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Hackers broke into the systems of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and downloaded over 60 MB of correspondence and documents on global warming. The exchanges portray a fairly high level of non-scientific animosity toward scientists who might question any part of the man-made climate change religion. This is not your father's science:
"In one email, Benjamin Santer from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, Calif., wrote to the director of the climate-study center that he was "tempted to beat" up Mr. Michaels. Mr.Santer couldn't be reached for comment Sunday.
"In one email, Benjamin Santer from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, Calif., wrote to the director of the climate-study center that he was "tempted to beat" up Mr. Michaels. Mr.Santer couldn't be reached for comment Sunday.
In another, Phil Jones, the director of the East Anglia climate center, suggested to climate scientist Michael Mann of Penn State University that skeptics' research was unwelcome: We 'will keep them out somehow -- even if we have to redefine what the peer-review literature is!' Neither man could be reached for comment Sunday."
Read the rest here. Downloaded correspondence available in the sidebar.
Update: WSJ editorial here.
Update II: Mark Steyn notes when it is okay to say the earth is cooling here.
Doesn't this call into question the probity of the research that supposedly proves man-made global warming? No one seems to be suggesting that, yet, but why not?
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To me, that IS the point. I choose a religion on faith; I choose science on proof. How does the old saying go: "In God we trust, all others pay cash."
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