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The CPRS - a failure of the left not just the right : Comments
By Carol Johnson, published 16/3/2010It is all too easy to blame climate change sceptics in the Liberal party for the demise of an Emissions Trading Scheme.
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I dare say most folks would get annoyed if they were accused of lying and constantly hassled for their workings in a dishonest way.
This particular beat-up has been and gone...yet the *huge* quantity of data world wide is just getting stronger.
Check out New Scientist magazines summary of the email "scandal" for a balanced assessment of the situation. Yes, a cooperative effort involving thousands of people across many countries will have some errors. Given they are less than 1% of the content, this is actually pretty good compared to say...economists predictions, accountants reports and politicians "facts".
Did you see the SST data? Do you care, or is the slip-up of one or two hassled academics *that* important that data is irrelevant?