Wednesday 14 April 2010

Climate Change is Real and Happening

"The Commons Science and Technology Committee criticised UEA authorities for failing to respond to requests for data from climate change sceptics. But it found no evidence Professor Phil Jones, whose e-mails were hacked and published online, had manipulated data. It said his reputation, and that of his climate research unit, remained intact" BBC News Weds 14th April

Its good news that the scientist at the UEA have been proven to be honest in their analysis of the climate science. The media attention on the "hacked" emails was enormous and undermined so much work that had been done to raise awareness among the general public.

The terrible thing is that the media interest in the findings today will be short lived and wont go anywhere near far enough to mitigate the loss of trust in the population. The climate sceptics achieved what they set out to do, to seed confusion and doubt where there is, in fact, none...

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