Greatest scandal in Modern Science

Climate-Gate: Anti-science, Fraud & Reputations

By Peter C. Glover
Monday, December 7, 2009

This week in Copenhagen, world leaders will meet for a two-week global warming alarmist-fest in a bid to change the entire direction of the global economy. They will do so, not on the basis of empirical scientific facts about global warming, but on alarmist computer-modelled predictions rooted in the raw temperature data fed in. Oh yes, and the scientific integrity of those doing the feeding and interpreting the results.

For years however, the data of the main players has been of keen interest to those who dissent in the climate debate. Not least, because those who hold the raw data1 have been highly secretive with it. Cometh academic exocet: Climate-Gate.
A science mafia?

In November somebody illegally hacked into the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit (CRU) in the UK, subsequently publishing 1079 emails and 72 documents on the Internet. However reprehensible an act of cyber-pilfering, the contents of the authenticated emails were both decidedly in the ‘public interest’, and carried within them the seeds of a major science scandal; a scandal Andrew Bolt rightly sees as the “greatest in modern scienceâ€