On Dec 23, 5:09*am, Tom Gardner wrote:

A large part of the climate research comunity has lost its validity.
They need to start over and be truly transparent and honest for a long
time before they will ever, if ever, regain the trust of the general
public let alone their peers.

That's an irrational overreaction.

Naw, it's a pretty rational reaction from someone smart enough to
smell a con job (and whether or not you think it's a "con", you will
certainly agree that it's a mighty big job being asked of the average
citizen) and not knowledgeable enough in a technical field to evaluate
several hundred lifetimes worth of "science".

It's been pretty clear for a decade that the AGW guys have been fixing
their science around a pre-ordained result. Sorry state of affairs.

Happily, even some of the true believers are starting to wake up.
Here's one environmentalist's summary: http://davidcrowe.ca/GlobalWarming.html

-Evan Ludeman / T8