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If researchers cannot measure what they said they could, an unscientific rationale is just cover for a multitrillion-dollar political agenda.

Before radically changing lifestyles and burdening the economy with trillions of dollars in new expenses aimed at limiting the production of carbon dioxide, world leaders must determine whether or not the globe is actually warming - and to what degree man's activities have any effect on that.

World leaders also have a duty to determine how many researchers believe in their theory so much that they are willing to manipulate data in order to "prove" their case.

Green Left - ‘Climategate’ emails: Scientists defend science

Climate change deniers, conservative politicians and right-wing newspaper columnists were all but incontinent with delight.
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Modern-day Galileos, the scientists confront an Inquisition based in wealthy right-wing circles and the “think tanks” that serve them.
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There are no legitimate sceptics any more, just the ignorant or wilful deniers.
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Jones and his colleagues are aware, like few others, that the consequence of failing to combat denialist pseudo-science would very likely be a catastrophe of civilisation-ending proportions.

Climategate: The Hacked Agree to Release All Data » Secondhand Smoke | A First Things Blog

...we seem to have been fed raw ideology masking as science, and hence, decisions were made to try and keep it all a deep, dark secret. This, in turn, led to profound distrust, and eventually, the hacking and publishing–wrongdoing that may have exposed science fraud on a massive scale. It’s the worst scandal since Hwang Woo-suk faked human cloning.

Climategate heats up while Whitehouse moves forward :: News :: ProLifeBlogs

Again, it's time to put the brakes on any government action motivated by the IPCC that will ultimately result in consequences to the American public and the world at large.