Ken Nelson

Global warming faithful and skeptics continue back and forth about “ClimateGate”.   But what is the real issue?

The earth warmed slightly in the last century. Is this because of man?

To answer this you must look at temperature data when man did not have industry, and, alas, also did not record temperature. Temperature must be reconstructed and compared to modern times.  If warmer back then, the “man caused warming” theory doesn’t hold.

“ClimateGate” reveals three core things about modern climate science:

• it was hotter in the 11th century, with no green house gas producing industry, than now. 
• statistical error introduced by incomplete data, small amounts of data, and programming error exceeds the estimated change in temperature.
• the scientists themselves seem scurrilous and petty

Climate warming faithful focus you on the 3rd core problem because if you look at the first two, what they believe in, what funds their work, and what enables their other policy goals, shatters.