Climategate

PETER BERKOWITZ: Climategate Was an Academic Disaster Waiting to Happen. What does this scandal say generally about the intellectual habits and norms at our universities? This is a legitimate question, because our universities, which above all should be cultivating intellectual virtue, are in their... by pajamasmedia.com/instapundit | related posts

Peter Berkowitz of the Hoover Institution has good piece in today's WSJ on the flawed peer-review process in scinece. Subscriber only, but here's the key excerpt: Academic journals typically adopt a double blind system, concealing the names of both authors and reviewers. But any competent scholar can determine an... by planetgore.nationalreview.com | related posts

An excellent post at Deep Climate looks into the exaggerated and false claims being made about the computer code released along with those stolen “Climategate” emails: McClimategate continues: Yet another false accusation from McIntyre and McKitrick . How do they get away with it? That’s the... by littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog | related posts

More climategate scandal. "Email messages obtained by the Competitive Enterprise Institute via a Freedom of Information Act request reveal that the climate dataset of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) was considered — by the top climate scientists within NASA itself — to be... by ussneverdock.blogspot.com | related posts

By E. Thomas McClanahan, Kansas City Star Editorial Page columnist After the Climategate emails became public, it was learned that raw temperature data had been destroyed at Britain's Climate Research Unit. This had been one of the key climate-science databases. But former CRU Director Phil Jones... by voices.kansascity.com | related posts

In writing my previous post on the “Climategate” break-in to the University of East Anglia computer system , I remained unclear about who was actually responsible for the break-in theft of the emails, which were then selectively quoted to promote a bogus allegation of scientific fraud .... by johnquiggin.com | related posts

organizations meant to be leading the fight are busy shoveling up hard cash from the world's worst polluters--and burying science-based environmentalism in return. Sometimes the corruption is subtle; sometimes it is blatant. In the middle of a swirl of bogus climate scandals trumped up by deniers, here is the... by huffingtonpost.com/green | related posts