Various professors are stepping up to comment on the unraveling of the “science” of global warming.

The latest discrediting of this “science” involves, once again, Prof. Phil Jones, whom many warmists, as Wesley Pruden of the Washington Times points out, have regarded as “an archbishop in the Church of Global Warming.”

As widely reported, Jones headed the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit, which was viewed as the holy wellspring of the raw data on which climate science depends — until recently, when leaked e-mails among researchers showed evidence of manipulation of data and evidence.

Jones, who was forced to resign in uproar over this disgrace, has now admitted to a BBC interviewer that, according to his findings, the earth might have been warmer in the Middle Ages. If that is the case, as Pruden comments, “the notion that fluctuations in earthly temperatures are man-made is rendered just that, a man-made notion.”

In the interview, Jones conceded joltingly

that for the past 15 years there has been no “statistically significant” warming [and] that he has lost track of many of the relevant papers — that his office was overwhelmed by the clutter of paper . . . An environmental analyst for the BBC said the professor told him that his “strengths” include “integrity” and “doggedness” but not record-keeping and “office tidying.” He’s just not dogged about keeping things straight.

Wow! And this from a leader of leading scientists upon whose word governments around the world rely and could decide to dedicate untold amounts of their citizens’ resources to reduce “man-enduced” global warming.

Some academic scientists have had the integrity to respond honestly to Jones’s disclosures:

John Christy, a professor of atmospheric science at the University of Alabama at Huntsville and once a ranking member of the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, says the temperature records have been compromised and cannot be relied on. The findings of weather stations that collected temperature data were distorted by [being located near heat- and cold-producing sites].
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Terry Mills, a professor of applied statistics at Britain’s Loughborough University, looks at the U.N. panel’s data and applies a little skepticism. “The earth,” he told London’s Daily Mail, “has gone through warming spells like these at least twice before in the last thousand years.”

Let more such scientists come forth, or we will likely witness more politically tainted “scientific” dodgery — and perhaps even the death of science itself.