Phil Jones blows the gaff
<p>The AGW true believers who determinedly reasserted their faith after the Climate Research Unit  emails leaked have just been embarrassed by one of the high priests of the cult.  Phil Jones, the former head of the CRU, now <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1250872/Climategate-U-turn-Astonishment-scientist-centre-global-warming-email-row-admits-data-organised.html">admits</a> that there has been no statistically significant global warming since 1995. </p>
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<p>Reading this is an entertaining counterpoint to the sight of the five-foot-long icicles hanging from the eaves outside my office window.  Dunno whether it means anything &mdash; probably doesn&#8217;t &mdash; but the last time I saw icicles this size was during the bizarre six-day-long ice storm that socked Philadelphia early in, I think, 1993.</p>
<p>Jones himself claims to still believe in AGW, but he&#8217;s also now conceding that temperatures in the Medieval Warm Period (Remember? That thing Mann and the Hockey Team tried to flimflam out of existence?) may have averaged higher than today&#8217;s.  And he trots out the reliable old &#8220;the dog ate my primary data&#8221; excuse for another walk.</p>
<p>Stay tuned.  As bad as it looks now, I&#8217;m pretty certain that the depths of embarrassment and disgrace waiting for AGW true believers have not been fully plumbed even yet.</p>
