Posted by
BLOGASSAULT on Saturday, November 21, 2009 12:07:29 PM
Over at PowerLine they are all over the climate scientists leaked email story. They have put together a great timeline and some pretty damnimg commentary to match. Even though some of the science in the emails would require alot of knowledge into the subject of climate change, it is still clear by the end that the fix was in and they are trying to get a handle on their crumbling position.
The last few lines of the story pretty much sum it up...
...along with the rest of the email archive, makes an utter mockery of the alarmists' claim that the science of global warming is settled in their favor.
On the contrary, the conclusion an observer is likely to draw from the CRU archive is that the climate alarmists are making up the science as they go along and are fitting facts to reach a predetermined conclusion rather than objectively seeking after truth. What they are doing is politics, not science. When I was in law school, this story was told about accountants: A CEO is going to hire a new accountant and summons a series of candidates. He asks each applicant, "What is two plus two?" The first two candidates answer, "Four." They don't get the job. The third responds, "What do you want it to be?" He gets hired. The climate alarmists' attitude toward data appears to me much the same as that fictional accountant's attitude toward arithmetic.