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Good point
Dec. 22nd, 2009 07:03 pm(regarding claims made over the hacked climate e-mails - I was aware of the other refutations of the 'hide the decline' allegations, but hadn't realised that the date of the email in question blows those allegations out of the water)
"The hacked e-mails have been mined for words and phrases that can be distorted to misrepresent what the scientists were discussing. In a Dec. 9 op-ed, former Alaska governor Sarah Palin argued that "The e-mails reveal that leading climate 'experts' . . . manipulated data to 'hide the decline' in global temperatures." Yet the e-mail she cites was written in 1999, just after the warmest year ever recorded (1998) to that date. It could not possibly have referred to the claim that global temperatures have declined over this decade -- a claim that is false (the current decade, as has been recently reported, will go down as the warmest on record)."
from
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/17/AR2009121703682.html
"The hacked e-mails have been mined for words and phrases that can be distorted to misrepresent what the scientists were discussing. In a Dec. 9 op-ed, former Alaska governor Sarah Palin argued that "The e-mails reveal that leading climate 'experts' . . . manipulated data to 'hide the decline' in global temperatures." Yet the e-mail she cites was written in 1999, just after the warmest year ever recorded (1998) to that date. It could not possibly have referred to the claim that global temperatures have declined over this decade -- a claim that is false (the current decade, as has been recently reported, will go down as the warmest on record)."
from
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/17/AR2009121703682.html
