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Correct me if I'm wrong, but Ian Wishart is nowhere in the post or the source of "facts". Why write a diatribe about him?

The source is this organization - http://www.climatescience.org.nz/images/PDFs/global_warming_...



The post on wattsupwiththat.com is essentially just a rehash of one of Ian Wishart's blog posts. The relevant post is here:

http://briefingroom.typepad.com/the_briefing_room/2009/11/br...

This was linked at the top of the blog post linked to by cwan.

EDIT: I should add that while you're right about the source of the graphs and numbers, the scare-quoted "facts" in my first paragraph referred to way in which the post simply reprinted Ian Wishart's assertions as fact.

The individual graphs obviously come from official sources, but they are arranged in a very duplicitous way. I'm not sure how you can build a case from just two graphs and a few emails when there is an absolute torrent of data available. I assume it would be quite easy for me to find two more graphs that "prove" that the world will be covered in water in only five years and that we're all doomed.




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