‘Gate Fever [allegedly] Breaks - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com
The one significant issue found in the latest review, led by a longtime British civil servant, Sir Muir Russell, concerned insufficient openness. But the committee made it clear that nearly all of the attacks on the scientists and the university were unsubstantiated.
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For months, the stasist blogosphere has been aflame with ‘Gates of various kinds — attempts to spin one or two errors or overstatements on particular issues, along with various comments in the East Anglia e-mail messages, into the unraveling of the many lines of science [like what, specifically?] pointing to a rising, and risky, human influence on the climate system.
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Another change, of course, is the rise of the blogosphere as an independent, and speed-of-light, distributor and dissector of information.
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The money line in Muir's report.
"It is important to note that we offer no opinion on the validity of their scientific work. Such an outcome could only come through the normal processes of scientific debate and not from the examination of e-mails or from a series of interviews about conduct."
So when you read all the news stories about how the report vindicates Global Warming theory, remember MUir didin't even consider the science, just the email's impact on scientific process.
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