re: #93 Cain

Admittedly, no I haven’t finished it yet, working through it now. And no, I don’t believe my prejudices are too brittle, I am open to the possibility I’m wrong. Are you? Are the people who wrote this report?

This report has nothing to do with the stolen CRU emails.

Why else continue to shun all opposing viewpoints?

They don’t. If you read through the stolen emails, there is a LOT of debate and opposing viewpoints. The “shunning” is directed at propagandists and deniers.

Why fudge data?

Nobody “fudged” any data.

Why hide methods?

Nobody hid any methods.

Why demonize and ostracize science peers who don’t agree with them?

Examples, please?

Those are acts of desperation, not confident scientists able to defend their work on a topic that will eventually hit every one on this planet very close to home no matter which way things fall.

The real act of desperation is stealing emails, picking through them to find the ones that can be cast as “damning,” then releasing them right before the Copenhagen summit in a very clear attempt to delegitimize the summit itself. And even with all the cherry-picking, what they came up with is very, very weak stuff indeed.