The Climate Change skeptics are having a field day right now with this news story:
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I don't know how much is quote mining, how much is accurate (the sample of email and data was "random" but likely cherry picked and it is currently unknown which is real and which might be faked or made up) and for context a lot of these were personal emails.
In specific regards to the messages, a few points skeptics are drawing: evidence of CRU members talking about keeping skeptics out of peer review journals, manipulation of evidence, deleting data and not releasing it, violating Freedom of information, etc.
Any of you following closely with the global warming and climate change care to chime in?
This is kind of in over my head since admittedly I haven't personally been following the climate change scene closely, and it seems a lot of the skeptics are pretty well backed up (there are lots of them and they seem to all have some seemingly fairly solid arguments, at least in regards to comments on this particular incident).
CRU response:
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2009/11/the-cru-hack/
Google News
I don't know how much is quote mining, how much is accurate (the sample of email and data was "random" but likely cherry picked and it is currently unknown which is real and which might be faked or made up) and for context a lot of these were personal emails.
In specific regards to the messages, a few points skeptics are drawing: evidence of CRU members talking about keeping skeptics out of peer review journals, manipulation of evidence, deleting data and not releasing it, violating Freedom of information, etc.
Any of you following closely with the global warming and climate change care to chime in?
This is kind of in over my head since admittedly I haven't personally been following the climate change scene closely, and it seems a lot of the skeptics are pretty well backed up (there are lots of them and they seem to all have some seemingly fairly solid arguments, at least in regards to comments on this particular incident).
CRU response:
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2009/11/the-cru-hack/
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