Here is the text of a letter to the editor (in the form of an open letter to the President) that I submitted to the Denver Post last week. It hasn't been posted yet, which I am assuming means it won't be posted at all. But that's why I have a blog!
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It has recently come to light that climate data provided to the U.N. by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the British Climate Research Unit (CRU) is suspect. The CRU, whose data is used by the IPCC, uses ice cores, tree rings, corals and thermometers to determine global climate conditions. Since 1960, thermometers have shown a steep rise in temperatures, while ice cores, tree rings and corals have not. The CRU has responded to these divergent data by only using thermometer data for this time period. In other words, they discarded the data that did not fit their hypothesis (anthropogenic global warming). Not only is this extremely poor science, it calls into question the very method the CRU is using to determine global temperatures.
Mr. President, I urge you not to agree to any global policy decisions in Copenhagen until reliable climate data can be obtained.
Respectfully yours,
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