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IAIN MURRAY IN THE ATLANTIC: Climategate and the Big Green Lie. ?I had hoped, not very confidently?

By Glenn Reynolds

IAIN MURRAY IN THE ATLANTIC: Climategate and the Big Green Lie. “I had hoped, not very confidently, that the various Climategate inquiries would be severe. This would have been a first step towards restoring confidence in the scientific consensus. But no, the reports make things worse. At best they are mealy-mouthed apologies; at worst they are patently incompetent and even wilfully wrong. The climate-science establishment, of which these inquiries have chosen to make themselves a part, seems entirely incapable of understanding, let alone repairing, the harm it has done to its own cause. . . . I am glad to see The Economist, which I criticized for making light of the initial scandal, taking a balanced view of these unsatisfactory proceedings.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on July 14, 2010 (boomark / email).