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Originally Posted by MrBigglesworth
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Many of the changes were very simple. For instance, in one case he added the words "significant and fundamental" before the word "uncertainties. In another, he added the word "extremely" to the sentence: "The attribution of the causes of biological and ecological changes to climate change or variability is extremely difficult."
Others were more blatant. According to the New York Times, Cooney deleted an entire paragraph dealing with the impact of global warming on glaciers and the polar ice cap from a 2002 report that discussed the effect global warming might have on flooding and water availability. Cooney noted in the margins that the paragraph was "straying from research strategy into speculative findings/musings."
In all cases, the amendments cast doubt on scientific results that are increasingly accepted as robust by the scientific community, and by the general populace.
Cooney is a lawyer by training, with a degree in economics.
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Deleting entire paragraphs is not altering the results? Of course he didn't change the numbers, he wasn't involved with creating the numbers because he has no scientific background of any kind.
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You've been completely spun by the article. The paragraph he deleted referenced another study done back in 2002. It was only there for background and had little to do with the new information learned from the current report. Again, I am still waiting for evidence that he altered the data from the actual study done.