What a crew. "Let's dwell on tangential topics so that we can avoid talking about the science, because, when it comes to the science, we have nothing to contribute."
So, you people are fully able to scour the archives of DU to find every comment I've ever made, but incapable of performing the simplest Google search to determine whether or not the scientists of the East Anglia Climate Research Unit have ever been exonerated for "Climategate"? What bullshit. I am not at all surprised by anything but the depth of immaturity displayed by all of you.
So, here you go -- before you hold your collective breaths and turn blue in the face:
http://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/climategate-inquiry-largely-clears-scientists/
In its report, the committee said that, as far as it was able to ascertain, “the scientific reputation of Professor Jones and CRU remains intact,†adding that nothing in the more than 1,000 stolen e-mails, or the controversy kicked up by their publication, challenged scientific consensus that “global warming is happening and that it is induced by human activity.â€
http://www.uea.ac.uk/documents/3154295/7847337/SAP.pdf/a6f591fc-fc6e-4a70-9648-8b943d84782b
We saw no evidence of any deliberate scientific malpractice in any of the work
of the Climatic Research Unit and had it been there we believe that it is likely
that we would have detected it. Rather we found a small group of dedicated if
slightly disorganised researchers who were ill-prepared for being the focus of
public attention. As with many small research groups their internal procedures
were rather informal.
Less than ten minutes, children.
So, do carry on with your empty insults and other demonstrations of intellectual impotency. I won't be back on this thread to read your comments because you already have demonstrated that which I already knew.