Empirical data withheld by key scientists shows that since 1910 ocean pH levels have not decreased in our oceans as carbon dioxide levels increased. Overall the trend is messy but more up than down, becoming less acidic. So much for those terrifying oceans of acid that were coming our way. Scientists have had pH meters and measurements of the oceans for one hundred years. But experts decided that computer simulations in 2014 were better at measuring the pH in 1910 than the pH meters were.
The alleged fraud was uncovered by
Mike Wallace, a hydrologist with nearly 30 years’ experience now working
towards his PhD at the University of New Mexico. While studying a chart
produced by Feely and Sabine, apparently showing a strong correlation
between rising atmospheric CO2 levels and falling oceanic pH levels,
Wallace noticed that some key information had been omitted.
Mysteriously, the chart only began in
1988. But Wallace knew for a fact that there were oceanic pH
measurements dating back to at least 100 years earlier and was puzzled
that this solid data had been ignored, in favour of computer modelled
projections.
It has all the usual marks of modern bureaucratized science: scientists use a short stretch of data and computers to guesstimate a long “dataset”. Then when asked, they get huffy, hide the data, and insult the questioner. The poor sod seeking access to publicly funded data has to do an FOIA request, which in this case wasn’t successful, but then he got the data another way anyhow.
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