LITTLE BY LITTLE, MY FRIENDS, LITTLE BY LITTLE – AT 10:09 A.M. ET:  Our contributor, Renee Nielsen, refers us to this piece from London's Daily Mail.  Little by little, the truth is starting to come out about the global-warming fiasco:

The academic at the Centrex of the ‘Climate gate’ affair, whose raw data is crucial to the theory of climate change, has admitted that he has trouble ‘keeping track’ of the information.

Colleagues say that the reason Professor Phil Jones has refused Freedom of Information requests is that he may have actually lost the relevant papers.

Professor Jones told the BBC yesterday there was truth in the observations of colleagues that he lacked organizational skills, that his office was swamped with piles of paper and that his record keeping is ‘not as good as it should be’.

The data is crucial to the famous ‘hockey stick graph’ used by climate change advocates to support the theory.

Professor Jones also conceded the possibility that the world was warmer in medieval times than now – suggesting global warming may not be a man-made phenomenon.

And he said that for the past 15 years there has been no ‘statistically significant’ warming.

COMMENT:  This is just outrageous.  We have never said, by the way, that global warming doesn't occur.  What we have asked for is far more proof that 1) it's occurring over a significant time period and 2) that it's mainly caused by man. 

All we've gotten back is a series of insults and dodges, and assertions that people who reject global warming are in the same league as Holocaust deniers.  But a disturbing series of events, reported, as Renee points out, mainly in the British press, has cast serious doubt on the whole global-warming enterprise.

We wait in vain for some intelligent response from the president, whose science adviser is firmly in the global-warming camp.

February 14, 2010