Inquiry: Climate data not manipulated

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LONDON - The first of several British investigations into the e-mails leaked from one of the world's leading climate research centers has largely vindicated the scientists involved.

The House of Commons' Science and Technology Committee said they had seen no evidence to support charges that the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit or its director, Phil Jones, had tampered with data or perverted the peer review process to exaggerate the threat of global warming — two of the most serious criticisms levied against the climatologist and his colleagues.

In their report released Wednesday, the committee said that, as far as it was able to ascertain, "the scientific reputation of Professor Jones and CRU remains intact," adding that nothing in the more than 1,000 stolen e-mails, or the controversy kicked up by their publication, challenged scientific consensus that "global warming is happening and that it is induced by human activity."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36104206/ns/us_news-environment/

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1. Of course the data weren't manipulated

But the denialists got several months of doubt out of it...which was, I'm sure, far short of the goal but useful to them nonetheless.

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. +1 and you are correct

this is about sowing doubt...

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3. and the media ran with it.

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. Sadly this should be surprising why?

It fits the goals of powerful interests that ahem control 98% of all that we see in the US.

[spanone]

6. that is sad, that it's not surprising.

[The Doctor.]

5. They're ALL IN ON IT!!!

Every scientist that agrees with global warming is part of the conspiracy!

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8. What amazes me...

...is how these evil climatologists can get all those living things, and the ice caps, and the glaciers, and sea level, and thawing, etc. to go along with the conspiracy.

That's one powerful conspiracy!

[The Doctor.]

9. No! They simply go back...

and falsify all the records, photos, satellite images, core samples, and all the pertinent research to make it look like we're undergoing catastrophic changes!

They're connected!

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

7. I see to recall a number of resident global warming deniers...

I wonder how they'll worm out of this one.