Recently, the media has been reporting on some Berkeley studies that claimed in news releases that their analysis confirmed that global temperatures have been increasing.
I wonder now if the BBC, The Economist and others who rushed to print this “news” in advance of the Durban conference will find time to report the rest of the story?
In Prof Curry’s view, two of the papers were not ready to be published, in part because they did not properly address the arguments of climate sceptics.
As for the graph disseminated to the media, she said: ‘This is “hide the decline” stuff. Our data show the pause, just as the other sets of data do. Muller is hiding the decline.