Cheating at the Game of Climate Change

The last thing the climate change lobby needed before the Copenhagen summit was a scandal about the way it develops its "overwhelming scientific consensus," but that's exactly what happened. A series of emails to and from the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in England was leaked to the press, revealing the sometimes devious methods used by those supplying data to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to bully and freeze out opposing views. Here is an opinion piece from the wall Street Journal that says it better than I can, as well as a report about a potential Congressional investigation. But most of all, a shout out to Hoppy Kercheval, who wrote about it this morning in the Daily Mail.

For years, one of the main defenses of the climate change theory proponents was the lack of peer-reviewed studies supporting the views of climate change skeptics. It now appears that influence was used to prevent publication of such articles by controlling the peer review process. Another blow to cap and trade.