climategate

  • “Climategate” deflated, but the damage is done

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    “A lie can get halfway around the world while the truth is still putting its boots on.” Some media outlets have finally come around to admitting their mistake in the “Climategate” fiasco, but it may be too little, too late.  After the computer break-in that revealed supposedly damaging emails from scientists at the East Anglia…

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  • Climategate: No proof of fraud

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    This won’t stop the deniers of course, but good news nonetheless: On the much cited phrases in the leaked e-mails—”trick” and “hiding the decline”—the Committee considers that they were colloquial terms used in private e-mails and the balance of evidence is that they were not part of a systematic attempt to mislead. Insofar as the…

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