around 60 degrees Fahrenheit. The way it works is that the Sun radiates heat towards the Earth, 6% is reflected by the atmosphere, 20% from the clouds, 51% absorbed by the surface, 4% reflected by the surface, and 19% absorbed the the atmosphere and clouds. Trace gasses in the atmosphere like water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, and many other gasses absorb that 19% of infrared radiation and keep it in the atmosphere. WITH THE ADDITION OF MORE TRACE GASSES IN THE ATMOSPHERE, MORE INFRARED RADIATION WILL BE ABSORBED, INCREASING THE TEMPERATURE. IT IS SIMPLE.

Thiek, you really don’t get it do you? The question is: Is there any causation between human activities and climate change. There is NO evidence to suggest there is. Even NASA that you mention as a “credible” source in a previous post continues to deny freedom of information requests on their source data. Until they do so, any information they release can not be considered scientific.
Also, there was a thing called a “little ice age” (the end of which is the point at which alarmists start their measurements) so of course we are going to be warmer then that. There was also a middle age warm period (which the emails explain on how to hide) compare those temperatures to the current temperature to that and you would think we are heading to the next ice age. Remember, Greenland was once actually green, vineyards thrived in England, and the polar bears were just fine. And all these changes occurred without regard to CO2 – a trace, but life giving element in our atmosphere.

Climate change and the current worldwide economic depression may be happening at the same time, but one would be hard pressed to link the two as some here seem to imply. Also, contrary to the opinion of other idiots voicing their opinion here, encouraging the growth of environmentally sound industries creates jobs. The only way we can lose out with the rest of the world is if we choose to remain the same idiots. Grow up folks, the world has changed and industry and the economy will change with it. Put away your rose colored glasses and lead based paints and let’s move forward, intelligently.

Because emerging facts are revealing that the federal government has engaged in the business of financial underwriting, manufacturing, marketing and the selling of allegedly fatally flawed, defective, and consumer un-friendly products known under the interchangeable names of climate change, global warming, or Mr. Al Gore’s CO2 theory,
we have the right to demand the federal government cease production of said product until such time investigations are completed and determinations made as to how to proceed thereon.
To prevent further harm to the consumer, we should demand swift identification and recall of said products.
Policies and grants related to said product should be yanked off the shelves, and the Copenhagen meeting cancelled.
As an agriculture producer, I am outraged by the fact that the federal government has used my money to market and mandate purchase of said product.
If we produce a tainted product, we yank it from the shelf ASAP, do trace back to determine the genesis, correct the problem, then work hard to re-gain consumer confidence.
We have the right to expect the federal government follow the same!
In spite of being over-regulated, taxed and attack, America’s resource providers still provide good, safe, steady, affordable supplies of essential goods.
Remember when Oprah Winfrey said, “Well that’s the last time I’ll eat a hamburger?” I’d suggest it’s time for her to say, “Well that’s the last time I’ll have an Al Gore product!”
Politics is not only un-welcome in the science lab, it’s not welcome anywhere.

Liberals believe that the ends justify the means. They are convinced that the sky will fall unless we revert to a hunter-gatherering society. So to lie about the climate data is justified and necessary. They know that BO and AG are liers. But they still think of them as heros for lieing for the good of humanity. Debating with Liberals is a waste of the CO2 that we exhale.

In phasing out gas guzzlers, dirty energy sources and flatulant cows, where is the mystery? I prefer to side up with the cautious but wary science of contraryism. vis. Earth cycles in this manner every so many ions, as a way of cleansing itself of pollutants and undesirable civilizations. Have we as a species grown so cocky to suggest that we can and should act to affect the entire earth’s natural cycles, it’s age-old prehistoric methods of purification? Is it within our capability as a scientific community to allocate legislation to prevent such a cataclysmic event from taking place, when all signs point to ‘yes?’ React in an overly contemptuous manner and upset the balance of nature on the other side. Do too little and risk failure of the plan altogether. The simple truth is: all these scientific theories are in truth just that: theories. There are too many unknown factors working against modern scientists. It may take years to decide if the theories are correct or not, and after they are proven, the years of debate over which ones to throw out. My plan: 1. clean up the air. 2. Err on the side of good. 3. Prevent greed and hubris to take any larger bite out of it. 4. Replace fear with decisive action. 5. Make the world a better place than the one your parents gave you.

Way to be Diane!!! Another intelligent being in the universe. Thank you! Your conservative thinking makes good sense.

Thiek has obviously overlooked a few very important points, the first being that mankind is NOT the major carbon dioxide ‘emitter’ on the planet. It is nature itself. Mankind’s contribution to the total CO2 emitted into the atmosphere is minuscule.
Second, without CO2 all life would die. Plants require it for food. More CO2, more food.
Third, CO2 levels have been an order of magnitude higher than they are now and the temps weren’t all that much higher than today (look up Vostok Ice Cores).
Fourth, far too many people believing the AGW dogma assume that a warmer climate will be a bad thing. Yet a thousand years ago (the middle of the Medieval Warm Period) the climate was warmer than it is today and agriculture and civilizations thrived. During the Roman Warm Period (about 2,000 years ago) the same thing was true. The cold periods following each of those eras were times of misery, famine, and plagues (one of the side effects of the Little Ice Age was the Black Plague, which wiped out much of Europe’s population). With the colder temps came failed crops and famine. And famine meant the denizens of that time were also more susceptible to disease. So don’t assume things will be worse if the climate is warmer. History says otherwise.

For the people who say the climate is gradually changing and that this is just one of the Earth’s normal cycles, I say this. Yes there have been ice ages and things before and changes in the Earth’s past, but never in the Earth’s history, has a change so drastic occurred in such a short period of time. The last ten years were the hottest years in the history of the world (Except for when the Earth was a flaming ball of molten rock after the big bang)

Thiek, once again you are wrong. The past 10 years have been cooling. And the last century was warmer then what? Nothing, the medieval warm period was warmer.
Much like Al Gore believing the earth is a few million degrees just under the crust, your spouting of incorrect “facts” just harms your position.

I list “Global Warming” right next to the Tooth Fairy and the Easter Bunny. This is because climate change has been going on for millions of years due to storms on the surface of the sun and NOT because of emmissions from automobiles and factories. Just because Al Gore wrote a book, made a movie and was given a Nobel prize does NOT prove anything to me. Hey, tell the people up in the northern states about global warming as they shovel snow right now and see if they do not throw a snowball at you

Thank you so much for showing the truth about “global warming” and that it is based on greed and politics. We all know that global warming exists, but to what extent do we tax countries and Americans alike to make money for Al Gore and his cronies? We are NOT stupid! Please keep bringing these “uncomfortable truths” to light for all of America so that we can stop these injustices.

Paraphrase: “Never such a drastic temperature change so quickly?”
Actually, a relatively common find among glacial biologists has been the remains of mammoths frozen so quickly there were still undigested flowers in their stomachs. Such have been found both in Siberia and in the upper reaches of Canada, in areas where glaciers were receding back in the 1930s. Not sure, but I seem to recall one case where the poor beast was still in a standing position, rather than sitting or lying down to conserve warmth. I don’t even want to think how cold it had to get to do that, or how quickly this had to happen during a time of blooming flowers. And to not even have time to sit or lie down?
The world isn’t simply stranger than you think, it is stranger than you can think.

Actually, 2005 was the hottest year on record, and the temperatures are greater than the were during the Medieval Warming Period. The warming took place in Europe too

I am very afraid…. Every time, not most times but EVERY time the government attempts to respond to ANY crisis they screw it up worse than the problem. Why should we attempt to STOP global warming when, if we wanted to we could not start it as fast as the governments say we need to stop it. There were people ready to spread soot over the artic to stop the global cooling in the 1970′s. Now the same scientist is complaining that the world is getting warmer. Well, I guess we fixed that pesky global cooling, didn’t we? What would have happened if we had spread all that carbon black over the artic? Would the earth be a burned out cinder by now?
When scientists hide data, destroy data, and tell others to destroy data, it is not “Taken out of context.” It does not mean “Save the data” It means destroy the data. When is ABC going to really look at the e-mails AND the programming? That’s where the real crimes are.

. Come on ABC stop handing 50% of the real news market to Fox. Posted by: Shonuff ***************
So FOX can chew it up and spit out their fabricated
truths. No thanks, I’d rather listen to honest truth
instead of deceitful ones.

So many people are claiming global warming is a hoax. This evening on your program you mentioned that no one seems to know why we’re not getting the warming expected at this time…what about the solar minimum? We’ve been in an extended solar minimum for the last year or so with few or no sunspot activity. The last time we had an extended solar minimum, similar to this one, Europe had no summer. Crops failed in Europe and America. It was called “The Little Ice Age”! Am I the only person who is wondering if our present, long term, solar minimum is responsible for the cooler temperatures?! As soon as the sun returns to a more active faze I’m afraid things will speed up!!!
Some one please tell me if this is worth a look?

“The last time we had an extended solar minimum, similar to this one, Europe had no summer. Crops failed in Europe and America. It was called “The Little Ice Age”!” – Euclid A. LoGiudice
Dude, relax and take it easy.
No one knows the sun spot activity during the Little Ice Age.
No one knows the sun’s output during those years.
The records are kinda sketchy if you know what I mean.
It is refreshing that you seem to understand that our temperature is a direct result of the sun and CO2 isn’t a significant factor.

Unfortunately , politics is a part of science (and was part of the ‘natural philosophy’ of earlier eras). The hacked emails do indicate some effort to interfere with the free flow of information , which is deplorable. They were written as personal communication.
The email controversy is largely politics . ‘Science’ , which is the basis for rational public policy decisions , involves the public testing and corroboration of hypotheses/theory using information and standardized tests under controlled conditions.
The Bush ['W',43] administration maintained a fairly aggressive level of research funding . Most indications are that the warming trend is continuing , and numerous tendencies toward positive (accelerating) feedback have come to light. There are countervailing trends , but the artic sea-ice and glacial melt rates indicate a cumulative effect that could become very expensive {via sea-level rise , and decreased snowmelt runnoff}.
We humans — in spite of the research performed thus far — probably have only a tenth , or even a hundredth of the information level which would constitute the basis for a risk-free decision to make an all-out commitment to eliminate all greenhouse emissions. Foe example , we only recently (post WWII) discovered the basic life-cycle of stars {like ‘the sun’} , and have yet to obtain predictive capability concerning solar output, which is the dominant consideration in the earth’s temperature. Our era is poised before a cooling trend toward another ice age , which may become ‘the problem’ in as soon as a couple hundred years , based on historic/climatic ‘records’.
The commission named after the British economist (at LSE) Nicholas Stern , estimated that more than a quarter of (world)GNP could be consumed by efforts to remedy GlobalWarming , if we refuse to act until the effects become obviously pernicious (by which time they will also be largely irreversable). Beginning to act now might enable effective countermeasures at a price on the order of .1%-1% of GNP.
Since coal burning has contaminated the world with mercury residues we would do well to clean up , or replace it. Petroleum consumption may not be sustainable , and its importation has security issues.
Investments in alternative energy are more expensive in the short term , but decrease money spent on imported fuel — or environmental remediation , in the future.

Carbon Monoxide BAD!
Carbon Dioxide is one of the building blocks for life.

Shame on ABC for trying to play down the biggest scientific scandal in history.
How could the “consensus” on man-caused warming be wrong?
Because a small “core” group of scientists have controlled almost all of the temperature data input for the much vaunted computer models which show future earth disaster (and much other work is based on these models).
The leaked emails are of conversations between these key (and very powerful) scientists. They show a total contempt and a willingness to kill all contrary research (such as tree ring research showing there were indeed two natural temperature fluxes in the last 1000 years greater than we are experiencing today).
One of their main arguments has always been: since the globe has never seen this rate/amount of change in the last 1000 years – the current change MUST be from an “unnatural” cause – man.
But if temps are shown to have be quite variable before mankind had an industrial level impact with CO2 – then the man-caused global warming theory becomes much weaker.
Instead of giving contrary evidence a fair hearing, this small cabal of scientists decided that they had too much invested – pride, economics and politics – to risk having to admit possible inaccuracy.
So they decided to go political – and cherry pick only the tree ring data that fit their theory AND went about belittling and repressing all science that didn’t fall in line with their AGW doctrine.

It’s good to see a black eye on the sanctimonious and chauvinistic priesthood known as academia. It looks great on those guys.

I was disgusted by the blatantly dishonest story you aired on global warming. Now you are running day-old copies of Fox News yellow journalism. You ran a portion of a John Stewart skit that you cut to give the exact opposite conclusion he came up with. You took out-of-context quotes from the purloined e-mails that more honest, print media outlets gave the entire context for along with the authors’ explanations. Keep up the bad work, and you’ll have to change the name of your program to “Trumped Up News Tonight.” Welcome to right-wing media.

The piece that aired last night was so slanted as to be shameful. You took a guilty-until-proven-innocent, sensationalistic approach that served no useful purpose. Peter Jennings HAS to be rolling over in the his grave, But what else can we expect from network that gives a high-profile denier, like George Will, who has been caught repeatly spewing half-truth and conspiracy theory, a regular spot on on their flagship Sunday show.
The truth is that there is so much robust evidence out there, from multiple sources, garnered by ethical researchers (sometimes in the most inhospitable places on Earth at risk to their safety) that supports the conclusion that global waring is human-caused and a serious threat.You should give the scientists equal time, at least.
Even if indiviuals discount global warming as real, there is still the completely-UNDISPUTED issue of ocean acidification, which threatens the entire oceanic ecosystem, from the bottom up. If you like eating, and for that matter breathing (the oceans generate a large potion of the oxygen we need to survive), you need to take this seriously.
Instead to giving the deniers fodder, you should be explaining to the population EXACTLY what the scientists are seeing, and what the implications are. Oh, wait, that would be journalism, something you seem to have forgotten how to do.

I seldom watch World News as it seldom gives a straight news story. But when I saw your teaser for your Global Warming Piece I decided to see if it would be an unbiased article. AS I am sure you are aware you failed miserable. I was raised in a time where news organizations provided the facts and let the public decide. That was also when scientist only put forth theories and then the facts to support them. I realize that Charles Gibson is just a Ted Baxter type anchor, but if your reporters would have checked they would have found out some of those people he call deniers are in fact scientists. You should give them the same curtsies you gave the Global Warming Scientist. Call them scientist and interview them as an opposing view. If you are going to use derogatory names, “Deniers” then do it to both sides. Call the Global Warming Scientist what they are “Truthers”
Until Such time as ABC becomes more objective in its reporting I will seldom if ever watch it. I want the facts and a straight view of what happens in the world.

How do you extract temperature data from tree ring records? Tree ring characteristics are determined by rainfall moisture, nutriant fertilizer, sunlight and the miniscule percent of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. How do you extract temperature data from a tree ring? Answer…. you torture the data until it tells you what you want to hear!

i cant remember when abc or any other “main stream” media told the whole truth,or the whole story.start getting it right or you will lose what audiance you have left.your news is late,old,and mostly non existant.

Any press is good press for climate awareness. Obviously, change is happening. It should not matter who is causing it, or how long it will go on, rather what we can do about it now.

Did anyone notice how the reporter commented on this story? “Just as the govt. was about to pass legislation, this comes up” Why is the media so quick to label global warming a fact, when it is in reality, a theory, and composed of shaky science. I dont care wat they tell me, im not buying a piece of crap prius or buying those dumb reusable bags. These people think they are making a difference when they are in fact giving up their freedom.