Fighting Science

Everyone, I'm sure, remembers when climate scientists at the University of East Anglia had their emails stolen and then those emails were used by climate change deniers to accuse them of wrong doing. This controversy gave climate change deniers some credibility, destroyed the credibility of the scientists involved, and, in my opinion, derailed any momentum that might have been generated by COP15 in Denmark later in the year.

To be honest, I still don't think the green movement worldwide has recovered.

But did you know that the scientists were exonerated over a year ago?

And, interestingly, last month those same scientists released all the raw data (via Andy Coghlan at New Scientist) that they analyzed to conclude that global temperatures were rising over time.

But I don't know anyone talking about that. And I doubt the green movement is about to take off again.