COPENHAGEN: 1999 Prevaricator of the Year nominee Al Gore is at it again. This time he is “setting the record straight” on the East Anglia emails leaked in the Climategate scandal. In an interview with Gore, John Dickerson at Slate.com clears up some of those pesky questions:

Q: How damaging to your argument was the disclosure of e-mails from the Climate Research Unit at East Anglia University?

A: To paraphrase Shakespeare, it’s sound and fury signifying nothing. I haven’t read all the e-mails, but the most recent one is more than 10 years old. These private exchanges between these scientists do not in any way cause any question about the scientific consensus.

That’s the problem with these scientists like Al Gore. Time and space are completely relative when it comes to stretching the truth. The emails in fact have time stamps from as recent as this one by Phil Jones from November 12th, 2009. There are dozens more from just last month.

Q: What’s your view on the medieval warm period and the charge that the East Anglia e-mails suggest data was manipulated to “contain” that anomaly?

A: I haven’t read those e-mails in detail, but the larger point is that there are cyclical changes in the climate and they are fairly well-understood, and all of them are included in the scientific consensus. When you look at what has happened over the last few decades the natural fluctuations point in the opposite direction of what has actually occurred. When they run the models and plug in the man-made pollution, the correspondence is exact. Beyond that, the scale of natural fluctuations has now been far exceeded by the impact of man-made global warming.

Well Al, you can run the models based on bogus data, and of course the correspondence is exact. Take out the bogus data, and poof, the correspondence is gone. The NIP has previously reported that back before the Hadley CRU dumped their data to prevent peer review, scientists who reviewed their data and reran the models found out that Hadley skewed the data to produce bogus results.

So Al, what’s up with you? Jimmy must have told you by now that the NIP frowns on awarding one recipient multiple Prevaricator of the Year awards. Inventing the Internet not enough for you?

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