In latest attack on climate science, conservative media distort BBC interview with CRU's Phil Jones

[babylonsister]

http://mediamatters.org/research/201002150015


In latest attack on climate science, conservative media distort BBC interview with CRU's Phil Jones
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Following a February 13 BBC Q&A with Phil Jones, director of the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, several conservative media outlets have distorted Jones' comments to suggest that they undermine the consensus that human activities are contributing to warming global temperatures. These media outlets have seized on Jones' statement that since 1995, the warming trend "is positive, but not significant at the 95% significance level" to falsely suggest that temperatures since the mid 1990s disprove global warming and to falsely claim, in Jim Hoft's words, that Jones "admit{ted} there is no global warming."

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Fact: Jones said "I'm 100% confident that the climate has warmed" and "there's evidence that most of the warming since the 1950s is due to human activity."

From the February 13 BBC Q&A with Jones:

E - How confident are you that warming has taken place and that humans are mainly responsible?

I'm 100% confident that the climate has warmed. As to the second question, I would go along with IPCC Chapter 9 - there's evidence that most of the warming since the 1950s is due to human activity.

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http://mediamatters.org/research/201002150015

[babylonsister]

1. OK, who here yesterday claimed Jones' words disproved global warming?

People on DU? Fess up??