OT - Climategate: Science Is Dying -- Science is on the credibility bubble
 

Daniel Henninger on the continuing fallout from the leaked emails.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...57209199373784
8.html

The Wall Street Journal, 3 December 2009.


The academic community has been largely quiet, but for deeper reasons
than the truth or falsity of global warming:

They are stunned. These emails paint a picture of academic fraud, a
very serious charge in the academic world, and so the academics are
investigating.

A half-page report in Nature titled "Storm clouds gather over leaked
climate e-mails -- British climate centre reeling over Internet posting
of sensitive material" (26 Nov 09, page 397) says that there is some
disagreement as to the impact of these emails, but no consensus has
emerged.

http://www.nature.com/news/2009/091124/full/462397a.html?s=news_rss

The story will unfold slowly, as well it should, given that these could
be dismissal offenses.

Joe Gwinn