Thread: Climategate!

Let me pour some more oil to the flames.

Obama’s Science Czar John Holdren involved in unwinding “Climategate”* scandal
Obama Science Czar John Holdren is directly involved in CRU’s unfolding Climategate scandal. In fact, according to files released by a CEU hacker or whistleblower, Holdren is involved in what Canada Free Press (CFP) columnist Canadian climatologist Dr. Tim Ball terms “a truculent and nasty manner that provides a brief demonstration of his lack of understanding, commitment on faith and willingness to ridicule and bully people”...

You know--i read this link and all it was was an ad homenen attack by Tim Ball on Holdren. If you know anything about Ball, he's a flame thrower who is wildly popular with the CC deniers. He is not held in high regard otherwise.
One other thing: I read thru some of the voluminous emails and what struck me are two things: they provide a rare glimpse into the "human" side of informal scientific peer to peer exchange, and the vast majority of the ones I read prove just the opposite of what the climategaters are attempting to claim--they evidence a vigorous and elastic exchange between scientists. As they were not intended to constitute formal presentations, the lay public may be justifiably surprised at the tone and content of some of the exchanges. Just proves the folks who do this for a living are...folks, not so different from the rest of us.