I’m optimistically skeptical. 

However, this wouldn’t surprise me in the least, considering eco-zealots and alarmist since the 1960s have been trying to foist admittedly fraudulent and exaggerated material to incite panic in others. 

It’s the only way they can get regular people to listen to their tripe.

Back when I was young and stupid, I could run 6 miles in 45 minutes.  In fatigues and combat boots.

So there might be a context in which the “trick” of cooking the numbers to “hide the decline” is NOT pretty damned incriminating?

He’d better make his run before the Democrats impose a beard tax, a jingle bell tax, a sleigh tax, a reindeer tax, a reindeer crap tax, .......

UPDATE VII. Hadley Climate Research Unit chief Dr Phil Jones seems convinced that the emails and other documents are genuine. About his own comment on hiding the decline in temperatures, Jones says:
That was an email from ten years ago. Can you remember the exact context of what you wrote ten years ago?
The fun is officially underway.

UPDATE VIII. The BBC reports on the scandal. It’s all about the hacking. Incidentally, the correct name of this place is “University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit” or “CRU”. Nothing to do with Hadley.

http://www.infidelsparadise.com/?p=9022

It’s their way of doing a book burning without the actual act.  Because a book burning would just be crazy.

I’d like to see Senator Byrd offer him a Grand Kleagle-ship.

one of the head morons who is trying to put out the firestorm this has started already made that statement that [paraphrased]"There’s so much information that’s been released, it’s hard to tell if it is all legitmate”

Thus setting the stage for them to claim that it was anti-global warming people who hacked the computers, and then deliberately changed or created bogus e-mails to make it look like something was going on.

The media will play that story, and it will be the last we hear of it until they catch the hackers.

Ahhh...that’s that ‘tolerance’ dealio the left always claims to have...I get it.

I’ll be happy with the traditional Thanxgivum Tiramissu.

Mech started it.

Let’s see, we’re in the bidness of selling books.
I know, let’s not stock the hottest selling book because we don’t want anyone to think we have open minds.
Quick, let’s run down to the small bidness administration and float that golden bidness plan for help getting a bank loan.

What coul possibly go wrong?

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They’re still layin’ in the field out on 93rd.

yeah I realize it doesn’t relate to the topic

Well, this story is certainly getting some legs.

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/11/19/breaking-news-story-hadley-cru-has-apparently-been-hacked-hundreds-of-files-released/

Stilton,
Are you the guy who can eat an entire circle of cheese without getting constipated?

Er, properly prepared PECAN pie beats a pumpkin pie any day.  I should really remember to finish proofreading BEFORE clicking that ‘say it, don’t spray it’ button, instead of waiting until after it’s posted.

Just use real pumpkin (Sugar Pumpkin, say) instead of Libby’s debateably-not-really-a-pumpkin-but-more-of-a-butternut-squash pumpkins.

That, or make pecan pie.  A properly prepared pumpkin pie beats a pumpkin pie any day.

(since this thread seems to include both serious and not-so-serious replies, one of each in a single post; serious reply first)

I have yet to make the ‘big goal’ of getting published (though I was once in negotiations to sell a manuscript for a novel, but they fell through because I mentioned on the ‘net that I was in negotiations and was seeking advice, which apparently violated an unwritten policy of theirs.  *sigh*), but I have written 3 complete novels (one circulating with publishers, one being revised, and one set aside because it needs more extensive revisions than I’m able to take the time to make right now), two partials, and a bunch of short stories… (I haven’t bothered trying to sell the short stories, since there’s nowhere decent left to sell short stories which aren’t in certain very specific genre any more)

Oh, and I managed to get a personal best 4 tubs of laundry done in one day last saturday.

I shot a rapist.