A false lesson on climate change

Scientists—even brilliant ones—are not better than other people. They are at least as prone to vanity, malice, groupthink, charlatanism, and outright dishonesty as those in any other line of work.
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No, we are not in imminent danger of a 7-meter increase in sea levels – or the disappearance of the Gulf Stream. It’s not planetary climate change that is drying up Lake Chad or melting the snows of Kilimanjaro. The polar bears are doing just fine. In the wake of the exposure of the CRU emails, such overstatements now look less like over-zealous mistakes, more like conscious fabrications.

The New War Against Reason

Even skeptics are surprised at just how cynical some global-warming "scientists" have been in their efforts to stifle dissent and fudge unwelcome data. Recently, for example, computer hackers released confidential communications from a leading global-warming research institute in the United Kingdom -- the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit -- that gave the game away.

In their private e-mail correspondence, these "scientists," like clerics squabbling over religious schisms, scheme to explain away and cover up unpleasant evidence. They dream of injuring heretics; they connive to get more money for their own pet projects; and they are terrified that increasingly the data seem to support public doubts -- and therefore must be subjected to unscientific, but morally superior, efforts to undo unsettling results.

US Congress investigates Climategate e-mails: this could be the beginning of the end for AGW – Telegraph Blogs

While the British public has heard only whingers from East Anglia shouting that hacking into e-mails is a crime, it is the American media that are pointing out that deleting e-mail messages to conceal them from a FOI request in the United Kingdom is also a criminal offence. Congress, seeing an opportunity of derailing Obama, Al Gore and an attempt to cripple America to the tune of countless billions of dollars, is on the case. This is global news now.

CSIRO scientist faces punishment

The CSIRO will punish one of its scientists after he published a paper on climate change that criticised the government's emissions trading scheme.

It has accused Dr Clive Spash of breaching protocol by releasing the paper before it was vetted by the peak science body.