Failure to catch climate email hacker is the real scandal | Environment | guardian.co.uk

For the avoidance of doubt: the case for action on global warming is built on many different lines of evidence from the melting Arctic to sophisticated modelling of future climate. Even just considering the most recent evidence, the case is compelling.

Climategate 2.0: Fresh trove of embarrassing emails • The Register

So the mewling infant that we call Climate Science – a 40-year-young offshoot of meteorology – has been thrust into a political role long before it’s capable of supporting the claims made on its behalf. From the archives we can see the scientists know that too, and we can read their own reluctance to make those claims, too.

“What if climate change appears to be just mainly a multidecadal natural fluctuation?” muses one scientist. “They’ll kill us probably.”

That won’t be necessary.