Climategate

Perhaps the most damning argument against the "consensus" of man-made global warming can be seen in what has become known as "Climategate."  In short, in November of 2009, a file of data, documents, computer code for graphs, and emails that appears to have been collected for a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request was leaked or taken without permission from University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit (CRU) located in the United Kingdom.  It seems to show real and deliberate collusion among scientists to promote the view of man-made global warming and suppress information that was counter to that view.

I've personally read many of the emails that show obstruction toward releasing the requested information, comments on how to suppress inconvenient Wikipedia posts, data and papers, and I even saw computer code where the programmer puts in his notes to add and subtract from the real data points so the graph looks the way they want.

The media and the alarmists mostly dismiss all this as "stolen" or "hacked" emails that "show a few scientists in a bad light, being rude or dismissive," but one must ask, "if the science is so sound and certain, why try to suppress and hide data?"  It convinced the highly esteemed climatologist Judith Curry that something was wrong and it changed her mind completely about the soundness of the "scientific consensus."  She went public with her view in this interview, but the resultant backlash by colleagues made her retire from her tenured faculty position at Georgia Tech University--not because of her formerly praised ability and credentials, but because of abuse by colleagues.

This kind of behavior clearly shows a lot of the climate debate is really politics, not science.

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To read more details:

• A full summary
• Multiple Climategate links in chronological order
• Dr. Judith Curry Explains The Reality Of Bad Climate Science
• Climategate 2.0: New E-Mails (2 years later)