Posted by
Defend America on Sunday, February 14, 2010 11:53:40 AM
The Washington Examiner corrects the Daily Mail:
UPDATED: Did he say no warming since 95?
Here's the BBC story
on the interview with Jones and there is no reference in it to his
saying there has been no warming since 1995, as reported by the Daily
Mail. The statements about the Mediavel warming are accurately reported
by the Mail.
But here
is the text of the BBC interview from which the Daily Mail drew its
statement about no warming since 1995. The first question concerns
similar temperatures for three periods since 1860, and the second
question is specifically about the period since 1995:
"B - Do you agree that from 1995 to the present there has been no statistically-significant global warming
"Yes, but only just. I also calculated the trend for the period 1995
to 2009. This trend (0.12C per decade) is positive, but not significant
at the 95% significance level. The positive trend is quite close to the
significance level. Achieving statistical significance in scientific
terms is much more likely for longer periods, and much less likely for
shorter periods."
Several questions later, Jones was asked by the BBC interviewer
about his confidence that global warming has in fact occurred and that
human activities are the case. Here is his response:
"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."
Note that, while Jones still affirms warming, he carefully qualifies
the role of human activities - saying there is evidence, but not making
a clear assertion, as he did to the temperature increase.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Global-Warming-shocker-Climategate-scientist-admits-no-warming-since-1995-84337497.html