Worth mentioning, like so much else these days, is that foreign, particularily British and Canadian, journalists are “doing the jobs Americans refuse to do”.

timesonline.co.uk

— SCIENTISTS at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have admitted throwing away much of the raw temperature data on which their predictions of global warming are based.

It means that other academics are not able to check basic calculations said to show a long-term rise in temperature over the past 150 years.

The UEA’s Climatic Research Unit (CRU) was forced to reveal the loss following requests for the data under Freedom of Information legislation.

The data were gathered from weather stations around the world and then adjusted to take account of variables in the way they were collected. The revised figures were kept, but the originals — stored on paper and magnetic tape — were dumped to save space when the CRU moved to a new building. —
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Sorry guys, but, even if there is merit to the warming argument, something I have always been dubious of, but not adamant one side or the other, these guys have so seriously screwed the pooch, and have acted so categorically unprofessional and political about it, that they have successfully muddied the waters big time, in a manner that might now be un-muddy-able.

It is much like, as was mentioned in 2004 with RatherGate (remember…?), some Democrats said, “Now, even IF it is totally true about Bush, the issue is now dead to us. We can’t touch it, because CBS blew it so bad and rendered it unsellable as an issue”.

Same thing here. Copenhagen is going to be a joke. And if there is something to global warming, the doomsayers have so inflated it, and been willing to use it in the most blatantly political and non-scientific fashion possilbe, that it is now close to being rendered dead politically.

Sorry, man, but that’s the deal. An “inconvenient truth” to many, I’ll grant you.