Professor Harold Mountebank, the Climate Scientist at the eye of the storm over Global Warming evidence, yesterday defended his and his colleagues' work, after the latest attacks from Climate Change sceptic Paul Vaulter, reports Rhoda Montade from the Press Conference at Steeple Bumstead University
Vaulter, along with other long-standing critics of the data produced by Professor Mountebank's Climate Research Authentification Plant (CRAP) at the University of Steeple Bumstead, claimed recently that data have been "manipulated" and that results "do not stand up to scrutiny".
"We have evidence that weather stations have been deliberately moved to warmer climatic zones, in order to corroborate spurious hypotheses of global temperature increase", Vaulter asserted again yesterday.
Professor Mountebank said "I feel terrifically pressurised by all this, but I am continuing to work for the good of mankind.
It is true that certain weather stations in China were moved to warmer areas, and that we have installed new stations in Queensland and The Sudan to replace faulty units in Norway and North Wales, but it is the overall average that counts."
Professor Mountebank said he was "terrifically concerned" that the latest allegations would undermine much of the CRAP work being done, coming so soon as they do after the discovery in 2008 that CRAP had used thermometers situated in the rectums of chickens and Steeple Bumstead University students in their temperature research.
"I think the work we are doing at CRAP has potentially tremendous significance for the future of humankind. Wherever our weather stations are - and we must remember that wherever they are, they are always somewhere upon this endangered planet - it is the overall average that counts.
"It's unfortunate that these days we are facing more and more public scrutiny, and any future work we do at CRAP will be more and more subject to scrutiny from the public who will place us under increasing public scrutiny. The fact that we are under increasing public scrutiny is unfortunate, as we are being placed under increased public scrutiny from the public, which is unfortunate."
Professor Mountebank had to leave the Press Conference early, as he had to check the information being received from "major new data collection stations in Earth regions formerly Temperate but increasingly Torrid".
He refused to comment on the latest allegations from Mr Vaulter, namely that these stations were nothing more than sensors situated in the "nether regions" of Tiger Woods, John Terry and South African President Jacob Zuma.
