MEGAN MCARDLE: The Real Problem With the Climate Science Emails. “I think most people–including me–missed the biggest part of the climate emails story. Sexing up a graph is at best a misdemeanor. But a Declan McCullough story suggests a more disturbing possibility: the CRU’s main computer model may be, to put it bluntly, complete rubbish. . . . That is a big problem. The IPCC report, which is the most widely relied upon in policy circles, uses this model to estimate the costs of global warming. If those costs are unreliable, then any cost-benefit analysis is totally worthless. Obviously, this also casts their reluctance to conform with FOI requests in a slightly different light.”
Don’t tell Obama – he’s stopping by Copenhagen to polish up his peace prize.
Isn’t it wonderful to think that this theory or, perhaps, a collection of theories has so altered life in our country during the past decade. Even if there is still something valid to argue about, all I can think of is Chicken Little and the great Sky is Falling scam. The difference being, of course, that Chicken had no financial interest in the book.