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

[binarylarry]

The earth has been both hotter and cooler than it is now.

So obviously if the earth is getting hotter, man must have incurred Earth's wraith and we shall be DOOMED TO ETERNAL FIRE AND STARVATION if we don't make amends IMMEDIATELY!

I'm all for taking better care of the planet, but the global warming nuts haven't really provided much evidence and they're the ones making the allegations.

The way I see things, if you make a bunch of claims, the burden of proof is ON YOU... not the people you're speaking to.

Re:We All Wish

[Philip K Dickhead]

Science is not produced through consensus. We'd still be insisting on the Ptolemaic universe, if that were so.

Global warming support is like creationism, it has no repeatable experimental methodology, from the entire cycle of data collection, through model construction and testing of hypothesis.

"Peer review" does not mean "I respect his degree, and assume his methodology is correct, because he's constructed a well supported paper."

"Peer review" is also NOT "Take his data, and his model, and I get the same result".

"Peer review" is independent reproduction of results, and validating assumptions made. This INCLUDES independent gathering of original source data.

Supposed evidence for "Global Warming" is derived from pseudo-scientific, statistical manipulation of suspect and cherry-picked data, which in the end, serves a Malthusian social agenda and results in taxing the very air you breathe.

Re:Just a bit of bias there

[Scareduck]

No kidding. ALL -- every last one -- of the "investigations" subsequent to the release of the Climategate data were whitewashes. This one is no different.

Re:We All Wish

[Curunir_wolf]

So a bunch of professors got together and cleared ... one of their own. No surprise there. You can read the first 2 paragraphs under the "Background of the alleged misconduct" and you can tell right away what the conclusion is going to be by the way it's written.

This is no different than the Investigation of Chris Dodd's Mortgage deal.. A so-called "inquiry" by members of his own party concluded that receiving "VIP" mortgage deals did not constitute preferential treatment.

A whitewash is a whitewash is a whitewash.

Re:We All Wish

[Feyshtey]

And by your logic, the fame one would gain by proving George Bush was a criminal would be the holy grail of liberalism... So why hasnt it happened?

Here is a list of some of the research papers that somehow never made it into the IPCC inner circle of journals.

Here are some scientist associated with the fields of climatology and atmospherics who dissent.

Here's a report on the US Senate Commitee on Environmental and Public Works about 100 scientists (many formerly of the IPCC) who are skeptics and who sent letters to the UN declaring so

Here's a Senate report on scientists who were proponents, but are since turned skeptics of global warming:

If none of that is bad enough, lets talk about the intimidation?

Here is a link, again on the US Senate Committe on Environment and Public works talking about the NASA scientist calling for charges of Treason against for skeptics.

Here's another Senate report on the Intimidation that skeptics face for "climate blasphemy":

Here's a Washington Post article about a skeptic fired from his post as Virginia State Climatologist becuase he used it as a "platform as state climatologist to promote his views on global warming, including that the issue was overemphasized" after clashing with the Governer

Another case of intimidation

Here's an aricle about a man whose career in television as a science journalist ended because of his beliefs about global warming

Here's a Senate report about a climatologist calling for the scientific certifications of skeptics to be revoked:

So yeah... There's no evidence of intimidation or ignoring the legitimate dissent....