claim: Scientists tried to 'hide the decline' in global temperature
evidences.evidence_id: Climatic Research Unit documents:54
evidences.article: Climatic Research Unit documents
evidences.evidence: The email was widely misquoted as a "trick" to "hide the decline" as though it referred to a decline in measured global temperatures, but this was obviously untrue as when the email was written temperatures were far from declining: 1998 had been the warmest year recorded.
evidences.votes: REFUTES REFUTES
evidences.evidence_id: Climatic Research Unit documents:55
evidences.article: Climatic Research Unit documents
evidences.evidence: On 9 December 2009 Sarah Palin said the truncated phrase showed a "highly politicised scientific circle" had "manipulated data to 'hide the decline' in global temperatures", and at the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, senator Senator Jim Inhofe quoted Jones, and said "Of course he means hide the decline in temperatures".
evidences.votes: NOT_ENOUGH_INFO SUPPORTS
evidences.evidence_id: Climatic Research Unit documents:62
evidences.article: Climatic Research Unit documents
evidences.evidence: The phrase "hide the decline" referred specifically to the divergence problem in which some post 1960 tree ring proxy data indicates a decline while measured temperatures rise.
evidences.votes: NOT_ENOUGH_INFO SUPPORTS
evidences.evidence_id: Global warming:276
evidences.article: Global warming
evidences.evidence: In the scientific literature, there is an overwhelming consensus that global surface temperatures have increased in recent decades and that the trend is caused mainly by human-induced emissions of greenhouse gases.
evidences.votes: NOT_ENOUGH_INFO NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
evidences.evidence_id: Hockey stick controversy:488
evidences.article: Hockey stick controversy
evidences.evidence: Despite this and the fact that 1999 had just seen record breaking global temperatures, the email was widely misquoted as a "trick" to "hide the decline" as though it referred to a decline in measured global temperatures, an accusation made publicly by the politicians Sarah Palin and Jim Inhofe.
evidences.votes: NOT_ENOUGH_INFO REFUTES