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The first of three investigations into the hacked emails at the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit clears Phil Jones of wrongdoing (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/31/climategate-investigation_n_519644.html). Also, several weeks ago, Penn State declared scientist Michael Mann innocent (http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/feb/03/climate-scientist-michael-mann) of three of four charges (the fourth unproven and needing more investigation).

On a related note, here's a very good explanation of how media outlets have been misleading about science news, particularly the false claim (which has been echoed elsewhere on these forums) that Phil Jones said there's been no warming since 1995.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cp-iB6jwjUc

http://www.youtube.com/v/cp-iB6jwjUc&hl=en&fs=1

Also of note: a Greenpeace investigation shows how a relatively unknown company funds climate denial (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brendan-demelle/greenpeace-unmasks-koch-i_b_518036.html).

Hi Booferama:

___I enjoy your posts thoroughly as it sounds like you not only have a stake in making sure the corrected information is presented but do so with a tenacity I have seen rarely from the online community.

___Please keep those links coming when the non-scientist get their feathers ruffled around the net.

___Good Luck

___Wayne

Thanks, Wayne. Glad I can be of service.

Because most 'blog' websites are filtered here, it is hard to track the latest presentations on websites devoted to no anthropogenic climate change. Still, I have the general impression that there has been a lot less territorial scent marking since the December 2009 COP15 in Copenhagen. Seems to me they've hung out the 'Mission Accomplished' banner and gone on vacation. Or, are awaiting further instructions from Koch :) Or, who knows?

Meanwhile the scientists keep publishing their sciency stuff and I wish I could tell you to expect smooth sailing ahead...

DAS

..... Or, are awaiting further instructions from Koch :) Or, who knows?

......

DAS

I'd guess that they're busy working on hitching their wagon to the tea party movement figuring that birds of an "anti-establishment," anti-tax feather flock together.

Climate scientist Phil Jones has been cleared by another investigation (http://www.uea.ac.uk/mac/comm/media/press/CRUstatements/oxburgh) into climategate/swifthack. Will people who claimed climategate was a big deal apologize?

Will people who claimed climategate was a big deal apologize?

Ha! :D

Ha! :D

No kidding. Html needs a /sarcasm tag.

Definitely understanding it wasn't a serious question.

W3C shot down proposals for a HTML5 <sarcasm> tag, though there is a Facebook group still advocating it. Or maybe they're being sarcastic. It is difficult to determine, absent sarcasm tags. So you see their conundrum.

Hmmph. People used to be able to easily express sarcasm by
wording their text the right way, but that's become a lost art.
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_H*

Hmmph. People used to be able to easily express sarcasm by
wording their text the right way, but that's become a lost art.
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_H*

Very true. There's also the problem of some readers being unable to recognize sarcasm. That wasn't the case with St. M, obvs.