re: #493 Charles

And I stand by every word I wrote in my post to you, Walter. I have no absolutely no interest in playing back-and-forth games about this, but anyone who wants to go back and read the exchange in context will see that I had good reasons for writing that.

There has been a constant effort here by some people to smear the entire work of the IPCC and climatologists in general with the trumped up, ridiculously exaggerated CRU “scandal,” and I will continue to point this out when I see it.

And am I one of those “some people?” I have never tried to smear the entire work of the IPCC, I have linked to and pointed out material that questions the way some of these scientist have accomplished their work.

Kevin Trenberth was one of those scientist at the core of the “exaggerated CRU “scandal” and he himself has now come out and VERIFIED what many have been saying, including myself.

“A lot of stuff in there was just not very good,” said Kevin Trenberth, head of climate analysis at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and a lead author of the first report. “A chronic problem is that on the whole area of impacts, getting into the realm of social science, it is a softer science. The facts are not as good.”