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Climate scientist cleared, but zombie "controversy" won't die
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| Contributor | Penguin |
| Last Edited | Penguin Jul 04, 2010 05:41pm |
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| Category | Analysis |
| Author | Chris Lee |
| News Date | Sunday, July 4, 2010 11:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Kiddies, gather round and let me tell you another chapter in the story of "If you irritate people, they act irritated."
Let's begin with a recap: just before the Copenhagen climate conference, a large wodge (that's a technical term) of e-mails from the Climate Research Unit at University of East Anglia magically appeared in public. Those e-mails contained all the makings of a false controversy. And, as you can imagine, anyone who had been grinding an axe wasted no time in placing said axe vigorously into the back of any climate scientist they could find.
The first target was Phil Jones, head of the Climate Research Unit. The colloquial language used in his e-mail correspondence was trumpeted as fraud, while he also showed that his response to harassment (and there is no doubt that he was being harassed) was to become belligerent and petty-minded. Jones was cleared by not one, not two, but three separate enquiries.
Target number two was Michael Mann at Penn State in the US. He had corresponded with Phil Jones and, of course, in the leaked e-mails much of that correspondence became public. Skeptics swung into action and rained complaints down on Penn State. Although no formal accusations of fraud were made, the tone of the e-mails was apparent and Penn State launched its own enquiry. |
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