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The largest scandal is scientific. The e-mails show climate researchers at a handful of universities and think tanks engaged in unscrupulous behavior. Phil Jones of CRU, Michael Mann of Penn State University, and other leaders of the climate cartel discussed statistical tricks they used to “hide the decline” of atmospheric temperatures. Other data were fudged to cover up warm periods that didn’t fit their theory of anthropogenic global warming (AGW). Tom Wigley of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research suggested “correcting” ocean temperatures downward by 0.15 degrees Celsius “to partly explain the 1940s warming blip.”
Nor can the “uncorrected” data be recovered from CRU, which threw much of it away, allegedly to “save space.” The darker possibilty, which Jones hinted at in an e-mail to Mann, is that the data were intentionally erased. “If [global-warming skeptics] ever hear there is a Freedom of Information Act now in the U.K.,” he wrote, “I think I’ll delete the file rather than send to anyone.” Jones should have thought twice: The act penalizes deletion of any material subject to a FOIA request with fines of up to £5,000. (Considering the grant money he’s taking in, though, that’s perhaps not so sobering a sum.)
But the most troubling aspect of the scientific scandal is the corruption of the peer-review process for academic papers and studies on AGW. Jones and Mann have historically dismissed out of hand any criticism of their work that appeared outside of peer-reviewed scientific journals. “Those . . . who operate almost entirely outside of [the peer-review] system are not to be trusted,” Mann wrote in an e-mail to New York Times climate correspondent Andrew Revkin.





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