Jones on "lack of warming"

[marchesarosa]

email 4195
di2.nu/foia/foia2011/mail/4195.txt

From Phil Jones to Tim Johns and Chris Folland 5 Jan 2009
Re “Temperatures in 2009”


> Tim, Chris,
> I hope you're not right about the lack of warming lasting
> till about 2020....


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Question: If warming really threatens to destroy human civilization, why was Jones hoping for warming?
And if the world was still warming in 2009, why did Jones refer to “lack of warming”?

more here
CRU’s Dr. Phil Jones on “the lack of warming”
wattsupwiththat.com/2011/11/30/crus-dr-phil-jones-on-the-lack-of-warming/#more-52276

[nickrr]

If warming really threatens to destroy human civilization, why was Jones hoping for warming?

Because he knows that the underlying trend is warming but that in the short term some of this is being masked by increased emission of sulphates. He knows that sceptics will use this as a further excuse to prevaricate. This is all perfectly clear if you bother to read the full exchange of messages.

As with the first set of emails, it's easy to distort when you quote out of context. This is just more of the same dishonest tactics.

[marchesarosa]

Ah, yes, the "masking"!

Very good word to describe a total lack of evidence for CO2-induced warming.