The hard lesson of Climategate

While I was in Mexico a huge and sad scientific scandal broke out.  "Climategate" revealed that East Anglia University's famous Climatic Research Unit was involved in an active conspiracy to suppress data and persecute those who held believes other than CRU's orthodoxy.  Further, other scientists like Michael Mann, famous for the hockey stick graph and his writings on RealClimate, have been shown to be either selecting evidence or outright lying. 

This is a huge blow to science.  Regardless of what one thinks about the whole global warming debate making stuff up, like these scientists did, is wrong.  Now, people have every right to question any data climate scientists put forward.  Instead of reasonable, rational scientists the environmental field is overrun with people like Robert Christopherson.

I take this opportunity to once again call for rational discussions on the environment without the crazies on either side.  Those who deny carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas and the Al Gores must go.