Remember when Al Gore kept repeating the phrase, “The science is settled,” while he presented his inconvenient truth on global warming?   Well, the science is now publicly - unsettled.

The Daily Mail reports that Phil Jones, the climate scientist at the center of the Climategate or the”hide-the-decline” scandal admitted that “for the past 15 years there has been no ‘statistically significant’ warming.”

The revelations don’t end there. The Daily Mail continues:

“Colleagues say that the reason Professor Phil Jones has refused Freedom of Information requests is that he may have actually lost the relevant papers.
Professor Jones told the BBC yesterday there was truth in the observations of colleagues that he lacked organisational skills, that his office was swamped with piles of paper and that his record keeping is ‘not as good as it should be’.
The data is crucial to the famous ‘hockey stick graph’ used by climate change advocates to support the theory.

Professor Jones also conceded the possibility that the world was warmer in medieval times than now - suggesting global warming may not be a man-made phenomenon.”

Read the entire article at: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1250872/Climategate-U-turn-Astonishment-scientist-centre-global-warming-email-row-admits-data-organised.html?ITO=1490#ixzz0fcOw66cF

Further reading:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/globalwarming/7236406/Climategate-academic-Professor-Phil-Jones-admits-he-lost-track-of-vital-data.html

And,  previous articles at Greenlegals - http://greenlegals.com/2009/11/cru-threw-the-raw-temperature-data-out-in-the-rubbish/

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