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Al Fin: Why Only a Gullible Idiot Trusts the Climate Data

The public is getting tired of being jerked around in this manner. Why are not climate scientists themselves tired of being jerked around? Why are not world governments tired of being jerked around? Why is not the media tired of being jerked around?

That is like asking why a tort lawyer doesn't object to shoddy research which supports his case. When the payout is big enough, corrupt persons will swallow a truckload of crappy data.

- Bishop Hill blog - Getting out of hand again

The stunner for me today has been the Institute of Physics submission to the Science and Technology Committee, which is to the point to say the least. This is really starting to look very bad for the guys at UEA:

1. The Institute is concerned that, unless the disclosed e-mails are proved to be forgeries or adaptations, worrying implications arise for the integrity of scientific research in this field and for the credibility of the scientific method as practised in this context.

With retrospect, once the emails became public it was likely that some of the major learned societies might try to distance themselves from the climatologists. It may be that support for the CRU now starts to fall away. We'll see.