Climategate probe proves nothing

An independent investigation into the leak of hundreds of e-mails from one of the world's leading climate research centers largely excuses the scientists involved, claiming their research was reliable. The e-mails, which originated from Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in the U.K., created a sensation when they were first published online in November. The communiqués revealed well-known climate researchers speaking in baseless terms about their critics, discussing clever ways to sidestep colleagues skeptical of manmade climate change, devising plans to freeze opponents out of peer-reviewed journals and systematically manipulating the earth's temperature record. In summation, the panel of inquiry, led by Muir Russell – a high profile educational bureaucrat from the United Kingdom – requires 158 pages to accomplish two items. First, the report excuses the intemperate language found throughout the e-mails (such as one "cheering the death" of global-warming skeptic John Daly; or another threatening to "kick the crap" out of another denier) as being "characteristic of the [Internet] medium." Second, the panel gently finds fault with the scientists in question for being "unhelpful" in dealing with Freedom of Information Act requests for data and for failing to share their data with other researchers holding different points of view...more

These guys agree with Tommy.