EDITORIAL
A Climate Change Corrective
Perhaps now we can put the manufactured controversy known as Climategate behind us and turn to the task of actually doing something about global warming.
On Wednesday, a panel in Britain concluded that scientists.. had not, as critics alleged, distorted scientific evidence to prove that global warming was occurring and that human beings were primarily responsible.
Some of the e-mail messages, purloined last November, were mean-spirited, others were dismissive of contrarian views, and others revealed a timid reluctance to share data. Climate skeptics pounced on them as evidence of a conspiracy to manipulate research to support predetermined ideas about global warming.
The panel found no such conspiracy…
Even so... trivial mistakes were presented by some as further proof that scientists cannot be trusted and that warming is a hoax...
Given the trajectory the scientists say we are on, one must hope that the... debunking of Climategate, will receive as much circulation as the original, diversionary controversies.
THE NEW YORK TIMES
