As quoted from the UK London Times (November 29, 2009):
"SCIENTISTS at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have admitted throwing away much of the raw temperature data on which their predictions of global warming are based. It means that other academics are not able to check basic calculations said to show a long-term rise in temperature over the past 150 years. The UEA’s Climatic Research Unit (CRU) was forced to reveal the loss following requests for the data under Freedom of Information legislation."
Fortunately, we no longer need the data because everyone accepts that global warming is occuring but the technique here can now be used in Copenhagen.
The plan is for Developed countries to emit less greenhouse gases in the future while Developing countries will be allowed to emit more. The idea being that at some point in the future, all countries will have contributed the same amout of greenhouse gases into the environment and then we will have another meeting.
Since developed countries have contributed the most green house gases and therefore have all the historical data, they will be in charge of keeping score going forward.
If, in the event Developed countries don't like the score going forward, they will simply lose their data and calculate events as they see fit.
After all, it is one of the worlds most greatest diplomats that said, "those that vote decide nothing; those that count the votes decide everything".
Look it up....
I've heard a lot of epithets applied to Stalin, but this is the first for "diplomat."
ReplyDeleteWow! Who knew he could foresee the Bush - Gore election!
Last night I was watching the movie "Gangs of New York", set in NYC during the Civil War. There was a scene about an election for sheriff. The "machine" was trying everything to elect their candidate when they ran out of ballots. The Boss Tweed character says "It's not the ballots, it's the ballot counting"!
ReplyDeleteAs a footnote, the machine candidate won the election and was promptly murdered by the opposition.