The Wall Street Journal, in an editorial, weighs in about those climate emails
Wall Street Journal editorial: “Rigging a Climate ‘Consensus’;
About those emails and ‘peer review.’ “
WSJ editorial: “The climatologists at the center of the leaked email and document scandal have taken the line that it is all much ado about nothing. Yes, the wording of their messages was unfortunate, but they insist this in no way undermines the underlying science. They’re ignoring the damage they’ve done to public confidence in the arbiters of climate science.”
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“The furor over these documents is not about tone, colloquialisms or whether climatologists are nice people. THE REAL ISSUE IS WHAT THE MESSSAGES SAY ABOUT THE WAY THE MUCH-BALLYHOOED SCIENTIFIC CONSENSUS ON GLOBAL WARMING WAS ARRIVED AT, AND HOW A SINGLE VIEW OF WARMING AND ITS CAUSES IS BEING ENFORCED. The impression left by the correspondence among Messrs. Mann and Jones and others is that the climate-tracking game has been rigged from the start.”
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“Mr. Mann went on to suggest that the journal itself be blackballed: ‘Perhaps we should en