The fact of the matter is that the Climate scam was revealed by the very people trying to push it via those damning e-mails by Phil Jones & others who even ADMITTED that the temperature has not been going up & conspiring to employ a “trick” to quote: [ hide the decline ] & to DESTROYING data so as to not even be able to examine how they arrived at their lopsided conclusions. The source code itself was found to have been tampered with thus discrediting the data itself & showing how the folks involved in the scandal were not even employing the scientific method. This who scandal broke in November of last year & was known as Climategate & seriously destroyed the momentum of the climate scamers who have investigated themselves & let themselves off the hook.
The CRU at East Anglica conveniently “lost” the original data. The method used to process (”massage” or “fudge”) the data is both poorly documented and probably not invertable. (If I give you the average and standard deviation of a data set, for instance, you cannot recreate the data set.) It is hard to give their claims any credence, given the provenance of their data and lack of transparency about their methods.
CRU violated the first cardinal rule of good science: they lied to themselves. Losing or destroying the data, the evidence, is merely inexcusable.
I am not a big fan of Galileo’s but when he was challenged, he told his critics, “look for yourself”. CRU tells us, “you wouldn’t understand”, the hallmark of cargo cult science.