Comedy Gold: Super-genius Climatologist Phil Jones can't calculate a trend line in excel.

I would suggest Climatologist Phil Jones order a copy of Excel for Dummies.

Via Climate Audit:

Phil Jones spends much of his time looking down his nose at the heathen, but then confesses to Bob Ward that he is unable to calculate a trend on his own, as in this hilarious exchange at Bishop Hill:

I’m not adept enough (totally inept) with excel to do this now as no-one who knows how to is here.

Nor it seems in Matlab, R, ODL, Fortran or any other language.

The full Phil Jones/Bob Ward email string is here.

'Climategate' expert Phil Jones Admits Medieval Warm Period May Have Been as Warm or Warmer Than Present

This is a startling confession from 'Climategate' expert Phil Jones, The BBC is reporting Jones agrees two recent historic warm periods are similar to today and he can't say the Medieval Warm Period wasn't even warmer than today. Of course, the infamous 'Hockey stick' temperature graph doesn't show this historic warming. The data was cooked smoothed and truncated to eliminate these warm periods and accentuate the modern instrumental temperature record. Here is the 'Hockey stick.'



Here is the data without artificial adjustments.

Climategate Update: Mann Throws Jones Under the Bus

AGW climatologists are attacking each other as they scurry for cover in the aftermath of the Climategate leaked email scandal. Professor Michael Mann, the Director of the Earth System Science Center at Pennsylvania State University and author of the infamous hockey stick graph, has moved to distance himself from some of the comments in the emails from Professor Phil Jones who has temporarily stepped down as director of the scandalized Climatic Research Unit (CRU)at the University of East Anglia.

The Telegraph reported:

One of the scientists to whom the emails were addressed, Professor Michael Mann, the Director of the Earth System Science Center at Pennsylvania State University has moved to distance himself from some of the comments in the emails that suggest scientists did not want the IPCC, the UN body charged with monitoring climate change, to consider studies that challenged the view global warming was genuine and man-made.

Ever wonder what the infamous Mann's 'Hockey Stick' graph would look like without the 'Hide The Data' trick? Here it is.

Climategate Claims A Temporary Victim

Phil Jones, director of the scandalized Climatic Research Unit (CRU), is relinquishing his position temporarily until an independent review has been completed. Skeptics have to wonder if this will be a "peer reviewed" independent review? Since this resignation is temporary, expect Phil Jones to return after sufficient time and whitewash application.

FOX News reported:

The director of the embattled Climatic Research Unit (CRU) in the United Kingdom is stepping down pending an investigation into allegations that he overstated the case for man-made climate change.

In a statement posted to its Web site, the University of East Anglia says Phil Jones will relinquish his position until the completion of an independent review into allegations that he worked to alter the way in which global temperature data was presented.