In one of the emails, a CRU insider said that it is a “travesty” that the insider scientists are unable to explain the recent non-warming (over the past few years). It is a “travesty” from his point of view because of the posture of infallibility that they are attempting to cultivate.

But a worse travesty is their refusal to budge from the carbocentric rut that they are in, which limits them to groupthink, and makes it highly unlikely that the correction of the climate model will come from these guys. How can they correct the model, when they cannot think outside of the box?

An even worse travesty is their efforts to squelch the admission into the scientific forum of the heterodoxic climatologists. My guess is that the correction of the model will come from the heterodixic climatologists, who have an open mind, and who have a healthy scientific skepticism of the groupthink dogma of carbocentrism.

Also, it is a travesty that they are unable to explain the Medieval Warm Period and the Little Ice Age, let alone the very many ice ages and interglacial warm periods that have appeared during the last million years or so at least. Carbocentrism won’t explain the very many severe climate changes — that dwarf anything that we have seen from 1978-1998 — and until they address these, they surely look like they have closed minds.