Andre Bijkerk: "It might be better to maintain objectivity...is it justified to keep global warming in the realm of science where it has made itself immune for self correcting and falsification?"

ClimateGate FOIA grepper!

Although I understand the motives for the tone, indeed it might be better to maintain objectivity and use the cognitive approach with the scientific method in which the author could focus on the accuracy of the observations and its failure to support the cause of global warming.

Two, will all of you get over the "Hockey Stick Curve"? That's a tough one. Now that two teams of recognized specialists (North, Wegman) have confirmed the critiques of McIntyre and McKitrick, many have watched the ultimate result in disbelief. Hockeysticks tend to have strong persuasive powers and the MBH version has done that job extremely well, whilst there was nothing to be persuaded about. That's hard to digest.

Science indulges itself in being self corrective, so when things are fishy with miracle cures for AIDS or Cold Fusion or Human Genome duplication then a public rectification follows, which would be especially prudent if the case could even remotely be associated with noble cause corruption. None of that has happened with the most prominent Fig 1b of the Third Assessment Report SPM , on the contrary, it is still in the SPM of the fourth version, albeit concealed in the spaghetti graph. Is it justified to keep global warming in the realm of science where it has made itself immune for self correcting and falsification?