Climategate's Final Days

The Bad Astronomer writes "Climategate may be on its way out. An investigatory committee at Pennsylvania State University has formally cleared climate scientist Dr. Michael Mann of any scientific misconduct. Mann was central in the so-called Climategate scandal, where illegally leaked emails were purported to indicate examples of scientists trying to cover up any lack of global warming in their data. This finding by the committee (PDF) is another in a series of independent investigations that have all concluded that no misconduct has occurred."

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Re:We All Wish

[theaveng]

It's weird how people think they can add to a debate with experts while being absolute non-experts themselves.

Well I think it's weird how one group of experts (man causes global warming) will label another group of experts (global warming is natural) as "idiots" and "deniers" and other childish retorts. The first group doesn't even allow the second group to publish papers. How... tyrannical and immature.

I also think it's weird that the planet has grown 1/2 a degree cooler since the mid-90s, and somehow this is used to justify warming. (Or else simply ignored and the data fictionalized into an upward slope, as the Penn State researcher did.) What kind of "expertism" is that? Seems to me the word "expert" should be replaced with "biased", and therefore not to be trusted.

And finally, I think it's weird that average people are not allowed to have an opinion (according to you). Has our society devolved into Feudalism again, where only the Nobility are allowed to form an opinion & set policy, while the educated Commoners/middle class is ignored as "too stupid to understand"? Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that We the People cannot be trusted to decide our own future?

Hope that is not so.