I refer to the blog comments rather than the blog itself

the fact is that there are elements on both sides that have enormous amounts of power and money to gain by furthering their viewpoint of events.

The problem is the way in which the views of powerful members of the scientific community are foisted onto the public in general as being fact. This makes it significantly harder to swim against the tide and dissent from these mainstream views. From the little I've seen so far, it looks the CRU have been encouraging this. A read of the actual mails is required of course.

I'm not sure which "side" is correct, as it's impossible to prove or disprove one or the other as yet. Jumping to flawed conclusions could be even more damaging than awaiting harder evidence

Posted By: Worzel Scrimmage on November 23rd 2009 at 23:29:46

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interesting stuff (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Nov 23, 22:58:54
- Here I think (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Nov 23, 23:30:16
  - After a bit of surfing (General Chat) - pants, Nov 23, 23:44:42
    - That is standard scientific practice when releasing work into the media, (General Chat) - NCFC4life, Nov 24, 00:02:35
      - Fao Snakey, this is a WHOOOSH (General Chat) - pants, Nov 24, 00:05:44
  - nice one, cheers. (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Nov 23, 23:33:16
    - didn't take me long to find signs of intent to prevent disclose of info (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Nov 23, 23:58:55
- Not really. Using private conversations to select nice text that backs your own agenda. (General Chat) - megson, Nov 23, 23:12:44
  - I refer to the blog comments rather than the blog itself (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Nov 23, 23:29:46
    - To be honest In my opinion it's a bit of both our doing and natural climate change, (General Chat) - NCFC4life, Nov 23, 23:44:52
      - I'd agree. Our activities could well be very significant, but I suspect (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Nov 23, 23:47:55
      - Yep, 2012 taught me that. (n/m) (General Chat) - Yellalee, Nov 23, 23:46:36
        
        I've not seen it yet, I don't think I'll bother. (General Chat) - NCFC4life, Nov 23, 23:52:41
        
        Exactly. Geology lesson - fail. Acting and dialogue - fail. Entertainment value - pass. (n/m) (General Chat) - Yellalee, Nov 24, 00:00:45
  - The ice caps melt but as long as accumulation is in equalibrium then happy days, (General Chat) - NCFC4life, Nov 23, 23:17:33
    - i'm a bit dim so i had to Google that (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Nov 23, 23:31:31
    - Too true, Its interesting that this 'story' is only under local interest on the beeb, not (General Chat) - megson, Nov 23, 23:24:04
- oh dear (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Nov 23, 23:07:34

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