Friday, March 12, 2010 4:00 PM
The Guardian Delves Into ClimateGate
By Amy Harder, NationalJournal.com
London's Guardian has published a 12-part series investigating what has become known as ClimateGate and the larger controversy over climate change science. The Guardian has been at the forefront of this story since the hacked e-mails were first discovered at a British climate research center in November.
Indeed, the top Republican on the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, Jim Sensenbrenner of Wisconsin, lauded the British media in a recent post on NationalJournal.com's Energy & Environment Expert Blog. "Thanks to the British media and the House of Commons, we are learning more and more about the unsettling Climategate scandal that revealed researchers suppressed and manipulated data in order to reach predetermined alarmist outcomes on climate science," Sensenbrenner wrote last week. He added that this has been "a hot story in the British media, while the American press has largely ignored the story."
But Sensenbrenner and other skeptics may not be pleased with The Guardian's conclusion: that while the emails "reveal strenuous efforts by the mainstream climate scientists to do what outside observers would regard as censoring their critics" and engaging in other methods "contrary to the spirit of scientific openness," nevertheless "nothing uncovered in the emails destroys the argument that humans are warming the planet."
Still, that won't be the final word on the subject. The Guardian is allowing readers to participate in annotating its report, in "an attempt at a collaborative route to getting at the truth," according to the paper.
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