Re: Climategate Is Dead, Long Live Climategate

On 4/15/2010 5:57 PM, Amused wrote:
"Dave K" <dave.k@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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You heard a lot about the East Anglia Research Unit from the
conservative press when there appeared to be a scandal. What you
don't hear from FOX is that they were cleared of any wrongdoing or bad
science. Fair and balanced my bippy!

"The British House of Commons's Science and Technology Committee has
issued a report largely clearing the East Anglia Research Unit and its
suspended director, Phil Jones, of scientific wrong-doing. Though the
development has been widely noted in the elite European press, from
France's Le Monde to Britain's Independent, it's received less
attention in the U.S. Press. That's regrettable, as the so-called
"Climategate" scandal has had the greater impact on American public
opinion."

More at:

<http://spectrum.ieee.org/energywise/energy/environment/climategate-is-dead-long-live-climategate->

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Did you read your own cite?

"But it is surely the most high-level of the inquiries, and so on the
face of it, the committee's report should lay Climategate to rest. But
will it?

Actually, no. First of all, too much damage has been done by disclosure
of messages in which all too many climate researchers are revealed to be
suffering from a bunker mentality. If they're supposedly so confident of
their assertions, why are they so defensive? Not for a long time will
press or public be quite so ready to just accept the word of England's
Hadley Center or the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change--and
there will be all the more skepticism because of the IPCC's accursed
Himalayan glacier errors.

Second, at a time the world is emerging from a recession that almost
turned into a great depression, people are looking for reasons to put
jobs and prosperity ahead of potentially costly carbon reduction
measures. No wonder prospects for U.S. climate legislation are now being
declared dead, despite Obama's huge health care victory. And no wonder
oil companies are spearheading a California ballot initiative to suspend
implementation of its 2006 climate law until until state unemployment
drops below 5.5 percent for four consecutive quarters (from above 12
percent at present).

If the initiative wins the support of most California voters--and why
wouldn't it?--that will further cement the state's growing reputation
for being absolutely ungovernable. Will it also show that serious
government action on climate is unachievable
"

Ah, there's that public opinion whine again. Just to reiterate, CRU East Anglia was cleared. Ignorant republicans, we are stuck with. lol
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