Ken Nelson

1 BILLION degrees

Email is forever. And it can be revealed long after it is sent, whether by hacking or by one of the other parties receiving the notes disclosing them.

It happened to Sarah Palin, revealing her to be in private to be pretty much the same as she was in public.

And it has happened to The University of East Anglia Climatology Research Unit… revealing them to be… oddly interested in hiding various data detrimental to pitching global warming.

I won’t get into the particulars… Watts Up With That handles the science much better than I would.

A short summary: In the emails they discuss “tricks” for hiding actual decline in temperature, showing it to rise, not fall. It also appears that the “trickery” isn’t limited to East Anglia, they exchange e-mail with others all over the world.

I’ve been very skeptical that climatology had been co-opted by scientists with a mission or willing to compromise science for adulation, grant money and fame.

So I’m not surprised, at all, by this.  And you shouldn’t be either. The warning signs have been there from the beginning. Politicians leading the science should have been the first clue.