The Following letters are between Jack Van Wingerden and a certain Dr. Mann....The opening letter is from Jack Van Wingerden 8th April
Several recent letters have proposed we modify our behavior to prevent the destruction of the Earth within the next few decades. I am going to make a simple assumption that these people were not around during the last great scientific debate (1970s) about the world entering a new ice age.
The people describing the horrors of this inevitable ice age were researchers who needed more money from the government to improve their climate models and study possible solutions for the problem. Further research was needed because you really had to have an intimate knowledge of the problem to be able to suggest how to alter the outcome.
Now we have similar requests from various researchers requiring much more money to study global warming in order to allow them to prevent the cataclysmic results of temperature change. These researchers have these huge models that they have created at government expense that they claim need more money to improve their accuracy. Former Vice President Al Gore has stated in the past that the discussion is over and human being-caused global warming is fact. If that is true, why do these people need more money?
One of the tests of a good model is to input old data and see if the results matched reality. The climate models tested this way did not work. The “climate-gate” scandal has surfaced and the original data shows the last decade to have been a reversal of the previous 20-year temperature trend (oscillating system?) and further disproved the claims of the most vociferous warmists, Michael Mann in particular. His data made the medieval warming period (800-1400 AD) and the Little Ice Age (1600-1850 AD) disappear. But, it was used to justify the Kyoto treaty, U.S. policy and the U.N.’s global warming activities.